Scrum Master Project Manager

Maxwell Achu

SAFe Scrum Master/ Project Manager

DALLAS TEXAS Tel: 682-***-**** / *************@*****.***

PROFILE

●Experienced SAFe Scrum Master/ Project Manager working to deliver high quality products and services to internal and external clients with a client-focus, results-oriented and servant leadership skills with over nine years of experience coaching at the team level, using scrum principles and values to deploy and implement scrum projects.

Professional Summary

•Certified Scum Master/project manager with over 10 years of experience.

•Well versed in coaching and mentoring teams on Agile practices and transitions to Agile.

•Critical thinker and problem solver, able to find solutions to complex problems through analysis and innovative ideas.

•Ability to work independently, resolve issues proactively and meet timelines.

•Ability to work with cross-functional teams, responsible for improving business processes and providing value to the functions they support.

•Excellent conceptual and working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

•Ability to communicate with top management, provide reports that demonstrate project progress per sprint using burn-down charts and average story point velocity.

•I have coached many struggling and both collocated and offshore new teams and helped them achieve high performance measured by faster development, better quality, and fewer release rollbacks.

Professional Experience

Kaleida Health, Buffalo, NY

Role: SCRUM MASTER Aug. 2019 - Present

●Team up with Product Owner/Project Manager to maintain and coordinate communication of project progress to clients throughout each project by visualizing work on Scrum boards.

●Act as the bridge between the Product Manager and the scrum delivery team and help both parties to align to a common goal while managing stakeholder expectations.

●Teaching, coaching, and mentoring agile team members on Scrum processes and providing constructive feedback. Train and transform teams to implement agile and coach and mentor teams on SAFe core values, SAFe principles, and agile manifesto.

●Help to build a safe environment and strong relationship within teams so problems can be raised and dealt with professionally.

●Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives.

●Work with PO to review PBIs to ensure requirements are accurately captured, stories are well written, and teams have a shared understanding of stories in the backlog.

●Facilitate scrum ceremonies including the Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning and Retrospective Discussions and sprint review as needed.

●Developing leaders during mergers significantly increases the likelihood of successful integration planning, value capture, and cultural integration and prepares NewCo to capitalize on the next horizon of growth and performance, especially by enhancing M&A capacity for future deals.

●Capture and help teams continuously identify and learn from retrospectives by tracking and implementing retrospective action items in subsequent sprints.

●Tracked and radiated information on team level metrics to enable discussions on continuous improvement and set team expectations for high performance.

●Ensure that the scrum team remains in the rhythm of continuously delivering customer and business value.

●Help teams execute effective sprints by organizing and facilitating regular backlog refinement sessions with a focus on clarifying and adding detail to PBIs and ensuring that stories are ready to be actioned on by the development team.

Bank of America, Boston MA

Role: SCRUM MASTER Feb 2016 – August-2019

•Working with multiple teams, provided guidance in adopting scrum practices and agile principles.

•Ensured team members understood and effectively applied agile engineering best practices such as TDD.

•Supported teams to identify and gather requirements for building a CI/CD pipeline to enable frequent deployment to production.

•Helped the team to solve problems rather than provide solutions and remove bottlenecks.

•Identified, tracked, and resolved team level impediments with the development by empowering them to own their development process.

•Building a trusting and safe team environment to foster collaboration and continuous learning.

•Assisted team to become mature and self-organized by encouraging them to facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning and sprint reviews.

•Trained and coached teams on conducting backlog Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings and assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information and helping define team health metrics for sustainable team monitoring.

•Used burn-down and burn-up chart to monitor team progress to help coach teams to maintain stable and sustainable space in the course of development.

•Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

•Worked with Product owners on artifacts such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog and Sprint Burn down, Release Burn down.

•Assisted Product Owner by providing creative ideas for managing backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

•Publicizing the team's progress and successes to make sure they are highly visible to product owners /stakeholders.

•Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.

•Conducted presentations to detail user perspective to the team and vice-versa.

Toyota North America, Columbus OH

Role: Senior Project Manager Jan 2015- Feb -2016

• Creating long- and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines

• Delegating tasks on the project to employees best positioned to complete them.

• Making effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project.

• Serving as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy.

• Communicating with executives or the board to keep the project aligned with their goals.

• Performing quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected.

• Adjusting schedules and targets on the project as needs or financing for the project change.

Toyota North America, Columbus OH

Role: Senior Project Manager / Human Resources Admin Jan 2015- Feb -2016

• Coordinate activities throughout the company to ensure efficiency and maintain compliance with company policy.

• Supervise members of the administrative staff, equally dividing responsibilities to improve performance.

• Manage agendas, travel plans and appointments for upper management.

• Manage emails, letters, packages, phone calls and other forms of correspondence.

• Support bookkeeping and budgeting procedures for the company.

• Create and update databases and records for financial information, personnel and other data.

• Track and replace office supplies as necessary to avoid interruptions in standard front office procedures.

• Submit reports and prepare proposals and presentations as needed.

• Assist colleagues whenever there is an opportunity to do so.

Certifications:

●Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

●Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

●Certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master SSM 5.1 Scaled Agile

●Experience in SAFe Scrum Master SSM 5.1 – Scaled Agile

●Certified Project Management 2008

●Oracle certified Associate

Academics:

●Masters in International Relations 2009 (conflict management/resolutions tools)

●Bachelors in Law /2007 - University of Yaoundé

Skills

●Lean-Agile Leadership; Agile Methodologies/Principles; Scrum; Multitasking; People Leadership; Product vision; Agile SDLC; Interpersonal interactions; Product Road-mapping; Agile Coaching toolkit/manual; Mentorship discussions; Self-Management practices; Team Motivation games; Collaboration techniques; Conflict Management; Excellent facilitator; Culture of Continuous learning…

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