RAYMOND B. NJONG

Houston TX. 832-***-****. adycx2@r.postjobfree.com

(Visa status: US Citizen)

SUMMARY

Agile SAFe 5 Certified Scrum Master with more than eleven years of successfully managing and delivering large software development projects while building self-organize teams and coaching the teams on agile principles and values, and a little over Two years of Waterfall Project Management.

Inculcate Agile mindsets within the Team as well as organization through interactions and Coaching.

Proficient in driving organization wide agile adoption, TDD, BDD, Pair

Educating and coaching executives, managers, stakeholders, and others throughout the organization regarding Agile practices and how their interactions may change.

Championed cultural change and collaborated with stakeholders to advance Organization’s Agile transformation journey.

Management Tools: JIRA And Confluence, Rally, VSTS, TFS, MS Project, MS Visio Core, RTC.

Competencies: Agile Principles, Agile Scrum Coaching, Business and Technical requirement documentations.

Methodologies: Agile (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP) and Waterfall.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor In Law, 2011

• Certified Scrum Master

• Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master

SKILLS

*Rally 7+yrs. *Jira 8 yrs Confluence 5yrs. *ADO 5yrs. *MS Project 4yrs. *Version one 4yrs

*Agile SDLC, *Agile Methodology, *SCRUM (9yrs), *SAFe 7yrs, *Kanban 5yrs, *Lean 4yrs, *Waterfall Project Management 9yrs, *Extreme Programming 3yrs,

EXPERIENCE

United Health Group (Through DYSIS). Remote. May 2022 – June 2023

Agile Practitioner II

Coordinate project activities across 3 Agile teams using the Scrum framework (DSU, Grooming, Planning, Demos, Retros), support Product Owner and Program.

Fostered a team collaborative working environment for development teams that tears down silos between groups - Act in a single voice.

Coach project partners and mentor team members in using Agile standard methodologies to realize the fullest potential for delivery.

Collaborated with Agile coaches, RTEs and other Scrum Masters to foster decision-making and continuous improvement.

Onboarding new team members to the team, endeavoring they have all accesses/permits required to complete their tasks.

Communicated project progress to senior management through Burndown/Burnup Charts. Monitored the Team’s maturity through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.

USAA. San Antonio, TX/Remote. September 2019 – April 2022

Senior Scrum Master

Facilitating project delivery using Scrum and Kanban in a SAFe environment.

Conducting Daily Stand-Ups, Iteration/Sprint Planning Meetings, Demos/Reviews, Releases and Retrospectives for all four Teams (in Rally).

Removing impediments, making sure that teammates/SME have a conducive working environment.

Conflict resolution on within the team.

Weekly Sync with DPOs, DBAs, Business Analysts, Managers and Directors for Updates on both sides.

Developed plans and managed dependencies between scrum teams and lines of business.

Liaised between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.

Facilitated collaboration between both co-located, Remote/offshore Team Members on a daily basis.

Attend Scrum of Scrums and relate to the team whatever is coming down the pipeline from the upper management through the Release Train Engineer (RTE).

Transamerica Insurance. Houston TX. January 2017 – September 2019

Scrum Master

Using CI/CD technologies with Salesforce DX to migrate change from sandbox to production environment.

Improving communication and collaboration between development teams.

Serve as Scrum Master for two Agile Kanban mobile applications dev team on both IOS and Android platforms.

Coordinated and participated in weekly estimation meetings to provide high-level estimates (Story Points) for backlog items.

Conducting Iteration Planning Meetings (IPMs), Daily Stand-Ups, Review/Demo (Technical and Business), Retrospective meetings (Iteration/Sprint, Release) on a newly formed Scrum Team.

Involved in reviewing Test Plans, Test Cases with the QA team to verify implementation of new features and enhancements.

Train teams in Agile Development including the use of Project Management tools like JIRA and Confluence

Wells Fargo. Houston TX. August 2014 – January 2017

Scrum Master

Focused on developing more trusted and collaborative team environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution.

Assisted internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Championed cultural change and collaborated with stakeholders’ advance organization’s agile transformation.

Ensured team and stakeholders' understanding of agile and Scrum constantly improved from sprint to sprint.

Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story grooming, and Release Planning.

Assisted in identifying and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.

Coached and worked with the scrum team to ensure sustainability and consistency.

PWC. Houston TX. September 2012 – July 2014

Project Manager/BA

Translate stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams.

Analyzed and produced monthly, quarterly and annual reports using historical data for clients in investment management and distribution management industries.

Created UML Diagrams like Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagram as well as created mock-up screens using MS Visio.

Developed Business Requirements - project life cycle documents, what the needed achievements will be, and the quality measures.

Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

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