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Noella Mesumbe

Scale Agile/Scrum Master
Charlotte,NC

Summary

A Bachelors degree holder with multiple Agile certificates including (CSM), (PSM), (SSM) with 7+ years of professional experience as a Scrum Master and Business Analyst. Passionate about servant leadership and well versed in using Agile methodologies to lead and coach cross functional teams to deliver incremental and innovative solutions for end users and stakeholders. Dedicated to continuous improvement and innovative thinking to drive transformative change by applying expert judgement to identify and remove impediments, and delivering success in a fast paced environment. A coach, mentor, and servant leader that seeks to connect with individuals on a fundamental level to pioneer improvements through solution-oriented approaches.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master

Honeywell
Charlotte, NC
03.2022 - Current


  • Frequently collaborated with stakeholders and colleagues to gather requests and work items while translating them into digestible incremental improvements to be delivered.
  • Leveraged Agile and Scrum software such as Jira to identify and track work items, clarify product goals with developers, and proactively resolve bugs and issues which let to a 30% increase in productivity.
  • Transformed multiple cross functional teams from waterfall to Agile by coaching and supporting the adoption of Agile values, principles and developing training materials that let to increase productivity and faster delivery to end users.
  • Quickly identified issues and risk as well as finding possible solutions and mitigation plan by managing dependencies and resoling problems, publishing status reports, recommending actions and escalate appropriately.
  • Coached and assisted product owner/manager with projects and initiatives and how to create a cohesive product vision and a well refined, healthy and prioritized backlog, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing leading to a sprint readiness from 10% to 80% within 9months.
  • Organized and facilitated scrum events ( Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint review/Demo, Sprint Retrospectives and other scrum related events that enabled the team to perform at higher level.
  • Employed strong interpersonal skills to leverage empirical data within Jira and other software to make informed business decisions on Agile Scrum team maturity while forming innovative ideas for improvement of future iterations. Championed an Agile environment built upon principles such as transparency and openness through regular inspect and adapt meetings.
  • Tracked and communicated Agile team metrics to leadership to facilitate healthy conversations around team progress and continuous improvement.

Scrum Master

Fannie Mae
WASHINGTON, DC
02.2021 - 02.2022
  • Acted as a Scrum master for an Agile team of software developers to improve team Scrum maturity, coach on Agile values, and reinforce continuous improvement principles.
  • Consistently sought to build meaningful business relationships with end users, stakeholders, and Product Owners to translate user requests into workable items for improvement.
  • Successfully collaborated with the Product Owner to find ways to more effectively manage the product backlog while adhering to overall business objectives and priorities.
  • Effectively helped streamline operational and organizational procedures in the business which resulted in driving value towards end users by decreasing down time and mitigating unnecessary waste.
  • Protected the Scrum team against scope creep, impediments, and distractions by proactively working to break down barriers with stakeholders.
  • Consistently created and maintained an environment of collaboration and trust by forming mutually beneficial business relationships with end users and stakeholders.

Scrum Master

Scrum Master | Cigna
05.2019 - 12.2020
  • Columbia ,MD
  • Worked to reinforce transformative change within the organization by transitioning from traditional Waterfall to Agile and ensuring the team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery of high quality products and customer satisfaction.
  • Coordinated training events and created training materials by analyzing best practices across the industry using all media outlets (videos/printed materials) which let to a 10% increase in project productivity.
  • Worked within a team setting to conduct regular and formal inspect and adapt events to promote continuous improvement.
  • Frequently collaborated with the the product owner, Release Train Engineer (RTE) to perform product mapping for PI planning. Frequently sought to leverage interpersonal skills to establish mutually beneficial working relationships with end users and stakeholders to drive transformative growth and change.
  • Led a defect triage meeting that helped my team identify defects that had been in the system for more than two years, reprioritized and cleanup.
  • Ensured risks associated with business activities were effectively identified and managed according to established workflows and policies.
  • Simultaneously prioritized and managed concurrent business priorities while delivering value through incremental improvement of processes.
  • Maintained files, approvals and supporting documentation in accordance with health policies and procedures.

Scrum Master

Scrum Master
Richmond, VA
03.2017 - 03.2019
  • Increased team efficiency and performance by coaching software developers on Definition of Done (DoD) and Definition of Ready (DoR).
  • Assisted product owners refining and prioritizing the product backlog which let to an increase in sprint readiness from 15% to 75% within 11 months.
  • Championed Agile values such as people over processes by proactively seeking to engage with stakeholders and end users to assess needs and implement problem solving strategies.
  • Sought to improve the release of valuable increments each Sprint through the use of Kanban principles such as WIP limits.Identified and tracked various Agile KPIs, analytics, such as burn down charts, velocity reports, and cumulative flow diagrams to pinpoint bottlenecks, construct theory prototypes, and improve business flow.
  • Coached and mentored colleagues and co-workers on best practices while reinforcing team goals and unity. Worked within a team setting to align on organizational goals, celebrate accomplished milestones, and apply innovative and continuous improvement.
  • Streamlined organizational processes by identifying and causing the removal of impediments and blockers while maintaining high levels of accuracy in product deliverables.

Business Analyst

Family Dollar
Charlotte, NC
12.2015 - 12.2016
  • Developed functional specification, test plan and test scenarios using AIM methodology. Efficient in gathering, detailing, documenting and validating business and functional requirements. Familiar with Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies like waterfall, Agile/Scrum. Good knowledge in creating and maintaining the process maps, including process, Roles and Responsibilities metric, key challenges, risk and initiatives.
  • Experienced in providing user support including troubleshooting problems, responding to questions and providing training when necessary.
  • Highly adaptive and ability to work in a fast paced development environment, strong analytical anchored problem solving skill.
  • Team player with excellent communication and servant leadership skills.
  • Experienced in writing and documenting Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Requirement Documents (FRD)

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business And Managerial Economics

University of Buea
09.2011 - 12.2014

Skills

SAFe Frameworkundefined

Certification

Scale Agile Framework (SAFe 5)

Interests

Mastering Scrum-member Agile community of practice Scrum Alliance Meet-up member Agile group-member

Timeline

Scrum Master

Honeywell
03.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

Fannie Mae
02.2021 - 02.2022

Scrum Master

Scrum Master | Cigna
05.2019 - 12.2020

Scrum Master

Scrum Master
03.2017 - 03.2019

Business Analyst

Family Dollar
12.2015 - 12.2016

Bachelor of Science - Business And Managerial Economics

University of Buea
09.2011 - 12.2014

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