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Simon K. Ngotem

Summary

Goal-driven and dedicated professional with hands-on experience in utilizing Scrum to promote and support self-organizing teams to achieve goals. Well-versed in facilitating sprint planning meetings, evaluate product backlog and identify user stories to be integrated in the next sprint. Adept at motivating, guiding, and leading teams in fulfilling a wide array of tasks within deadline-driven and fast-paced environments. Equipped with strong communication and interpersonal skills in building positive work relationships with professionals of all levels, well versed with project tracking tools like Visual Studio, Rally, Version One, Git, Jira. CORE COMPETENCIES:| Sprint Planning and Scheduling | Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery| Continuous Process Improvement | Agile Frameworks and Methodology | Product Development Life Cycle | Backlog Management | Project Monitoring| Strategic Planning and Implementation| TECHNICAL SKILLS: User Stories| Jira| Rally | Out Look| SQL Server| AWS Cloud |Visual Studio | DevOps| Docker

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification

Work History

Agile Scrum Master

Scrum Master, Market Basket
Tewksbury, MA
01.2017 - Current
  • Provide guidance to the team to ensure alignment with Scrum guidelines, while motivating and protecting them from distractions
  • Facilitate daily Scrum meetings, Sprint planning, Review demo and backlog refinement session to guide the team in synchronizing work and coordinating issues and roadblocks with the product owner
  • Render support to the product owner in managing the product backlogs, with focus on continuously delivering high-quality services aligned with customer needs and requirements
  • Helping employees and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum
  • Facilitate all Scrum activities, including sprint planning, daily standup, sprint retrospectives, story refinement and sprint review
  • Manage the teams JIRA board with Visual studio
  • Assist the team to achieve their Sprint goals in every Iteration, as a servant leader to the team, I also collaborate with the product owner to prioritize the product backlog
  • Lead, inspire, and motivate cross functional team in the creation of high-quality software and help to escalate impediment
  • Mentor, and coach all team members in Agile (Scrum and Kanban) values, Principles, and practices
  • Drive continuous improvement practices within my team using metrics, reviews, and retrospectives
  • Work closely and listen to team members’ feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts

Scrum Master

Staples Framingham, MA
01.2015 - 12.2016
  • Remove impediments and guide teams to remove impediments,
  • Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged
  • Facilitate scrum ceremonies like Sprint planning, Daily standup, Review demo, Retrospective and backlog refinement or grooming
  • Attend Scrum of scrum meetings
  • Shield the team from negative external interferences
  • Worked with individuals at all levels within the organization to encourage and promote agile principles and value
  • Maintained open communication lines between the team and other stakeholders and vendors
  • Supported and educated Product Manager with respect to grooming and maintaining a healthy product backlogs
  • Coached, mentored, and motivated team on the agile Scrum methodology
  • Improved team productivity by improving software development processes and practices
  • Prepared and presented reports on the progress and success of the team
  • Lead the team through the transition from Waterfall to agile
  • Drove the adaption of key engineering practices like continuous integration, and test-driven development
  • Guide team to be self-managed, self-organized and cross-functional
  • Utilize Jira to help the team track productivity and reports like burndown chart and velocity chart.

Developer Engineer

South Shore Hospital
Weymouth, MA
05.2011 - 09.2014
  • Enhanced presentation and communication methods used for presenting projects’ capabilities to prospective clients
  • Developed, and implemented software release management strategies for various applications according to agile process
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to interact with people at all levels
  • Be part of the Client’s Scrum Team, and work on User Stories
  • Deep understanding of Infrastructure as code, and agile methodologies
  • Iterate on best practices to increase the quality, and velocity of deployments
  • Work closely with other team members to provide system integration support
  • Build out server automation with CI/CD tools Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, and Code Pipeline
  • Worked on implementing Aws using EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto Scaling Groups
  • Configure AWS IAM, and Security Group in Public and Private Subnets in VPC.

Education

Micro-Master - Cloud Computing-Computer Science

University of Maryland
01.2021

Applied Scrum for Agile Project Management -

University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts
01.2021

University of Massachusetts
01.2018

Bachelor’s - computer engineering

University of Buea
01.1999

Skills

  • Systems and Network Administration UNIX/Linux Systems Administration
  • Linux Fundamentals and Scripting Software Development Life Cycle (SLDC)
  • Cloud Services and Solutions Pipeline/Process Improvement
  • Systems Configuration and Installation Continuous Process Improvement
  • Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
  • TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Platforms:
  • Linux (Red Hat 8, and CentOS)
  • Microsoft Windows 2008
  • IIS
  • DevOps/Cloud Tools: Machine Learning
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Nagios
  • Docker Kubernetes
  • Protocols/Networking: TCP/IP
  • SMTP
  • SNMP
  • FTP
  • SSH
  • LDAP
  • DNS
  • NFS
  • LAN
  • DHCP
  • Storage: NAS
  • SAN Amazon S3 Bucket Amazon Elastic Block Store

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certified Agile Scrum Master Certified SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Certified Developer Engineer Professional Certified Developer Associate

Certified SAFe DevOps Practitioner

Timeline

Agile Scrum Master

Scrum Master, Market Basket
01.2017 - Current

Scrum Master

01.2015 - 12.2016

Developer Engineer

South Shore Hospital
05.2011 - 09.2014

Micro-Master - Cloud Computing-Computer Science

University of Maryland

Applied Scrum for Agile Project Management -

University of Maryland, University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts

Bachelor’s - computer engineering

University of Buea

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