MIROSLAV HOUESSOU
Palos Hills,IL
Summary
Value-driven Certified SAFe Scrum Master through Scrum.org & Scaled Agile Inc with 7+ years of experience leading Scrum teams in a timely and incremental delivery of value. Seeking to cut costs and raise efficiency within organisations, I have effectively managed multiple scrum and Kanban Teams over the years with the sole purpose of optimizing the process of work in such a way that increases productivity overall.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Ulta Beauty
04.2022 - 01.2023
- Led 2 teams that worked on developing web and mobile app (Android and IOS)
- Ensure smooth dialog & collaboration between Offshore & Onshore members, getting them to be more cross-functional
- Re-established good agile practices by resurrecting Retrospectives meeting which allowed the company to receive real time feedbacks from the teams and improve on their processes
- Coached the Teams on effective agile estimation techniques, reducing workload per sprint as well as spill over stories
- Assisted Release Train Engineer in implementation of SAFe by facilitating breakout sessions, therefore ensuring planning accuracy
- Followed up on dependencies with other Scrum Masters, triggering discussions that ultimately led to more productive sprint planning sessions and also ensuring sprint goal success
- Took part in and reported to the RTE on identified risks during weekly ART Sync meeting, which facilitated their mitigations.
Scrum Master
Instacart
03.2018 - 03.2022
- For 2 Teams that worked on enhancing the end –user experience of the company’s guests (Clients and filed agents /shoppers) on both (IOS & Android)
- Increased Team’s agile maturity level through series of teaching /coaching on best agile practices
- Improved precision in developers’ updates during daily stand up by re-configuring the Jira board in such a way that helped avoid wasting time and also allowed for more transparency when it comes to progress
- Increased Team Velocity by 25 % within 6 months through close partnership and collaboration with the Product Owner in maintaining a healthy backlog
- Improved Team morale and engagement through facilitation of awesome, innovative and progress-focused retrospectives
- Reduced time to market due to successful tracking of all tickets pertaining to a specific release
- Assisted with new team members' onboarding by setting up regulars KTs (knowledge Transfer) sessions, getting them up to speed on the project and progress, thus avoiding delays in the delivery process.
Scrum Master
ADAGE TECHNOLOGIES
01.2016 - 03.2018
- Scheduled and facilitated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Backlog grooming, and Release Planning
- Supported the product Owner in keeping the backlog prioritized and refined, resulting in the team having enough tickets that met the Definition of Ready for 2 sprints ahead of time
- Encouraged collaboration between Team members, closing gaps in communication, therefore creating a high performing Team
- Facilitated the removal of impediments, avoiding slowdowns in the process of work
- Fostered adoption of agile practices by influencing the team to implement the right changes using emotional intelligence and persuasion instead of authority
- Reported on metrics at the end of every sprint to stakeholders, providing transparency on sprint goal success.
Project Manager
Adage Technologies
03.2015 - 01.2016
- Managed project conflicts challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at high performance
- Partnered with product, engineering, operations, research and design teams to develop and test new solutions
- Defined project plans and timelines, managed workflow and personnel and achieved completion deadlines on or before schedule
- Focused on project monitoring and management by developing forecasts and tracking expenses
- Developed solutions to project risks and issues, meeting quality and timeline goals and objectives.
Project Coordinator
DEALUSHOP IL
01.2014 - 02.2015
- Coordinated with department leads to identify and outline solutions to client-specified challenges
- Assisted project manager in drafting schedules and related documentation
- Collaborated with internal teams to develop project solutions resulting in on-time execution
- Troubleshot and resolved non-technical issues using support documentation and training
- Managed portfolio of projects to drive on-time deliverables within scope and budget.
Education
Bachelors - Business Administration and Management
Entrepreneurship Training Institute
Accra /ghana06.2011
Skills
- Leadership
- Agile Project Management
- JQL
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Team Work
- Agile Methodologies
- Scrum/Kanban/SAFe/XP
- Metrics
- Risk Management
- Dependencies Tracking
- Process Improvement
- Conflict resolution
- Backlog Management
- Coaching and Teaching
- Mentoring
- Communication
- Jira/Azure DevOps
- Confluence
Certification
PSM1/ Scrum.org
SAFe 5.1/ Scaled Agile Inc
Timeline
Scrum Master
Ulta Beauty
04.2022 - 01.2023
Scrum Master
Instacart
03.2018 - 03.2022
Scrum Master
ADAGE TECHNOLOGIES
01.2016 - 03.2018
Project Manager
Adage Technologies
03.2015 - 01.2016
Project Coordinator
DEALUSHOP IL
01.2014 - 02.2015
Bachelors - Business Administration and Management
Entrepreneurship Training Institute