TANG BLESSING SONG
GLENWOOD,KZN
Summary
Professional summary.
Hands-on Certified Scrum Master with experience facilitating the scrum framework in software development projects where I motivate, organise, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations. Have worked in Agile environment for almost 3 years. Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large scale software and web development projects on time. Skilled in providing servant leadership-style in fast-paced, deadline driven environments with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills. Particularly interested in delivering the highest quality software products on time using Agile software development techniques like scrum. Excel at coaching teams about scrum values and principles.
Overview
6
6
years of post-secondary education
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager/ Scrum Master
Brasseries du Cameroon
Douala, Litoral
04.2019 - 02.2020
- Assisting product owner to make sure that the product backlog is in good condition.
- Collaborating with the product owner and the team to get good estimation for the sprint.
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
- Generated a streamline process to understand the various steps in the Online Bill pay services.
- Contributed to the definition of Scope, performed extensive requirement analysis and defined functional specification.
- Engaged stakeholders, contributors and technical resources to analyze user needs and resource limitations.
- Worked closely with product owner to prioritize Epics and stories in the backlog while keeping in contact with product owner just in case my team members have questions and need clarification.
- Made sure the scrum team was cross functional and self-organized with continuous educating the team on agile and scrum practices.
- Engaged with other scrum masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
- Continuously learned Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team.
- Facilitate Agile, sprint activities, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, sprint reviews, and sprint release planning.
- Updated operational methods, oversaw accounting procedures, tracked information and compiled data to improve efficiency
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance
- Provided management for internal personnel, contractors and vendors
- Eliminated discrepancies in progress by reviewing performance, spend and timeline
Business Analyst/Scrum Master
UBA Bank, Bamenda
Bamenda, Cameroon
03.2018 - 12.2019
- Provided internal and external communications to improve transparency and accountability.
- Participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, and best practices.
- Utilized Rally for metrics/reports, user stories and defect tracking.
- Ensured that the Product Owner prioritizes features for the team so that the team delivers user stories at a consistent pace.
- Conducted retrospective and always push the team to follow the best practices.
- Primary focus is on driving the tactical day-to-day product delivery process, including removing impediments that kill productivity or block the team’s progress.
- Facilitate Scrum events: Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Daily Standups, etc.
- Continually refine and evolve Agile processes with a goal of predictable software delivery.
- Protect the team from distractions and coordinate with Project Managers to remove impediments.
- Collaborated closely with Product Owners to prioritize a shared backlog to ensure agreed upon backlog items are prioritized, developed and released.
- Coordinate with other Project & Program managers, engineering, and product leads to identify and manage cross-team dependencies.
- Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams by task assignment and follow-up to ensure on-time completion.
- Communicate on behalf of the project and/or engineering leads when required.
- Develop and monitor metrics to determine the success criteria for delivery.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - LAW
UNIVERSITY oF BUEA
Buea, Cameroon 12.2015 - 12.2021
Certified Scrum Master -
Skills
Coach Agile practices
Be a servant leader
Encourage team collaboration
Attend meetups to share and learn from other scrum masters
Facilitate meetings (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective)
Shielding the team
Conflict resolutions
Coaching Agile practices
Tight grip on Agile Estimating and planning
Forecasting
Removing impediments
Creating communication channel (team, Product owner, stakeholder)
Servant leader
Enforcing Rules
Project manager supervision
Project planning mastery
Project risk assessment
Timeline
Project Manager/ Scrum Master
Brasseries du Cameroon
04.2019 - 02.2020
Business Analyst/Scrum Master
UBA Bank, Bamenda
03.2018 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Arts - LAW
UNIVERSITY oF BUEA
12.2015 - 12.2021