ANGEL NABATYANGA

(CSM, SAFe, SSM, BS)

+1-660-***-**** adwco5@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Insightful and multi-functional Certified Scrum Master with a strong passion of serving high-performing and multi-disciplinary teams from product development through successful product launches. Demonstrated success in providing mindful leadership to improve team technical capabilities and communicate metrics to the appropriate audiences. Passionate about leveraging a comprehensive understanding of agile/scrum management best practices to lead dozens of on/off-shore resources in delivering projects on time and in full compliance with all customer expectations. Capable of transforming from Waterfall to Agile, bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to the framework, applying expert judgment to remove impediments, keeping teams focused, and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments. Known for the ability to plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage, and bottom-line gains.

Core Skills: Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Strategic Planning Project Management Team Collaboration Agile Methodology Stakeholder Relations Talent Management Program Management Servant Leadership Process Improvement Cross-functional Team Leadership Coaching agile practices Staff Training & Development Advanced Problem Solver Analytical & Critical Thinker Effective Multitasker

Technical Skills: MS Suite (Office, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, Azure) Scrum/Kanban/XP and Kanban Confluence/Rally/Candice/Trello JIRA Practitioner/JQL /Jira Align

Career Contribution.

Enforced Kanban principles that reduced the cycle time by 20%, which increased the team’s throughput in less than 10 weeks.

Methodized and utilized scrum principles to help the team improve their velocity within the first year of adopting by 60%.

Organized and improved agile practices, which increased productivity and overall team satisfaction.

Professional Experience

SR. SCRUM MASTER United States Department of Agriculture Jan. 2020 – Present

Champion cultural change and collaborate with other coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization's transformation while providing extensive guidance on Agile processes to improve quality and productivity.

Explore and analyze all available data to influence future fresh projects and initiatives.

Work closely with data team to ensure end-to-end solutions for the different regions.

Measure project performance utilizing appropriate tools and techniques to monitor progress; identify and quantify variances, completed requiring corrective actions and communicated to stakeholders on scrum methodologies and Agile frameworks.

Organize and facilitate focused backlog grooming sessions with the product owner and senior developers, which reduced the sprint planning time by more than 80% and increased the team's efficiency by giving them more time to concentrate on the sprint work.

Create and conduct training courses for Scrum master’s and teams related to agile best practices, understanding, and improving team dynamics and performance.

Successfully provided Audit/Compliance support to ensure system(s) access are current to meet USDA's requirements and AD Accounts are current as users are hired, transferred, or leave USDA Agencies.

Ensure the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-organisation, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency toward the consistent delivery of the working product.

Track and communicate team velocity by interpreting the burndown charts, which improved the team's backlog estimates and product plans.

SCRUM MASTER T-Mobile Jan. 2018 – Jan 2020

Publicized the team's progress and successes to ensure they were highly visible to the product owners and stakeholders; helped the product owner prioritize and groom user stories in the product backlog to achieve enough READY items for the next sprint.

Analyzed data and interpret results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports for the team’s deliverables.

Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with the outcome resulting in enhanced performance.

Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.

Led multiple teams by adopting agile methodology in delivering increments on a novel designing and drafting software project for geospatial data that performs with excellent quality.

Served as Scrum Master for two Agile Scrum teams and one Kanban mobile team on both IOS and Android platforms; enforced scrum framework as a scrum master that resulted in a reduction of Cycle time, thus increasing the team's inputs.

Provided leadership and guidance to Agile delivery teams on the various Agile frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe; transformed the team's waterfall mindset to Agile by introducing training with hands-on exercises, enabling rapid understanding of Agile delivery.

Promoted the application of Agile principles and values and their application through coaching and mentoring at the team and management levels.

Guided and coached the ART through the delivery of software and services, embracing and casting the Agile mindset across client spaces.

SCRUM MASTER Fidelity Investments – Contract Jul. 2016 – Dec. 2018

Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing continual improvement.

Worked with senior leadership on understanding and embracing the aspects of agile software development that helped them achieve their goals without creating churn on development teams.

Analyzed all tasks and activities assigned to the scrum team to ensure timely development with minimal technical debts, while maintaining the highest quality of performance which accelerated on-time delivery by 40%.

Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.

Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to help Scrum teams transitioning to Agile understand and practice methods that resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.

Supported the Product Owner, assisted in maintaining product roadmap and delivery deadlines, broke down high-level business intents into workable components, and wrote user stories.

Ensured the team was practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency toward the consistent delivery of the working product.

PRODUCTION ANALYST/UNDERWRITER Amwins Group - Alta Risk, LLC Jan. 2016 – Jun. 2016

Asses adequate adequacy of existing data for reporting requests

Conducted continuous monthly monitoring reports for various projects and documented and kept track of action project items.

Prepared and presented Status reports, project health reports, and risk assessment report to Management.

Collected and analyzed underwriters’ performances based on their weekly quotes and bound businesses while identifying and reconciling errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

Extracted, interpreted, and analyzed data to identify key metrics and transformed raw data into meaningful, actionable information; analyzed the data collected to prepare charts and graphs to show trends and issues within the production processes.

Worked with Team Members to resolve any system problems and reviewed existing production procedures to maximize efficiency and reduce unnecessary expenses.

Prepared monthly reconciliations, collected and analyzed employee data, and produced demand and inventory forecasts.

Educations & Certifications

Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science and Statistics University of Central Missouri (UCM), Warrensburg, MO

MBA (In Progress)

Certification:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

AWS Solutions Architect – (in progress)

Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL 4 Foundation)

Professional Organization

National Mathematics Honor Society (Kappa Mu Epsilon)

Agile for human

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