Dalaya Whyte Gustave

Snellville, GA ***** 347-***-**** adxeut@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Well-rounded Scrum Master with skills, experience and certifications in all roles of the Scrum Team. Individual who is passionate about team work, growth and development. With positive results and impactful change as a motivating factor of my personal life, I am a forever student especially in the Information Technology Industry that is ever growing and changing. With Scrum being the art of doing all the work within half the time while delivering high quality products, it’s an honor to facilitate high performance teams.

Skills

Scrum/ SAFe

Lean Six Sigma /SDLC

Wealth Management

Adaptability/Situational Awareness

Public Speaking

Coaching and Facilitation

Road Munk

Google Cloud

JIRA, Azure DevOps and Kanban

Project Management

Collaborative Mindset

Servant Leadership

Conflict Resolution

Stakeholder Management

Rally

Financial Services

Work History

Administration, 01/2022 - Current

South Atlantic– Georgia

Coaching team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicates effectively, both internally and externally working within the team.

Working with the team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational projects.

Resolving team impediments and challenges to increase the effectiveness of the application of agile methodology in the organization.

Working with other Agile coaches to grow within the role.

Contributing to the advancement and improvement of Agile practices within the organization.

Facilitates and supports all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Acting as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.

Gaining an understanding of the team's work at a detailed level to identify and remove obstacles, impediments, and roadblocks for each team member.

Assisting the team in estimating their work, breaking down tasks, and achieving team-defined iteration goals within the given timeframe.

Acting as a servant leader to guide, train, coach and mentor one or more teams to embrace agile values, principles, and self-organization.

Planning, coordinating, and facilitating meetings such as daily standups, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective, ensuring the team adheres to agile principles and practices.

Keeping track of pertinent metrics that guide each team to advance their work outcomes, such as user satisfaction and quality measures.

Developing and maintaining relationships with team members, other scrum masters in the healthcare organization, and stakeholders while promoting a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Project Dispatcher, 02/2021 - 01/2022

Morehouse College Communications – Georgia

Facilitated Scrum framework sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.

Leading sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.

Introduced Agile best practices such as continuous integration, JIRA tracking, Product visioning, as well as agile role training that resulted in velocity improvement.

Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

Successfully Managed and delivered quality data and information for seamless delivery across over 18 assets through Agile/scrum. Delivered digital innovation, at a faster pace through agile ways of working, that yields business results.

Agile Scrum Master, 06/2015 - 01/2021

PRIMERICA FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED – New York, NY

Project focus was data migration, providing accessibility to customer, Software as a Service. Banking, trading, investments,

Evangelized agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.

Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

Led sprint planning and review meetings to promote full team engagement.

Identified and facilitated the removal of team impediments and escalated as was appropriate.

Worked in partnership with the Product Owner, track and communicate to Stakeholders information such as team velocity, Sprint/release progress, impediments, team successes, etc.

Gaining respect from my teams, lead and demonstrate value-added principles, by leading by example.

Continually improving and constantly learning new tools and techniques to grow, my craft, myself and my team.

Utilized a thorough understanding of, backlog grooming and relative estimating, release planning, sprint planning, scrum metrics such as sprint burndown, release burnup, & velocity, to name a few.

Led teams in a large, complex enterprise environment where successful projects involved more than Scrum team and cross-team dependencies’

Facilitated discussion of issues and different approaches and alternatives, and effectively resolve issues in a timely manner.

Was able to ensure that Agile and Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to, by being the voice of reason and authority, and making the tough calls when necessary.

Being the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them as appropriate.

Project Manager, 11/2010 - 02/2015

Caribbean Broilers Group Ltd - Jamaica

Being in charge of the key to the overall project success, including; planning, design, and execution.

Provided profit and loss accountability on multiple projects with strategic management and accounting.

Managed multiple disciplines for design/build projects or hard bid projects as required for the market the project serves.

Experienced in contracting methods such as lump sum, GMP, cost plus construction management, and fee-based construction with an understanding of the legal aspects and implications of contractual language.

Increased project profitability from the initial project profit margin on multiple projects.

Managed projects in which all process or production equipment procurement or installation or both was within the scope of project services.

Managed all components of comparable process projects for other industries, including, but not limited to, large distribution and manufacturing, equipment procurement and installation etc.

Mentored and trained project staff, such as contractual project managers, assistant project managers and other team members.

Developed and maintained harmonious relationships with business owners, co-workers, vendors, suppliers, and all other stakeholders

Utilized various scheduling and/or estimating applications such as Gantt charts etc.

Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.

Managed risks and impediments with proper escalation strategies before impacting the objectives of the project.

Education

Master Degree in Business Administration Leadership - International MBA Institute

Bachelor of Science: Business Administration/Program & Project Mgmt. - International University of The Caribbean

Scrum Master Certification - International Scrum Institute

SAFe – International Scrum Institute

Scrum Product Owner - International Scrum Institute

Certified Kanban Expert - International Scrum Institute

Design Thinking Certified Professional – International Scrum Institute

Objective Key Results Certified Professional – International Scrum Institute

Agile Coach Accredited Certification – International Scrum Institute

Software Tester – International Software Testing Institute

Scrum Developer – International Scrum Institute

PMP Certified – Project Management Institute

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