Scrum Master Software Developer

KOFI LARBIE BOATENG (M.Sc. (CIS), CSM)

Phone: 301-***-****

Email: adw8cv@r.postjobfree.com

SCRUM MASTER

Accomplished Scrum Master with over 6 years of experience leading effective teams in tailoring and adopting Agile principles and frameworks, as well as conducting training for diverse staff. Skilled in all phases of the Systems Development and Project Management Lifecycle with a background in Software development for more than 10 years. Excellent knowledge of several Agile frameworks like Scrum and Kanban.

Areas of Expertise/skills

Agile Methodologies/Scrum Experience

Forecasting/Budgeting/Scheduling

Test Automation and Testing First Development

Agile Development/Quality Assurance

Team Leadership Experience/Ability to Train

Agile Planning/Estimation

Agile Coaching/Servant Leadership

Client Services/Requirements Analysis

Web Development/Data Management/Modeling

Facilitation/Removing Impediments

Attention to Detail

Training Development and Delivery

Test Plans/Negotiation/Communication Skills

Professional Experience

REI Systems, Sterling, VA (DoD/NASA) April 2020 – Present

Scrum Master

Conduct Agile Maturity assessments for teams and provide coaching to reach higher levels of maturity for continuous improvement.

Tailor Agile principles and frameworks to fit the specific needs of each team and facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint review.

Lead and coach multiple Scrum and Kanban teams, including a Data Analytics and Visualization team, Enhancement team, National Science Foundation team, Enterprise Search team, the Support or Kanban team, Infrastructure Migration to Cloud 1 team.

Introduced effective Agile Capacity Planning approach to Sprint Planning, resulting in teams completing 95% of project deadlines.

Streamlined Operations and Maintenance (O&M) teams using Kanban, improving ad hoc and production issues by 70%

Prepared teams for CMMI level 3 compliance using Agile practices, ensuring improved product delivery.

Coached Product Owners to improve story writing, feature discovery, and requirements gathering process, resulting in an increase in customer satisfaction and decrease time-to-delivery by 20%

Improved estimating by 80% through coaching teams on Scrum practices.

Engaged other Scrum Masters with industry standard Agile practices to increase effectiveness of Scrum in the organization

Removed impediments and dependencies to improve efficient product delivery.

Managed teams using Atlassian JIRA and Azure DevOps as the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool, leveraging the ability to extract data to be used in metrics.

Managed and provided performance feedback, coaching, and professional development to individual scrum team members, resulting in a 20% increase in team productivity and a more collaborative team environment.

Worked with the team to define and implement quality standards and practices, such as automated testing, code reviews, and data validation, to ensure that the output of the Data Integration/ETL project met the required quality standards.

Worked collaboratively with other team members, including data architects, ETL developers, and business analysts, to ensure the success of the Data Integration/ETL project.

Work with development teams to implement continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, using tools such as Jenkins, Git, and Docker, to automate build, test, and deployment processes – DevOps practices.

TEKFORTUNE/CAPCO, McLean, VA (Freddie Mac) January 2020 – March 2020

Certified Technical Scrum Master

Developed Agile Scrum playbook containing Scrum best practices, team rules, different methods for doing Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospective, and Sprint demo, to be used as an Agile Scrum body of knowledge for Scrum processes in the company.

Assisted Scrum development team during Program Increment meeting to commit to Epic and Features of product and split Epic and Features into committed user stories at the team level.

Ensured accurate and transparent communications to stakeholders with concise metrics and updates on progress, risks, and impediments using visible information radiators.

Scheduled, coordinated, and successfully concluded several backlog grooming and refining sessions in the middle of ongoing sprints to help the product owner to be more prepared before upcoming sprints.

Worked closely with cross-functional leads to improve deployment processes, resolve underlying issues, build best practices, and align with business goals and desired outcomes.

Lead Agile software development team through Scrum ceremonies and mentor team members in Scrum best-practices.

Empowered delivery team to self-organize using principles of Agile governance and by providing the necessary training, coaching and mentoring.

Ensured that the team commitments at the Program Increment Planning Event (PIPE) were met, resulting in a 20% increase in team velocity over the course of 2 months.

