KM

Bona K. Mensah

Scrum Master

Fort Worth, TX 76106 214-***-**** ady08v@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Results-driven finance professional and Scrum Master with 5 years of remarkable experience in providing project planning services to a wide range of different business domains.

Adept at data analytics, Agile environment, and a keen ability to understand and build complex systems and focusing relentlessly on removing impediments, risks and blockers from teams and delivering customer centric products and features. A highly accomplished leader who consistently ensures business operations/processes become more productive, profitable, lean, and cost-effective using agile framework.

Accomplishments

Brought in Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, rally tracking, product visioning, technical debt reduction, self- management, empowerment and role training, which resulted in the realization of velocity improvement of more than 80%

Spearheaded the agile transformation journey for several projects (Waterfall Teams to Scrum Teams and

Empowered Teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally)

Institutionalized the implementation of Kanban into Maintenance Teams and led them through continuous improvement mind set, which resulted in significant improvement in cycle time

Front-led change and continuous improvements, which resulted in increasing the productivity of Scrum Teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%

Skills

Experience with workflow and collaboration tools, such as:

Jira/Confluence and Jira align,

Azure DevOps, Kanban, Extreme Programming, SAFe and Lean

Change Management Process

Release Planning

Mural

Rally

Salesforce

Team Meetings,

Compliance, Risk Management Planning,

Performance Management,

Risk & Opportunities Assessment, Visualization, Conflict and impediment management,

Coaching, Leadership, People and Project Management

Work History

Scrum Master.

04/2020 - Current

ITC Management Banking Group. (End Client)

Facilitate scrum process with cross functional impact that involve moderately complex projects, non- projects, or maintenance work

Guide scrum teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint

Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance

Deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met

Partner with discipline managers about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards

Facilitate Scrum Agile ceremonies for teams

Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from team and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness

Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Interact with internal customers

Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures,

Process Improvement Analyst / Scrum Master.

01/2018 – 04/ 2020

Hewlett Packard

Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance

Deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met

Partner with discipline managers about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards

Facilitate Scrum Agile ceremonies for teams

Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from team and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness

Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Interact with internal customers

Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements

Used confluence to capture project requirements, users assign specific task, and manage several calendars at

Once with help of team calendars add-on

Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define

Solutions and drive progress

Designed and implemented test suites that exercised and validated product functionality in scope,

Performance, and load

Developed quality assurance checklist process to drive accountability, mitigate risk, manage scope, and

Report issues

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

Junior Scrum Master.

02/2017 - 01/2018

Hewlett Packard

Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance

Deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met

Partner with discipline managers about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards

Facilitate Scrum Agile ceremonies for teams

Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from team and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness

Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

Interact with internal customers

Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements

Used confluence to capture project requirements, users assign specific task, and manage several calendars at

Once with help of team calendars add-on

Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define

Solutions and drive progress

Designed and implemented test suites that exercised and validated product functionality in scope,

Performance, and load

Developed quality assurance checklist process to drive accountability, mitigate risk, manage scope, and

Report issues

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

Education

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration: University of Atlantique (Ivory Coast-Abidjan).

Diploma: Peace & Conflict Resolution

United States Institute of Peace Washington DC - Washington DC

Professional Scrum Master (PSMI)

Scrum.org

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) 6.0

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