Willing Fobang
North Bethesda,MD
Summary
Experience Scrum Master offering 7+ years' experience with delivering large-scale software and web development projects and driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum principles and values. Team-oriented individuals promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Also, a dedicated Scrum Master with a proven track record of facilitating Agile methodologies to drive high-performing, cross-functional teams. Adept at fostering collaboration, help remove impediments, and ensure seamless project delivery. Leveraging strong communication and coaching skills to empower teams and optimize processes. Committed to continuous improvement and achieving project success through Agile principles. Communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams, capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects and applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master/Coach
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS)
05.2022 - Current
- Coordinated daily stand ups, sprint planning and all other scrum ceremonies (backlog grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, bug triage meetings, product discovery sessions,)
- Proactively managed sprint-level risks, inter-team dependencies issues and assumptions, ensuring they were identified, mitigated or escalated when necessary
- Worked effectively with product management and team members to clarify project needs and plan delivery of major product changes and future versions of the product
- Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies)
- Facilitated build requirements log (product backlog) with cost estimates and priority
- Ensured all agile concepts and principles were adhered to by scrum team and business stakeholders
- Presentation to Senior leadership, managers and internal stakeholders
- Actively participated in scrum of scrums with other scrum master's and agile coaches to tackle dependencies and team issues
- Worked with other scrum master's to Coordinate and synchronize project plans, activities, and dependencies of parallel projects, making sure work was continuously in sync
- Implemented company policies, technical procedures and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data and reports
- I made sure teams were pre-ready before going to scrum meetings with right objectives and set up sprint goals with necessary acceptance criteria
- Reviewed test plans and test cases with system test team
- Fostered a climate of collaboration between the teams, client executives and delivery managers
- Transitioned projects from estimation and pre-construction phase to well-defined project execution plan.
Agile Consultant/ Scrum Master
EagleBank
09.2019 - 03.2022
- Help the teams Transition from Waterfall to Agile (AGILE TRANSFORMATION)
- Facilitating the various agile ceremonies-sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog grooming, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives
- Working with Program Managers and product owners to prepare release plans for all products and applications roll out for digital payments processing
- Coaching team members and stakeholders on agile and continuous delivery best practices
- Facilitating an environment of continuous learning, inspection, and growth
- Ensuring teams follow and improve processes
- Working with the PO to maintain a healthy backlog
- Capturing and reviewing team metrics, fostering team collaboration and communication
- Working with developers and product owners in documenting user stories, epics, business, and systems requirements
- Used Rally as a management tool to help sort out defects
- Help the team with migration of data from premises to cloud (AWS)
- Incorporating agile methodology and scrum techniques to manage requirements and enhance evolving applications
- Writing detailed business requirements as well as related JIRA tickets to communicate required development deliverables accurately and concisely
- Worked with the Product Manager to forecast project finances, produce internal reporting and manage risks and issues
- Managed dependencies between other scrum teams (Scrum of Scrums), third parties, and other non-agile waterfall teams Managed the work of consultants, allocating, and utilization of resources in an efficient manner by maintaining a cooperative, motivated team
- Responsible for working with developers to translate business needs into operational software promoting continuous improvements of our systems and processes
- Ensuring project readiness for production and ensuring that the project follows EagleBank’s Implementation standards and guidelines
- Coaching and mentoring technical teams in self-organization and cross-functionality
- Led the transition to a paperless practice by implementing an electronic booking system and a faster, safer, and more accurate business system; reduced cost of labor by 30% and office overhead by 10%.
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Change Healthcare
05.2016 - 08.2019
- Coordinated internal resources and third-party vendors for flawless execution of projects
- Co-ordinated with Product Owner on backlog grooming and prioritization to ensure optimal delivery
- Managed changes to project scope, project schedule and project costs using appropriate verification techniques
- Championed the use of a continuous integration system and automated testing leading to improved developer productivity and better-quality software
- Coordinated daily stand ups, sprint planning and all other scrum ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives)
- Collaborate with developers and product management team to assess project outcomes and prioritize future app features
- Delivered digital Public Health products and services using appropriate agile project management methodologies
- Led the collaborative, dynamic planning process to deliver and prioritize the work that needed to be done against the capacity and capability of the team
- Build trust and positive working relationships with teams to support delivery
- Followed agile project management practices for multidisciplinary teams
- Collaborated with other scrum master's and project managers to ensure high quality integrated deliverables
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity
- Removed internal and external impediments that prevented the team from achieving its sprint goals, making sure teams were always working at optimum productivity
- Monitored project progress continuously and radiated detailed scheduled reports on measurable items, such as milestones and deliverables
- Coached team members and business stakeholders on agile best practices, scrum values, team cohesion, self-organization and achieving business value.
Education
Skills
- Agile and Waterfall
- JIRA, CA AGILE, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Slack, SharePoint, Java, NET, Python, React, AWS, JavaScript and Azure DevOps
- Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
- Project management (Waterfall)
- Agile Frameworks -Scrum, SAFe, Kanban
- Servant-Leadership
- Requirement Gatherings
- Agile coaching
- Release planning
- Team building & mentoring
- Rally
- Azure & ADO
- Jira
- Agile Project Management
- Scaled Agile Framework
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Sprint Planning
- Requirements Gathering
- Scope Management
- Stakeholder relations
- Quality assurance
- Conflict resolution
- Product owner
- Business analysis
- ROI Analysis
- Agile Transformation
- SQL
- Servant Leadership
- Confluence
- User Stories
- Software Project Management
- Release Planning
- Metrics Tracking
- Problem Solving
- Adaptive Leadership
- Conflict Resolution
- Change Management
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Professional Scrum Master 1(PSM 1)
- SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
- SAFe 5 Program Consultant (SPC)
- Cyber Security Certification (RMF)
Timeline
Scrum Master/Coach
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS)
05.2022 - Current
Agile Consultant/ Scrum Master
EagleBank
09.2019 - 03.2022
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Change Healthcare
05.2016 - 08.2019
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