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Sonita Nkang

Baltimore,MD

Summary

Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

FedEx Ground, Insight Global
Pittsburgh, PA
01.2021 - Current
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Performed Scrum Master duties for two Agile Team through Coaching, mentoring, and training team working on CANAN application.
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Successfully initiated first FedEx Ground remote onshore scrum teams distributed across United States whiles collaborating with offshore teams in India.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Trained 14 team members (2 teams) on Agile, Scrum and SAFe overview prior to PI Planning.

Scrum Master

BBVA Compass Bank, Insight Global
Birmingham, Alabama
03.2020 - 01.2021
  • Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Ensure that all Scrum events take place and are positive, productive, and kept within time box.
  • Supported 2 team using servant leadership style and leading by example.
  • Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
  • Track and manage product/project backlog, burn down metrics, stories, velocity, conducting grooming, planning sessions and working with Product Owner to prioritize tasks.

Scrum Master

Harbor bank
Greenbelt, MD
02.2017 - 05.2019
  • Supported IT product owners in product backlog compilation and maintenance, addressing recurring concerns and recommending improvements based on user feedback.
  • Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
  • Facilitated daily Scrum meetings to debrief progress, troubleshoot snags and establish goals for following day.
  • Empowered 2 teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality while continuously improving
  • Monitored and tracked teams progress using tools such as confluence, Jira, burn up charts, burn down charts, velocity and cumulative workflows which provides internal and external transparency of scope completion
  • Educated and modeled core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility while ensuring consistent application of scrum methodologies across enterprise
  • Protected team from outside distraction and interruption and removed team impediments to maximize productivity and delivery of sprint goals
  • Proactively removed and escalated roadblocks to allow team progress

Scrum Master

Holy Cross Hospital
Baltimore, MD
01.2015 - 01.2017
  • Facilitated scrum meetings and team collaboration without coercion - assigning/dictating work, removing project impediments to completion, or assisting team in doing so to allow team achieve sprint goals and/or PI objectives.
  • Guided 2 team to explore and apply other agile engineering approaches such as Xtreme Programming, Kanban, TDD, BDD.
  • Managed development team’s backlog, work prioritization, assignment, and tracking in Jira.
  • Used confluence to capture project requirements, users assign specific task, and manage several calendars at once with help of team calendars add-on.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

Jr. Scrum Master

TD Bank
Fairfax, VA
03.2013 - 01.2015
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
  • Collaborated with project owners and team members to set ambitious but achievable goals.
  • Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
  • Shielded 1 scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

University of Buea
Buea
05.2012

Master of Arts - Business Administration And Management

University of Maryland Global
Maryland
06.2024

Skills

  • Atlassian JIRA
  • Servant leadership
  • Backlog management
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Strategic communication
  • Critical thinking Expert Effective Time Management
  • Assessing conflicting viewpoints
  • Project Team Coordination
  • Building High Performing Team
  • Agile Project Management
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • SDLC

Certification

CERTIFICATIONS & LISCENCES

  • Professional Professional Scrum Master II
  • Professional Scrum Master I
  • SAFe 5.0 SSM
  • PMP - Project Management
  • Certified Scrum Master

Timeline

Scrum Master

FedEx Ground, Insight Global
01.2021 - Current

Scrum Master

BBVA Compass Bank, Insight Global
03.2020 - 01.2021

Scrum Master

Harbor bank
02.2017 - 05.2019

Scrum Master

Holy Cross Hospital
01.2015 - 01.2017

Jr. Scrum Master

TD Bank
03.2013 - 01.2015

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

University of Buea

Master of Arts - Business Administration And Management

University of Maryland Global

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