LYDIA NYETMOR
Lancaster,USA
Summary
SAFe Certified Scrum Master with over 6 years of experience driving organizational success through Agile methodologies. Proven ability to enhance team productivity and communication by coaching self-organizing, cross-functional teams. Expertise in managing the Software Development Life Cycle with both collocated and distributed teams, ensuring timely delivery of complex projects. Committed to fostering transparency and continuous improvement while aligning team efforts with business objectives.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master Engineer
CAE
Arlington
05.2023 - Current
- Work closely with the Product owners to maintain a healthy backlog
- Worked with Teams that were fairly new to Agile and moved them up to mature state
- Monitor work flow closely to ensure team members are actively moving work to done and also meeting program expectation
- Coach and over see program due dates are respected especially during planning meetings
- Actively involved in PI planning every quarter
- Sync up with other Teams for cross team dependencies or blockers
- Work hand in hand with the managers of the Teams and SWL, PE, PM to ensure the Teams are rightly prioritizing work and delivering value
- Removing or guiding the teams in finding solutions to blockers/dependencies or sometimes coordinating with the scrum Masters of other Teams within the organization
- Facilitate the different scrum events; daily syncs, backlog refinement, Retrospectives and Sprint planning
SAFe Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
02.2020 - 04.2023
- Support, educate and assist the Product Owner and the team in refining and maintaining the product backlog
- Removing or guiding the team in finding solutions to blockers/dependencies or sometimes coordinating with the scrum Masters of other Teams within the organization
- Facilitate pre-planning meetings with my teams to ensure a smooth PI planning by developing a roadmap
- Weekly syncs up with the RTE during Scrum of Scrum (SoS) by providing updates on performance or roadblocks of my Teams
- Coach the team members in self-management and cross-functionality
- Facilitates Scrum ceremonies like the sprint planning, daily stand-up, reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement
- Manage dependencies for the team, by providing visibility into team delivery plans and progress, enabling continuous improvement within the team
- Helps the team define norms/agreements, like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and enforces the team working agreements thereby improving Teams dynamics
- Maintain an organized project using project management tools like Jira, Confluence, Miro
- Helps team identify when commitments are at risk, and assists them solution to ensure commitments are met
- Took charge of process flows, maintenance of scrum/Kanban boards in Jira which increased transparency and visibility into workflow helping teams gauge progress, inspect and adapt accordingly to achieve sprint goal
- Coordinate with Scrum Masters of other Teams to resolve and own dependencies
- Protected Agile teams against distractions from sprint commitment and ensure a safe environment which propelled team performance and consistent delivery of working increment to clients
Scrum Master
Caterpillar Inc
02.2018 - 01.2020
- Facilitates Scrum ceremonies like the Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives
- Facilitates team in defining Working Agreements, Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and then ensures those agreements
- Helps team inspect and adapt process through retrospectives, data / metrics tracking and creating a safe, trusting environment with space to grow
- Facilitate basic communication and collaboration inside and outside the team
- Shield the team from external interference and ensure the team is fully functional and productive
- Improved team confidence and alignment to product vision by 35% coaching team and PO to writing better end user-focused User Stories
- Improved backlog refinement to help teams have a shared understanding of what they are building resulting in higher qualities stories
- Supports and educates the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
- Manage dependencies for the team, provide visibility into team plans & progress, and enable continuous improvement within the team and organization
Education
Bachelor's degree - Computer Science
University of Buea
CameroonSkills
- Agile Backlog Oversight
- Best Practices in Agile Development
- Effective Relationship Building
- Kanban Workflow Management
- Team-Oriented Leadership
- Continuous Improvement Implementation
- Effective Team Leadership
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Jira Issue Tracking
- Confluence Platform Expertise
- Self-Motivated Professional
Certification
- SAFe Certified Scrum Master
- Professional Scrum Master
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Accomplishments
- Received a spot on award at CAE for best Scrum Master 2024
Timeline
Scrum Master Engineer
CAE
05.2023 - Current
SAFe Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
02.2020 - 04.2023
Scrum Master
Caterpillar Inc
02.2018 - 01.2020
Bachelor's degree - Computer Science
University of Buea
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