Certified SAFe Scrum Master & Agile Coach - 9+ yrs IT Experience

Sidony Fombi

Atlanta, GA

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CORE COMPETENCIES.

Continuous Improvement Coaching Empowerment Agile Scrum Kanban SAFE

Professional Summary

About 9 years in Information Technology space with the last Five (5) + years as Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)/Agile Coach with experience for distributed, collocated and offshore cross-functional/development teams. Manage three Business Agility teams.

Build long-term relationships with a range of roles, including client sponsors and stakeholders.

Apply trusted Agile principles and leadership skills to enable bringing client visions to market.

Manage multiple teams (Scrum and Kanban) with the latest development technologies in the Agile-Scrum space.

Facilitate the formation, learning and growth of multiple cross-functional delivery teams in developing a Lean and Agile mindset. Lead teams through Agile Transformation process adding value and ROI to the organization.

Adopt and continuously improve practices and guiding teams and leaders to enable the effective flow of delivery across the end-to-end value stream.

Servant leader and Change Agent who plays a key role in planning, facilitation, supporting teams, removing impediments, providing team coaching and mentorship.

Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, particularly in a virtual video environment over Webex, Microsoft Teams, Google Apps.

Morgan Stanley Atlanta, GA (Hybrid )

Scrum Master/ Project Manager 07/2022- 11/30/2025

Facilitating Squad/Scrum meetings to ensure they are solutions focused.

Help Agile teams establish and adhere to norms and practices.

Work with the Product Owner, and support the work of the squad by maintaining the

backlog and facilitating Agile ceremonies like stand ups, sprint planning, and retrospective.

Collaborate with team members on solutions to address challenges and roadblocks.

Work directly in a squad to drive performance using Agile values, practices, and processes.

Identify continuous improvement opportunities to support the team to work smarter, and more effectively.

Provide transparency to Fleet Delivery Lead with respect to risks, blockers, impediments at Scrum of Scrum calls and recommend/implement strategies for effective and efficient operations.

Conduct squad assessments to ensure agile principles and best practices are being met and achieved.

Partner with Product Owners to update Jira with Strategic Objectives, Initiatives and Capabilities based on business roadmap as well as Advice Fleet Sync documentation.

Participate in all Advice Fleet ceremonies including Scrum of Scrum, Advice Fleet Sync, Advice Fleet Retro, and Advice Fleet IBR.

Communicate effectively, proactively with recommendations for continuously

improving the squads.

Verizon Wireless Remote 11/2020 – 06/2022.

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Assisted in planning and release planning activities and manage the team using scaled agile framework to deliver critical, time sensitive and artifacts required to support the program,

Conduct big room planning, lead and facilitate scrum of scrum (SOS).

Facilitated scrum ceremonies like sprint review, sprint retrospectives, daily- stand-up, backlog refinement and sprint planning sessions.

Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guide projects to completion on time, within scope and on budget.

Managed project scope and ensure delivery is compliant with scope commitment.

Facilitated work allocation and management of the capacity of the team on work items ranging in complexity and size -project/Routine/production support.

Involved in optimizing release management, architectural runway and center of enablement by liaising with Team, product owner, DevOps, and AML team in a hybrid environment.

Initiated and facilitated Scrum community of practice (CoP) to provide support for new scrum masters and support the enterprise agile transformation need.

Derived decision/prioritization based on overall business value as related to work in the product backlog.

Updated agile tracking system to provide transparency of product and sprint backlog and improve lean and agile practices at enterprise level to promote synchronization, alignment and flow.

Tracked, prepared and delivered team metrics /sprints/release progress and communicate to team, management and program stakeholders.

Maintained product vision and breakdown work that needs to be done by analyzing, prioritizing, and slicing user stories, creating product roadmaps and release plans, and ensure the team understand the bigger picture of what they are building.

Ensured transparency of the product backlog, sprint backlog, burn-down and communicated team overall progress tracking burndown metrics, velocity, and productivity.

Collaborated with product owners, business and technical teams to ensure deep understanding of product and ROI objectives, helped teams break down and organize work, facilitated dependencies and reduced waste.

Coached the team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum methodology and practices.

Initiated and directed team improvements that reduced waste and improved team culture.

Increased probability of delivery success through release management best practices.

Allstate Chicago, IL 09/2018 - 12/2019

Scrum Master/Agile Delivery Lead

Facilitated daily standup meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum related meetings with Scrum teams and stakeholders.

Protected the team from over commitment and disruption during sprints.

Ensured transparency of the product backlog, sprint backlog, burn-down and communicates team overall progress tracking burndown metrics, velocity, and productivity.

Monitored the status of user stories, sprint release/progress, team velocity, and capacity.

Worked with Product Owner on Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, product increment.

Worked with the Development team and Product Owner to maintain a prioritized and prepared backlog, plan upcoming Releases, and assist the team in drafting acceptance criteria and test plans.

Led the scrum team in using Agile methodology and scrum practices.

Worked with the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction.

Lead the scrum and development teams in self-organization.

Remove impediments and coach the scrum team.

Worked with the development teams to identify and fill in blanks in the Agile framework.

Grallo Corporations Atlanta GA 07/2016 – 08/2018

Project Manager

Monitored the status of user stories, sprint release/progress, team velocity, and capacity.

Organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, grooming sessions, retrospectives, sprint and release planning and demos.

Worked with the product owners and development team to achieve customer satisfaction.

Ensured the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, team accountability and ensuring the work is visible.

Ensured transparency of the product backlog, sprint backlog, burn-down and communicated team overall progress tracking burndown metrics, velocity, and productivity.

Collaborated with product owners, business and technical teams to ensure deep understanding of product and ROI objectives, helped teams break down and organize work, facilitated dependencies and reduced waste.

Coached the team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum methodology and practices.

Initiated and directed team improvements that reduced waste and improved team culture.

Increased probability of delivery success through release management best practices.

EDUCATION CERTIFICATION

Master’s in Public Health - Mercer University.

BSc. Human Resources - Kennesaw State University.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

Scrum Product Owner.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Master’s in Public Health - Mercer University.

BSc. Human Resources - Kennesaw State University.

Professional Project Management Professional. (PMP).

Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

Scrum Product Owner. (CSPO)

Release Train Engineer. (RTE)

SAFe Agile. (SAFE)

METHODOLOGIES:

Agile-Scrum, Kanban.

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