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Ivy Pemu

Ivy Pemu

Dallas,TX

Summary

Highly skilled, experienced, and detail oriented servant leader with over 10 years of collective leadership experience in Agile Project Management, Information Technology, and Strategic Planning.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification
1
1
Language

Work History

Scrum Master

WebTPA
11.2021 - Current
  • Oversees all scrum processes and coaches 1-2 teams facilitating transparency, inspection, and adaption of projects
  • Leads a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging experimentation and innovation in processes
  • Guides teams on how to maximize self-organization and leverage evolve agile practices
  • Responsible for champion Scrum, roles, events, and artifacts to help teams and stakeholders understand their value
  • Manages interdependencies between teams and partners with peers and Product Owners to continuously evolve our planning practice in support of continuous planning model
  • Assesses Agile maturity and actively coaches to higher levels of growth, partnering with peers to help impact portfolio maturity
  • Observes & provides consistent and impactful feedback for both individuals and teams.

Scrum Master

BBVA Bank
01.2016 - 10.2021
  • Responsible for leading and guiding teams using agile and lean principles
  • Emphasized code quality, with an emphasis on small, focused user stories
  • Applied productivity metrics to provide teams and the organization with relevant feedback
  • Coordinated daily stand ups, sprint planning and any other scrum meetings (backlog grooming, release planning, etc.)
  • Ensured teams walked through scrum meetings with right objectives and set up achievable goals with necessary acceptance criteria
  • Facilitated process improvements toward consistent delivery of working product and ensured getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating
  • Properly forecast efforts quarterly to support bank-wide quarterly planning exercises.

Scrum Master

USAA
01.2013 - 12.2015
  • Identified and managed existing and emerging risks that stem from business activities and the job role
  • Ensured risks associated with business activities were effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled
  • Followed written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities
  • Worked closely with cross-functional teams and resources to achieve multiple program and project milestones within established timeframes
  • Ensured consistent visibility for teams by monitoring and reporting business objectives, work efforts, achievements, and key indicators
  • Identified and removed obstacles and impediments to ensure team objectives were met
  • Developed and tracked project budgets that included necessary capital expenditures, operational expenses, and labor funding requirements.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Sociology -

University of Mobile

Skills

  • Jira
  • DevOps
  • Agile Values & Principles
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Story Pointing
  • Relative Sizing
  • Great Communicator
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Backlog Refinement
  • Software Development Life Cycle

Certification

  • SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) Scaled Agile Certificate
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Alliance
  • Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1) Scrum.org
  • Kanban Systems Design (KSD) Kanban University
  • Agile Coaching Certification (ICP-ACC)
  • IC Agile Certified Professional
  • Agile Coaching

Accomplishments

  • Successfully leads, coaches, and mentors between 2-3 Scrum teams at a time consisting of 6-9 per team.
  • Served as the Lead Scrum Master and coordinated events for all organizational Scrum teams.
  • Selected to serve as a subject matter expert and facilitator of Scrum events, mentor to other Scrum Masters, and speaker at Agile seminars and presentations.

Work Availability

monday
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Work Preference

Work Type

Full TimeContract Work

Work Location

RemoteHybrid

Important To Me

Company CultureWork-life balanceCareer advancementPaid time off4-day work weekTeam Building / Company RetreatsWork from home optionPersonal development programs

Timeline

Scrum Master

WebTPA
11.2021 - Current

Scrum Master

BBVA Bank
01.2016 - 10.2021

Scrum Master

USAA
01.2013 - 12.2015

Bachelor of Science in Sociology -

University of Mobile
Ivy Pemu