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THIERNO DIALLO

Greenbelt,MD

Summary

Certified Scrum Master through Scrum Alliance / Agile professional with over
10 years of experience in coordinating, planning, executing and implementation
of projects within Agile Software Development with Dynamic, hands-on
managing large software development projects that meet demanding time
restraints and exceed all expectations in a DevOps environment. A proven ability
to improve processes and complex product deliveries through implementing
scrum, Kanban and SAFe. Advance ability in coaching new and mature teams
through agility and phases of group development and SDLC. Support product
owners to improve visibility and business value with PBI’s, enhance velocity,
and helping teams adapt to agile environment/principles and values. Possessing
excellent communication skills with an ability to formulate, highly dedicated,
self-motivated and cross-functional teams. I am experienced with Risk
Management, support in Agile Transformation, Implementing ARTs Trains by
engaging whole teams and organization through the process and agile principles
by setting clear elevating goals, clear communication, and appropriate
commitment levels. As a scrum master, an agent of change who promotes
Agile/Scrum principles, values and solutions that cut waste, increase efficiency,
productivity, and value of products.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

Wells Fargo
08.2017 - Current
  • Proficiently organize and facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews,
    retrospectives, sprint, and release planning.
  • Collaborate closely with product owner on backlog grooming to keep
    product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are
    agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.
  • Advocated for modern agile software development and organizational
    practices, such as XP, CI/CD, Devops, TDD.
  • Extensively working with Devops teams to implement CI/CD pipeline at
    Team levels to align with Enterprise Enablement.
  • Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and
    release forecasting.
  • Involved in conducting meetings for Agile projects requirements sessions
    with stakeholders and able to articulate and create requirements in
    User Story format.
  • Worked on creating business, functional, use cases, technical
    requirements artifacts. Involved in understanding business problems and
    transformed these into EPICs/Feature and User Stories.
  • Involved in creating User Stories, prioritization, iteration / Sprint
    planning, Release planning, Scrum Retrospective by working with Scrum
    Master and Project Manager. Worked with Technical teams to identify
    options to meet business requirements.
  • Identify and remove organization and team impediments to enhance
    productivity and efficiency.
  • Train new team members and transition teams to agile framework with
    Scrum to enhance team skill levels.
  • Monitor and manage dependencies on other teams and external projects
    to ensure potential issues are resolved.
  • Facilitate status updates, product demos and retrospectives.
  • Continue education in related disciplines.
  • Provide proactive coaching to teams and recommend continuous
    improvement of processes and tools to optimize team productivity,
    quality and time-to-market.
  • Embrace change, influence, and coach team members with agile
    mindset.
  • Experience as Scrum Master – where Scrum principles, practices and
    theory was diligently applied.

Scrum Master/Project Coordinator

JayTech Digital Solutions
06.2012 - 07.2017
  • Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Maintained and monitored project plans, schedules, work hours, budgets
    and expenditures, and value deliverance on time and on budget.
  • Provided executives with analytical and decision support tools used as
    basis for recognition and consolidation strategies.
  • Collaborated with stakeholder groups across organization to ensure
    business and productivity alignment.
  • Organized, attended, and participated in stakeholders’ meetings. Proposed
    solutions meeting defined specifications and needs for organization.
  • Planned, developed, and led complex projects from inception through
    completion, delivery projects on time and under budget.
  • Enhanced business infrastructure resulting in improved performance and
    cost reduction.
  • Proposed process improvement strategies to track requirement
    changes, status, business expectation, cost, timeline and other key
    metrics, which helped provide information to all teams in quicker
    way.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management

Monroe College
New Rochelle, NY
06.2021

Skills

HARD SKILLS

  • Software
    Development
    Life cycle
  • Product Backlog
    Grooming
    Scaled Agile
    Framework
  • Jira and
    confluence
  • Waterfall to agile
    migration
  • Kanban, XP
  • Azure DevOps

SOFT S suit/strong>

  • Agile Coaching
  • Product Backlog Management
  • Scrum Framework Expertise
  • Public speaking
  • Leadership Skills

Process/Methodologies Agile

  • Agile
  • Scrum (SaFe)
  • Kanban
  • Waterfall

Languages

French
Limited Working

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

Wells Fargo
08.2017 - Current

Scrum Master/Project Coordinator

JayTech Digital Solutions
06.2012 - 07.2017

Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management

Monroe College
THIERNO DIALLO