Scrum Master A Career

MATHENO HOWELL BEY

Elkridge, Maryland ***** 443-***-**** *******.***@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matheno-bey-739583251/

Professional Summary:

Scrum Master with over 8 years’ experience including agile methodology implementation, leading scrum teams. An expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows, with a background of communicating effectively and leading cross functional teams and a firm believer in that collaborative communication truly gets the most out of a cross-functional team. Possess a good working knowledge of agile principles and frameworks. An excellent builder of high-performance teams and transitioning them from waterfall to agile methodology, equipped with self-organizing and problem-solving skills. Skilled at working in diverse and fast paced settings. Partnered with stakeholders’ team across business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicate effectively and efficiently with production, and managers. Active participant in the local scrum chapters to share and learn new agile concepts. John Maxwell Certified Leadership Coach.

Skills

Agile Philosophy, Scrum Framework, Kanban,

Scrum Methodology

SAFe

Driving Improvement in Scrum Values,

Empirical Scrum Process and Scrum Framework

Customer Service, Marketing, Negotiation Skills,

Skills in Multiple Software (Version One, JIRA, Confluence Slack)

Certifications

CSM professional Scrum Master

John Maxwell Leadership Certification

SAFe Agile Certification

Education 08/1999 to 06/2002

Morgan State University - Baltimore, MD

Business Management

Building Agile playbook, Building Dashboards.

Developing Training Materials

Management Skills, Coaching, Public speaking,

Leadership Skills

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Acceptance Criteria

Work History

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Lincoln Financial

April 2023- Current

Project: Led two Agile teams in migrating Lincoln Financials’ legacy on-premises data warehouse to a cloud-based platform (AWS/Azure) to support various financial applications, ensuring improved scalability, security, and analytics capabilities Coach 2 teams of 9 members while empowering them to self-organize and grow cross- functionally.

Spearheaded road mapping and OKR (Objectives and Key Results) assistance, excelling in delivery management for complex projects. Expertly broke down epics, features and led the prioritization of user stories to ensure strategic alignment and efficient workflow, enhancing team performance and project outcomes.

Showcased agility in developing Power Apps Platform solutions, incorporating Power Apps, MS Flows, and custom coding for improved user experiences and data storage optimization.

Facilitated Backlog management, Scrum Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings.

Manage dependencies externally and across teams within the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) environment, ensuring seamless integration and alignment of Agile practices across multiple teams for optimized project delivery and efficiency.

Helped the Product Owners to come up with a set of user stories for better understanding, estimation, and development.

Tracked team's velocity and capacity to analyze productivity trends.

Established effective communication within the Scrum team, with stakeholders and across the organization.

Modeled operation setup procedures to reduce downtime, addressing inefficiencies, demonstrating project management and agility.

Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Continuously report on progress using various agile project management metrics while updating stakeholders and executive leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment.

Adept at analysing complex data from multiple sources along with improving quality / agility through BI tools.

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

Coached and mentored the team on delivering user stories such that they meet the definition of done.

Led team retrospectives and ensure key learning is incorporated into the next sprint.

Nurtured the values of commitment, focus, respect, openness, and courage within the Scrum Team to promote transparency, inspection, and adaptation.

Developed a confidentiality agreement project as a Microsoft PowerApps solution, improving user experience and efficiency.

Protected the team from outside interference, removing impediments, and ensuring the scrum team stays focused on the product goal.

Scrum Master 07/2020 to 04/2023

Verizon - Baltimore, MD

Projects: Teams provided a front-end solution that will serve POS, SCO, Mobile and Ecommerce Application. Supports

two primary functions-responsible for customers, UAT, and performing scrum duties. The application supports

Customer Order Processing, Selling, and Payments, also provides multiple options for shopping, based on

customer preferences for service, speed, control, and information.

Skilled in facilitating agile activities and meetings, including sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews, to ensure effective team engagement and project progression.

Responsible for guiding the development of an agile team into an effective delivery unit with a sustainable cadence, enhancing overall team performance.

Creation of enterprise-wide apps using Power Apps.

Assist the product owner in keeping the backlog groomed, contributing to clear and efficient project progression and goal setting.

Process improvements to enable more agility with websites, mobile, social platforms to support operational improvement efforts, customer engagement initiatives and new business opportunities.

Continuously encourage, support, and guide the improvement of the team, its products, and processes, fostering an environment of constant enhancement and learning.

Recognized as an excellent communicator, adept at gaining the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management through clear and effective communication skills.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and enhancement of the PowerApps solution, soliciting feedback from end-users and stakeholders to drive iterative refinements and feature enhancements.

Proficient in resolving conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation, ensuring a harmonious and productive team environment.

Dedicated to nurturing self-organizing, high-performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring, promoting team autonomy and effectiveness.

Ensure the team's process evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice, aligning team operations with company policies.

Provided Agile coaching to enhance team agility and adaptability, resulting in faster response to change.

Conduct project team meetings and project road-mapping sessions and gather feedback by presenting to all levels of leadership to ensure alignment and clarity of vision.

Skilled in identifying problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and facilitating quick resolution to maintain project momentum.

Promote cross-team coordination, enhance effective collaboration and communication among different teams and departments.

Proactively reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal, leveraging resources and connections for problem-solving and efficiency.

Maintain relevant metrics that provide organizational visibility and help the team understand how they are performing, using data to guide improvements and strategies.

Scrum Master/Project Lead 02/2018 to 07/2020

Chainbridge Technologies - Tysons Corner, VA

Projects: Led two Agile teams in the development of a web-based emergency management application for government agencies. The platform supported real-time incident tracking, resource allocation, and decision-making.

Provided support to the Product Owner and Development Team using a servant leadership style and led by example for complex projects or multiple complicated small to medium projects.

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

Implemented role-based access controls within PowerApps to enforce security policies and restrict access to sensitive inventory data, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal security standards.

Led sprint reviews, daily scrums, and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.

Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum master’s to define solutions and drive progress.

Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.

Collaborated with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the Scrum Framework in the organization.

Scrum Master 02/2016 to 07/2018

Sallie Mae - Reston, VA

Projects: Led the two Kanban agile teams with execution of Sallie Mae’s Enterprise Data Lake migration, enabling advanced analytics and real-time data processing. Partnered with two cross-functional teams (Data Engineering & Business Intelligence) to transition on-premises legacy systems to a modern cloud-based data platform.

Guide the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each sprint.

Led sprint reviews, daily scrums, and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.

Uses empirical data to help the team(s) assess their scrum maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organization, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.

Proactively removes impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.

Ensure team records are maintained in Jira.

Loss Mitigation Underwriter 09/2011 to 02/2015

Freddie Mac - McLean, VA

Developed spreadsheet models for diverse projects and analysis.

Analyzed financial information related to payroll, capital projects, operating expenses, professional service contracts and office supplies and equipment to examine budget needs.

Monitored and analyzed financial, statistical, and operational data trends.

Solved financial problems with use of diverse analytical and modeling techniques.

Analyzed credit, income, compliance, title documents and appraisals during underwriting process.

Remained updated with latest information related to mortgage products and services being offered.

Current Accomplishments

Coached multiple self-managing scrum teams simultaneously that provided front-end solutions that served IOS and Android Mobile layout for Ecommerce Application.

Supported multiple development teams responsible for customer order processing, selling, and payments for multiple shopping options.

Increased velocity over 45% with multiple teams simultaneously.

Proactively collaborated with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches across the organization.

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