STANISLUS PEZIANDEH MANGWAH
Scrum master
Quezon city,National Capital Region
Summary
A certified Scrum Master with More than 4 years of experience, with ability to understand and build complex systems, focusing on continuous improvement. Experience in coaching and facilitating agile teams using scrum, Kanban, and Lean Principles. An Expert in managing digital transformation teams and projects with strict timeline. Ability in removing impediments, facilitating scrum ceremonies, and building cross functional and self-organized development teams from waterfall, hybrid to the adoption of agile.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Nexbyt Technology
04.2022 - 07.2025
- Provided hands-on facilitation of major Agile ceremonies across development teams; consulted and coached teams (including the Product Owner) to support a smooth transformation to Agile practices.
- Enabled continuous improvement and facilitates communication across teams to proactively manage dependencies and remove impediments and establish standards for Agile processes and tools.
- Supported efforts to resolve systemic impediments that continually block teams within their organization.
- Supported and educated product owners and product managers, especially with respect to refined and managed the product backlog and decision making.
- Ensured effective communication within and across teams and Programs; scheduled and facilitated cross-functional meetings, and ensured appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports.
- Performed risk, issue, and dependency management for the teams and/or program and ensures compliance with company and regulatory policies and procedures.
- Facilitated team discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information about the team, their product, and the value delivered to the business at regular intervals and/or as requested.
- Supported and educated the Product Owner, especially on refinement and maintaining a healthy product backlog.
- Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example. Built a trusting and safe team environment to foster collaboration and continuous learning.
- Assisted team to becoming mature and self-organized by encouraging them to facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning and sprint reviews.
- Coached developers in self-organization and cross-team integration.
- Trained and coached teams on conducting backlog Grooming meetings, Scrum Daily standup, Product backlog, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings and assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information and help define team health metrics for sustainable team monitoring.
- Used burn-down and burn-up chart to monitor team progress in order to help coach teams to maintain stable and sustainable space in the course of development.
- Facilitated all the scrum ceremonies such as Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
- Served as a servant leader and helped the team resolve their impediment.
- Helped the team ensure continuous and relentless improvement.
Scrum Master
HIDIMA Cameroon
10.2020 - 03.2022
- Leads, coach, teach and mentors a cross-functional Scrum team of 10 to develop 12 successful projects over 2 years.
- Facilitates Scrum meetings to guide team to use Agile methodology and the Scrum Framework.
- Remove team impediments and make improvements to processes.
- Communicates with all stakeholders, including teams, clients, executives, and sales staff to ensure continued collaboration and effective product development.
- Teach, coach and mentors agile team members on Scrum processes and provide constructive feedback.
- Train and transform teams to implement agile and coach and mentor teams.
- Protects team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiative.
- Manages projects through the entire Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile project processes and tools.
- Helps teams execute effective sprints by organizing and facilitating regular backlog refinement sessions with a focus on clarifying an adding detail to PBIs and ensuring that stories ready to be actioned on by the development team.
- Use burndown and burnup chart to monitor team progress to help coach teams to maintain stable and sustainable space during development.
- Facilitates team discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.
- Determines the team capacity (velocity) from historical data.
Education
Bachelor’s degree - Mining engineering
Higher National Diploma HND - Mining Engineering
Skills
- Project Planning, & Prioritizing
- Scheduling, Time Management
- Project Requirements
- Oral & Written Communication Skills (English & French)
- Milestone Development & Deliverables Tracking
- Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Team Collaboration
- Best Practices in Project Management Methodology
- Analytical Thinking, Problem Solving, & Attention to Detail
- Microsoft Project, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
- Jira
- Confluence
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- SQA Manual Software Testing
Timeline
Scrum Master
Nexbyt Technology
04.2022 - 07.2025
Scrum Master
HIDIMA Cameroon
10.2020 - 03.2022