REDA BELALTA
ST-Colomban,Canada
Summary
Certified ScrumMaster and SAFe 6 Scrum Master, possessing more than 15 years of expertise in Agile methodologies with solid background in software development with Java/J2EE and related technologies.
Skilled in managing complex IT projects from conception to deployment, ensuring alignment with business goals. Possess deep understanding of Agile and traditional project lifecycle, risk management, and stakeholder communication strategies.
Demonstrated skill in facilitating daily scrums, sprint planning, and backlog grooming while collaborating with product owners to align team efforts towards business goals. Committed to improving team efficiency, enhancing communication, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Successfully steered previous organizations towards agile methodologies by fostering an environment of transparency and trust.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
ScrumMaster /Delivery Manager
BNC
05.2024 - 10.2024
- Coach the team, Product owner on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies
- Participation in the planning of project deliverables
- Participate and contribute to PI planning sessions (SAFe)
- Manage cross-squad dependencies and synchronisation
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- Identify and resolves problems and impediments
- Coordinate with internal and external collaborators
- Collaborate with other SMs to normalise delivery process
- Delivery manager for a web team and a mobile team working on BNC client app in an Agile/SAFe environment
Senior Scrum Master /Agile Coach
Metro
12.2022 - 08.2023
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Structure the product backlog in Jira
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies
- Participation in the planning of the project deliverables
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- Identify and resolves problems and impediments
- Coordinate with internal and external collaborators
- ScrumMaster for the project team integrating JeanCoutu business processes in SAP from AS400 following the acquisition
Senior Scrum Master//Agile Coach
Hydro Quebec
03.2022 - 12.2022
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies
- Planning of the project deliverables
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- Coordinate with internal and external collaborators
- ScrumMaster for the modernisation of RH project (RH process optimisation and SuccessFactors/ServiceNow implementation)
Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach
CDPQ
02.2021 - 03.2022
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies
- Planning of the project deliverables
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- Coordinate with internal and external collaborators
- ScrumMaster for two development teams working for the Risk management Groupe
Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach
PSP Investment
03.2019 - 01.2021
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies
- Planning of the project deliverables
- Maintain and resolve the list of risks and open issues and impediments
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- Coordinate with internal and external collaborators
- ScrumMaster for three development teams working for the office of the investment officer
Senior Scrum Master
Desjardins
10.2018 - 03.2019
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies for 3 teams
- Planning of the project deliverables
- Maintain and resolve the list of risks and open issues and impediments
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- ScrumMaster for two development teams working on the evolution of the mortgage application
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Aimia
04.2018 - 10.2018
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies for 3 teams
- Planning of the project deliverables
- Maintain and resolve the list of risks and open issues and impediments
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- Collaborate to the Agile transformation program
- ScrumMaster for two development teams working on the new Aeroplan Travel and Hotel services
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Desjardins
01.2017 - 03.2018
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies for 3 teams
- Planning of the project deliverables
- Maintain and resolve the list of risks and open issues and impediments
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- ScrumMaster for two development teams working on a Web app and an ETL app for the FATCA-NCD anti tax avoidance program
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Desjardins
02.2016 - 12.2016
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies for 3 teams
- Planning of the project deliverables
- Maintain and resolve the list of risks and open issues and impediments
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- ScrumMaster for three development teams working on the CRM platform, BI and BPMS
Scrum Master/Agile project manager
Intact insurance
08.2015 - 12.2015
- Implementation of the Scrum framework
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies
- Planning of the project and deliverables
- Manage project dependencies and coordinate with other teams
- Maintain and resolve the list of risks and open issues and impediments
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- Managed a team of twenty people tasked with the development of Intact/Belair next generation client centre web application
Scrum Master/Agile project manager
Yellow Pages
02.2015 - 06.2015
- Fine tuning of the Scrum framework
- Estimate and plan the project and deliverables
- Manage project dependencies and coordinate with other teams
- Maintain and resolve the list of risks and open issues
- Coach the team, Product owner and management on Agile practices
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and Scrum ceremonies
- Product backlog optimisation
- Coach and assist the product owner in writing user stories and managing the backlog
- Produce and communicate progress reports to management
- Resolve impediments
