Hi, I’m
Darlinton Atemkeng
Dallas,TX
Summary
Experienced agilist with experience in facilitating agile project delivery and demonstrated expertise in an agile environment, dynamic agile scrum master with experience managing large enterprise software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations. Accomplished project manager highly regarded for orchestrating high profile IT projects and programs for industry leaders. Out -of-the- box thinker who champions innovative technical solutions to address complex client needs and related business problems ensuring superior outcomes. Sought for cross-functional expertise in agile softwares, software development life cycle management/project development life cycle. Known as a superb communicator and facilitator who builds productive stakeholder relationships while leading diverse teams to exceed all performance expectations.
Overview
7
years of professional experience
2
years of post-secondary education
Work History
MANKIS LlcCalifornia
Agile Delivery Lead
02.2020 - Current
Job overview
- Facilitating and overseeing the successful delivery of projects and products within the organization using Agile methodologies.
- Manage and lead the portfolio of cross-functional software development teams and provide strong leadership and guidance to teams, including Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and development teams.
- Responsible for promoting and fostering an Agile mindset and culture within the organization.
- Act as a servant leader, empowering teams to self-organize and make decisions
- Managing and coordinating the delivery of projects or initiatives, ensuring they get completed on time and within scope.
- Effectively Collaborate with stakeholders to define project objectives, requirements, and priorities
- Create and maintain project plans, release plans, and roadmaps.
- Responsible for Facilitating scrum ceremonies: daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint review, and retrospective meetings.
- Identifying and addressing any impediments or issues that hinder team progress.
- Monitor project progress and address deviations from plans promptly.
- Define and track relevant Agile metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure team and project success.
- Provide regular status updates and reports to stakeholders.
- Provide coaching and mentorship to team members, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners to enhance their understanding of Agile principles and practices.
- Planned and completed group projects, working smoothly with others.
- Maintained updated knowledge through continuing education and advanced training.
- Support decision making by guiding features and estimates of capabilities by Teams and Epic roll-ups.
- Manage risks, dependencies, and impediments.
- Monitor and escalate impediments.
- Provide input on resourcing to address critical bottlenecks.
- Work with product owners and other stakeholders to drive alignment of strategy and execution.
Mankis llcLos Angeles, CA
Scrum Master
12.2018 - 01.2020
Job overview
- Facilitate Agile ceremonies such as Daily Standup's, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
- Ensure that the team understands and follows Scrum roles, events, and artifacts.
- Remove impediments that hinder the team's progress.
- Coach the team on Agile principles and practices.
- Help the team improve its efficiency and effectiveness.
- Mentor team members in self-organization and cross-functionality.
- Foster collaboration and open communication within the team and with stakeholders.
- Ensure that the Product Owner has a clear and prioritized backlog.
- Act as a liaison between the team and external parties, shielding the team from distractions.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement by facilitating retrospectives and helping the team implement improvements.
- Identify opportunities to enhance the Agile processes and practices.
- Track and report Agile metrics (e.g., velocity, burndown charts) to provide insights into the team's progress and performance.
- Use metrics to identify areas for improvement.
- Mediate conflicts within the team and help find resolutions that promote a positive and collaborative working environment.
- Identify and mitigate risks that may impact the team's ability to achieve its goals.
- Work with stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations.
- Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile environment and distributed models through whiteboarding and mind-mapping.
- Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters.
- Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
- Kept up-to-date with industry trends in agile software development methods.
- Conducted demos of completed work at the end of each sprint cycle.
- Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
- Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
- Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
- Participated in feature design discussions offering insights from an Agile perspective when necessary.
- Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
- Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
- Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status for stakeholders.
- Provided guidance to Product Owners regarding Agile principles and best practices for managing product backlogs.
- Collaborated with other Scrum Masters across teams to ensure consistency in processes and tools used.
- Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
- Developed training materials to educate stakeholders about agile methodologies.
- Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
Equitas Health.Maryland, United States
Agile Project Facilitator
12.2017 - 11.2018
Job overview
- Facilitate Agile team meetings and ceremonies, including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.
- Ensure that these meetings are productive, focused, and follow Agile principles.
- Coach and mentor Agile teams and team members in Agile values, principles, and practices.
- Help team members understand and embrace Agile concepts and mindsets.
- Organize and conduct training sessions, workshops, and Agile-related educational activities for team members and stakeholders to improve their understanding of Agile practices.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Agile practices, frameworks, and trends, and apply this knowledge to help teams improve their Agile processes.
- Maintain relevant Agile documentation and artifacts, such as product backlogs, sprint backlogs, and release plans.
- Identified project objectives, scope and deliverables.
- Developed detailed project plans to track progress.
- Facilitated meetings with stakeholders to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
- Monitored project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques.
- Conducted risk assessments to identify potential issues and develop mitigation strategies.
- Prepared reports on project progress for management review.
- Assisted with budget preparation by providing cost estimates for various activities.
- Reviewed technical documents such as change requests, design documents or test plans prior to approval.
- Implemented quality assurance protocols during the development process.
- Increased product knowledge by staying up to date on product offerings, features and functionality.
- Assessed, monitored and reported on work progression.
- Assisted project manager in drafting schedules and related documentation.
- Prioritized needs and delegated assignments to simultaneously handle multiple projects.
- Developed and implemented project tracker or calendar to meet and maintain standards.
- Submitted budget estimates, progress reports and cost tracking reports.
- Serve as a Scaled Agile Framework champion. Coach teams and stakeholders on SAFe principles and the agile mindset, and drive home the value of agile/scrum across the organization
Jumia GroupDallas, Texas
Agile Scrum Master
12.2016 - 11.2017
Job overview
- Facilitated daily stand-up meetings to discuss progress, impediments and plan for the day's tasks.
- Organized sprint planning sessions to ensure team members understand user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Assisted product owners in developing user stories and acceptance criteria for upcoming sprints.
- Tracked project progress against goals using agile methodologies such as burndown charts, velocity tracking and task boards.
- Coordinated with stakeholders to prioritize backlog items and ensure alignment with business objectives.
- Provided guidance on Agile Scrum principles, best practices and processes to ensure successful delivery of projects.
- Advised teams on how to improve their efficiency through better utilization of Agile Scrum tools and techniques.
- Mentored junior team members on Agile Scrum concepts, practices and values.
- Identified potential risks and issues early on in the process so that mitigation strategies can be developed quickly.
- Developed retrospectives after each sprint or milestone to identify areas of improvement for future projects.
- Monitored sprint performance metrics including velocity, defect rates, cycle times, to identify trends and opportunities for optimization.
- Conducted regular reviews of existing processes and procedures to ensure they are optimized for maximum efficiency.
- Collaborated with other scrum masters across the organization to share best practices and lessons learned from previous projects.
- Acted as a primary contact between development teams, product owners, stakeholders and other external parties throughout the entire lifecycle of a project.
- Participated in design discussions with architects and developers to ensure solutions meet customer requirements while adhering to established standards and best practices.
- Defined release plans based on available resources, timelines and budget constraints while ensuring quality assurance is maintained throughout the process.
- Facilitated post implementation reviews with key stakeholders and customers providing feedback regarding successes and areas of improvement identified during the course of the project.
- Provided timely updates on project status and deliverables ensuring all relevant parties are kept informed at all times.
- Ensured compliance with applicable industry standards and regulations related to software development and delivery activities.
- Participated in daily Scrum meetings to update on project progress.
- Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
- Developed new analytics tool to allow senior management to understand impact of each project.
- Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
- Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
- Documented new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance.
- Delivered results using strong understanding of project management methodology and PMO standards.
- Identified potential project risks and helped developed mitigation plans to resolve potential issues.
