Professional Summary
Senior Scrum Master with deep experience guiding cross-functional engineering teams, product owners, and engineering leaders toward predictable, value-driven delivery. Expert in establishing pragmatic agile cadences, eliminating cross-squad dependencies, and fostering transparent, high-trust engineering cultures.
Professional Experience
ValoSync Technologies
Paris, France
Lead Scrum Master
Sept 2021 – Present
- Facilitate sprint cadences and continuous improvement ceremonies across three distributed product engineering teams delivering cloud-native B2B workflows.
- Partner with product management to establish transparent backlog refinement mechanisms, improving sprint forecasting accuracy by 28%.
- Implement team health checks and cycle time analytics in Jira to surface systematic blockers, reducing mean delivery cycle time from 19 to 12 days.
- Mentor emerging Scrum Masters and facilitate bi-weekly agile community of practice workshops across the engineering department.
Kestrel Payment Solutions
Paris, France
Senior Scrum Master
Feb 2017 – Aug 2021
- Guided four cross-functional squads through the migration of legacy payment processing modules to microservices architecture.
- Coached product owners on user story decomposition, definition of ready, and value slicing to stabilize iteration scope.
- Resolved multi-team dependency bottlenecks by introducing cross-squad synchronization forums and dependency boards.
- Facilitated quarterly PI planning events for 65 participants across engineering, compliance, and product operations.
Novex Digital Platforms
Paris, France
Scrum Master
May 2013 – Jan 2017
- Transitioned two waterfall delivery units into autonomous Scrum teams supporting customer-facing web portals.
- Established kanban boards and explicit policies for urgent bug triage, reducing interruptions during active development iterations by 35%.
- Facilitated retrospective exercises focused on root-cause problem solving and psychological safety, sustaining team retention above 90%.
Education
Sorbonne Université
Master of Science · Information Systems & Technology Management · Paris, France · Honors · Sept 1997 – Jun 1999
Core curriculum emphasized software engineering methodologies, information systems architecture, and organizational change management.
Université Paris-Saclay
Bachelor of Science · Applied Computer Science · Orsay, France · Pass · Sept 1994 – Jun 1997
Focused on systems analysis, database design, and algorithmic problem-solving.
Key Projects
Agile Tooling & Workflow Standardization
Oct 2022 – Apr 2023
- Designed and implemented an enterprise Jira and Confluence framework standardizing workflow states, sprint boards, and release reporting across 12 teams.
- Trained 80 team members and stakeholders on metric interpretation, including cumulative flow diagrams and control charts.
Core Competencies
Scrum Framework
Kanban Systems
Facilitation
Agile Coaching
Sprint Planning
Retrospective Facilitation
Jira & Confluence
Backlog Refinement
Flow Metrics & Forecasting
Dependency Management
Value Stream Mapping
Languages
French
C2
English
C1
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)
Scrum.org · May 2018
Certified Agile Leadership (CAL-E)
Scrum Alliance · Nov 2021
SAFe 6.0 Practice Consultant
Scaled Agile · Mar 2024
Volunteering
Agile Paris Community Guild
Paris, France · Jan 2020 – Present
- Community Mentor
- Facilitate quarterly agile transition circles and mentoring sessions for mid-career professionals navigating iterative delivery practices.