Scrum Master Project Manager

MANKA A. BANYONG

Sr. Scrum Master

Bowie, Maryland 20721 240-***-**** ************@*****.***

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Professional Summary

Scrum Master and Agile Transformation lead with over 10 years of successful experience in promoting the implementation of Agiletowards leading teams, analyzing business needs and drving project success in the financial sector and public agencies. Skilled in stakeholder managerment, process improvement and delivering solutions that align with organization goals. Expertise in driving value stream maturation to increase transparency and continuous improvement so as to drive optimize efficiency and deliver value. Skilled in fostering Agile mindsets using different frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile to coach teams and improve organizational agility to achieve strategic initiatives. Adept at leveraging tools (Jira, Mural, ADO) and knowledge of technical domains to drive efficience and performance.

Tools

JIRA Align JIRA Confluence Kanban XP Devops Java ServiceNow AgilityHealth® MS Office Suite Google Applications Lucid chart Salesforce Azure Devops Gitlab Power BI Share point Version One SharePoint Mural PowerPoint Eazy BI CI/CD Pipelines

Waterfall SDLC Experience: Project Manager Business Analyst Functional Testing Project Delivery Management

Agile methodologies

Project Management

Azure DevOps

Agile transformation

Research and Analysis

Change Management

Metrics and Reporting

Risk Analysis

Agile coaching

Project Management

Skills

Release Management

JIRA and Confluence

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

TDD / ATDD

Value Stream Mapping

Requirement Gathering

Product Road Mapping

Dependency Management

DevOps practices

Coaching and Mentoring

Work History

Sr Scrum Master Remote May 2023 - Present

Evinex/ Ivanti

Drive cross-functional collaboration with core teams ( developers/ testers) across digital to deliver high-value business and customer improvement opportunities.

Implemented Lean-Agile methodologies, reducing workflow cycle times by 20% and fostering cross-departmental collaboration, which enhanced alignment with organizational objectives.

Led and analyzed requirement-gathering sessions with key stakeholders, translating business needs into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria, and documenting business logic for the Loan system, contributing to an increase in development efficiency.

Managed project schedules, budgets, and resource allocation, ensuring on-time delivery while maintaining quality standards, achieving a 90% success rate across deliverables.

Identified and mitigated project risks through proactive contingency planning, minimizing delays and ensuring consistent stakeholder confidence.

Organize and facilitate daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and carried out system demos to stakeholders, strengthening feedback loops and improving user adoption rates.

Improve team health and velocity by driving process improvements and retrospective action items to resolution.

Communicate regular updates on timelines, status, and dependencies to digital leadership.

Protect team from over-commitment and manage backlog by factoring team capacity opportunities and engage necessary expertise to facilitate.

Perform JIRA administration activities for the team(s) such as Opening and closing sprints, creating work types as needed, gathering team metrics using Jira dashboards and queries, and reporting progress of the sprint.

Track team performance and progress using KPIs (burn down, dashboards and velocity charts) to report team status to the Release Train Engineer (RTE) and Management weekly or after each sprint.

Collaborated with a team of 5 backend developers to enhance application performance by leveraging Java's robust features, achieving a 30% improvement in processing efficiency. Utilized AWS services, including S3, Lambda, and EC2, to deploy scalable solutions with 99.99% uptime, bolstering security and reducing operational costs by 20% through optimized resource management.

Agile Project Manager Westlake, TX (remote) March 2021 – May 2023

Fidelity Investments

Maintain product vision and breakdown work that needed to be done by analyzing, prioritizing, and slicing user stories, creating product roadmaps and release plans with Team and product Teams.

Integrated Jira for real-time project health tracking, improving proactive risk identification and stakeholder decision-making processes, while embedding Kanban methodologies to optimize work-in-progress limits and cycle time.

Developed Easy BI reports to monitor sprint velocity, predict delivery risks, and analyze trends, resulting in improved backlog management and smoother project transitions.

Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for biweekly sprint releases including release planning and release artifact management.

