Gilbert Kachanyi
Richardson,US
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.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Scrum Master
Pfizer
05.2022 - Current
- Led Agile coaching initiatives, driving improvements in Scrum practices and facilitating methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe, leading to increased team efficiency and productivity
- Led the implementation of SAFe methodologies across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with enterprise-level objectives and facilitating the adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework
- Supported PI Planning events, helping organize teams around value streams and ensuring proper backlog refinement, feature prioritization, and roadmap alignment
- Collaborates closely with the Product Owner to clarify requirements and ensure alignment
- Help the development team organize themselves and their work to achieve the sprint goal, using self-organization and collective decision-making
- Organize and facilitate all Scrum ceremonies, including Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective
- Assist in identifying and managing project dependencies and risks within the team while proactively identifying and removing impediments
- Collaborated with Product Owner and teams to define requirements, ensuring progress and commitment
- Oversee and direct business systems software development projects from initiation through completion, including planning, scheduling, and documentation
- Monitored project status using Azure DevOps dashboards, helping stakeholders and team members stay updated on progress, risks, and resource allocation
- Helping team members and stakeholders understand Scrum principles and practices, fostering a culture of agility
- Championed Azure DevOps practices to streamline project delivery and enhance collaboration between development and operations teams
- Facilities team planning and improvement activities, and effectively builds self-organizing, cohesive, and high performing teams
Sr IT Scrum Master
Blue Cross Blue Shield
04.2021 - 05.2022
- Company Overview: BCBSFL
- Manage and drive large-scale, complex projects to accomplish critical business goals
- Managed backlog for the BCBSFL insurance app, defining team norms, and facilitating collaboration between Development and Product teams to ensure the app's features aligned with user needs and business objectives
- Coordinated with the Product Manager during PI Planning sessions for the insurance app, gaining a complete understanding of business requirements to guide development efforts effectively
- Encouraged self-organized teams, implemented retrospective outcomes for continuous improvement
- Preparing and updating project status reports for program consolidation and management review
- Help team, designing, developing, and maintaining infrastructure using code
- Educated teams on SAFe methodology and coached Scrum practices
- Tracked metrics using Rally for velocity, sprint progress and project milestones
- Provided leadership in cross-functional teams by collaborating closely with the Product Owner to clarify requirements, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and successful project delivery
- Determining the order in which backlog items are worked on based on business value, customer needs, and feedback
- BCBSFL
Scrum Master – Software Engineer II
O’Neil Digital Solutions
05.2020 - 02.2021
- Company Overview: ODS
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and coordinated with Release Train Engineer for ART
- Managed backlog, participated in backlog refinement, and sprint planning
- Utilized JIRA for managing scrum events and backlogs
- Coached teams on Agile principles, practices, and continuous improvement
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, PI planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Successfully achieved a new record increase in the solution delivery rate of up to 25% across teams by embracing a customer-centric mindset and utilizing design thinking tools such as personas, brainstorming and journey maps
- ODS
Scrum Master
Christus Health
10.2019 - 04.2020
- Organized Scrum ceremonies and facilitated backlog refinement
- Led transition from waterfall to agile, acted as coach and change catalyst
- Coordinated with stakeholders and facilitated workshops for team building
- Identifying and removing obstacles that hinder the team's progress by collaborating with stakeholders and management
- Shielding the team from external interference and distractions, allowing them to focus on their work
- Supported the Technical Product Owner in product delivery tasks while helping drive Azure DevOps best practices
BI Developer / Scrum Master
Novedea Systems
01.2015 - 09.2019
- Liaised between scrum teams, product owners, and solution architects
- Facilitated the Daily Standup for the scrum team to provide feedback and make quick decisions as needed
- Reviews and accepts the completed work at the end of each sprint during the Sprint Review
- Tracked team velocity, facilitated communication, and embraced SAFe values
- Managed PI planning, standup meetings, retrospectives, and demos
- Built Data Warehouse from Data Marts, using SQL and SSIS to extract, transform and load data to databases for analysis
- Strives for continuous improvement and adapts their processes based on retrospective findings
- Write complex SQL queries to retrieve and manipulate data from databases
- Develop stored procedures, functions, and views to support reporting and analysis needs
- Create interactive and meaningful dashboards, reports, and visualizations using tools like SSRS and Power BI
Education
Postgraduate - DevOps
Purdue Online
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology Management
Western Governors University
UtahSkills
- SDLC
- SCRUM
- Waterfall
- Kanban
- SAFe
- Extreme Programming (XP)
- Lean Thinking
- MS Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- SharePoint
- Visio
- Slack
- MS Teams
- Rally
- Skype
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- AWS
- MSSQL Server
- SQL
- SSIS
- Jenkins
- Git
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Backlog grooming
- Burndown charts
- DoD
- DOR
- Acceptance Criteria
- Capacity
- INVEST
- TDD
- BDD
- Pair Programming
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master, PSM 1, Scrum.Org
- SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe 5.0, Scaled Agile
- Coaching Agile Transformation, ICP-CAT, ICAgile
- Project Management Professional, PMP, PMI.org
- Querying Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft
Personal Information
Citizenship: US Citizen
Timeline
Sr Scrum Master
Pfizer
05.2022 - Current
Sr IT Scrum Master
Blue Cross Blue Shield
04.2021 - 05.2022
Scrum Master – Software Engineer II
O’Neil Digital Solutions
05.2020 - 02.2021
Scrum Master
Christus Health
10.2019 - 04.2020
BI Developer / Scrum Master
Novedea Systems
01.2015 - 09.2019
Postgraduate - DevOps
Purdue Online
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology Management
Western Governors University
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