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Tarryn Naicker

Gauteng

Summary

Highly motivated and certified Scrum Master with SAFe expertise, driving Agile transformations and delivering high-quality products through collaborative team leadership. 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

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Scrum Master

Momentum Multiply
09.2019 - Current
  • Facilitating scrum events: Leading sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to ensure timely delivery and continuous improvement, leading to a 20% increase in team velocity
  • Coaching agile practices: Guiding teams and stakeholders in adopting agile methodologies and principles to enhance collaboration, transparency, and flexibility which resulted in a 30% reduction in time to market for new features
  • Conducted workshops for the Agile Release Train (ART)
  • Supported RTE in Inspect and Adapt workshop: Assisting the Release Train Engineer (RTE) in organizing and facilitating Inspect and Adapt workshops to identify improvement opportunities and foster collaboration across teams.
  • Removing impediments: Identifying and addressing obstacles that hinder team progress, fostering a supportive environment for problem-solving and decision-making
  • Ensuring alignment: Facilitating communication and coordination among multiple agile teams, product owners, and stakeholders to maintain alignment with organizational objectives
  • Supporting team autonomy: Empowering teams to self-organize and make decisions, while providing guidance and support as needed
  • Managed 2 teams effectively coordinated and managed the activities of two agile teams to ensure alignment and collaboration
  • Promoting continuous improvement: Encouraging a culture of learning and experimentation, implementing metrics and feedback loops to drive continuous improvement at the team and organizational levels.

Billing

Momentum Multiply
07.2018 - 08.2019
  • Provided assistance to colleagues in resolving complex billing problems
  • Resolved billing issues promptly and professionally
  • Developed billing records by tracking time data for monthly billing cycles
  • Reviewed and processed billing invoices to ensure accuracy
  • Resolved customer inquiries regarding billing issues or account discrepancies.

Credit Control

Hollard Insurance
01.2016 - 06.2018
  • Developed and implemented credit control policies to reduce bad debt exposure
  • Identified opportunities for improvement in existing systems or processes used by the Credit Control team
  • Provided support and guidance to junior members of staff, helping them develop their knowledge of Credit Control processes
  • Collaborated with other departments such as Sales and Credit Control to ensure effective collection process.

Cashbook Clerk

Hollard Insurance
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

Bachelor of Business Administration (Degree) -

Mancosa

Scaled Agile

PSM Scrum.org

International Scrum Institute

Damelin

PC Training

Matric -

Buffelsdale Secondary

Skills

  • Lean Scrum
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Scrum & Agile Methodologies
  • Scrum processes
  • Project Planning
  • Agile Coaching
  • Scrum Framework Expertise
  • Sprint Planning
  • Work Planning and Prioritization
  • Kanban & waterfall Methodologies
  • Confluence
  • Jira

Languages

English
Afrikaans
Zulu

Timeline

Scrum Master

Momentum Multiply
09.2019 - Current

Billing

Momentum Multiply
07.2018 - 08.2019

Credit Control

Hollard Insurance
01.2016 - 06.2018

Cashbook Clerk

Hollard Insurance
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

Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) -

Mancosa

Bachelor of Business Administration (Degree) -

Mancosa

Scaled Agile

PSM Scrum.org

International Scrum Institute

Damelin

PC Training

Matric -

Buffelsdale Secondary
Tarryn Naicker