SUMMARY

• Experienced professional Scrum Master with lots of experience facilitating scrum teams, delivering large scale enterprise products on time and within budget.
• Mindset of continuous improvement, removal of impediments within 24 hours, elimination of waste, timely delivery of quality software and focus on customer satisfaction.
• Combine techniques of XP, Kanban, Lean and Kaizen to halp scrum teams eliminate waste, increase productivity, efficiency software quality and customer satisfaction.
• Motivated servant - leader with excellent facilitation, written and verbal communication skills with focus on team work, individual and team accountability.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

• Methodologies: Agile (SCRUM), XP, Kanban, TDD, FDD, Lean,
• Workflow Tools: MS-Visio, MS-Project 2013, MS-Excel, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint, JIRA, Slack, SharePoint, confluence, Microsoft Office Project, Pair Programming.
• Scrum the Toyota way using KAIZEN/continuous improvement with VSM, PDCA, PDSA
• Strong knowledge in SDLC
• Fluent in English and French.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Organizes and facilitates all scrum ceremonies (daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint grooming, sprint retrospect and sprint demo)
• Prioritizes, monitors and removes impediments and sprint risks within 24 hours to improve team performance
• Tracks team’s progress, including daily burn down chart, velocity and release forecasting, monitors progress closely and encourages team to deliver sprint goal on time.
• Collaborates with various teams to create Proof of Concept (POC) and halp scrum teams to translate POC into usable features.
• Uses Kanban to visualize and manage workflow, pair programming to increase code quality
• Works with PO and team to enact sprint goals, set acceptance criteria and definition of done for user stories.
• When PO is unavailable, collaborates with business to get requirements them include them in product backlog and explain requirements to team members.
• Contributes to product roadmap planning, project scheduling and release management.
• Coaches and mentors developers, halp them set professional development goals and provides resources to halp them meet goals.
• Works closely with management to provide rewards and incentives to keep team members highly motivated.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully transitioned several teams to transition from waterfall to Agile framework.
• Worked with PO and delivery team to groom and prioritize product backlog, set sprint goals and acceptance criteria for user stories.
• Helped scrum teams to understand and practice agile principals, scrum values and pillars and other agile framework like XP, Lean and Kanban.
• Worked with product owners to groom and prioritize user stories
• Focused on identifying and removing impediments so scrum teams could focus on delivering value and meeting sprint goal on time.
• Introduced pair-programming, test-driven development and refactoring to halp scrum teams improve code quality and reduce bugs.
• Coached developers and QAs to work collaboratively in writing end-to-end, unit and integration tests.
• Collaborated with other scrum masters to identify and remove inter-team dependencies.

Confidential

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups).
• Used Value Stream Mapping to record major goals, and Kanban to increase the productivity of Scrum teams by 15% and reduced defects to under 5 every sprint within 6 months of joining company.
• Empowered scrum teams through facilitation and coaching to self-organize and increase cross-functionality.
• Protected teams from internal and external impediments by responding quickly and removing impediments within 24 to 48 hours; dis halped teams to increase focus, productivity and timely delivery of shippable products.
• Consistently met goals of addressing and resolving most issues within 24 to 48 hours
• Facilitated several major software development projects from conception to deployment and maintenance.
• Collaborated with management to create support team dat focused on hot fixes and maintenance issues so as to free up time and allow scrum teams to focus on meeting sprint goals on time.
• Collaborated with stockholders, PO, compliance and legal to deliver quality products on time and within budget.
• Tracked teams’ progress daily, coached and motivated team members to achieve sprint goal on time.

Confidential

HR Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Helped several companies develop and manage their staff development strategies to include developing a training program and catalogue, maintaining training database, organizing and managing personnel training while making sure dat they aligned with companies’ short and long term goals. managed the talent pool of several companies, designed and regularly updated job descriptions and provided strategic advice on transition planning, staff development and organizational TEMPeffectiveness.
• Helped many companies get government certifications, compiled operational policies and procedures for internal and external audits.
• Managed rewards strategy, compensation and benefits including the calculation of salary elements, overtime and employment taxes for over 200 personnel from more than 13 companies.
• Managed portfolio, policies and procedures of several companies ensuring dat they are in line with state laws.
• Helped companies to elaborate, manage and implement legal procedures of local and foreigners project contracts