Scrum Master Agile Coach

georgian arrey csm,ssm,agile coach

Tel: 614-***-**-**

Email: adwpt0@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Certified Scrum Master/Agile coach with a proven track record of leading and coaching development teams in Agile, SAFe and Waterfall Environment. Driving the adoption of Agile principles, practices and effectively leveraging technology to create strategic business value. Excellent servant leadership with a track record in successfully improving productivity and customer satisfaction while leading and coaching distributed and co-located teams.

Areas of expertise include:

●Servant Leadership/ Coaching

●Removing impediments/blocker

●Facilitation and Observation/ conflict resolution

●Effective Communication /Problem solving

●Burndown/Burnup Charts

●Sprint Review/Retrospective

●Metrics & Trend Reporting

●Effective Negotiation skills

Technical / Soft Skills:

●Expertise in SDLC methodologies – Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, Lean, XP and Waterfall.

●Strong technical command of project management tools – JIRA/Confluence, Rally, Azure, MS Project, and MS Office Suite.

●Well versed in project version control and collaboration tools – SharePoint, Salesforce

●Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.

●Strategic Planning & Execution, Process Optimization, Change Management and Release Management.

●Identify Areas of Improvement

●Flexible and persuasive

●Willingness to Learn New Technologies.

Professional Experience

Humana, Louisville KY Oct 2021 - Present

Scrum Master

●Demonstrate sense of urgency and responsiveness to complete work and solve problems, with a strong drive to persevere when faced with ambiguity.

●Maintains relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance.

●Proactively remove or escalate roadblocks to allow team progress.

●Support the Product Owner in grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

●Champion Agile software development best practices, acting as a coach to the Scrum teams.

●Encourages continual improvement in Engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery.

●Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network especially with regard to items necessary for product release.

JP Morgan Chase Bank, Columbus, OH June 2019 – Oct 2021

Scrum Master

●Scrum master for two unique scrum teams responsible for two varying financial technology products.

●Responsible for all aspects of scrum process, including but not limited to sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, user story refinement, and sprint retrospectives.

●Responsible for coaching and training newly hired and recently promoted scrum masters.

●Trained product development team on story point estimation on an as-needed basis.

●Assisted Product Owner in implementing backlog refinement methodology across all scrum teams.

●Delivered agile metric reporting using burn up charts and team velocity metrics.

Ann Taylor / Ann INC, Columbus, OH Mar 2016 - May 2019

Scrum Master

●Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

●Tracked and reported Scrum team velocity and managed Sprint capacity.

●Guarded team from outside distractions, removing any obstacles that could impede the teams' progress.

●Communicated progress and commitments to external teams and management.

●Resolved or escalated blocking impediments as necessary.

●Coached the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices.

●Recommended improvements and assisted in changes to best practices.

●Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

●Created an environment that empowered and energized team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, and collaboration.

Halliburton Company, Dallas TX Jan 2015 - Feb 2016

Scrum Master

●Champion Agile software development best practices, acting as a coach to the Scrum teams.

●Track and communicate team status and progress via burnup and burn down charts, as well as other information radiators, to the team, management, and stakeholders ensuring it accurately reflects current state.

●Track and communicate team status and progress via burnup and burn down charts, as well as other information radiators, to the team, management, and stakeholders ensuring it accurately reflects current state.

●Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum team and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network especially with regard to items necessary for product release.

●Proactively remove or escalate roadblocks to allow team progress.

●Maintains relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance.

●Encourages continual improvement in Engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery.

●Coordinates timely response and support to production line customer issues, when escalated.

Saar Insurance, Yaoundé CR Jan 2010 - Oct 2014

Business Analyst

●Gathered Requirements from key business users, IT users and subject matter experts to define the scope and requirements of the online banking system.

●Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled, and deliverables are produced within specified budget, quality and time.

●Developed system requirements specifications encompassing Functional and Non-Functional requirements.

●Conducted Gap analysis to estimate effort required in modification of existing architecture and development of new business needs.

●Assisted project manager in management of Iteration plans, Product backlogs, User stories, Action item list and Risk log.

●Designed and developed Use Cases, Activity Diagram, Sequence Diagram and context diagram using MS Visio.

●Developed data maps for retrieval of information from existing systems

Applied a standard change control process in tracking defects originating from post-requirement phases.

●Wrote Queries to verify the system functionality and provided the users with the needed data and information during the operational phase.

●Drafted test strategies and test cases to verify accuracy of the functionality, security.

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Safe Scrum Master (SSM)

Certified Agile Coach

Education

University of Yaoundé CMR

Ms. Intellectual Property Law

University of Yaoundé CMR

BA. Business Law

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