Karina Chama

is looking for freelance projects. 🔎

Selbstständig, Agile Coach, SWIFT
Hamburg, Germany

Skills

Agile Development
Scrum Master
Leadership
KANBAN
Scrum
independent
Agile Software Development
Agility
Project Management
Coaching
OKR
DevOps
Scaled agile framework
Project management office
Management
Consulting
Information technology
Software Development
Project Planning
Softwareentwicklung

Timeline

Professional experience for Karina Chama

  • Current 4 years and 8 months, since Aug 2021

    Agile Coach

    SWIFT

    •Organizing and conducting 1on1 training and trainings with RTEs, Scrum Masters, all the scrum team members, POs and aligning on the progress with the leadership. •Guiding teams on becoming self-organized and autonomous. Guiding the team to remove risks by finding the right way to remove the impediments and dependencies. •Supporting and educating the Product Owners, maintaining the product backlog and business/scrum team communication. •Transform offshore/nearshore teams (India, Portugal, Romania, etc).

  • 1 year and 5 months, Mar 2020 - Jul 2021

    Agile Coach Scrum Master

    Volkswagen Financial Services

    • Giving training to scrum masters, product owners, and release train engineers. • Maintained that all project financials and accruals were within budget and met established financial metrics. Provided or facilitated solutions for requirements or technical issues that arise within project deployments. • Guiding teams on becoming self-organized and autonomous. Guiding the team to remove risks by finding the right way to remove the impediments and dependencies.

  • 1 year and 11 months, Apr 2018 - Feb 2020

    Agile Coach Scrum Master

    UCB Pharma

    •Hands on refactoring of an organization to ensure correct forming of the teams, building backlogs, producing increments of working and tested deliverables to get it into the market fast, coordinating and resolve dependencies and measuring output. •Performing as an Agile Coach specializing in guiding senior management and teams with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information. •Define product backlog derived from Vision and Roadmap.

  • 2 years and 2 months, Feb 2014 - Mar 2016

    Agile Coach

    BNP Paribas Gruppe International

    •Ensuring project execution with the minimal disruption, continuously looking for the way how to make squad perform utilizing their full capacity and implementation of cross team collaborative way of working – introduction of Development and Operations - DevOps. Developing coaching and personal enhancement plans to strengthen team’s skills and competences. •Combination of both Agile coaching together with E2E management of multiple projects from the vision establishment, to Go Live /maintenance and support.

  • 6 months, Aug 2013 - Jan 2014

    Agile Coach / Change Manager

    NATO Communications and Information Agency

    • Develop and manage the project plan, including Product Backlog, Release Train, resource requirements, integration efforts and budgets ensuring successful product implementation. • Active participation in Sector ISAF Steering Committees, Change Advisory Board, Requirements Validation Board (RVB) meetings and Working Groups. Document scope definition and linked business case needs to technical requirements traceable to test cases and expected results. Development based on Scrum.

  • 4 years and 3 months, Feb 2009 - Apr 2013

    Scrum Master

    European Commission

    • Provided leadership and strategic management for Change Management new processes and standards, by successfully defining and implementing Agile way throughout the organization, while continuously working to improve them in compliance with organizational goals • Demonstrated outstanding servant leadership and superb project management skills by successfully managing operations and teams • Agile transformation resulted in significant improvement of organizational KPIs and increase of value to the business

  • 3 years, Mar 2006 - Feb 2009

    Scrum Master

    Atermon Consulting (BPost, Proximus Telecom, ASML)

    • Lead multiple teams to deliver projects that spanned across several business units. • Management of issues, risks and project change requests to ensure successful and on-time project delivery. •• Train and coach employees at all levels, including senior leadership on the Agile methodology to ensure effective outcomes for the organization. • Ensure KPIs, project metrics are being tracked, monitor them for indications of potential problems, and assist teams to implement solutions to those problems.

  • 2 years and 6 months, Sep 2003 - Feb 2006

    Project Manager

    Euromonitor International

Languages

  • English

    First language

  • French

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

  • Dutch

    Intermediate

  • Spanish

    Intermediate

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