Mori Benjamin

Hello, 

I am currently looking for a role as a Scrum Master in Panama City, Panama.

I also have skills as a Java Spring Boot Developer, Business Analyst, and Business Management Consultant, and Data Science.

At this time, I would prefer a role as a scrum master because of my academic pursuits. I am currently a graduate student enrolled in a Master Degree program in Data Science.  Upon finishing, I would like to transition to a Junior Data Science role.

I am very passionate about data and data visualization as many insights can be determined.

I will be moving to Panama City between the months of January and February pending the processing time of my documents.

I look forward to immersing myself in the Panamanian Culture. I am excited about learning Espanol. I do speak French and have previously lived in France, London, and Switzerland.  I have experience in workin in international settings and make every effort to learn about the culture.

Panama is rich history and culture has attracted to in addition to the people.

Thank you.

Mori

Scrum Master - Remote

May 2022 to Present | Truvision, LLC – Washington, DC 

• Enhance predictability of deliverables by supporting alignment across all teams involved in the program during an established schedule and meeting critical deadlines. Managing project level risk and dependencies as well as addressing critical bottlenecks by removing impediments.
• Filled in as Business Analyst on occasions where one was not available for projects
• Maintain effective communication with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Stakeholders with updates as well as backlog maintenance. 
• Ensuring transparency and high visibility with teams’ actionable tasks, prioritized backlog, defined goals and objectives, clearly outlined team agreements and established criteria for “Definition of Done.”
• Collect, organize, and report Agile metrics to effectively track delivery and value of feature completion to support continuous improvement efforts and for greater visibility for management and business stakeholders.
• Inspire teams in achieving goals and objectives by facilitating iteration events such as, Sprints, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Coach teams on effective ceremonies execution (within Scrum and Kanban). Create and lead Agile-oriented trainings and workshops.
• Lead workshops effectively for continuous improvement and assist with driving continuous improvement through collaborative efforts with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Stakeholders.
• Research and present current Best Practices and various industry trends in Agile/Scrum techniques and methodologies for strategic recommendations that are relevant to the organization’s project objectives.

Key Accomplishments:

• Reduce time delivery of projects by 10 – 15%; Improve teams’ performance through coaching and mentorship sessions that promote team velocity.
• Improve and enhanced quality level of deliverables in accordance with customer specifications and expectations.
• Successfully contribute to cost reduction efforts through effective communication, feedback, and research. 

SAFe Scrum Master - Remote

April 2019 to May 2022 | Bengjy Global, Inc

• Facilitate and support enterprise Agile development projects utilizing frameworks such as Safe, Scrum, and

Kanban to augment DevOps for continuous acceleration and improvement in business agility.

• Build relationships and provide effective communications with project sponsors, product owners, key

stakeholders, release train engineers, coaches, and teams to optimize performance.

• Develop, empower, and support high-performance teams by fostering a safe atmosphere of collaboration,

respect, continuous improvement, growth, open communication, self-governance, diversity, conflict resolution

and innovation.

• Coach and mentor Agile Teams and Product Owners to improve workflows and build quality by removing

impediments, wastes, and interruptions; while, capturing and monitoring performance metrics for optimization.

• Support Agile teams’ goals and objectives by facilitating iteration events including Backlog Refinements,

Iteration Plannings, Team Syncs, Iteration Reviews, Iteration Retrospectives.

• Research and present current Best Practices and various industry trends in Agile/Scrum techniques and

methodologies for strategic recommendations that are relevant to the organizational objectives.

Key Accomplishments:

• Effectively communicated and coordinated with other Scrum Masters to remove any impediments to task completion.
• Inspired teams to operate at optimal performance levels through continual coaching and presentations of Agile methodology and principles 

Java Spring Boot Developer - Remote

April 2015 to March 2019 | Visions Technology – Elkridge, MD

• Developed programs and web application with Spring Boot and Hibernate Frameworks
• Worked as part of a prototype development team supporting a wide range of core and enterprise level Java applications during the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). 
• Used Spring model view controller (MVC) architecture while implementing CRUD operations that queried relational databases utilizing RESTful API’s for developing web application and web services
• Used Microservices Architecture for increased availability, scalability, and fault tolerance via Jenkins, Dockers and Kubernetes.
• Contributed to software development projects utilizing Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban. 
• Participated in various scrum meetings to communicate and collaborate with other team members, product owners, and stakeholders.
• Engaged with other professionals in collaborative Agile environments, such as, Jira, Confluence, and Azure DevOps
• Used GIT as a repository for the application project folders and version control. 
• Upheld Test-Driven Development with code reviews unit and integration test using JUnit, Mockito, and MockMVC. 
• Applied JavaScript frameworks such as jQuery and Angular frameworks as well as CSS to HTML code. 

