HAZEL KIGERA
Fort Worth,TX
Summary
Certified Scrum Master with 7 years of experience and proven history of facilitating teams that has delivered high-quality, small to large scale software, ontime and within budget using agile methodologies.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager/ Scrum Master
OneSpan
01.2023 - Current
- Leading 2 global Scrum Teams
- Organize and facilitate daily stand-up ceremonies, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related events like backlog grooming/refinement with Product Owner
- Track and communicate teams velocity and sprint/release progress
- Ensure development team is practicing core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, feedback loops and visibility
- Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution and Empower my team to self-organize
- Manage stakeholder relationships and client engagement with direct support and facilitate project meetings
- Create/update/distribute project documentation and Send regular status updates to stakeholders
- Assist in collection of user requirements and creation of functional specifications
- Assist in translation functional specifications into technical specifications, including tasks, timelines, and time estimates
- Identify, manage, mitigate, and communicate issues and risks throughout projects
- Serve as liaison between technical and non-technical departments
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects
Scrum Master
Bridgecrest Financial
07.2018 - 08.2022
- Led 2-3 Scrum team coach teams to ensure adherence to Agile practices and principles
- Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies, identify risks, track dependencies
- Coach teams to improve collaboration and self-organization
- Identifying and removing impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with ability of team to deliver sprint goal
- Support team in establishing realistic and achievable delivery commitments while operating at sustainable pace
- Support and partner with Product Owners to ensure backlogs are refined, maintained and ready for sprint
- Track key metrics through burn down charts, work cumulative flow, velocity, defect summary report and making sure team progress radiated to teams, program manager and key stakeholders
- Build and promote open, trusting and respectful team environment; by facilitating discussions, collaborative decision making and conflict resolution
Scrum Master/ Manager
Forever 21
07.2016 - 06.2018
- Led Scrum events including daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning, and team retrospectives
- Removed impediments and blockers to keep team moving forward
- Used Scrum metrics to help deliver committed work and to provide visibility on progress, quality and value to stakeholders
- Supported PI Planning process for teams in SAFe framework
- Partnered with Product Owners, Developers and Engineering leads to ensure teams roadmap and backlog priorities were maintained to enable smooth agile development process and minimize blockers
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams
Education
Bachelor of Science - Marketing
The University of Texas At Arlington
Arlington, TX12.2015
Bachelor of Science - Mass Communication
The University of Texas At Arlington
Arlington, TX12.2015
Skills
- Scrum/Kanban/XP/SAFe
- Risk & Quality Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Business Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Global Cross Functional Teams
- Azure DevOps
- Jira & Confluence
- Conflict Resolution
- Change Control
- Scope & Resource Management
Certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)- Scrum Alliance
Timeline
Project Manager/ Scrum Master
OneSpan
01.2023 - Current
Scrum Master
Bridgecrest Financial
07.2018 - 08.2022
Scrum Master/ Manager
Forever 21
07.2016 - 06.2018
Bachelor of Science - Marketing
The University of Texas At Arlington
Bachelor of Science - Mass Communication
The University of Texas At Arlington
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