Ama Kouadio
Silver Spring,MD
Summary
Well-versed Certified Scrum Master with 7 years of Cloud experience and 4 years of proven expertise of Scrum-mastering improving software development processes and complex product deliveries by coaching teams understand and apply Scrum theory and practices, both within the Scrum Team and the organization.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master-Agile Coach | JJTECH INC. CONSULTING
CVS Pharmacy, Expedia
05.2018 - Current
- Coached teams of various level of maturity in Agile to reach their full potential by improving their processes and ensuring they adhered to scrum framework.
- Facilitated discussion, decision making and conflict resolution across cross-functional teams.
- Assisted Product Owners to find effective Product Backlog management techniques by suggesting Vertical slicing of user stories in a 3-tier architecture setting so teams can focus more on delivering value to end-users.
- Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, clearly defined by the PO and ready to be executed by development teams for the sprint.
- Identified multiple complex impediments in product development and assisted teams in finding a path to deliver on their sprint commitments.
- Coached teams to understand Scrum theory and practice, both within the Scrum Teams and the organization.
- Hosted and facilitated scrum events for teams collaboration and continuous improvement in delivering high-value increments in a timely manner.
- Motivated scrum teams to make the best progress possible towards sprints goal by contributing in removing impediments and meet sprints goals with desired outcome.
DevOps Engineer | JJTECH INC. CONSULTING
Anthem, Bozzuto Group
02.2017 - 09.2021
- Successfully built end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to standardize infrastructures and automate DevOps processes allowing rapid build, test, and release of application code while eliminating up to 70% of manual work minimizing human error and speeding up production using open source tools like JENKINS - MAVEN - SONARQUBE - NEXUS - ANSIBLE and GITHUB
- Provisioned Infrastructures at scale using TERRAFORM HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) to support multi-cloud workloads management.
- DOCKERIZED multiple containers using DOCKER and custom images improving developers workflow and optimizing speed to meet business needs.
- Built and maintained Kubernetes cluster on AWS EKS along with FARGATE for seamless containers orchestration.
- Set up an ANSIBLE friendly environment to manage servers configuration at scale and automate repetitive tasks using playbooks increasing efficiency and productivity by 80% through time-saving and error prevention
- Implemented ANSIBLE TOWER to help manage, automate and monitor business configurations processes, providing the IT team with a more friendly UI displaying Real-time status of all launched jobs
- Optimized client Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy utilizing SSM Maintenance Window along with LAMBDA for automated cross-region Replication.
Oracle Database Administrator | BRONTECH SOLUTIONS
Hyatt
04.2015 - 02.2017
- Continuously monitored databases compute resource usage, performance and health metrics using Oracle Enterprise Manager
- Successfully implemented Data Guard for switchover and failover operations from primary to standby database insuring Zero downtime
- Ensured data High availability using Oracle GoldenGate to replicate and transform data from one database to another in real-time
- Used Oracle DDL and DML commands to define and manipulate tables, Tablespaces, schemas and permissions in databases.
- Completed paperwork, recognizing discrepancies and promptly addressing for resolution
Education
Bachelor of Science - Math And Computer Science
School of Advanced Technology And Management
Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire07.2012
Skills
- Conflict facilitation
- Communication
- Active listening
- Organizational
- Goal driven
- Team spirit
- Empathy
- CI/CD pipelines
- Jenkins
- GitHub
- Cloud formation
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS Services
Certification
- Scrum alliance Scrum Master
- AWS Solutions architect - Associate AWS
- Certified Cloud - Practitioner
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Architect
- Associate Oracle Autonomous Database - Cloud Specialist
Timeline
Scrum Master-Agile Coach | JJTECH INC. CONSULTING
CVS Pharmacy, Expedia
05.2018 - Current
DevOps Engineer | JJTECH INC. CONSULTING
Anthem, Bozzuto Group
02.2017 - 09.2021
Oracle Database Administrator | BRONTECH SOLUTIONS
Hyatt
04.2015 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Science - Math And Computer Science
School of Advanced Technology And Management