Scrum Quality
Resume:
Alot Anunde-Chinn
Washington D.C, *****
Cell: 240-***-****
Email, adjkmn@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Summary
Seven plus years working as an Agile Coach with expertise coaching Executives, Senior management, Managers and teams in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and Continuous Integration. Certified in Enterprise Agile coaching, team coaching, Kanban, I have been able to transform teams to high performance with increased Return of Investment, through restructuring company Policies, Cultures and Mindset Shifts. I have been able to successfully transform teams to fully practicing Agile at both team levels, enterprise level transformations that has led to continuous delivering digital enterprises to orchestrate both strategy and innovation, customer decision, process automation, organization, technology, and analytics, quality software with customer satisfaction at the center of production Through my expertise as an agile coach, my company has continued to implement changes that has fostered the transformation of teams from waterfall to being fully agile. Coach to 9 scrum teams, stakeholders on resource gathering. Organize scrum teams on how to conduct Epic and product backlog refinements, upstream mappings and help bring together the business and IT to align on business goals. A Result driven, resourceful and team-oriented agile coach. I provide guidance to project leadership as they develop their approaches, plans and processes to deliver high quality, complex technology solutions in a timely manner.
Technical Skills
Team building, group dynamics, and process training. Coaching techniques, Scum, Kanban, Agile Publisher, Programs Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Power Point, and Outlook) including, Conflict Resolution and Relationship Building Ticketing system Jira tool, Confluence
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s in Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations
University of Buea /PAIDWA Cameroon 04/2013
CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Enterprise Agility Coach CEAC (Chicago state university),
Certified Professional Agile coach ICP-ACC (IC-Agile)
Certified Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP)
Certified Kanban Systems Design (KMP1)
Certified Scrum master.
Agile coach /Vice President,
software engineering CCB,
JP Morgan chase& CO- Wilmington Delaware Tech center,
July- 2019 till present.
Job Responsibilities.
Experience coaching scrum masters and scrum teams in delivering valuable software. Align with teams in prioritizing backlog refinement, while mapping each backlog item to an Epic.
Coached Co-located, distributed and offshore teams where we use different virtual platforms like Skype, WebEx, and google hangouts for business, with verifiable track record of managing complex projects while delivering on time and above expectations, and putting the customers at the center of production,supporting large interdisciplinary technical teams
Draw product road maps and identify areas of improvement needed by the company to help teams maximize productivity and increase ROI. Responds to the ever-changing demands of clients by creating innovative high quality and defect free solutions that precisely meet business demands and consistently exceeds expectations, as teams are coached to becoming high functioning teams, high velocity and track success through metrics.
Excellent problem-solving abilities, Mentoring and teaching scrum masters on how to employ skills in managing teams while focusing on the scrum values and being able to resolve teams challenges with little support from the coaches. Assist with internal/external communications, share information on the task board to help improve transparency.
Facilitate the removal of impediments for the team by targeting the issue internally within the team, escalating to the right company personnel or to other external teams as needed
Help and support the product owner with product backlog grooming to make sure it was always up to date and prioritized.
Coach team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology.
Engage with other Scrum Masters personally and through use of scrum of scrums to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the company and to keep track of dependencies.
Track and communicate team health and progress using metrics such as velocity charts, burndown charts, and capacity.
Make sure task boards are being updated to ensure transparency and effective communication.
Coach teams in leading analysis efforts on highly complex problems or mission specific operational problems, directing technical teams on operational and/or developmental projects throughout system life cycle (development of requirements to final delivery).
Proactively identify ways in resolving issues between product owners and scrum masters and how to conduct effective sprint planning meetings, taking into consideration defects and dependencies, provide knowledge to teams on how to prioritize teams backlogs
Educate senior management in decision making and how that affects teams and productivity, while uniting the BA and IT in realizing better decisions on how to get the teams work more effectively together.
Assess each staff member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload, Coach scrum masters on how to conduct scrum events and how to be good team leads. Guiding employees to self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
As an agile coach for this project, I mentor, teach the less experienced team members adapt scrum/agile best practices to deliver quality product in a complex project environment
Protects team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing in ability
Actively participate in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives,
Coach and align business with IT, in a fast and changing environment where complexity of demands is at its peak
Alot Anunde
Email. adjkmn@r.postjobfree.com
Agile coach/Scrum Master
Liberty mutual insurance
9815Monroe ST,Sandy spring Utah
March 2013-May2019
Worked as an Agile coach/ scrum master in a dynamic, and fast-paced environment, while coached scrum teams on the basic fundamentals of iterative and incremental
development and metric values.
Enforced a strong knowledge of Scrum theory, rules, and practices amongst the teams and line of business.
Worked together with product owners in managing tasks, backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and user stories.
Coach and lead scrum teams to design, implement, deploy, and operate enterprise software solutions supporting 500+ employees.
Coaching multiple scrum masters on facilitation techniques and cultivating improvements in their teams’ processes, scrum ceremonies and technical practices.
Establish and lead agile Community of Interests and Community of Practices.
Design and Lead workshops Kanban practices, TDD, BDD, and part of Infrastructure
Design and Lead workshops and training sessions on prioritization techniques, features slicing, story mapping and MVP concept.
Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retro)Work with product owner to create users stories and prioritize backlog as I coach, train, mentor and teach team members.
Additional skills applied to other teams that periodically requires coaching
Scrum Team leader in charge of other scrum masters implement peer review sessions before each release
Plan and present monthly Key performance indicators for team
Carried out multiple projects and delivered high quality deliverables in committed time frames while ensuring that quality software delivery was the teams goals.
Participated in requirements gathering, release and iteration planning, and user story estimations while mapping them to epics.
Experienced in planning, coordinating, and documenting project, and program schedules, activities, logistics, and associated administrative tasks while ensuring reporting to management.
Completely understood and executed program execution actions and artifacts, as well as supported business process and corresponding methodologies and tools ( Agile, Kanban,etc.).
Possess excellent interpersonal, written/verbal communication, and analytical skills, as well as led others in a team-oriented environment, to include direct, professional engagement with the customer.
Experienced coaching both Agile, specifically Scrum and Kanban.
Helped resolved conflicts amongst team members and management and redirect focus on productivity.
Increased and early on return of investment through quick and delivery of valued software products.
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