JAMES MANA TITA

Laurel, MD *****

adymo5@r.postjobfree.com

+1-443-***-****

A Certified Scrum Master with 8 years of IT experience and Mastery of the Scrum Framework. Credible, customer-centric and project goal oriented with persistent accomplishment of standards within defined time boxes and in conformity with business needs. Agile enthusiast, embodying all Scrum Values, building trust within the team, facilitating communications, transparency and removing roadblocks. Adaptive to change, quick thinking decision making, a true servant leader, a zealous helper through coaching, encouraging self-organization and cross functionality. Work Experience

Scrum Master

DHARA CONSULTING GROUP, INC

July 2021 to Present

· Introduced scrum principles, practices and benefits to delivery team and demonstrated the benefits of the scrum framework by allowing team to monitor the progress of projects and be aware of pertinent project issues.

· Coach and mentor agile team members and provide constructive performance feedback.

· Assist team members to update the Jira board.

· Import task from spreadsheets to Jira board.

· Participate in Agile Management scrum.

· Participate in scrum master watercooler meetings.

· Participate in weekly Jira maintenance meetings.

· Attend the teams Brown Bags.

· Conduct scrum of scrums.

· Work with Product Owner and Scrum team members to establish healthy time-boxes around feature work & user stories within a Sprint that is feasible and realistic.

· Organize and facilitate Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

· Focus on developing a more trustful and collaborative team environment where problems are be raised without fear of blame or judgement with complete focus on the goal.

· Document team working artifacts within JIRA such as: commitment rosters, calendar planning and teams working Agreement.

· Facilitate Scrum meetings with offshore Scrum teams in India (Bangalore).

· Communicate and present weekly updates to manager using confluence and scrum dashboards.

· Guide teams of other Scrum masters and Product Owners to ensure the alignment of priorities and ensuring that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams’ delivery commitments.

· Empowering teams to self-organize and facilitate decision making during sprint planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.

· Engaging with other Scrum masters by attending Community of practice (COP) meetings to increase the effectiveness of Scrum framework in the organization.

· Fostering agile culture, building trust and collaboration across all team members.

· Experience with UX having a clear understanding of product vision and requirements.

· Create and maintain Artifacts and Information Radiators such as Sprint Burn-down, and Release Burndown.

· Gather requirements for business processes and determine ways to optimize/improve JIRA/Confluence setup and workflows as well as identifying where functionality can/cannot meet user requests.

· Experience with JIRA and Confluence.

· Experience with the installation and configuration of the latest version of JIRA and Confluence.

· Respond to support inquiries with a sense of urgency.

· Experience as a JIRA administrator and customizing JIRA project.

· Experience administering Atlassian product (JIRA, JIRA AGILE, CONFLUENCE).

· Experience administering work item management tools (JIRA). Scrum Master

CACI, INTERNATIONAL

July 2020 to July 2021

· Introduced scrum principles, practices and benefits to delivery team and demonstrated the benefits of the scrum framework by allowing team to monitor the progress of projects and be aware of pertinent project issues.

· Coached and mentored agile team members by providing constructive performance feedback.

· Worked with Product Owner and Scrum team members to establish healthy time-boxes around feature work & user stories within Sprints that is feasible and realistic.

· Organized and facilitated Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

· Focused on developing a more trustful and collaborative team environment where problems were raised without fear of blame or judgement with complete focus on the goals.

· Documented team working artifacts within JIRA such as: commitment rosters, calendar planning and teams working Agreement.

· Facilitated Scrum meetings with offshore Scrum teams in India (Bangalore).

· Communicated and presented weekly updates to manager using confluence and scrum dashboards.

· Guides teams of other Scrum masters and Product Owners to ensure alignment of priorities so that dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other teams’ delivery commitments.

· Empowered teams to self-organize and facilitated decision making during sprint planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.

· Engaged with other Scrum masters by attending Community of practice (COP) meetings to increase the effectiveness of Scrum framework in the organization.

· Fostered an agile culture, building trust and collaboration across all team members.

· Experienced with UX having a clear understanding of product vision and requirements.

· Created and maintained Artifacts and Information Radiators such as Sprint Burn-down, and Release Burndown.

· Gathered requirements for business processes and determined ways to optimize/improve JIRA/ Confluence setup and workflows as well as identify where functionality can/cannot meet user requests.

· Experience with JIRA and Confluence.

· Experience with the installation and configuration of the latest version of JIRA and Confluence.

