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John L

Edmond,United States
John L

Summary

Seasoned Scrum Master with 5 years of experience in an Agile environment; coaching and leading Scrum teams in timely and incremental delivery of value. Servant- leader well-versed in coordinating fast-paced, versatile, and evolving projects with co-located and offshore teams. Adapt at leveraging the Agile mindset with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable and sustainable results. Demonstrated ability to motivate, lead, and coach leadership/scrum teams across multiple locations. Capable of transforming from Waterfall to Agile, applying expert judgment to identify and remove impediments, keeping teams focused, and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Overview

5
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

DDi
Irvine, CA

Scrum Master
10.2020 - Current

Job overview

  • Supporting the adoption and application of agile values and principles to the team, and stakeholders that led to increased productivity and faster delivery.
  • Facilitating and organizing, sprint planning, daily scrum meeting, sprint review, and sprint retrospective, with better team engagement
  • Utilizing key metrics such as burn-down chat, velocity, and burn-up chat to track the team's progress and project, led to an increase in value delivery from 40% to 70% within 7 months.
  • Encouraging continuous learning and improvement activities through coaching, training, and facilitation to reduce waste; and increase productivity and customer satisfaction.
  • Assist product owner in preparing and refining the product backlog which led to an increase in sprint readiness.
  • Coaching the team and organization on agile transformation and best practices to deliver quality and faster products to the organization and end-users.
  • Supporting the team to improve collaboration, cross-functional, and self-management that provides visibility and faster attention to changing needs and better handling of ongoing support and maintenance.
  • Identifying and removing team impediments to help the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables, improving scrum team efficiency by 40% through effective sprint planning.

Ivy Tech Solutions
Virginia Beach, VA

Agile Project Manager
12.2018 - 09.2021

Job overview

  • Support Agile teams using a servant-leader approach to provide them with guidance in Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban; leading to about 20% increase in productivity
  • Designed training sessions for product owners, and development teams on agile fundamentals and best practices enhancing the smooth adoption of an agile mindset across teams.
  • Utilized Jira to establish and maintain key metrics such as Team Velocity, Burn-down, and Sprint/release progress to the team which led to a 50% increase in overall performance.
  • Facilitate timely delivery through effective team collaboration, decision-making, and conflict resolution.
  • Organized and facilitated the scrum event-sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, demos, and other scrum-related events that enabled the team to perform at a higher level.
  • Promoting and empowering the self-management team by shielding the team as opportune to institute a courageous and safe environment for raising challenges, defining solutions, and committing to a milestone delivery.
  • Protect team from over-commitment by using Velocity charts and in incorporating capacity planning into spring planning.

Education

University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK

Master of Science from Cyber Security
06.2024

University Overview

University of Buea
Buea-Cameroon

Bachelor of Science from Managerial Economics
09.2018

University Overview

Skills

  • Communication
  • Coaching, Mentoring Facilitating
  • Process Improvement
  • Servant leadership
  • Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams
  • Agile Project Management
  • Software Development Life Cycle
  • Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective
  • Backlog Refinement and Velocity Tracking
  • Cloud computing and Azure
  • Team Empowerment/ Conflict Resolution

Languages

English
Native/ Bilingual
French
Professional

Affiliations

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  • Member of Community Development organizations

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Security+ certified
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Quote

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins

Timeline

Scrum Master
DDi
10.2020 - Current
Agile Project Manager
Ivy Tech Solutions
12.2018 - 09.2021
University of Tulsa
Master of Science from Cyber Security
University of Buea
Bachelor of Science from Managerial Economics

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