Scrum Master United States

Nomso Nwachukwu

Oakland, California, United States ad5d9b@r.postjobfree.com 1-510-***-**** www.linkedin.com/in/nomso-nwachukwu-457411264

SUMMARY

• A spirited scrum master with 5 years of experience. A versatile, detail-oriented leader and well-versed in driving the adoption of Scrum values, principles, and practices. Adept at leading Scrum teams in a timely and incremental delivery of value. I have experience and passion for excellence in Scrum Mastery and removing impediments. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead, and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, with a veritable track record of managing complex projects.

EXPERIENCE

Scrum master

PayPal June 2019 - present,

• Leading, teaching, mentoring, and coaching the team and the organization on Scrum values and practices.

• Facilitating meetings and decision-making processes among the team and external groups.

• Empowering, enhancing, and motivating the team to self-manage and improve processes.

• Eliminating and preventing team impediments.

• Communicate the team's overall progress by tracking burn-down/burn-up metrics and reporting sprint successes/developments to stakeholders.

• Generated valuable feedback through retrospective meetings and implementing change experiments.

• Oversee and ensure that project business and IT requirements are documented.

• Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement, and ensuring there's full team engagement.

• Coaching product owners; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding.

• Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering the team to self-organize.

• Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

Scrum master

Blue jay wireless May 2017 - May 2019,

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

• Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.

• Responsible for ensuring that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented.

• Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.

• Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to communicate transparently.

• Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.

• Promoted and empowered and self-organized team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defined solutions, and committed to milestone deliveries.

• Utilized JIRA tracking and effectively communicated team velocity, burndown charts and spring/release progress to the team.

• Provided direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.

• Monitored the pulse and moral of the teams, influenced the team spirit and created excitement around the deliverable.

• Coached the team for continuous improvement at a sustainable pace for the organization.

Associate Project Manager

Community Bank of the Bay February 2013 - June 2017,

• Prepared detailed system requirements and assisted in functional design solutions for new products/functionality and enhancements to existing products/functionality.

• Provided oversight and final review of design specification.

• Took the initiative to seek out areas of improvement.

• Assigned to highly complex projects, systems, or initiatives.

• Provided input into forecasting and project-planning for scope/requirements documents and/or vendor contracts to minimize risk to on-time, cost-effective solution fulfillment.

• Led a systematic process for capturing requirements.

• Works with partners to capture requirements in a standard format that can serve as the foundation for developing technical documentation.

CERTIFICATIONS

PSM1, SAFe, KMP1

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Technical skills

• Conflict Resolution

• Time Management

• Attention to details.

• Analytical and Problem-solving skills

• Risk Management

• Effective Communication and Collaboration

TOOLS

Zoom Virtual Platform, Confluence, Jira, Power Point, Azure Devops, Rally, Miro, Mural, Slack, Teams, Microsoft365

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