- Managed a team of ten people in charge of building the Content One transactional application (part of YP's business center)
- The project was delivered on budget and ahead of time
Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager
R3D/TechSolCom
09.2014 - 12.2014
- Build the new .Net development centre
- Implement the Scrum framework and the SDLC
- Project estimation and planning
- Manage the budget
- Track and resolve risks and open issues
- Organize and facilitate team meetings and scrum ceremonies
- Manage the backlog and the scope of deliverables
- Coach and assist the product owner in writing user stories and prioritizing the backlog
- Produce and communicate progress reports to the steering committee
- Communicate and collaborate with the customer and external partners
- Resolve impediments
- Implemented an Agile software development process using the Scrum framework
- Managed the project and a team of 20 people building the next generation Cash in Transit management system for Garda
Scrum Master, SOA Fondation project
Caisse Desjardins
03.2014 - 08.2014
- Organize and facilitate the release and sprint planning meetings
- Organize and facilitate the planning poker meeting
- Organize and facilitate daily Scrum meetings
- Organize and facilitate the presentation meeting and retrospective
- Manage the sprint backlog
- Coach and assist the product owner in writing user stories and managing the backlog
- Produce progress reports for management
- Resolve impediments
- Scrum Master for the project FONDATION which consisted of building Desjardins' next generation SOA platform
Scrum Master, SYNAPSE project
Caisse Desjardins
07.2011 - 01.2014
- Organize and facilitate the release and sprint planning meetings
- Organize and facilitate the planning poker meeting
- Organize and facilitate daily Scrum meetings
- Organize and facilitate the presentation meeting and retrospective
- Manage the sprint backlog
- Coach and assist the product owner in writing user stories and managing the backlog
- Produce progress reports for management
- Resolve impediments
- The project consisted of complete re-architecture and re-rewrite of Desjardin's call centre application using the JACADA platform
Team Lead/ Scrum Master
YPG
02.2011 - 06.2011
- Define Java development standards and best practices for the team
- Define the set of tools and technologies to be used for the project
- Architecture and design
- Team supervision
- Implement an agile development process with Scrum
- Organize and facilitate the release and sprint planning meetings
- Organize and facilitate daily Scrum meetings
- Manage the sprint backlog
- Coach and assist the product owner in managing the backlog
- Produce progress reports for management
- The project consisted of complete re-architecture and re-rewrite of the Canada411 web site
ScrumMaster
Source Evolution
11.2010 - 12.2010
- Build the Java development team
- Define java development standards and best practices for the team
- Define the set of tools and technologies to be used for the project
- Implement an agile development process with Scrum
- Team supervision
- Architecture and design
- The project consisted of building an application platform for the mobile based on a workflow engine
- The platform is meant to be the base on top of which vertical applications for mobile communications would be built
Senior Java developer/ Tech lead/ Scrum coach
Videotron
01.2010 - 10.2010
- Architecture and design using the object-oriented methodology
- Java web development (front end and back end)
- Team supervision
- Code review and coaching
- Scrum Coach
- Acting as a senior Java developer /Team lead and Scrum coach within a Scrum team on a project aimed to build a web application that would allow Videtron’s customers to benefit on the web from the same services as on their Illico terminals (streaming of linear TV channels and videos, remotely program the recorder, and more)
Senior Java developer/ Application architect
Hydro Québec production
10.2008 - 01.2010
- Architecture and design using the object oriented methodology
- Java web development (front end and back end)
- Unit test
- Code review and coaching
- Acting as a senior Java developer within a Scrum team on a project aimed to re-write a web application that manages hydro Quebec’s installations
Java technical team leader
AXON-ID
05.2008 - 10.2008
- Team supervision
- Monitoring of development progress
- Evaluation and estimation of user stories and tasks
- Code review and coaching
- Design using the object oriented methodology
- Java development (front end and back end)
- Implementation and unit test
- Acting as a team lead and senior java software developer (50/50) on a project aimed to build a transactional web application that would provide the means for family members to send money to each other from one country to another (family remittance)
Senior Java Developer
Loto-Québec
01.2008 - 05.2008
- Analysis and design using the object oriented methodology
- Java development (front end and back end)
- Implementation and unit test
- Implemented the web part of an application aimed at managing and monitoring media broadcasting on the newly deployed lottery machines (S8)
Senior Java Developer
Caisse Desjardins
06.2007 - 01.2008
- Analysis and design using the object oriented methodology
- Java development
- Implementation and unit test
- Implemented a transaction tracking system that provides data for billing and statistics
- Upgraded a financial application to make it available for both the caisses and the phone assisted service
Senior Java Developer
CN (Canadian National)
02.2007 - 05.2007
- Analysis and design using the object oriented methodology
- Java development
- Implementation and unit test
- Part of a team developing the SmartYard product (Management and optimization of a yard)
Senior Java Developer
Kronos canadien Systems, Altitude division
10.2005 - 01.2007
- Analysis and design using the object oriented methodology (RUP,UML)
- Java development
- Implementation and unit test
- Part of a team developing a framework for building manpower management applications
Senior Java Developer/Team Leader
Necho Systems Corp.
