Christiana Martins

A results-orientated Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience in successfully delivering value to the end-user. I am currently looking for the next rewarding challenge in my career. With a proven track record of being a creative thinker, customer orientated, adept in leading critical projects by driving decisions, defining success metrics and working in a collaborative style working with the scrum team to achieve shared goals. Solutions driven with focus on attention to detail. 

- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Team Management 
- Agile Planning
- Strategic Planning, Risk Management and Change Management 
- Collaborative Working

Agile Lead/Scrum Master -  CreateMe (Contract)                                                                                        

July 2022 – March 2023

• Managed 3 teams with different levels of agile maturity whilst promoting a culture of transparency, trust and high-level collaboration with focus on project delivery
• Built operating models that value ownership, responsibility, responsiveness, predictability, and remove blockers and conflicts
• Created initiatives to build a working community across team members all over the world and challenged/ optimised the operation of the team, improving their capabilities and abilities to deliver
• Working with the Lead Project Manager/Tech Lead to ensure delivery of the product roadmap was updated along with our projects
• Led Scrum and Agile sessions to teams to enhance knowledge within Agile; different methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, the use of specific methods etc
• Working closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads & teams to gather requirements, refinements, discuss release planning timeline and releases to deliver successful outcomes
• Identifying and removing impediments and assisting management in shaping the agile way
• Ensuring the product backlog is captured, prioritised in order and delivered by the team

Scrum Master -  Cubic (Contract)                                                                                                                 

Jan 2022 – May 2022

• Working on a TFL project which included 3 libraries –  EMV, Oyster and ITSO 
• Liaising with PO and Senior Software Engineer to ensure a shared understanding of requirements, user stories through impact mapping and story mapping while focusing on the delivery of build, test and implementation of a cloud data project
• Encouraging collaborative working within the cross functional team to foster effective and quality communication engineering disciplines and technical disciples to create more value 
• Facilitated waste reviews to reduce the project overspend in time and budget 
• Ability to set clear performance standards and hold the team accountable to deliver successful sprints while keeping them engaged 

Scrum Master -  Techtee                                                                                                                                 

March 2018 –  Dec 2021 

• Provided 1-2-1 support to junior members of the team to empower and mentor through community of practice by being a servant leader and leading by example while being able to deliver complex technology 
• Demonstrating continuous improvement of the team and its individual members while highlighting areas change and strengthening is needed while ensuring flow is improved and lead times are reduced
• Creating a shared understanding of the User Stories and Product Backlogs through Impact Mapping and Story Mapping
with the ability to quickly understand the business strategy and objectives
• Reviewing and being responsible for, the overall development and integration of Epics and Features; including prioritising burndown lists while facilitating scrum rituals
• Identifying and removing impediments and assisting management in shaping the agile way
• Supporting the PO in delivering their product in a timely yet cost effective manner and ensuring enough planning has been conducted to certify the product backlog is captured, prioritised and delivered by the team
• Guiding projects through the release pipeline, including ensuring releases have been load tested, have appropriate monitoring and comply with information security standards
• Ensuring appropriate tools are deployed and methods and practices are implemented - such as PPM and DevOps tooling.

OTHER EXPERIENCES

Agile Project Manager -  Evented Ltd                                                                                                    

Oct 2016 – Aug 2020

• Continuously acknowledged as the fulcrum for continuous integration and continuous delivery of objectives
• Responsible for Operational Risk Assessment planning prior to events and deploying risk controls
• Lead and manage cross-functional Agile project teams throughout the project lifecycle, from initiation to closure
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business goals
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and budgets, effectively managing resources to meet project deadlines while identifying and mitigating risks and issues, implementing appropriate solutions to keep projects on track

Provide clear and concise project status updates and high-quality reports to stakeholders, senior management and CEOs on quarterly performance against Annual Project Plans (APP) 

BA (Hons) Media and Communications; Management – Birmingham City University                            2015

Certified Scrum Master – The Knowledge Academy                                                                                2021