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New Brighton, Minnesota, United States

• Guide and coach, the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers.• Ensure a high-performance level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employ appropriate coaching and development techniques. • Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines. • Coach the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and effective communication, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team. • Work with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams. • Lead product teams operating in development model to deliver IT solutions. • Ensure agile/scrum concepts and principles are adhered to by the product team. • Assist product owner to effectively manage backlog and measure value. • Facilitate and support all scrum events: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective. • Act as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.

Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States

• Managed medium to high complexity, and multiple small to medium external/internal IT projects in accordance with Medtronic’s project management methodology (blend of waterfall and agile) • Cost management; actual cost tracking, forecast/re-estimate costs, and variance management, overall valuation of the project progress and execution • Project resource management and maintaining financial time tracking and reporting tool, true-up staffing profiles and maintain required fields in PPM tool • Risk & Quality management; tracking and resolving or mitigating RAID log items • Stakeholder analysis, relationship management and schedule management • Hosted agile/SCRUM ceremonies, sprint planning, back log grooming, organize and conduct team demos, story point and velocity tracking/reporting team progress in Azure tool • Changed control using standard PMO change control process and best practices, document change control items that impact timeline, scope and resources • Documented; created and maintained project artifacts per PMO policy, standards and best practices

Nairobi, Kenya

• Maintained and updated project documents, templates, tools and reporting to management, clarify workflows and distribute project data and information for clear tracking to 5 departments. • Partnered with Product owners to ensure that the backlog is continuously refined and that sprint goals are understood by the teams • Facilitated and owned the Scrum Agile ceremonies using the Scaled Agile Framework• Partnered with the product owner and project managers to communicate delivery and metrics of the work from the scrum team and ensure that any risks are proactively escalated • Performed automated testing for 10 daily quality assessments on all project portfolios ready for shipping to vendors and partners • Assigned and guided project staff to effectively apply waterfall and agile methodologies to deliver quality solutions to project problems and enforces project standards • Analyzed and reviewed invoices and collaborated with 5 departments for project planning and approval • Documented inspection outcomes by completing 3 detailed reports and performance records weekly and provided expert project guidance, tracking and presenting to sr. management/stakeholders • Identified skills for the scrum team and made adjustments as necessary to promote development, highly effective teams and making sure the team is understanding Agile Liaised with the external auditors in areas that the committee needed assistance in carrying out their duties. • Ensured that the Management Committee adequately acted on any observations and notes raised by the external auditors.

Master'S Degree, Environmental Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Studies