Zanna-Pearl Ngimukua

• Leading sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Assessing each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Facilitate Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Manage work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
• Provide extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
• Worked effectively with multiple (2 teams : 20 people) Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
• Anticipate impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
• Evangelize Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value.
• Act as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
• Work closely and listen to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Work across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
• Plan Agile best practices and encouraging team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
• Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.

Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums, and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset for Agile methodologies.
• Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
• Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
• Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle, realizing 25% reduction in production errors over a year.
• Gathered and disseminated project materials at key points to stakeholders.

• Meeting project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
• Leading project teams (17people) through design, construction and launch process.
• Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.
• Updated operational methods and oversaw accounting procedures for improved efficiency.
• Maintained relationships with material vendors to lower costs and diversify capabilities.
• Expanded cross-functional organizational capacity by collaborating across departments on priorities, functions and common goals.
• Applied customer feedback to develop process improvements and support long-term business needs.
• Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
• Cross-trained existing employees to maximize team agility and performance.
• Maintained professional, organized and safe environment for employees and patrons.
• Evaluated employees' strengths and assigned tasks based upon experience and training.