Scrum Master Project Coordinator

Husinatu Bah

CSM/ PSM- Scrum Master

Telephone: 202-***-****

E-mail: *************@*****.***

Key Skills and Knowledge

Education

Institute of Public Administration and Management,

Bachelor of Science- Applied Accounting

Certificates

Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

Hard Skills

Software Development Life cycle

Product Backlog Grooming

Scaled Agile Framework

Jira and Confluence

Service Now

Waterfall to agile migration

Soft Skills

Management Skills

Coaching

Public speaking

Leadership Skills

Presentation Giving

Motivational Speaking

Scrum

Process/Methodologies

Agile (Scrum)

Waterfall,

Kanban,

SAFe

References available upon request.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM ) who has experience in IT based product and solutions. Scrum master bringing 5 years of experience in project leadership with demonstrated success in learning new fields quickly. Successful in understanding markets, key business decisions, and financial operations. An Agile practitioner and a management professional with experience leading multiple scrum teams and large groups. Operated with cross functional, distributed, and co-located Scrum teams. Equally proficient in Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) & Waterfall model. Guides and coaches Scrum Teams and organizations on how to use Agile methods and values while also meeting delivery commitments.

Technologies:

Jira, Confluence, Service Now, SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Project, and Outlook), Microsoft Teams, Epic, Product Backlog Grooming, POS Systems, Waterfall to Agile Migration, Software Development Life Cycle

Professional Experience:

National Cash Registry (NCR)

August 2021 - Current

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Proficiently organizes and facilitates daily scrum, sprint/ iteration reviews, retrospectives, sprint/ iteration and release planning.

Collaborates closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.

Effectively tracks team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.

Involved in conducting meetings for Agile projects requirements sessions with stakeholders and able to articulate and create the requirements in User Story format.

Worked on creating business, functional, use cases, technical requirements artifacts.

Involved in understanding business problems and transformed these into EPICs/Feature and creating User Stories.

Works with Technical teams to identify options to meet business requirements.

Identifies and removes organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Trains new team members and transition teams to agile framework with Scrum and SAFe to enhance team skill levels

Monitor and manage dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved; Participated in Scrum of Scrums

Facilitate status updates, product demos and retrospectives.

Continue education in related disciplines.

Embraces change, influence, and coaches team members with an agile mindset.

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Aetna Healthcare

May 2019– August 2021

Junior Scrum Master 1

Responsibilities:

Acted cross functionally by filling in for the Product Owner to write user stories, refine the product backlog, and acted as a liaison between the business and team to gain clarification on business requirements.

Ensured on-time sprint burn down charts and release burn-down charts.

Empowered the team to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

Protected team from over-commitment and worked with PO to prioritize resolution of defects/bugs.

Enabled the scrum team to meet sprint goals by understanding and removing any impediments.

Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.

Tracked and communicated team velocity, sprint/release progress, resource availability.

Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/user stories.

Created project timeline and budget estimation based on stakeholder’s input.

Prepared monthly project status reports for Steering Committee meetings.

Documented Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for different system features.

Identified and removed organization and team impediments to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Capital Tax

May 2018 – May 2019

Project Coordinator (intern)

•Maintained and monitored project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures.

•Organized, attended, and participated in stakeholder meetings.

•Documented and followed up on important actions and decisions from meetings.

•Prepared necessary presentation materials for meetings.

•Ensured project deadlines are met.

•Determined project changes.

•Provided administrative support as needed.

•Undertook project tasks as required.

•Developed project strategies.

•Assessed project risks and issues and provided solutions where applicable.

•Ensured stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution.

•Created a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.

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