Emmanuel Macrae
District Heights,MD
Summary
Goal-oriented Scrum master with over 3 years of expertise in agile framework and methodology knowledgeable in task prioritization, risk management and workflow optimization. Experienced in developing and leading cross-functional technical teams to executive and deliver major technology initiatives
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Ajk Contracting
Baltimore, MD
03.2020 - Current
- Monitored progress of sprints, providing visibility into project status for stakeholders.
- Acted as a servant leader to the development team by removing impediments and resolving conflicts.
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Ups, Retrospectives and Reviews.
- Created dashboards using various tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, to track project progress and milestones.
- Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness and inspection.
- Maintained product backlogs, ensuring that items are well defined and prioritized based on business value.
- Assisted with release planning and coordinated efforts between multiple teams working on related projects.
- Tracked metrics related to sprint performance and identified areas of improvement for future sprints.
- Supported the development team in understanding user stories, acceptance criteria and definition of done.
- Encouraged continuous process improvement initiatives through retrospectives.
- Identified risks associated with sprint goals and worked with the team to mitigate them.
- Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
- Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans.
- Stayed current on emerging technologies and trends that could benefit production process.
- Delivered results using strong understanding of project management methodology and PMO standards.
- Worked closely with senior management and other stakeholders during strategic planning sessions for upcoming releases.
Agile Scrum Master
Huawei Technologies
Freetown
05.2019 - 03.2020
- Effectively Guided scrum and Kanban teams
- Creating working agreements, establishing and helping the teams by all means to achieve their Sprint Goals
- Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games
- Educated and coached the teams on usage of Jira & Confluence tools
- Helped Product owner with effective management of backlog
- Ensured INVEST criteria is met for all the user stories in the backlog
- Ensured the teams are adhering to the DOR and DOD criteria
- Organized & Facilitate team and organization Agile Maturity
- Created Features, Epics & Stories for the team in Jira and assisted product owner
- JIRA admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL...)
- Applied human centered design ( Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Implement)
- Facilitated all Scrum Events including the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog Refinement, Workshops with stakeholders
- Communicated team velocity and Sprint/release progress to the teams and management
- Reflecting and radiating the metrics like burndown chart progress, quality and velocity continuously to the team and various stakeholders
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
University of Baltimore
Baltimore, MD04-2014
Skills
- Sprint Planning
- Resource Allocation
- Workflow Analysis
- Project Management
- Scrum Processes
- Effective Customer Communication
- Risk Identification
- Backlog Management
- Agile Best Practices
- Stakeholder Management
- User stories and Process Mapping
- Quality Assurance
- Cross Functional Supervision
- Automation
- Software Development Lifecycle
Certification
- PSM, SAFe, PSPO, TS
Languages
Krio
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Scrum Master
Ajk Contracting
03.2020 - Current
Agile Scrum Master
Huawei Technologies
05.2019 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Science - Business Management
University of Baltimore
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