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Tarryn Naicker

Gauteng

Summary

A skilled Infrastructure Project Manager (IPM) and Scrum Master years of experience and in-depth knowledge of business processes and fit-for-purpose project deployment. Worked for large corporate companies in the finance services industry and with cross-functional teams of specialists and stakeholders. Offer a thorough understanding of the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile/Scrum principles as Scrum Master and servant leader. Ensure that development teams follow Scrum framework values and agile practices. Create a balance with the project's key stakeholder and Product Owners, and motivate them to improve processes through facilitating meetings and decision-making processes to remove team and progress impediments.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience

Work History

Scrum Master Deliverables

Momentum Multiply
  • Plan Agile best practices and encourage team cohesion to overcome impediments and productivity hurdles
  • Lead sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
  • Evangelize Agile as strategic asset of culture and value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques
  • Drive Scrum Team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint
  • Coach teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
  • Facilitate Scrum framework from sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews to sprint retrospectives
  • Provide extensive Agile scrum processes and methodology guidance to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity
  • Manage product backlog and support Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

Scrum Master

Momentum Multiply
08.2022 - Current
  • Maintain and monitor project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets, and expenditures
  • Organize, attend, and participate in stakeholder meetings
  • Document and follow up on important actions and decisions from meetings
  • Prepare necessary presentation materials for meetings, develop project strategies, determine project changes, and ensure project deadlines are met
  • Provide administrative support as needed and undertake project tasks as required
  • Ensure projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately
  • Assess project risks and issues and provide solutions where applicable
  • Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution
  • Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members
  • Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective
  • Check compliance of company safety plan and deliver recommendations to address regulatory issues.

Finance Collections Project Administrator

Momentum Multiply
Johannesburg
07.2016 - Current
  • Coach team members in self organization
  • Look after a squad that is responsible for the core back-end environment of Multiply
  • Responsible for enabling finance implementation
  • Facilitate alignment between squads to gent data input and output
  • Facilitate sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retros, daily scrums, backlog grooming and sprint prioritization session
  • Use Jira and Confluence tool to manage Agile teams
  • Facilitate resolutions of blockers
  • Facilitate daily stand ups with development teams to remove impediments that occur before, during and after sprints to ensure a smooth and successful project.

Credit Control

Hollard
01.2016 - 06.2016

Cashbook Clerk

Hollard
01.2008 - 12.2015

Claims Specialist

Hollard
05.2007 - 12.2007

Payments Clerk

Hollard
04.2003 - 04.2007

Creditors Clerk

Boxer Superstores Head office
01.2003 - 03.2003

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) -

Mancosa
01.2024

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Mancosa
01.2022

Professional Scrum Master -

PSM Scrum.org
01.2022

Scrum Master Accredited Certification -

International Scrum Institute
01.2022

Bookkeeping -

Damelin
01.2006

MS Office -

PC Training
01.2002

Matric -

Buffelsdale Secondary
01.2001

Skills

  • Stakeholder Management
  • Team Management
  • Documentation Management
  • Risk Management
  • Multi-project Management
  • Budget & Delivery Management
  • Communication & Governance
  • SDLC (System Life Cycle Development)
  • Scrum & Agile Methodologies
  • Scrum Master
  • Project Management
  • Project Tracking & Reporting
  • Approach & Project Needs Alignment
  • Scope Documentation
  • Scrum of Scrums
  • Kanban & Waterfall Methodologies
  • SharePoint
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Workflow Analysis
  • Sprint Planning
  • Risk Identification
  • Leading scrum meetings
  • Presentation Skills
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Customer interaction
  • Scrum processes
  • Meeting facilitation
  • Agile Coaching
  • Scrum Framework Expertise
  • Retrospective Analysis
  • Backlog Grooming
  • User Story Creation
  • Project Team Coordination
  • Work Planning and Prioritization
  • Performance monitoring
  • Attention to Detail
  • Documentation And Reporting
  • Project Planning
  • Scope implementation

Notableprojects

  • Azure & AWS Data Centre Build in The Cloud (Momentum), ZAR50m, Led a team consisting of Microsoft, AWS, internal resources, and relevant executives to build and setup infrastructure DEV, ETE, QA and Prod environments in the cloud for current applications to be migrated, and future applications to be deployed into the Cloud. Current applications and future cloud deployments will cut running costs in the On-premises Data Center. Managed multiple teams, risks, and stakeholder expectations to execute and successfully deploy the project.
  • AIX Right Sizing & Cost Saving Project (Momentum), ZAR1.5m, Project requirements are to review the current DEV, ETE, QA and Prod environments CPU and Memory usage, and adjust over 300 server environments to run optimally. Managed multiple teams, risks, and stakeholder expectations to execute and successfully deploy the project. Stakeholders included BCX, DD, Internal resource, and relevant executives.
  • Azure Data Archiving to the Cloud (Momentum), ZAR2m, Data on prem is more than 400tb.

Personal Information

  • Title: SCRUM MASTER
  • Nationality: South African

Languages

  • English (fluent)
  • Afrikaans (basic)

Timeline

Scrum Master

Momentum Multiply
08.2022 - Current

Finance Collections Project Administrator

Momentum Multiply
07.2016 - Current

Credit Control

Hollard
01.2016 - 06.2016

Cashbook Clerk

Hollard
01.2008 - 12.2015

Claims Specialist

Hollard
05.2007 - 12.2007

Payments Clerk

Hollard
04.2003 - 04.2007

Creditors Clerk

Boxer Superstores Head office
01.2003 - 03.2003

Scrum Master Deliverables

Momentum Multiply

Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) -

Mancosa

Bachelor of Business Administration -

Mancosa

Professional Scrum Master -

PSM Scrum.org

Scrum Master Accredited Certification -

International Scrum Institute

Bookkeeping -

Damelin

MS Office -

PC Training

Matric -

Buffelsdale Secondary
Tarryn Naicker