· Responded to support inquiries with a sense of urgency.

· Experience as a JIRA administrator and customizing JIRA project.

· Experience administering Atlassian product (JIRA, JIRA AGILE, CONFLUENCE).

· Experienced administering work item management tools (JIRA).

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Scrum Master

CSRA Talent Acquisition - Yorktown, VA

August 2019 to July 2020

· Introduced scrum principles, practices and benefits to delivery team and demonstrated the benefits of the scrum framework by allowing team to monitor the progress of projects and be aware of pertinent project issues.

· Coached and mentored agile team members and provided constructive performance feedback.

· Work with Product Owner and Scrum team members to establish healthy time-boxes around feature work & user stories within a Sprint that is feasible and realistic.

· Organize and facilitate Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective.

· Focused on developing a more trustful and collaborative team environment where problems were raised without fear of blame or judgement with complete focus on the goal.

· Documented team working artifacts within JIRA such as: commitment rosters, calendar planning and teams working Agreement.

· Facilitated Scrum meetings with offshore Scrum teams in India (Bangalore).

· Communicated and presented weekly updates to manager using confluence and scrum dashboards.

· Guided teams with other Scrum masters and Product Owners to ensure alignment of priorities ensuring dependencies are delivered in the appropriate sprints to support other team's delivery commitments.

· Empowered teams to self-organize and facilitate decision making during sprint planning sessions ensuring the commitments made are appropriate and uphold scrum principles.

· Engaged with other Scrum masters by attending Community of practice (COP) meetings to increase the effectiveness of the Scrum framework in the organization.

· Fostered an agile culture, building trust and collaboration across all team members.

· Experienced with UX having a clear understanding of product vision and requirements.

· Created and maintained Artifacts and Information Radiators such as Sprint Burn-down, and Release Burndown.

· Gathered requirements for business processes and determine ways to optimize/improve JIRA/ Confluence setup and workflows as well as identify where functionality can/cannot meet user requests.

· Experience with JIRA and Confluence.

· Experience with the installation and configuration of the latest version of JIRA and Confluence.

· Responded to support inquiries with a sense of urgency.

· Experience as a JIRA administrator and customizing JIRA project.

· Experience administering Atlassian product (JIRA, JIRA AGILE, CONFLUENCE).

· Experience administering work item management tools (JIRA). Scrum Master/agile Coach

Mckesson Corporation - Henrico, VA

July 2015 to June 2019

· Coached the team and acts as agile framework custodian ensuring agreed agile process is followed.

· Scheduled and facilitated agile ceremonies, daily scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo & Sprint Retrospective meetings. Followed with good interpersonal relationship and communication skills, both with technical and non-technical audience.

· Supported the Product Owner to ensure the backlog has sufficient prioritized user stories at a ready status to stay ahead of the Team.

· Removed barriers and impediments that are preventing the team from completing work and escalating issues.

· Ensured Jira tool is updated daily and accurately with current execution status.

· Provided agile reports such as the Burn down and velocity charts.

· Helped to establish and maintain a culture of self-organization and self-accountability amongst the team.

· Built a trusting environment where the team was comfortable raising issues without fear of blame, retribution or being judged, with emphasis on problem solving.

· Experienced coaching, and coordinating efforts with, multiple teams, agile coaches, and Scrum masters within a matrixed technology organization.

· Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies; Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.

· Track story progress throughout the sprint and review backlog for upcoming sprint to ensure product owners are constantly prioritizing stories and stories are constantly groomed. Education

Master's degree in Business

Fribourg University - Fribourg, FR

September 2014 to May 2015

Bachelor of Computer Sciences in Computer Sciences University of Buea - Cameroon

October 2011 to December 2014

Skills

• Scrum ceremonies and Product Backlog Refinement

• Agile leadership and Coaching

• Technical command of management tools: Jira, ELM, Confluence and TFS

• Agile techniques: User Stories, Continuous Integration

• Understand UX in Agile.

• Metrics: Circle time, Lead time, Team Velocity

• Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban and SAFe

• Requirements Gathering

• SDLC

• Kanban (4 years)

• SAFe (5 years)

• Business intelligence (3 years)

• Data analysis skills (3 years)

• Microsoft Excel (10+ years)

• Microsoft Word (10+ years)

• French (10+ years)

• SQL (5 years)

• Microsoft SQL Server

• Agile (8 years)

Certifications and Licenses

Certified Scrum Master

PSM1

SASM 5

Additional Information

Authorized to Work in the United States

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