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Kareem Soliman

Scrum Master - Agile Coach at Macy's Technologies

Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Scrum Master - Agile Delivery ManagerFull Time

    Fawry Banking & Payment Technology Services

    Sep 2021 - Present -3 yrs, 9 months

    Egypt , Giza

    • Job Details:TECHNOLOGIES: DOT.NET, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT,IBMRTC,CLARITY, MINGLE ,ORACLE, SQL, RQM, SAP FI, SAP-SD, ETL,SAAS, JIRA, AGILE/SCRUM FRAMEWORK ▪ Facilitating internal and external communications (e.g. task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency Management) ▪ Ensuring team is well-informed on internal and external initiatives and activities ▪ Ensuring healthy delivery on E2E basis from project pre-inception to production and maintanance. ▪ Managing agility of overall project delivery from portfolio level (pre-inception) to scrum level (iterative level and sprinting), from squad level (sprint level) to production (support and B.O/Admin) ensuring healthy progress and alignment on E2E basis across all engaged stakeholders and agility of proper alignment. ▪ Keeping external stakeholders, collaboration, and other interested parties well-informed on team progress and activities ▪ Managing and facilitating delivery within an iteration, also worked with the product managers on overall timeline ▪ Managing projects team capacity and track product manager story readiness (e.g. stories ready to play) ▪ Facilitating intra-team communication and owning project burn up/down metrics (velocity tracking/forecasting) ▪ Team support (focused on removing internal blockers), while managing storyboard and story management tool ▪ Facilitating all iteration planning sessions, Story time, Iteration Open/Close, and daily standup meetings ▪ Facilitate retrospectives (team alternates each retro) to promote team building/team accountability ▪ Worked with teams to ensure process quality & continual improvement
  • Scrum Master - Agile CoachFull Time

    Macy's Technologies

    Jan 2019 - Present -6 yrs, 5 months

    • Job Details:TECHNOLOGIES: JAVA, JAVA SCRIPT , C#, CONFLUENCE , IOS, ANDROID, JIRA, AGILE/SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK Facilitate daily Sprint planning, stand-up meetings, reviews, and retrospectives, release planning sessions, demonstrations and other SCRUM and SCRUM of SCRUMs meetings. Onboard five collocated SCRUM members and one offshore developer. Responsible for managing the scrum project and enforces the rules to meet the sprint commitment. Employed Scrumban (Scrum with Kanban), Kanban and (TDD and Pair Programming) practices. Scrum/Kanban/Agile Coach for Scrum and Kanban teams co-located and distributed. Mentor and direct the team tasked with creating functionality-based epics/stories, spiking the stories with unclear functional releases. Ensure that the team remains focused and committed to story points, tasks, and subtasks. Train the team on cross-functional efficiencies to meet or exceed software production release standards. Estimated velocity by decomposing story points to the smallest subtasks, and measuring those against hours, days, and Sprints. Helping the team to maintain their Scrum tools (Story board, Action board, charts, and backlogs). Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices. Provided continual hands-on supervision and mentorship to new Agile SCRUM members, working with the team to achieve continuous improvements.
  • Scrum Master - Agile CoachFull Time

    MEDPOINT HEALTHCARE

    Mar 2018 - Jan 2019 -10 months

    • Job Details:TECHNOLOGIES: MAINFRAME , ETL, DB2, SQL, UNIX, MS OFFICE , JIRA, QC ALM, XML, WATERFALL /AGILE METHODOLOGY , MINGLE Planned SCRUM Ceremonies, Sprint planning, grooming, daily standups, and retrospectives with offshore SCRUM ofSCRUMs team dedicated to ERP development in support of supply chains. Pilot Kanban project As Scrum Master, helped the PO create and prioritize the Back Log in Rally, coordinated Planning Sessions Provided technical support for Sprint Cycles and testing with Rally tool. Formulated and executed process flows and product backlog. Trained other members regarding Agile methodologies and Rally usage. Granted 2-day per-week SCRUM of SCRUMs standup meetings for technical members. Innovated heat map matrices for professionally publishing coding defects; prohibited the publication of developer defects, to preserve SCRUM team morale. Generated intelligence that discovered changing traffic patterns with roof top bounce rates following SCRUM/Agile team implementation of system analytics; promoted the open display of Sprint burn-down charts to control micromanaging.
  • PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTERFull Time

    GENZYME CORPORATION - Boston, MA

    Jun 2017 - Feb 2018 -8 months

    • Job Details:TECHNOLOGIES: ETL, SSRS, SSIS, JD EDWARDS, SAP FI, SAP-SD, SAP-MMJAVA As an AGILE Scrum master created and managed Product and Sprint backlog. Provide AGILE project management controls, project plans, timeline schedules, facilitate RAD sessions, and review software defects. Responsible for providing business requirements within an AGILE software development SCRUM environment. Involved in implementation of Business Intelligence Applications using Cognos and Business Objects, building Data Marts and enterprise wide Data Warehousing. Coached teams in their efforts to adopt advanced methods for the effective application of the Scrum framework. Contributing to software process-reengineering efforts aimed at evolving current software development practices to adopt Lean/Agile and Scrum practices. As Agile Scrum master coordinated Sprints, from Iteration Planning thru daily scrum, and Iteration Reviews and Retrospectives. Ability to work in Scaled Scrum environment (Scrum of Scrum) and with multi-project teams. Made rapid deployment and continuous process improvement using Open Text Business Process Management Assist to define different report (SSRS) after analyzing different source of data (data warehousing). Setting direction for the project team on Technology Improvement, case study preparation. Collaborated with technical experts and business units to determine best possible reporting mechanisms for competitive analysis of the current system to the proposed New Claim Processing System. Transfer projects from Waterfall to Scrum are major responsibility.
  • Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in International Commerce & Foreign Trade

      High Institute for Development Studies

      Jan 2014 

    Skills

    Languages

    • English

      Fluent
    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • French

      Intermediate
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