Quinivette Endah
Aubrey,TX
Summary
Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows. Highly skilled in keeping teams focused on aiming at delivering successful projects while creating a self-motivating environment within the agile framework Outstanding communicator interacting effectively with management, distributed teams, and users at all skill levels. Communicate clearly and ability to deliver complex messages and guide new concepts Passionate about creating high functioning teams in organizations and being able to get to high velocity and producing high quality software with the customer at the center of productions.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
TEK Global
Hyattsville, MD
01.2018 - Current
- Work with the Product Owner to gain a high-level understanding of user stories and help with their prioritization
- Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving
- Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline
- Assisted with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency.
- Removed obstacles by finding right personnel to advance tasks and projects.
- Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
- Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
- Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders
- Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product
- Work closely with the PO to prioritize the Product Backlog, making sure all user stories are well groomed
- Effectively communicate scrum expectations and status to product owner and developers
- Utilize and improve usage of Jira as a tool to monitor and manage scrum success.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
GEICO, Scrum
Bethesda, MD
02.2016 - 01.2018
- Helped teams in estimating user stories to fit within capacity, keeping them focus during sprint planning ensuring they understand sprint priorities, sprint goals and never overcommit to work
- Created an environment of collaboration through strong servant leadership capabilities within the team as well as with other scrum masters and teams
- Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget
- Improved team velocity by integrating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions
- Built and maintained project plans that are feature based, have iterations of feature deliverables, keep track of time-bound iterations
- Motivated teams to work towards continuous improvement and delivering shippable product that deliver business value in every sprint
- Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress within the agreed reporting framework
- Helped teams in estimating user stories to fit within capacity, keeping them focus during sprint planning ensuring they understand sprint priorities, sprint goals and never overcommit to work
- Consistently reminded my teams daily about updating JIRA tasks for more accurate reporting and analysis of project burndown charts
- Motivated teams to work towards continuous improvement and delivering shippable product that deliver business value in every sprint.
Scrum Master
DELTAAH TECH CONSULTING
Mclean, VA
06.2015 - 02.2016
- Organized and facilitate project planning, daily stand up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other meetings
- Facilitated backlog refinement meetings using planning poker to provide story points and estimates
- Supported and educate stakeholders about backlog refinement and release planning
- Identified issues and conflicts within the team and escalate to management as needed
- Tracked and managed product backlog, Burndown Charts, velocity, and task breakdown
- Supported and enforced the Agile methodology and framework used by the project team
- Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment
- Consistently reminded my teams daily about updating tasks for more accurate reporting and analysis of project burndown charts.
Scrum Master
KAISER PERMANETE
Washington DC
04.2013 - 05.2015
- Facilitated team’s progress towards team goal
- Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them stay focus on sprint goal
- Monitored team performance and helped identify continuous improvement opportunities to help team work better and smarter
- Guided the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to ensures timely completion of work
- Fostered and modeled a collaborative team environment driven to build great software
- Assisted with clearing obstacles identified by the team and/or guiding team to the right process or resource to clear the impediment
- Prepared metrics to communicate Agile team maturity, velocity trends and burndown rate
- Ensured scrum ceremonies are being held and participated in by team members, business stakeholders, management, and others as appropriate
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
University of Yaounde
Cameroon05.2011
Skills
- Facilitation
- Servant Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Team Building
- Scrum/ KANBAN/ SAFe
- JIRA, RALLY, VersionOne
- Team Velocity Tracking
- Backlog Grooming
- Agile Manifesto/ Metrics
- Relative Sizing
- Agile PM Tools Jira, VersionOne, Rally
- Software Applications Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Databases Access, SharePoint
- Data Entry
- Organization and Time Management
- Critical Thinking
Affiliations
Scrum.org Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scaled Agile Framework SAFe Scrum Master (SSM 5.0)
University of Yaounde1 , Cameroon, 2007– 2011 Bsc. Comptuter Science
Certification
CSM ( Scrum Alliance)
SAFe 5.0
Timeline
Scrum Master
TEK Global
01.2018 - Current
GEICO, Scrum
02.2016 - 01.2018
Scrum Master
DELTAAH TECH CONSULTING
06.2015 - 02.2016
Scrum Master
KAISER PERMANETE
04.2013 - 05.2015
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
University of Yaounde
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