Marie Ediage
Lanham,MD
Summary
Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Professional with more than 4 years of experience delegating tasks and managing projects.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Resource Connection Inc.
Lanham , MD
2019.03 - Current
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle, realizing 75% reduction in errors.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling parties to meet and discuss project progress.
- Managed program and provider separations during corporate split.
- Communicated with 50 team members to keep project on schedule.
- Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.
- Enforced alignment of project strategy with business objectives and made modifications to promote efficient project completion.
- Gathered and disseminated project materials at key points to stakeholders.
- Produced reports and updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Created clones, images, templates, snapshots, resource allocation, resource pools and system monitoring by applying subject matter expertise of VMS file system.
- Diagnosed and repaired computer hardware and network systems.
- Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
- Managed implementation of medical administration software.
- Analyzed projects to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment and software.
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
- Collaborated with project owners and team members to set ambitious but achievable goals.
- Managed minimum of 5 projects each year while maintaining adherence to budget, schedule and scope requirements.
- Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
Scrum Master
MBI Health Services
Washington , DC
2016.05 - 2019.03
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle, realizing 100 % reduction in errors.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Communicated with 25 team members to keep project on schedule.
- Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling parties to meet and discuss project progress.
- Managed program and provider separations during corporate split.
- Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.
- Enforced alignment of project strategy with business objectives and made modifications to promote efficient project completion.
- Gathered and disseminated project materials at key points to stakeholders.
- Produced reports and updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks.
- Created clones, images, templates, snapshots, resource allocation, resource pools and system monitoring by applying subject matter expertise of VMS file system.
- Diagnosed and repaired computer hardware and network systems.
- Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
- Managed implementation of medical administration software.
Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator
World Resources Institute, Inc
Washington, DC , Washinton, DC
2015.01 - 2016.03
- Researched and performed quantitative and qualitative analyses for Sustainable Ecosystem Project based in Brazil, Indonesia, and Cameroon- formulated 50 global indicators using excel spreadsheet.
- Researched and completed literature review on best practices and different approaches to evaluation that are cost effective to Governance of Forest Initiative Project (GFI).
- Developed literature review on global challenges of governance and capacity building programs using participatory evaluation, process evaluation and impact evaluation to promote accountability and learning in local forest population in Cameroon, Indonesia, and Brazil.
- Compiled five research-based case studies on different evaluation approaches used by Governance projects: different activities involved in evaluating project baseline and their related issues, and how these approaches can be replicated by Governance of Forest Initiative.
- Collaborated with other team members to complete reports and prepare PowerPoint presentations based on data available.
Education
Master of Arts - Sustainable Development: International Policy & Ma
SIT Graduate Institute
Washington, DC09.2015
Bachelor of Arts - Geography
University of Yaoundé 1
Cameroon09.2003
Skills
- Development team trainings
- Customer interaction
- Risk identification
- Waterfall methodology
- Risk mitigation planning
- Dependable and Responsible
- Agile Software Proficiency
- Interpersonal Communication
- Active Listening
- Problem-Solving
- Multitasking Abilities
- Quality assurance
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master, -2019-
Timeline
Scrum Master
Resource Connection Inc.
2019.03 - Current
Scrum Master
MBI Health Services
2016.05 - 2019.03
Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator
World Resources Institute, Inc
2015.01 - 2016.03
Master of Arts - Sustainable Development: International Policy & Ma
SIT Graduate Institute
Bachelor of Arts - Geography
University of Yaoundé 1
- Certified Scrum Master, -2019-