Scrum Master

Stephanie Ibe

MARYLAND, UNITED STATES +1-202-***-****

*********@*****.***

Certified Scrum Master/Project Manager with 5years of experience driving Agile transformations, leading cross-functional teams, and aligning organizational goals with Agile best practices. Experienced in facilitating Scrum ceremonies, fostering team collaboration, and delivering high-impact projects in fast-paced environments. Skilled in guiding teams through Agile adoption, mentoring Scrum Masters, and promoting continuous improvement. Adept at coordinating program-level activities, including Release Train Engineer (RTE) responsibilities, and optimizing CI/CD workflows for improved efficiency. Proficient in Agile tools such as Jira, Azure Devops, Confluence, Slack, etc; with a strong focus on servant leadership and value delivery.

Skills

Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean)

Scrum Ceremonies Facilitation

Program-Level Coordination (PM, SAFe, RTE)

Agile Coaching and Mentorship

Agile Project Management Tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, Confluence, Slack)

Continuous Improvement/Continuous delivery Practices

Cloud technologies- AWS, Azure, GCP

Team Productivity and Performance Monitoring

Work Experience

Scrum Master, Deutsche Bank February 2022 – June 2025

Facilitated onboarding sessions for various Agile teams, guiding them through the initial stages of Agile adoption and fostering alignment with organizational goals.

Led Scrum ceremonies, including daily scrums, sprint planning, sprint reviews, backlog refinements, and retrospectives.

Organized and facilitated program-level ceremonies, including PI planning, Quarterly business review Planning, Scrum of Scrums and System-level demos, to align Agile teams and drive value stream delivery.

Removed any obstacles or impediments that hindered team progress, especially those related to our CI/CD pipeline deployment issues, hence Fostering a culture of continuous improvement by driving the resolution of impediments and promoting team autonomy, leading to a 30% increase in productivity.

Collaborated with Product Owners to refine and prioritize backlogs in Jira, proactively resolving issues and aligning deliverables with business objectives.

Increased team alignment and reduced delivery delays through improved dependency management practices.

Comfortable reading and writing simple scripts in languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate routine tasks and Able to craft SQL queries for data retrieval, filtering, and aggregation (e.g., SELECT, JOIN, WHERE clauses) to generate insights for team decision-making.

Integrated Servicenow and Github actions within our CI/CD pipelines, coordinating with the DevOps team to automate production change requests and prod deployments during release cycles.

Worked with AWS Cloudfront and Cloudflare logs and analytics to identify traffic patterns, proactively address bottlenecks, and enhance the reliability of key banking applications.

Led the Migration of some of our legacy on-prem tools to Google cloud platform, setting up CI/CD pipelines in GCP.

Helped the DevOps teams streamline their CI/CD pipelines by identifying bottlenecks, promoting best practices for automation, and ensuring proper integration with development tools like Github actions.

Scrum Master, First point Security/Happy Money (Remote Contract) October 2021 – February 2022

Led and organized Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, fostering open communication and knowledge sharing.

Collaborated with DevOps engineers to integrate automated testing frameworks into continuous integration pipelines, reducing regression defects by 25%.

Implemented Agile project management tools such as Jira and Slack, driving transparency and collaboration in a distributed team environment.

Conducted regular retrospectives focused on pipeline bottlenecks, removing impediments that hindered quick deployments and boosting overall team velocity

Collaborated with DevOps teams to integrate Cloudflare into the CI/CD pipeline, automating DNS changes and caching invalidations for seamless deployments.

Familiar with strategies to optimize database queries (e.g., using indexes, avoiding nested subqueries), leading to reduced query execution time and Proficiency in reading and interpreting dataset structures, using basic queries to produce reports that drive business insights and Agile planning.

Optimized Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules to protect financial applications from common exploits and attacks, reducing security incidents by 15%.

Scrum Master, Prosec Solutions Inc/Optoro (Remote Contract) September 2020 – September 2021

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

Facilitated Scrum and Kanban ceremonies and streamlined team workflows, ensuring collective ownership of tasks and eliminating dependencies while tracking in Jira and confluence.

Developed a governance framework for CI/CD pipelines, documenting standards for code reviews, branching strategies, and release approvals.

Coached teams on trunk-based development and feature toggles, facilitating shorter release cycles and safer feature rollouts.

Coordinated with security teams to integrate security scans (SAST, DAST) into the CI/CD pipelines, proactively identifying vulnerabilities.

Monitored schedules, scope, and performance to ensure project goals were met on time and within budget and partnered with third-party integrators and vendors, delivering customized ecommerce solutions that met unique client requirements.

Communicated team’s status/progress via release/sprint Burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate, and defects, keeping stakeholders informed.

Collaborated closely with Product Owners to prioritize backlog items, refine user stories, and align team deliverables with strategic goals.

Linux System administrator/ DevOps (Remote Internship), PROSEC SOLUTIONS INC September 2019 – August 2020

Collaborated with the product and development teams to define solutions and drive deployment of our Lifetrack application.

Supported the Blood Donor project, providing application support and configuration for our end-client.

Designed and implemented automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and argoCD for our production deployments.

Managed and optimized Linux Servers (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL), ensuring high uptime and security compliance.

Implemented automated security scans of our code using Sonarqube and Snyk, ensuring secure code deployment.

Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion.

Devised test plans to validate accuracy of IT projects, including Smoke testing our LifeTrack application for QA purposes to increase proficiency for the product.

Organized system design planning, review, and implementation working groups.

Participated in technology assessments in support of automation and technology migration initiatives using automation tools like ansible.

Implemented Cloudflare DNS for Life track’s external endpoints, improving reliability and simplifying DNS management.

Facilitated cross-functional troubleshooting sessions using analytics to reduce latency and ensure seamless user experience for internal stakeholders and end-users.

Education

Bachelors,

Delta State University, Delta NG

Certifications

Linux Academy Trainings/ Certifications 2019

AWS Technical proficiency 2021

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) 2021

CompTIA Linux+ ce

CompTIA Security+ ce

Google Associate Cloud Engineer (dbce program) 2025

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