Houcem - Scrum Master AGILE

Expérience professionnelle

International environment - from Paris & London
September 2011 – nowadays (more than 5 years)
Working during last 5 years, as analyst and development engineer, technical development team leader in legacy and innovation projects, then as a Scrum master and finally as IT
consultant. I have always worked in important international context:
 Daily meetings/calls with American, British, Romanian, Vietnamese and Algerian collaborators, on video-conference using Skype, HipChat, Lync and Teamviewer.
 Regular business trips to UK, Romania and Algeria.
 Management of innovation project, with French, British colleagues and off-shore collaborators.
 Succeeding integration (after new companies' acquisition) and innovation projects.

Scrum master & Technical development team leader - at Albeyt - Paris
With 4 dev collaborators
February 2016 – nowadays (more than 1 year)
Albeyt Company is specialized in IT services, mainly for Web and Mobile applications. I am working in close collaboration with a near-shore company Beitcan (********) based in Constantine, Algeria, with high skilled collaborators, following Scrum Agile project management. Here are some interesting projects we have worked on during this last year:
 Xamarin project, with XForm XAML technologies to build IOS and Android applications for a start-up company with a great potential market (********).
 AngularJS project, with .NET backend technology to build a front and an administration web applications for an e-commerce company on French market (********).

Scrum master & Technical development team leader - at TraceOne - Paris
With 6 dev collaborators
Mars 2015 – November 2015 (more than 8 months)
TraceOne is an important software editor, for retailers, manufacturers and suppliers along with B2B Cloud applications, especially for the Retailer Private Label development for costumers such as: Walmart, WholeFoods, Rewe, Carrefour, Auchan, Auchan International, Casino and Inter-Marché.

My mission is to bring team members to the scrum spirit, to get all the methodology benefits:
 For the interest of all collaborators.
 The efficiency of the project, for the PO and costumers.
 The QA of the product.

To do this, I am:
 Leading several meetings: daily stand-up, review, retrospective, poker planning, architecture design discussion and technology watch POC.
 Taking technical decision.
 Making code review.
 Working as devOps, ensuring our continuous integration system.
 Synchronizing stories’ priority and content with the PO.
 Working to improve our automation and integration tests.
 Reporting on the project progress, product QA and team velocity.

My team, in collaboration with another scrum one, is working for the creation of the first professional B2B network between retailers, manufacturers and their suppliers, covering all the supply chain. This starts taking shape, with efficient features, using appropriate technologies:
 .NET 4.5 Framework, with TFS 2012, IIS7, SQL Server 2012 and VS2013.
 HTML5, CSS3 and AngularJS with Gulp and Node.js.
 SSO, STS, WCF, Drupal and WebAPI.
 Integration tests with SpecFlow, SpecFlow.UI and Selenium.
 Atlassian tools: Jira, Confluence and Zephyr for tests management.

Innovation - Technical development team leader - at TraceOne - Paris
With 4-8 dev collaborators
March 2013 - April 2015 (2 years & 1 month)
As a team leader, in the innovation department, I have participated with local development team working with Romanian collaborators, to create, maintain and push several new products in the market. I have worked daily in collaboration with:
 The Product Manager, to coordinate our understanding of use cases, prepare next release content, prioritize change requests and issues.
 The QA Manager, to review test cases, improve automation tests and synchronize our efforts to get best products quality.
 The other team leaders, especially in innovation department, to coordinate our technology watch, our POC and our methodology and technology strategy.

Within my team, composed of 4 to 8 collaborators, I am working on:
 Introducing release features and technical architecture to all development members.
 Following-up development progress and reporting on it.
 Managing presentations and feedbacks.
 Making code review and taking architecture/design decisions.
 Maximizing efficiency, increasing quality and improving team technical skills (with POC presentations and training, especially with PluralSight).

Legacy - Technical development team leader - at TraceOne - Paris
With 4-6 dev collaborators
December 2011 - March 2013 (1 year & 4 months)
I worked as team leader, with local developers in Paris and offshore collaborators in Romania, on two important projects:
 Upgrading our tools, environments and all legacy applications to use VS 2010, IIS7, .NET 4.0, SQL Server 2012, with last third party component versions.

 Maintaining and adding new features, for old and new customers on one of the most important Trace One applications' suite. That application combines Java world with JBPM workflow engine, running on JBOSS server with .NET ASP application running on IIS. Both communicate with Web Services and some Stand Alone services, ensuring the application QA and performance.

Legacy - Analyst and development engineer - at TraceOne - Paris

July 2009 – December 2011 (2 year & 6 moths)
I worked on several applications and projects, with different teams. Especially on ASP.NET and MVC.NET applications, with HTML, CSS and Java Script front skills and got important SQL Server database experience. I have contributed to improve the code QA with unit tests and layer separations patterns.
Internship - Analyst and developer - at Atos Origin - Lyon

January 2009 – June 2009 (6 months)
Internship - Analyst and developer - at TraceOne - Paris

May 2008 – September 2008 (5 months)
Internship - Analyst and developer - at Skill Software - Lyon

July 2007 – September 2007 (3 months)