Laura Tataw

T: 314-***-**** E: adx63t@r.postjobfree.com

Scrum Master/Project Manager St Louis MO.

SUMMARY

Experienced certified scrum master with 4+years experience with managing complex software projects from development to deployment, while raising revenue and cutting cost. I have demonstrated the ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations while delivering on time, within budget and above expectations. My expertise is in the areas of team building, technical debt management, dependencies, risk management and stakeholder management as well as extensive working experience in leading multiple projects at once through SDLC using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND TOOLS

●Test driven development (TDD)

●Behavior Driven Development (BDD)

●Code refactoring.

●Pair Programming.

●DevOps

●GitHub

●CI/CD Pipeline

●Jenkins

●JIRA/Confluence

●Zoom/Skype

●Teams

●Slack

●Microsoft (Office, Power Point, Excel)

●Kanban

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Charter Communications

Scrum Master October 2022 - Present

● Facilitates discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution

●Helping team in creating high-value products and deliver on time

●Develop sprint goals with team during sprint planning

● Facilitates the process of impediments removal in the team's process.

●Build relationships with platform contacts and leadership

●Develop process to ensure sign off on deliverables • Manages, communicates and escalates risk if needed

● Development and adherence to communication plans

● Understanding and reporting on impact priority changes around recent plans; what work is impacted by change.

● Manage and report on risk in real-time with management

●Organize and maintain release scheduling

●Provide and/or maintain metrics for management consumption.

●Focuses the Agile team on delivering planned value

●Guides the team in establishing normalized estimates and helps the team understand how to estimate work.

●Estimating user stories and classifying them into smaller tasks (subtasks), as a scrum master, I aid in sprint planning.

●Planning sprint reviews and gathering feedback from the development team, stakeholders / product owner.

●Meeting regularly with the Product owners and development teams to ensure all work is well prioritized.

●Keeping track of sprint changes and ensure that scrum tools are working. Takes action to prevent tasks from falling behind their due dates in the future, and discuss the matter with team members and escalating to leadership as needed.

●Facilitates team meetings, including the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective, and other Agile ceremonies

●Facilitates getting the work done

●Helping the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities, sustainability, and scope

●Coordinate addressing external and internal requests to the development team

●Guides the team through estimating and forecasting

●Performing other duties as requested.

Railstek IT Staffing

Scrum master Januar2020 – September 2022

●Support and educate the scrum teams and PMO, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog in support of sprint planning.

●Remove impediments and manage conflicts

●Coached Dev team during the entire Software Development life cycle and guiding the organization by using knowledge of Agile, Scrum.

●Lead collaborative discussions and solving complex issues related to Product Management, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Change Management, and People Management.

●Developed maintained, and tracked reports, documentation, deployments, and status of projects/products using MS Project, Jira, Jira Align, SharePoint and Slack.

●Supported design, development, and maintenance of innovative products.

●Created continuous improvement culture and supported teams' development needs

●Supported and educated the scrum teams and leadership, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog in support of sprint planning.

Dezyndata LLC

Scrum Master July 2019 – January 2020

●Increased team collaboration, transparency and productivity to promote self-organization and cross functionality to ensure a smooth functioning of the team.

●Successfully helped in managing the lifecycle development of code development from ideation to sprints to deployment.

●Explored a variety of team building efforts to promote professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, with the goal of attaining a high-performance team.

●Managed Change Order for teams.

●Helped in the process of impediments removals that were obstructing the team from reaching sprint goal.

●Facilitated Scrum events like Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective as well as product Backlog Refinement.

●Coached teams to discuss PI Objectives, Confidence, Business Value, Risks and Dependencies, document on Confluence for readouts

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

●Certified Scrum Master (CSM), International Scrum Institute.

●Project Management Professional (PMP)

●College Coursework Completed Towards Bachelor of Law, University Of Yaounde II SAO.

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