Scrum Master Continuous Improvement

Marie Lwaboshi

Scrum Master

Dallas, TX

Phone: 319-***-****

Email: **********@*****.***

ABOUT ME

An experienced Scrum Master with 5+ years of exceptional skills in building and coaching self-organized, highly productive, and results-oriented teams. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations, with a verifiable track record of managing complex projects while delivering on time, under budget, and above expectations. EXPERIENCE

InfoVision Inc. - Dallas, TX - Scrum Master

AUGUST 2020 - PRESENT

● Gathering and updating project materials, completing budgeting, forecasting, project documentation, business flows, and lessons learned documents.

● Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives.

● Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.

● Coaching and mentoring other ScrumMasters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.

● Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.

● Coaching and mentoring other Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our ways of working are consistent across teams.

● Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines. CMG Financials - Dallas, TX - Scrum Master

MARCH 2018 - JULY 2020

● Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation, theater and so on to help the team become a high-performance team.

● Empower the team to make system and process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.

● Remove obstacles for developers and testers.

● Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work.

● Manage sprint backlog items and tasks.

● Manage all Scrum boards (physical or virtual).

● Led the team's efforts towards continuous improvement. Blue Cross Blue Shield - Jacksonville, FL - Scrum Master JUNE 2016 - FEBRUARY 2018

● Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

● Track and communicate team velocity and other development metrics with, and to all affected teams and management.

● Ensure the development teams are practicing core agile principles

● Update agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs.

● Determine and remove all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the teams’ to deliver assigned goals.

● Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing.

● Provide direction to project activities to ensure successful implementation and support.

● Promote continuous improvement and help teams to increase productivity.

● Assist in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes. MicroAge - Houston, TX - Project Coordinator

May 2015 - June 2016

● Developing, consolidating and reconciling management and resource allocation reports.

● Provide administrative and coordination support to project managers, on multiple projects through the entire project lifecycle.

● Develops project plans and generates work orders for lower complexity custom services.

● Manage cost, schedule, scope and quality of the project delivery

● Identify, document and assess project risks and develop mitigation strategies in collaboration with sponsors, stakeholders and solution owners.

● Organize and execute assigned project tasks and activities. EDUCATION

ITT Technical Institute - Pittsburgh, PA - BSc. in Information Technology

2012 - 2015

SKILLS

Agile Methodology

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Scrum, Kanban, SAFe

Jira, Confluence, Rally, Version One, Trello, Open Project CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master(PSM-1)

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