Nelson Kenne
Dallas,TX
Summary
Highly skilled Scrum Master proficient in leading agile teams to deliver quality products and promoting collaboration and continuous improvement. Proven ability to cultivate positive relationships with customers and stakeholders. Demonstrated leadership and expertise in leveraging business knowledge and management experience to drive team operations.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master
CDW
11.2021 - Current
- Agile Leadership: Schedule and Lead all agile ceremonies for multiple teams, including daily standup meetings, sprint planning, sprint reviews, backlog grooming, retrospectives and, scrum of scrums
- Agile Transformation: Introduced agile best practices to scrum teams, and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and huddles to productivity
- Organize and facilitate PI planning meetings such as Pre PI planning, PI planning, Dependencies workshop to ensure team alignment and successful PI planning
- Backlog Grooming: Collaborate with team's product owner to prioritized and manage product team backlog, ensuring business value and client needs are met
- Conflict Resolution: Identify and resolve impediments that may hinder team progress, ensuring timely delivery
- Continuously monitor team performance and implement improvements to optimize the delivery process. Use metrics and feedback to guide the team toward more effective practices
- Facilitate team's progress towards sprint goals: Continuously challenging old norms of development to improve performance in areas of quality, predictability, flow, and velocity. Helped teams focus on daily and iteration goals
- Improved teams velocity by 20% within the first 6 months
- Agile Metrics: Applied agile metrics such as burndown charts and velocity chart to monitor sprint and forecast delivery timeline
- Facilitate the Scrum of Scrum meetings with the development managers, Product owners, QA manager, DevOps leads to check on health of teams' sprints, dependencies or other team related environment issues or blockers that might be affecting the sprint
- Engage with other scrum masters to elevate larger organizational issues and patterns impacting collective organizational performance
- Risk Management: Proactively identify risks within projects and work with teams to create mitigation strategies
Scrum Master
US Bank
06.2021 - 10.2021
- Organized and facilitated all Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives to ensure team alignment and continuous improvement.
- Worked with multiple Scrum teams to develop team's definition of ready and definition of Done.
- Partnered with product owner to be mindful of short and long-term goals and applied approaches to focus on solving he right problem in timely manner.
- Promoted team autonomy and self-organization while maintaining a focus on delivering high-quality systems.
- Identified team impediments and proactively address them, ensuring the team maintains focus on delivering value.
- Coached teams to enhance collaboration, communication, and self-organization
Scrum Master
RML Specialty Hospital
03.2019 - 05.2021
- Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Collaborated with Product Owners to ensure a well-groomed product backlog and clear prioritization.
- Coached the teams to improve collaboration and self-management, promoting healthy interactions both within the team and with external stakeholders
- Facilitated Scrum of scrums meeting with development managers, Product owners, QA manager, to check on team's health sprints, dependencies or other team related environment issues or blockers that might be affecting sprints.
- Effectively monitored and communicated team status/progress to key stakeholders
- Guided and supported agile teams in Scrum practices, ensuring adherence to Agile principles and frameworks.
Scrum Master
Porter Lee Corporation
01.2018 - 05.2019
- Organized and facilitated agile activities and ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, and product backlog refinement sessions
- Championed and facilitated adoption of agile standards, tools, and best practices
- Utilized team feedbacks and metrics such as quality, delivery, cadence, to identify areas of opportunity and work with team to continuously improve
- Collaborate closely with the product owner to manage the backlog
- Actively participated in learning opportunities such as communities of practice or conferences to improve skills and better support the team
- Communicated with leaders across the organization to ensure transparency into delivery progress, challenges, and risks
- Ensured that all meetings are positive, productive, stay on topic, and are kept within the timebox
- Ensured alignment of Scrum practices with organizational goals and objectives
- Proactively identified risks within projects and work with teams to create mitigation strategies
Education
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL05.2018
Bachelor of Science - Health Administration
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL05.2016
Skills
- Scrum framework expertise
- Agile coaching
- Servant leader
- Agile methodology
- Coaching and mentoring
- Retrospective analysis
- Sprint planning
- Product backlog management
- Release planning
- Team facilitation
- Servant leadership
- Presentation skills
Methodology & Frameworks
- Agile
- SAFe
- Scrum
- Continuous Integration
- Software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Feature driven development (FDD)
- Test driven development (TDD)
Technical Tools
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- Confluence
- Mural
- Miro
- FunRetro
- EasyRetro
- Microsoft 365
- Planning poker
- ServiceNow
- Trello
- Microsoft Office Suite
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master – CSM : Scrum Alliance - Chicago, IL
- Scaled Agile - Leading SAFe 5.1
- SAFe Scrum Master 5.1
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master
CDW
11.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
US Bank
06.2021 - 10.2021
Scrum Master
RML Specialty Hospital
03.2019 - 05.2021
Scrum Master
Porter Lee Corporation
01.2018 - 05.2019
Master of Science - Management Information Systems
Northern Illinois University
Bachelor of Science - Health Administration
Northern Illinois University
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