MBUH ASAH

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SCRUM MASTER

Certified (CSM, SAFe 5.0, SASM) Scrum Master professional with 5 years of proficiency in implementing and improving agile development practices to heighten the productivity of product development teams. Adept in the guidance of teams to motivate, increase efficiency, prioritizing tasks, remove impediments and instill proactive thinking. While overseeing limited resources in conjunction with balancing: cost, delivery, quality, risks, and scope. Demonstrated knack for effective communication, problem solving and helping individual team members (collocated, distributed, and offshore) tap into hidden and/or undeveloped talents and abilities.

Summary:

●IT Professional with 7 years of professional experience and 5 years of professional experience specifically as a Scrum Master leading multiple teams on various projects through SDLC using Agile frameworks such as Scrum and Safe. Excel as a coach, leader, and cross-functional communicator with a technical background in software development, mobile applications and experience driving results through agile methodologies and Scrum leadership.

●5 years of outstanding Scrum leadership with expertise in agile methodologies.

●Adept at guiding teams to increase efficiency, motivate staff, and ensure on time and under budget results. Expertise in clarify and acting on goals in line with organizational and project objectives, removing impediments to progress, and prioritizing tasks in addition to forecasting needs.

●Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, and Sprint Demos

●Retrospective Meetings / Open Communications

●Agile Methodologies / Team Leadership / Dispute and Issue Resolution

●Strategic Planning and Implementation / Software Development Lifecycles (SDLC)

●Estimation and Forecasting / Cross-Functional Collaboration / Data Analysis

●Coaching and Training / Mentorship / Team Development

●TOOLS PROFICIENCIES:

●JIRA, Confluence, Azure Dev-Ops, Rally, Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management Applications, MS Office Suite, Whiteboard.

Station Casinos, (January 2020-Current), Agile Scrum master

Key Achievements

Act as Agile Scrum master for multiple Scrum teams and ensure that the Scrum team lives by the values and practices of Scrum.

Successfully guided three development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.

Guiding teams, in establishing normalized estimates and helping them understand how to

estimate features and capabilities.

Serves the development Team in its efforts to deliver value and meet expectations of stakeholders by conducting daily scrum, planning the sprints, demonstrating the sprints, and scheduling process improvement meetings.

Evaluates the Scrum Maturity of the team; coaches the team to achieve higher levels of maturity and at a pace that is sustainable for the organization

Collaborated closely with the Product Owner (PO) with respect to managing the product backlog.

Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Schedule, and facilitate all meetings, identify, and eliminate obstacles, act as communicator for the teams.

Serve as a team expert and enforce Capital Finance's defined agile methodology standards

Frequently facilitate cross-functional process and technical design projects that may impact multiple lines of business, accounting, finance, operations, and technology.

Performed in project management capacity when required

As needed, document clear and thorough business requirements or user stories on Agile development teams

Research, evaluate and recommend solutions for business processes and application enhancements to effectively support business and efficiency goals.

Capital One, Houston, TX

(12/2017– 12/2019)Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Key Achievements:

●Effectively collaborated with product owners to prioritize projects and engaged multiple teams to deliver on time and under budget results.

●Consistently solved problems and overcame roadblocks through solution and design-thinking.

●Ensure dependencies are met and provided to the development team in a timely manner, escalating when issues arise.

●Assist with resolving any road blocks that arises during development in a sprint.

●Work closely with the development team to ensure all requirements are met prior to handing off to QA testers.

●Assist development team with creating test data.

●Build trust with the business (IT or other Divisions) and throughout the organization.

●Foster speed, innovation, and encourage continuous improvement.

●Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies: Sprint Pre-Planning / Prioritization, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand Up, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.

●Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

●Assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

●Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.

●Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

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

Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles California (January 2016-November 2017), Scrum Master

Key Achievements:

Taught and re-enforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stake holders.

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog refinement, sprint review and Retrospective meetings.

Tacked work progress by conducting daily stand up meetings, maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.

Developed end-user product documentation in an agile environment while meeting 100% of team deadlines

Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 63% within the first year of Agile adoption

Manage escalation resolution and change control

Resolved a complex infrastructure issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within [company name].

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions from hierarchy to maximize productivity.

Researching emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in

Methods that could benefit the Scrum team.

Business Analyst/Project Manager 03/2012 to 10/2014

Global Freightage Services Ltd - Douala

Contributed advanced knowledge in formulating systems scope and objectives relative to the organization's business plan and user requirements, process flow definitions and functional specifications.

Served as the main liaison between technical staff and business stakeholders.

Documented digital transformation strategy; current state of the business operations, marketing, sales, support and storing documents in SharePoint.

Recommended operational improvements and established an effective management control and reporting system based on tracking and analysis.

Worked with Management and staff to ensure Projects were carried out following PMP guidelines and established effective execution strategy and alignment.

Increased productivity and overall performance of project delivery and standard and by consequence revenue.

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATION

University of Buea: BA in Banking and Finance

Certified Scrum Master

Certified Advance SAFe Scrum Master

Conflict Resolution Training

CORE TECHNICAL COMPENCIES

SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

Iterative Development

Azure

Sprint Backlog Management

Agile Project Management (Scrum and Kanban)

BDD (Behavior Driven Development)

Team Building

Communication Skills (Verbal & Written)

Office 365 (Word, Excel, Power Point, SharePoint, OneNote, Outlook, MS Teams, Visio)

TDD (Test Driven Development)

Conflict Resolution

Organizational Skills

Time Management

Tools: Confluence, JIRA, RALLY, Trello

CRM (Customer Relation Management)

Miro, Skype, WebEx, Zoom

MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Used Jira software to develop Key Performance Indicator dashboard

Improved teams done success rate from 60% to 85%

Promoted from scrumming one team to multiple teams due to my excellent performance

Documented and resolved scrum anti patterns within a team which led to an increase in the team’s effectiveness and productivity

Collaborated with the PO in the development of product backlog techniques and

Excellent Communication skills which increased transparency

have a good mastery of the scrum framework and can effectively change the environment to have an agile mindset.

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