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Nikita Tibiru SSM

Silver Spring,MD

Summary

Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching, mentoring highly skilled teams, driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum rules, solving complex problems and removing impediments as well as fostering self-organization. Overall 7 years of experience working in the Information Technology Industry and 5 years as a Scrum Master. Demonstrated the ability to organize and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, delegating tasks and managing projects as well as motivate teams to meet demanding timelines.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Navy Federal
Washington DC, DC
10.2016 - Current
  • Worked with Product Owner to create and prioritize a healthy product backlog.
  • Direct and lead development team from project initiation to final delivery of a Potentially Shippable Increment.
  • Use JIRA and Confluence as tools for tracking progress and reporting
  • Worked closely with Product Owner in Backlog Refinement and continuous delivery of goals and milestones.
  • Lead sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
  • Facilitate Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
  • Work effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore
  • Assess each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload
  • Provide extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity
  • Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team

Business Analyst

SunTrust Bank
San Francisco, CA
04.2014 - 09.2016
  • Conducted requirements workshops, interviews and used questionnaires to document Business Requirements
  • Understood clients business needs and mission, defined requirements, and wrote appropriate user stories for solution delivery.
  • Developed meaningful and lasting relationships with partners for optimized systems integration.
  • Interacted with business owners, SMEs, and management team to gather requirements to create Use Case and Activity Diagrams to further develop Technical requirements and/or Functional Specifications documents
  • Prepared in-depth flow charts, models, and procedures along with conducting studies to design possible system solutions.
  • Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify severity and set priorities as per client requirements testing.

Skills

  • Risk identification
  • Development team trainings
  • Excellent Communication
  • Waterfall methodology
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Team-building
  • Self-Motivated
  • Analytical and Critical Thinking
  • Active Listening
  • Removing impediment
  • Meeting Facilitation
  • Agile Methodologies
  • JIRA
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Effective Time Management
  • Confluence

Certification



SSM- Certified Scrum Master

SSM- SAFe Certified Scrum Master

PSM I - Professional Scrum Master I

PSM II - Professional Scrum Master II

Languages

English

Timeline

Scrum Master

Navy Federal
10.2016 - Current

Business Analyst

SunTrust Bank
04.2014 - 09.2016
Nikita Tibiru SSM