Position: Scrum Master
Category: Other
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 6

The main thing for me that people were satisfied with the team spirit and with the collaboration with each other.

Starting from 2020 - I worked closely with many teams and on different levels (teams, product, org). We worked through turbulences of pandemic to war and blackouts times, it was a challenge after challenge. My teams not only survived but become more productive and dedicated. 
I love to work with people and I love my job, I want to help teams to understand that Scrum is not scary if you use it properly.
I started my Agile journey from the position of an Executive Assistant (from 2016) in the Dutch accounting company - Twinfield. 
After a year of work I started to be interested in the processes inside the company, especially in Scrum and Agile world. After that I began to attend Scum courses and at the same time I was trained and mentored by our internal Scrum Master community. I got such certificates: PSM I and SAFe. Also, I began to work as a Scrum Master for a functional team (was partly in Kyiv, the Netherlands and India) and then for another UI team (UI dev and QA in Kyiv, UX designers and PO in the Netherlands). 

As a Scrum Master I was responsible for:

- Being a servant-leader to the Team;
- Encouraging self-organization;
- Making sure that Scrum Teams live by the values and practices of Scrum;
- Removing any impediments to progress of the Development Team;
- Protecting the Development Team from external and internal distractions;
- Facilitating meetings;
- Working with the Product Owner on techniques for effective Product Backlog management
- Build a safe environment for the Team (foundation of trust);
- As we worked in SAFe environment I was responsible for preparing teams for PI (Planning Increment) event.

I continued my work as a Scum Master at Innovecs, on Emerge project, it is a logistic platform for the USA. 

I've started there as Scrum Master for 2 teams. 
- was forming new teams;
- facilitated Scrum events; 
- the main challenge and focus was on forming strong team bond in remote style of work. All PMs (they had Product Managers) were from the USA, and the communication was mostly like: PMs gave tasks - developers did what is needed without questioning why we need it; 
- then I worked for 4 teams; we had more SMs and one Agile Coach, worked as a team on scaling the company. We were growing. We established cross-teams Sprint Reviews, managed to invite stakeholders (despite different time zones). 
- after the invasion company struggled a lot and there were lay-offs - I was the only one SM and partially the Agile Coach for the whole organization. Worked closely with PMS, CTOs and all teams (including teams from India). 
We managed not to lose the productivity and even increased our efficiency. 
In April 2023 received my PSM II certification.