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Catherine Ngemkam

Senior Scrum Master
North Bethesda,MD

Summary

SCRUM MASTER Coordinated release, deployment and gave feedback on progress. Helping the organization solve problems rather than providing solutions. Training, coaching and mentoring development teams, Product Owners, Managers and executive leadership in Agile values, principles, and best practices. Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile transformation. Make sure task boards were being updated to ensure transparency and effective communication. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows. Highly trained individual knowledgeable in web development technologies and considered talented leader. Certified Scrum Master with definitive leadership qualities and strong critical thinking and decision making skills.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages

Work History

Scrum Master

Victory Housing Inc
Bethesda, MD
05.2019 - Current
  • Facilitate scrum ceremonies, like daily stand up, sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming sessions
  • Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline
  • Utilize and improve usage of Jira as a tool to monitor and manage scrum process
  • Effectively communicate scrum expectations and status to product owner and developers
  • Work with the Product Owner to ensure team's planning readiness, facilitate team's planning breakout sessions, and represent the team presenting draft and final product plans/demos
  • Ensure the Agile processes are being followed, will provide quality assurance support to comply with the Definition of Done and will collaborate with stakeholders to resolve issues
  • Coached Kanban teams on maintain a flow based on pull and push concept
  • Pull relevant metrics like cycle time, lead time and throughput to show progress
  • Facilitated team efforts in breakout sessions and aligned the team to the ART
  • Participated and let breakout groups during the I&A event
  • Coached Kanban teams on best practices
  • Expert in removing impediments, engaging stakeholders and is comfortable working with all levels of management in support of teams
  • Assist the product owner with managing product backlogs and making them ready for the next sprint
  • Represented teams in Scrum of scrums.

Scrum Master

Brightview Inc
01.2016 - 05.2019
  • Facilitated sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings ensuring the yielded value
  • Establish relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders to engage them in collaboration with our development team
  • Coach team members on agile principles and providing general guidance on the methodology
  • Assisted my team with making appropriate commitments through story point estimation, selection, and task definition
  • Streamlining delivery processes, assist in removing Team impediments, and optimizing productivity
  • Guided the team in identifying organizational impediments to successful Agile transformation and worked with executive leadership team to create effective strategies to overcome them.

Education

Certified Scrum Master (CSM -

Scrum

Scaledagiled.com SAFe Scrum Master 5.1 (SSM) Accredited Project Manager Certification Accredited Project Manager Certification International Organization for Project Management (IO4PM) Coach2Reach ICP - undefined

Bachelor’s of Science - Government Contract Management

University of Potomac

Associate of Science - Business

Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS & TOOLSundefined

Affiliations

Accomplished Scrum Master with 6 years of experience in motivating, coaching, and mentoring multiple teams on various projects through SDLC using Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban SAFe. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project, and risk management skills. Experience working with software development teams delivering advanced technologies for Healthcare, Banking, and IT retail multinational clients. In depth understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle working in Agile environments. Exceptional problem solver with a keen ability to resolve team conflicts, provide Process guidance to scrum, safe and Kanban Teams. A servant leader with experience working closely with Product Owners in product backlog grooming, prioritization, story estimation, management and continues delivery of features. Successfully guided two development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development. AREA OF EXPERTISE Training Coaching/Mentoring Jira Kanban Agile Software Development Backlog Grooming DevOps Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Continuous Improvement ATDD, BDD, TDD Facilitation and Team Building, Microsoft Office Suit Story point Story planning Release planning Capacity planning Team Velocity and tracking Agile Manifesto / Metrics

Timeline

Scrum Master

Victory Housing Inc
05.2019 - Current

Scrum Master

Brightview Inc
01.2016 - 05.2019

Certified Scrum Master (CSM -

Scrum

Scaledagiled.com SAFe Scrum Master 5.1 (SSM) Accredited Project Manager Certification Accredited Project Manager Certification International Organization for Project Management (IO4PM) Coach2Reach ICP - undefined

Bachelor’s of Science - Government Contract Management

University of Potomac

Associate of Science - Business

Catherine NgemkamSenior Scrum Master