Scrum Master Project Manager

Juliana Nkafu

701-***-**** ***********@*****.***

SCRUM MASTER

Dedicated and results-oriented Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience in leading Agile development teams to deliver high-quality products. Seeking a challenging position where I can leverage my strong leadership, facilitation, and communication skills to foster a collaborative environment and drive successful project outcomes.

Work History

Apex; Scrum Master/Project Manager, May 2022 – Present.

Act as a change agent, driving the adoption of Agile principles and practices at both team and organizational levels.

Ensuring positive and productive Scrum events within established timeboxes.

Facilitating Scrum ceremonies and maintaining team focus on quality and continuous delivery.

Mentoring team members, product owners, business analysts, and partners on Agile practices and mindsets.

Ensuring well-defined and ordered user stories for the team.

Provide guidance and support to Product Managers, helping them refine and prioritize product backlogs and maximize value delivery.

Developing work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.

Partnering with systems teams to ensure Agile team tools support the ART (Agile Release Train) and maximize transparency and flow.

Ensuring on-time, within-scope, and within-budget project delivery.

Improving the flow of value through streams by assessing and improving Agile Team practices associated with DevOps and Release on Demand.

Oversee Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists.

Supporting PI (Program Increment) Planning readiness and fostering a Continuous Exploration process.

Collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify process inefficiencies and drive process improvements.

Assisting in the development of internal procedures for planning and budgetary management.

Beta Consulting (3M, GE LM WINDPOWER); Scrum master, March 2016 – April 2022

Assessed 100% of the organization and delivery environment, recommending optimal Agile practices, and increasing delivery by over 80%.

Led the Agile transformation initiative, resulting in increased productivity and reduced time-to-market by over 70%.

Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and working closely with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritize backlog items and ensured alignment with business goals.

Identified and mitigated project through risk management strategies and ensuring transparent project status reporting.

Coached and mentored team members on Agile principles, values, and best practices.

Coached and mentored other Scrum Masters in the PMO (Project Management Office) for alignment and transparency.

Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges.

Maintain release repositories and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.

Beta Consulting; Data Analyst, Dec 2014 – Feb 2016.

Managed large datasets, performing regular expressions, and selecting key variables for building statistical models.

Created explanatory models for use cases and presented them to stakeholders and non-technical audiences.

Engaged in end-to-end data collection processes using qualitative and quantitative methods for research projects.

Education: M.Sc. Data Science, University of North Dakota

B.Sc. Accounting, the University of Bueae.

Associate degree, Northland Community and Technical College.

Certifications: CSM, ScrumStudy

SAFe 5.1, ScaledAgile

PMP, PMI

Tools: Jira, ADO, Confluence, SharePoint, Trello.

Skillsets:

Risk mitigation planning

Planning and coordination

Product Backlog Management

Interpersonal communication

Organization and Time management.

Flexible and Adaptable

Workshop coordination

Analytical skills.

References:

Available upon request.

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