Scrum Master Management Associate

Name: GERTRUDE MACAULEY

Phone: 202-***-**** Email: adxjh9@r.postjobfree.com

GREENBELT, MARYLAND

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Certified Professional Scrum Master with an in-depth knowledge and experience software development life cycle within multiple domains such as Finance, insurance, and healthcare. Great insight in knowledge and experience in Agile methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and XP

• Experience in coaching and mentoring multiple cross-functional Agile Teams and Stakeholders to effectively adopt and implement Agile values, principles, and practices within a fast-paced business environment

• Oversee the design, implementation, and validation of product during the project life cycle

• Ensure that Goals, Product domain and Scope is understood by everyone on the Agile Team and help the PO and the Team understand the need for a clear and concise product backlog

• Define the project schedule with the Teams, coordinate the planning and delivery processes while focusing on timely delivery of high-value products for the assigned projects

• Coordinate all the scrum ceremonies and collaborate with the PO in managing the Backlog Items. Ensure that the User Stories meet the definition of READY

(DoR)

• Prepare and distribute progress reports, (Burn down chart and Velocity chart) to upper management and stakeholders for effective business decisions whenever it is necessary

• Identify, track, and coordinate with the management of project risk, dependencies and impediments while correcting any deviation from the scope plan

• Coordinate the teams as they implement various Agile techniques; TDD, ATDD, Unit Testing, Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Pair Programming

• Experience with software Management tools as, Jira, Confluence, Teams, and Outlook

SKILLS

WORK EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master Feb 2019 - Present

Wells Fargo – Baltimore

• Responsible for managing and facilitating a cross-functional distributed team

• Worked in collaboration with the PO to make sure that the requirements gathered from the business are well defined to the team and ensure that the team understands all that is expected of them

• Facilitated all the scrum ceremonies and ensure that the team deliver value to the customer at the end of every iteration

• Agile/Scrum/Kanban/SAFe

• Team leader/Facilitator

• Coaching and Mentoring

• Communication and Planning

• Backlog Management

• Attention to Detail

• Deadline Driven

• Performance Monitoring

• Risk Assessment

• Conflict Resolution

• Documentation and Report

• Jira/Confluence

• Coach and encourage the team to fully implement Agile principles, practices, and value in their method of operation and functionality

• Work in collaboration with PO and team to ensure that every release meets the customer’s request

• Keep an update of Scrum Metrics

• Resolve conflict among team members and ensure that team members work in continuous collaboration

• Coached the team to a level of maturity where they become self-organized and self-managing

• Represent my team members in Scrum of Scrum meetings where we discuss the progress of various teams with the Release Train Engineer and work on the resolution of any inter-team dependencies, impediments and risk identified

• Participated in PI Planning sessions and collaborate with my team and the PO during Team Breakout to finalize the Team’s PI objectives, review the Program Backlog, identify, and track dependencies, estimate team capacity, and participate in the vote of confidence

Scrum Master May 2018– Jan 2019

Holy Cross Maryland

• Manage two cross-functional and distributed scrum team and ensured that there was effective communication and collaboration amongst them

• Led all the scrum ceremonies and ensured that they were ran appropriately following the Agile Principles

• Coordinated the Story Writing and Estimation Sessions with the Product Owners and Development Teams and made sure that Epics are decomposed into task or User Stories which can be completed in the Sprint.

• Ensured that the User Stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR); stories have epic labels, stories have been assigned, stories have been estimated, stories have description and acceptance criteria stated

• Made sure that the Definition of Done (DoD) is stated for all the user stories

• Guided in determining the team capacity and velocity and coordinated work break down structure and corresponding activities

• Resolved impediments and maintained developers focus on their tasks

• Consistently monitor the user stories in the backlog to identify dependencies, risk, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plan.

• Tracked and reported team progress and velocity utilizing burn up and burn down chart and the velocity chart

• Met quality standard by ensuring TDD (Test driven development) was adopted during the sprints.

Scrum Master August 2017– March 2018

Arity-Allstate Insurance VA

• Coached two Cross Functional teams and followed up with the implementation of Agile Principles and Practices (Agile Ceremonies).

• Worked with the Agile coach, to facilitate the transition of these two teams from

(Traditional) Waterfall to Agile Development methodology

• Worked with the Product Owner to properly groom, prioritize, and maintain the Product Backlog and aided in determining suitable commitment of the backlog items in sprints

• Coordinated the Scrum events; sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review and sprint retrospective meetings

• Coordinated the Story Writing and Estimation Sessions with the Product Owners and Development Teams making sure that Epics are decomposed into User Stories that can fit in the Sprint.

• Ensured that the User Stories meet the Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD)

• Guided in determining the team capacity and velocity and coordinated work break down structure and corresponding activities

• Ensured that milestones are reached, and deadlines are met throughout the project lifecycle

• Identified and mitigated team risk, dependencies, and impediments (Backlog issues, Critical defects) on daily bases

• Oversee the Development Teams application of the following techniques in developing and testing of the product increment; TDD, ATDD, Continuous integration, Continuous testing, Pairing, Automated testing technics

• Updated team metrics and communicated to upper management and stakeholders EDUCATION and CERTIFICATION

Masters in Education

Business Management Associate Degree

Level Two Customer Service Management Certification

SMC / SAFe

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