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Clinton Esa

Clinton Esa

Summary

Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines. Also seeking a company that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Costco
California, VA
03.2022 - Current
  • Responsible for facilitating Scrum events and ensuring all agile principles and best practices are followed by coaching teams and acting as a servant leader to my development teams and business stakeholders
  • Providing status reports to stakeholders as well as buy in on new enhancements to the work product
  • Tracking project metrics to judge project progress while managing risks, stakeholder communication plans, vendors, in-house and outsourced resources
  • Serving as the scrum master of 2 scrum teams developing and managing multiple, medium complex eCommerce projects
  • Performed detailed assessments of project risks to determine constraints and develop mitigation strategies
  • Removing impediments and resolving conflicts deterring teams from achieving project goals and milestones
  • Working with product owner in requirements and prioritization of project requirements
  • Supported the Product Development Manager and Product Owner in updating the feature roadmap and delivery strategy.
  • Collaborated with other scrum masters at Scrum of Scrums (S0S) , to improve development teams productivity, scrum process and work integrations
  • Responsible for Implementing Lean concepts based on the principles of continuous improvement and reducing wastes in processes
  • Communicated and facilitated effectively across diverse audiences within and outside of the Scrum Teams and managed business relationships necessary for product releases
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
  • Implemented best practices to drive quality IT project delivery.

SCRUM MASTER

National Student Loan Clearing
Pittsburgh, PA
06.2020 - 04.2022
  • Lead engineering design workshops to ensure alignment on architectural designs with requirements and specifications
  • Worked with Development Team to improve interpersonal and intra-team communication.
  • Responsible for preparing external end-of sprint demos, creating dashboard reports, and radiating daily project progress
  • Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying and mitigating project impediments and risks, defining scope and helping team with capacity planning and commitment
  • Assisted in fostering smooth internal and external communication between development teams and stakeholders , improving transparency, and radiating information when needed
  • Actively participated in scrum of scrum meetings with other scrum masters , and program managers
  • Collaborated with product owners, business managers and development team members to develop and maintain quality product backlogs
  • Managed cross team dependencies between my teams, third party vendors, release managers and other scrum teams
  • Resolved and addressed problems and conflict through risk management techniques, effective dialogue and contingency planning
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks.
  • Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.

Project Coordinator

Anritsu Co
Morgan Hill, CA
05.2019 - 05.2020
  • Maintained and monitored project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures.
  • Ensured project deadlines were met
  • Coordinate with clients to identify and define requirements, scope, and objectives
  • Create dashboard graphic presentation of the current status of project milestones for purpose of managing project progress.
  • Utilized cross functional project management support and coordination expertise to support business processes and improvements.
  • Performed data analyst by importing, cleaning, transforming and validating data for customized reports used for decision making purposes.
  • Created job files for each project and maintained current data in each file.
  • Assisted with onboarding newly hired staff members and coached on task prioritization.

Agile Scrum Master

FedEx
Saint Paul, MN
02.2016 - 03.2019
  • Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
  • Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
  • Use Azure DevOps as a tool to manage software development projects
  • Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum
  • I facilitated all scrum ceremonies, including daily standup's, retrospectives,sprint planning, and sprint retrospectives
  • I facilitated this transition and as team we grew into a heathy, growing, agile environment

Education

Associate of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of The People
Pasadena, CA

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

University of Buea-
Buea, Cameroon
2014

Skills

  • Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC)
  • Servant leadership
  • Agile Coaching
  • Conflict resolution
  • Team building
  • Change management
  • Strong communication skills
  • Scope Management
  • Release planning
  • Sprint Planning
  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Azure DevOps
  • Backlog Management

Certification

Professional Scrum Master I Certification

Timeline

Scrum Master

Costco
03.2022 - Current

SCRUM MASTER

National Student Loan Clearing
06.2020 - 04.2022

Project Coordinator

Anritsu Co
05.2019 - 05.2020

Agile Scrum Master

FedEx
02.2016 - 03.2019

Associate of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of The People

Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems

University of Buea-

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