ANDRE NUSTA
Burtonsville,MD
Summary
Burtonsville, MD PROFILE Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years of experience in building and leading software development team to deliver high-quality software, on time and within budget, by coaching and demonstrated facilitating Scrum ceremonies, removing impediments and building cross functional teams. Possess a strong background in Communication and implementing enterprise-system-wide network solutions. Seeking to add immediate value to an agile and security network team by ability of coaching teams to be self-organized to support customer business goals. Demonstrated ability to solve problems independently and perform at an optimal level.
Overview
3
3
years of post-secondary education
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
New Way IT
Riverdale , MD
12.2018 - 12.2020
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Help increase companies market by 10%
Scrum Master
Skytech Solution Inc
Dallas , TX
09.2014 - 10.2018
- Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.
- Successfully completed scrum overview sessions with management to help them buy into scrum framework.
- Prioritize backlog objectives to help Product Owner.
- Facilitate removal of impediments by addressing issues within teams or escalating it to right panel.
- Use tools such as Jira, Confluence, Kanban to help manage team progress during sprints.
- Enhance team’s performance by encouraging collaboration and team alignment.
- Enforced sprint time constraints for every Scrum ceremony, as well as transparency by introducing Kanban practices which resulted in reduction of cycle time.
- Used metrics such as burndown chats and cumulative flow diagrams to provide transparency to team for their efforts during sprint.
- Removed impediments to project’s progress, identified dependencies and documented client’s issues and resolutions.
- Collaborated with other scrum masters to increase effectiveness of scrum application in organizations.
- Shared new Agile/Scrum techniques with teams and helped to solve problems rather than providing solutions.
- Incorporated capacity planning into sprint planning sessions to improve team velocity.
- Removed team impediments daily and managed project scope to ensure deliverables were in compliant with sprint goals and commitment.
- Worked closely with product owner, coordinating product backlog grooming and story estimation.
- Facilitated smooth adoption of Scrum by evangelizing its benefits to teams.
- Frequently follow up and give friendly reminders to team on updating JIRA tasks on daily basis for more accurate reporting.
- Managed over 50 customer calls per day
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Processes each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Demonstrated sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
Education
Certified Scrum Master - Computer Science
University Of Maryland Eastern Shore
Princess Anne, MD 01.2011 - 01.2014
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Skills
Microsoft Word Excel Jira Kanban ConfluenceCapacity planningCoachingExcelMicrosoft WordSoftware development
Continuous Integration
Deployment
Test Automation
Agile Development Framework
Meetings
Communication
Scrum Process
Product Quality
Timeline
Scrum Master
New Way IT
12.2018 - 12.2020
Scrum Master
Skytech Solution Inc
09.2014 - 10.2018
Certified Scrum Master - Computer Science
University Of Maryland Eastern Shore
01.2011 - 01.2014