Eco bank HeadquartersColumbus, TX
Scrum Master/Business Analyst
12.2016 - 11.2017
Job overview
- Assist in running the agile ceremonies.
- Assist in maintaining Jira boards.
- Helping flush out stories.
- Collect, compile, and analyze data from various sources to identify trends, patterns, and insights relevant to the company's operations and objectives.
- Prepare reports and presentations to communicate findings and recommendations to team members, managers, or clients.
- Assist in gathering and documenting business requirements for new projects or process improvements by conducting interviews, surveys, and workshops with stakeholders.
- Create process flow diagrams (burn down and burn up charts) and models to visualize current business processes and identify areas for optimization and automation.
- Conduct research on industry trends, competitors, and market conditions to provide valuable insights for decision-making.
- Document business processes, user stories, and system requirements to ensure clarity and alignment among project stakeholders.
- Assist in testing and quality assurance activities to ensure that new systems or processes meet business requirements and perform as expected.
- Collaborate with various teams and departments to gather input, provide updates, and ensure that project goals are being met.
- Help identify and solve business problems by analyzing data, conducting root cause analysis, and recommending solutions.
- Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
- Worked closely with sales teams to ensure client satisfaction from acquisition to proposal phases.
- Procured software, hardware and infrastructure required to meet program demands.
- Assist with the implementation of software tools and systems used for data analysis and reporting
- Create training materials and documentation to help end-users understand new processes or systems
- Participate in continuous improvement efforts by providing feedback and suggesting enhancements to existing processes and procedures.
- Researched various industries to identify target markets for the company's products and services.
- Generated leads through networking activities at conferences, trade shows, seminars.
- Monitored market trends and competitors' activities to develop competitive strategies.
- Analyzed customer data to understand their behaviors and preferences better and suggest ways of improving customer relations management process.
- Managed daily operations related to business development initiatives such as tracking progress on projects, maintaining records of contacts made with prospective clients.
- Prepared cost estimates for proposed projects based on available resources.
- Assisted senior management in developing long-term growth strategies for the company.
- Collaborated with team to forecast based on sales and product profitability.
- Accomplished Business Development Representative offering expertise in marketing, sales and operations. Consults with customers, builds strong relationships and increases hard sales numbers.
- Conducted demos of completed work at the end of each sprint cycle.
- Kept up-to-date with industry trends in agile software development methods.
Education
University of Buea.Cameroon
Bachelor of Science from Computer Sciences
07.2015
University Institute of The Gulf of Guinea
Higher National Diploma from Management/Marketing
09.2012 - 10.2014
Richland CollegeDallas, TX
Master of Science from Software Engineering
Skills
- SQL
- SDLC
- Product Development
- QA function
- Agile Methodologies/Frameworks and Waterfall
- Facilitating
- Jira
- Confluence
- Trello
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Collaborative Team management
- Problem Solving
- Azure DevOps
- Metrics
- Impediment Remover
- Coaching
- Leadership
- Follow up
- Communication
- Interpersonal skills
- Project Management
- Microsoft Office
- Organizational Skills
- Planning
- Interpersonal Communication
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Calm Under Pressure
- Conflict Resolution
- Microsoft SharePoint
Languages
References available on request
Certification
- Certified Scrum by Scrum Alliance - June 2023.
- PMP Certified by Project Management Institute-October 2022.
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP). November 2022.
Timeline
Agile Delivery Lead
MANKIS Llc
02.2020 - Current
Scrum Master
Mankis llc
12.2018 - 01.2020
Agile Project Facilitator
Equitas Health.
12.2017 - 11.2018
Agile Scrum Master
Jumia Group
12.2016 - 11.2017
Scrum Master/Business Analyst
Eco bank Headquarters
12.2016 - 11.2017
University Institute of The Gulf of Guinea
Higher National Diploma from Management/Marketing
09.2012 - 10.2014
University of Buea.
Bachelor of Science from Computer Sciences
Richland College
Master of Science from Software Engineering