Ville st-laurent
11.1999 - 10.2005
- Company Overview: Software Company offering Expense Management Automation products
- Analysis and design using the object oriented methodology (RUP,UML)
- Implementation and unit test
- Team Leader
- Software Company offering Expense Management Automation products
- Part of a team developing an Expense Management automation software in a web centric environment (J2EE and Websphere application server)
- Participated to the design of the system’s architecture
- Implemented server side components using Enterprise Java beans
- Implemented the front-end using JSP technology and STRUTS
- Implemented the Relational database access interfaces (DAOs and Stored procedures)
- Implemented the fly weight design pattern for the cache, resulting in about 800% improvement of the application
- Team leader for the integration project
Senior analyst programmer/ Team leader
Winterthure insurance
Prague, CZ
03.1997 - 12.1999
Business analyst / Project leader
Wintisa AG
Vienna, Austria
01.1999 - 08.1999
- Company Overview: Wintisa AG is a subsidiary of Winterthur Austria
- Wintisa AG is a subsidiary of Winterthur Austria
Education
Engineer - Computer technologies and management information systems
National institute of computer technologies
Oued-smar, Algeria01.1994
Skills
- Agile
- Scrum
- Kanban
- Nexus
- SAFe
- Agile Project Management
- Traditional project management
- Jira
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- Backlog management
- Agile coaching
- Scrum processes
- Software development lifecycle
- User story creation
- Agile best practices
- Team facilitation
- Kanban knowledge
- Development team trainings
- Agile metrics tracking
- Workflow Analysis
- Lean principles
- Requirements gathering
- Project management
- Backlog grooming
- Software process management
- Meeting participation
- Meeting facilitation
- Resource allocation
- Leading scrum meetings
- Risk identification
- Stakeholder management
- Presentation skills
- Adaptive leadership
- Web development technologies
- Scrum framework expertise
- Sprint planning
- Retrospective analysis
- Empathy and emotional intelligence
Certification
- Certified ScrumMaster
- Certified Scrum Practitioner
- Certified SAFe 6 Scrum Master
Languages
Fluent, Fluent, Fluent, Intermediate
Roles
- ScrumMaster
- Agile Coach
- Agile project manager
Languages
English
Full Professional
French
Native/ Bilingual
Arabic
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
ScrumMaster /Delivery Manager
BNC
05.2024 - 10.2024
Senior Scrum Master /Agile Coach
Metro
12.2022 - 08.2023
Senior Scrum Master//Agile Coach
Hydro Quebec
03.2022 - 12.2022
Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach
CDPQ
02.2021 - 03.2022
Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach
PSP Investment
03.2019 - 01.2021
Senior Scrum Master
Desjardins
10.2018 - 03.2019
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Aimia
04.2018 - 10.2018
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Desjardins
01.2017 - 03.2018
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Desjardins
02.2016 - 12.2016
Scrum Master/Agile project manager
Intact insurance
08.2015 - 12.2015
Scrum Master/Agile project manager
Yellow Pages
02.2015 - 06.2015
Scrum Master/Agile Project Manager
R3D/TechSolCom
09.2014 - 12.2014
Scrum Master, SOA Fondation project
Caisse Desjardins
03.2014 - 08.2014
Scrum Master, SYNAPSE project
Caisse Desjardins
07.2011 - 01.2014
Team Lead/ Scrum Master
YPG
02.2011 - 06.2011
ScrumMaster
Source Evolution
11.2010 - 12.2010
Senior Java developer/ Tech lead/ Scrum coach
Videotron
01.2010 - 10.2010
Senior Java developer/ Application architect
Hydro Québec production
10.2008 - 01.2010
Java technical team leader
AXON-ID
05.2008 - 10.2008
Senior Java Developer
Loto-Québec
01.2008 - 05.2008
Senior Java Developer
Caisse Desjardins
06.2007 - 01.2008
Senior Java Developer
CN (Canadian National)
02.2007 - 05.2007
Senior Java Developer
Kronos canadien Systems, Altitude division
10.2005 - 01.2007
Senior Java Developer/Team Leader
Necho Systems Corp.
11.1999 - 10.2005
Business analyst / Project leader
Wintisa AG
01.1999 - 08.1999
Senior analyst programmer/ Team leader
Winterthure insurance
03.1997 - 12.1999
Engineer - Computer technologies and management information systems
National institute of computer technologies
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