Scrum Master
Resume:
Carine Umutoni CSM, PSM
Agile Software Development
Methodology
Contact
Dallas, TX
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Professional summary:
Highly skilled and results-driven scrum master with over 6 years of experience in Agile/DevOps teams with advanced presentation, influencing, and relationship management skills. Ability to identify and clearly communicate the impact of risks to delivery with key business stakeholders and multiple levels of leadership. Adept at coaching team members on Agile practices and guiding multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in SAFe ceremonies such as PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and Inspect and Adapt events. Collaborative team player, working closely with product owners to define and prioritize program and product backlogs. Education
Bachelor of Information
Technology – Saint
Lawrence University 2015
Master of Business
Administration
concentration in IT
Management – University of
Dallas – Anticipated
graduation date 2024
Scrum Master
Samaritan’s Purse May 2022 – Present
• Conduct risk assessments and communicate potential impact to key stakeholders
• train a team of Scrum Masters to ensure consistent adoption of Agile/Scrum practices, DevOps practices, and quality assurance techniques across multiple teams
• Work with other Scrum Masters and Agile teams to ensure consistent adoption of Agile practices and methodologies across all teams
• Identify and remove impediments to team productivity, ensuring smooth project progress.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand- ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Coach and mentor team members on Agile/Scrum practices, DevOps practices, and quality assurance techniques
• Worked with product owners to define and prioritize product backlog items
• Conduct risk assessments and communicate potential impact to key stakeholders
• Collaborate with developers and DevOps engineers to ensure seamless integration and delivery of features
• Track and report project progress, impediments, and risks to stakeholders and leadership
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying and implementing process improvements
CORE COMPETENCIES
Agile Values & Principles and
Coaching, Scrum/Extreme
Programming (XP)/Kanban,
Stakeholder Engagement, Team
Performance, Backlog
Refinement, Relative
Sizing/Story Pointing,
Coaching/Mentoring, Team
Empowerment, Servant
leadership, Organizational
Agility, Burndown & Burnup
charts, Conflict Resolution,
Emotional Intelligence,
Software Development
Lifecycle (SDLC), Conflict
Resolution, Iteration/Sprint
Planning, Continuous
Integration/ Continuous
deployment.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects on time and within budget
Agile Delivery Lead/ Scrum Master
DAI Aug 2016 – April 2022
• Scheduled and facilitated Scrum Ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product
• backlog refinement and ensuring there’s full team engagement.
• Removed impediment and blockers so team remains focused on achieving its goals.
• Coached the product owner on how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
• Determined the teams’ capacity and velocity from historical data.
• Facilitated release planning, sprint planning, backlog refinement and retrospective meetings. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.
• Coordinated with Product Owners on artifacts such as Product Backlog
• Worked with scrum team to continuously improve team vision/agreements.
• Coached the team to understand agile methodology, scrum processes and values.
• Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.
Project Coordinator
City Electric Supply Oct 2014 - July 2016
• Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity within the first-year adoption by 60%.
• Cloud Data Migration – Successfully led a team that helped migrate from the traditional application data to the cloud with Talend Data Integrator software which increased customer lifetime value by 30%
• Worked with the cross-functional team to identify cross- dependencies and manager inter-team tasks and facilitated scrum team in cross-locations.
• Leveraged technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams
• Managed the entire procurement lifecycle from requisition planning definition through implementation using the working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Actively worked to remove impediments that slow any aspect of the development team's efforts to meet the sprint goal.
• Maintained all information pertaining to the product such as Release Plans, Team Forecasts, Decision Logs
• Served as a resource to project managers and project leaders to educate and assisted with the implementation, improvement and changes to project management processes
• Coordinated the reports on the delivery of iterative releases from internal and external partners.
• Supported the overall success of assigned projects including fulfillment of the technical requirements and adherence to the approved project scope and budget.
Certifications:
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM) – Scrum.org - 2020
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum Alliance - 2021
- Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP)- 2022
- Certified SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master (SSM)- 2022
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