Bee Sharwood

BEE SHARWOOD-- S U M M ARY Bee is an enthusiastic and vibrant facilitator, empathetic team coach, and relentless doodler. She believes in amplifying the good over obsessing the imperfect, harnessing the power of visual thinking, and bringing fun to the workplace. Available for work in Cape Town or remotely. SK ILL S • Agile and Scrum theory • Facilitation • Visual facilitation • Remote facilitation • Team and project kickoffs • Team and individual coaching • Sketchnoting and graphic recording EX P ER I EN CE- Jumo World Agile Lead - Coached teams on Agile and Scrum practices, including a fully remote team - Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and supported teams in learning to run and adapt their own processes - Worked with other Agile Leads to recognise department-wide blockers and put in place experiments to shift them - Gave training and facilitated meetings across the business - Jumo World Software Development Engineer - Built new features for and maintained a Ruby on Rails financial system - Refactored the code base to support the pivoting business strategy, in particular moving to microservices - Concerns included robustness, testability, and extensibility - Amazon Web Services Software Development Engineer - Worked on the team responsible for the EC2 API - Concerns included scaling, downstream dependencies, and high availability C ERTI FIC AT IO NS • Coaching Agile Teams • ICAgile Certified • • Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) 2019 The Agile Facilitator • ICAgile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) 2018 Certified Scrum Master • Scrum Alliance 2017 E DUCATION BSc Computer Science and Mathematics University of Cape Town 2010 - 2013