Carine Yekwa

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
• Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
• Collaborated with project owners and team members to set ambitious but achievable goals.
  Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to teams and management.
  Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games techniques and closure of action items on
• Helped Product owner with effective management of features Epics stories and prioritization.
• Effective guided scrum and kanban team

Worked closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap.

• Worked effectively within the Scrum Team to remove impediments and track them in Jira.
• Guided the team through continual improvement process and best practices.
• Facilitated scrum master community of practices.
• Ensured conducive environment which fostered self-organizing and self-managing team.
• Empowered the Scrum team with regular inspect and adapt opportunities.
• Encouraged the Dev team to keep sprint backlog up to date.
• Facilitated all Scrum Events including the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review,
• Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog Refinement. Workshops with stakeholders.
• Assisted in defining and deploying the forward order processes and facilitated the continuous
• improvement of the existing process.
• Created Epics, Features, fixed releases & Stories for the team in Jira and assisted Product owner.

• Answered multi-line phone system, routing calls, delivering messages to staff and greeting visitors.
• Executed record filing system to improve document organization and management.
• Scheduled office meetings and client appointments for staff teams.
• Sorted and distributed office mail and recorded incoming shipments for corporate records.
• Handled client correspondence and tracked records to foster office efficiency.
• Generated reports and typed letters in Word and prepared PowerPoint presentations.
• Interacted with vendors, contractors and professional services personnel to receive orders, direct activities and communicate instructions.
• Monitored supervisor's work calendar and scheduled appointments, meetings and travel.
• Developed and updated spreadsheets and databases to track, analyze and report on performance and sales data.
• Coached new employees on administrative procedures, company policies and performance standards.
• Supported efficient meetings by organizing spaces and materials, documenting discussions and distributing meeting notes.
• Organized weekly staff meetings and logged minutes for corporate records.
• Performed research to collect and record industry data.