NTT DATA, Falls Church, VA (Department of Justice) May 2017 – July 2019

Scrum Master

Facilitated Sprint Planning Sessions, Demo Review Sessions, Daily Scrum meetings and Retrospective meetings for multiple teams of an average team size of 7.

Employed Kanban Board to improve team velocity 40% & Managed backlog within Atlassian JIRA. Integrated Azure DevOps for efficient tracking of user stories and code development.

Coached Product owner on requirements gathering and story writing process and collaborated with the Product Owner to prioritize and groom backlog within Atlassian JIRA and Azure DevOps.

Identified and removed impediments within the Scrum Team to increase productivity, including streamlining development workflows within Azure DevOps.

Managed project documentation such as Meeting Notes, Retrospective Meeting, & Agile Product Roadmap using Confluence. Tracked team key metrics like Burndown Chart and Velocity Chart, as well as Azure DevOps boards for sprint progress and code quality.

Coordinated with tech team leads to manage development, Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, and release planning across products within Azure DevOps.

Worked with cross-functional teams to negotiate technical dependencies and craft timelines and plans for integrated product releases, leveraging Azure DevOps for seamless collaboration and continuous delivery.

Led teams to incorporate Test Driven Development (TDD) and Continues Delivery practices leading to an increase in quality of deliverables and a decrease in production defects. Provided technical assistance for the development and integration of DevOps tools, including Azure DevOps.

Created and conducted training for teams related to agile best practices, understanding, and improving team dynamics and team performance by organizing weekly “Learn by example” sessions. Demonstrated efficient use of Azure DevOps in all aspects of software development lifecycle.

Assisted in implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.0) in the Agency and continue facilitating quarterly Program Increment Planning events across the agency, leveraging Azure DevOps for efficient management of multiple teams and projects.

Worked with the development team to develop and implement data migration and integration plans using Microsoft Dynamics.

SOLUTIONS BY DESIGN II, Vienna, VA (HUD) October 2012 – April 2017

Lead Software Developer/Scrum Master

Led software development and later served as Scrum Master for projects.

Coordinated project planning from release schedule to final product delivery.

Facilitated creation of collaboration plan, team building plan, and prioritized product backlog

Supported agile best practices including continuous integration and automated testing, resulting in velocity improvement of over 50%

Trained 15 developers to transition from Waterfall to Scrum methodology.

Utilized end-to-end SDLC methodology leveraging technologies including ColdFusion 11, Sybase, XML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, Angular 4, and Bootstrap.

Designed databases, forms, and reports connected with Oracle 11g, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase.

Experience in design and development of web applications using Java, Servlets, JSP, Java Beans, EJB, JDBC, Struts, and Stored Procedures in developing web applications.

PYRAMID SYSTEMS, Fairfax, VA (HUD) December 2005 – September 2012

Software Developer

Applied SEI/CMMI to all phases of a software development process and lifecycle for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Compiled customers’ requirements and specifications.

Developed dynamic web applications & Upgrades/Enhancements to existing Coldfusion applications.

Responsible for Enhancements and environment stabilization using HTML, ColdFusion 7, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery

Contributed to storage architecture, design, formatting, and content. Created complete coding standards and conventions for all languages.

ColdFusion and SQL database used to maintain magazine subscription lists and issues archives.

Prevented malicious injections by introducing application-wide security.

Computer Proficiencies

Programming Languages/Web Technologies: Adobe ColdFusion 5-11, Adobe ColdFusion MX, AJAX, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, Transact-SQL, VBScript, Visual Basic, XML, XSLT, SOAP, LAMP, ASP.NET, Java.

Databases: Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle 11g, Sybase, MySQL

Project Management and Quality Assurance: Agile, Scrum, CMMI 1.1, CMMI/SE/SW, Microsoft Project, SAFe 4.0

Applications and Development Tools: CSS, Serena Dimension, Macromedia Suite, ColdBox, Microsoft Office Suite, PVCS, Subversion, Visio, Visual SourceSafe, Visual Studio 2005, Webmaster, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Atlassian JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence, Git Ext, HP ALM, VersionOne, Microsoft Azure.Microsoft Dynamics

Education, Certificates

Master of Science, Computer Information Systems, University of Phoenix,

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Certificates: CSM Scrum Master Certification (CSM), SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager Certification (POPM)

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