Orchestrated PI Planning events (PI planning, Art sync, PI retros, scrum of scrums) and sprint ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives), enhancing backlog prioritization and metrics visibility to enable data-driven decision-making and seamless delivery.

Led change management initiatives within investment banking, implementing workflows and processes that improved cross-functional collaboration, leading to a 20% increase in project delivery speed and better alignment with business goals.

Conducted organization-wide agility health assessments, training, and workshops to foster Agile best practices, while supporting the adoption of governance policies to enhance data integrity and regulatory compliance.

Partnered with Product Owners and managers for strategic backlog alignment, facilitating discussions that maintained vision consistency and fostering high-performing teams focused on continuous improvement in delivery quality

Scrum Master San Antonio, TX March 2019 – March 2021

USAA

Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies Including (Refinements, Planning, Stand-up, Demo and Retro) ensuring improved team alignment, enhanced communication, and a collaborative environment that drove consistent progress, timely issue resolution, and the achievement of project milestones.

Led the adoption of best Agile practices for the Shared Services initiative to successfully deliver data access services that supported multiple FDA operations, resulting in a 20% improvement in team productivity and a 15% reduction in delivery time for key services.

Developed and maintained project schedules, ensuring resource allocation and budget were in alignment with project goals, achieving a reduction in project costs through efficient resource management.

Capacity planning and allocation for team member for Sprints and PI Planning.

Drove Scrum team progress to identify and align dependencies, mitigate risks and resolve impediements/ blockers to ensure continuous progress within a project.

Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.

Provided bi-weekly status reports to stakeholders, including FDA representatives, highlighting key progress, risks, and compliance metrics. Improved stakeholder satisfaction by 20% through transparent communication and proactive issue resolution.

Agile Scrum Master Washington, DC December 2013-September 2016

Department of Veterans Affairs

Led requirements elicitation sessions with stakeholders and end-users, gathering and prioritizing business and technical requirements for over 2 projects, ensuring clear alignment with project goals.

Collaborated with the development team to create detailed technical specifications, user stories, and system requirements, ensuring smooth transition from project initiation to execution which also helped in reducing onboarding time for new team members by 50%.

Coordinated sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming, Daily standup, Sprint review and retrospectives for Agile projects, ensuring a significant increase in sprint velocity and a 70% reduction in scope creep through continuous tracking of progress and adjusting timelines for technical delivery.

Supported the integration of complex systems, including APIs and legacy systems, ensuring alignment with business requirements and minimal disruption during deployment phases, which resulted in a reduction in post-deployment defects.

Identified technical bottlenecks early and proactively managed project risks, leading to the on-time delivery of major releases with fewer delays or cost overruns.

Developed technical documentation, including, user manuals, and API documentation for stakeholders, leading to an increase in team efficiency and a 40% reduction in time spent on troubleshooting.

Agile Transformation Lead San Diego, CA December 2013 September 2016

Kaiser Permanante

Led and coached 4+ cross-functional Agile teams (10-15 members) in delivering high-impact software products, improving delivery speed by at least 35% through Scrum and Kanban methodologies.

Led workshops and training sessions to develop Agile competencies within the organization, driving a sustained shift in mindset.

Managed risks, issues, and dependencies, proactively identifying and mitigating project blockers, which resulted in a 90% on-time delivery rate.

Facilitated all Agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives), resulting in a 30% improvement in team collaboration and a 18% reduction in sprint cycle time.

Collaborated with Product Owners and stakeholders to manage backlogs, prioritize features, and clarify requirements, leading to a 30% reduction in time spent on rework and misaligned features.

Provided regular project status updates to leadership and stakeholders, utilizing key metrics through Eazy BI (velocity, burn-down rates, dashboards, lead time etc.) to showcase team progress and ensure transparency.

Developed and maintained comprehensive project plans, schedules, and budgets, tracking progress against deliverables and timelines to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery.

Education

University of Buea, Cameroon: B.Sc. in Management: 09/2003

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance

Professional Scrum Master (PSMI)

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

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