Key Accomplishments: 

• Successfully contributed to completion and development of internal web application and services projects that required data migration to the cloud

DevOps IT Consultant - Hybrid

February 2012 – May 2015 | Honore Consulting – Baltimore, MD

• Participate in the upgrading of operating systems and design of systems enhancements. 
• Integrate data feeds (logs) into Splunk and Splunk app for enterprise security (es) log management. 
• Design and developed Hadoop MapReduce programs and algorithms for analysis of cloud-scale classified data stored in an Accumulo database. 
• Standardize Splunk agent deployment, configuration, and maintenance across a variety of Unix and Windows platforms. 
• Work with architect engineering team to help and deploy Splunk enterprise implementations in small to medium sized customers. 
• Provide solutions to the customer applying expertise with systems engineering and networks/components to support. 
• Review and updated technical, operational, systems, and architectural documentation and procedures. 
• Guides system development and implementation planning through assessment or preparation of system engineering management plans and system integration and test plans. 
• Review technical systems training in coordination with customer documentation and training personnel. 
• Build virtual servers according to desired specifications and security standards. 
• Participate on fast-paced DevOps and SysOps engineering teams within scrum agile processes. 
• Design, test, and implement solutions in AWS, Microsoft o365, and other cloud environments using security offerings from vendors that focus on securing data in the cloud. 

Key Accomplishments: 

• Successfully contributed to completion the migration of company network infrastructure from on-premises to cloud environment for greater scalability, availability, fault tolerance, and security. 
• Successfully contributed to the installation of Splunk applications on Linux servers for Continuous Diagnosis and Mitigation (CDM) of system failures, identity and access management anomalies, and security threats Internal Revenue Service. 

Program Manager 

July 2010 – October 2011 | Brave Heart Entrepreneurial Youth Camp – Washington, DC 

• Managed program content and services as well as liaised between CEO, directors, and program coordinators, and volunteers. 
• Supported project managers’ effort to deliver program according to organization goals. 
• Evaluated project delivery and performance through the analysis of key performance indicators (KPIs). 
• Monitored fiscal budget, managed the appropriation of funds, and recorded donations. 
• Assisted with grant writing and RFP submission processes as well as editing and delivering the organization’s annual report. 
• Acted as organizational public relations ambassador to other community service and government organizations. 

Key Accomplishment: 

• Successfully bid for and awarded local and national grants resulting in the founding of the Braveheart Entrepreneurial Institute. 

Business Management Consultant 

July 2008 – September 2011 | Centric Management International – Silver Spring, MD 

• Advocated company initiatives to ensure strategic alignment through developing and implementing business and operational policies and procedures that impact base line employees. 
• Lead and contributed to various projects, programs, and teams as well as identified various issues within the business and clearly communicated them to business leaders. 
• Enacted improvement plans for business systems and processes through Change Management Activities and Training. 
• Conducted status meetings and presentations regarding office equipment, procedures, changes in policies, etc. 
• Designed business protocols and standard operations procedures to improve performance, quality, and regulatory adherence. 
• Engaged professionals from other areas of the company (i.e., finance, HR, Operations, Marketing, etc.) for related office activities and responsibilities 
• Established and maintained vendor communications and relationships to ensure company procurement standards were maintained. 

Key Accomplishment: 

• Drove successful redesign and implementation of company-wide telecommunications system that included VoIP technologies. 

M.S.D.S., Data Science - University of Phoenix; Phoenix, AZ (Expected 2026)

B.S.I.T., Software Development and Analysis - American InterContinental University; Schaumburg, IL  (2018)

M.B.A., International Business - American InterContinental University; Schaumburg, IL (2011)

B.S., Chemistry - Howard University; Washington, DC (2017)