Project Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach

PROFILE

Certified Scrum Master and Project Management Professional(PMP) with progressive professional experience spanning over 7 years of successfully managing the development of project teams from concept to product release that includes; hands on experience in adaptive Project Management( Agile Scrum, Waterfall, ), Agile/IT development, Strategic Planning, Business/Technical Requirement Analysis and Business Process Improvement.

Experienced in providing leadership, coaching and support to the project team and senior management at board level. A highly motivated, adaptable & versatile self-starter with a reputation for integrity and accustomed to supporting & managing multi-functional team with project budgets up to $23.8 billion.

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EXPERIENCE

TD Auto Finance (DALLAS TX) JANUARY 2013 – FEBRUARY 2015

(A division of TD Bank with over 26,000 employees)

Scrum Master/Agile Coach (Consultant)

Key Deliverables:

E-Business and E-Commerce applications using Scrum and SDLC methodologies.

Enterprise SharePoint Solution

Key responsibilities:

Supported three Scrum Teams and established a lightweight scrum project management process to meet development goals.

Facilitated and managed daily stand-ups, product backlogs grooming meeting, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews/demo, retrospectives, story board and story writing and Artifacts.

Planned releases cross-functionally and more importantly ensured that the team knew their Agile Values.

Used burn-down metrics to report project updates.

Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum Teams.

Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.

Coached upper management, the Teams and other Project Managers on agile best practices.

Employed Version One board to monitor the status of user stories, sprint release/progress, team velocity, and capacity

Coached the team on how to create clear and concise user stories.

Communicated with top management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

Documented Retrospectives, Demo recordings, Working Agreements, Impediments & Issues.

Provided regular project updates and prepared presentations to the top management about the project health.

Environment & Technologies: MS Project Server, Java, HTML, Version One, Rally, MS office tools, SharePoint

EDF Energy (LONDON, United Kingdom) JUNE 2008 – NOVEMBER 2012

(A division of EDF Group, revenues of $16B, 150000 employees in UK only)

Sr. Project Manager/Agile Coach (Consultant)

Collaborate with the team on the design and implementation of SharePoint Server, Cloud technology, Pre-Paid Electric Card, E-Business Application, and Mobile Application Deployments using Agile Scrum Framework.

Key Responsibilities:

Supported three scrum teams (onsite and offshore) including Developers, Business Analysts, System Analysts, Technical Architects, Integration team and the QA team.

Accountable for ceremonies, and artifacts; backlog tracking, velocity; using metrics to communicate with scrum and Executive Management Teams.

Worked closely with the Product Owners and the Development Team to groom the product backlog.

Liaison with Technology Vendors, Service Providers and Solution Vendors to resolve impediment and issues.

Collaborated with Product Owners and the Teams in order to deliver each Sprint on time with zero defects.

Supported the Teams by resolving issues and road blocks during each Sprint development to help the Team to complete the deliverables as per the schedule.

Coached Upper Management, the Teams and other Project Managers on the use of Agile Scrum.

Negotiated with Functional Managers for the availability of resources to complete the task on-time and budget.

Managed risks and impediments with proper escalation strategies before impacting the objectives of the project.

Organized and managed the Sprint Planning/ Demo and Retrospective activities at the end of every Sprint.

Collaborated the team to perform in-depth root cause analysis whenever any User Story failed and for any general issues.

Organized the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) calls and escalated all cross-track issues and facilitated inter-track issue resolution.

Provided regular project updates and prepared presentations to the executive management and steering committee about the project health.

Adhered to EDF’s quality processes and ensuring that there are no NCs during process reviews & audits.

Environment & Technology: MS Project, MS Office, Visio, Java, Oracle 10g, TFS, Version One, and Rally.

DEPARTMENT FOR TRANSPORT (LONDON, UK) APRIL 2008 – JUNE 2008

Crossrail Project Executive

Key Responsibilities:

Developed a configuration library (document management system) for the £15.9 billion Crossrail project, and completed the draft business case approved by the project board.

Created, supported and maintained the DFT risk register, Issue register, Project Initiation Document (PID), Project story board, roles and responsibilities document.

Monitored the progress of the project Business Plan milestones, populated the future Business Plan milestones, communicated performance to the stakeholder and Liaised with government departments, other public sectors and 3rd sector agencies.

THE ROYAL BOROUGH OF KESINGTON & CHELSEA ((LONDON, UK) NOVEMBER 2007 – MARCH 2008

Property Services Department- Deputy Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Supported the project manager in the planning and implementation of the £1million Canalside ERP project by organizing work processes, delivering agreed project benefits on time, on budget and to the agreed quality standards.

SKYPOWER AVIATION HANDLING COMPANY LTD (LAGOS, NIGERIA) AUGUST. 2000 – MAY. 2007

System Support Manager/Project Planner

Key Responsibilities:

Planned and implemented a Project Office, together with all processes and procedures to support the programme of works covering the outsourcing of the Wide Area Network project.

Actively contributed to the development and the installation of a PABX Network Management system, which was subsequently developed for commercial exploitation.

Provided hardware configuration & Software installation, upgrading and troubleshooting, network management, risk management and data recovery support to 45,500+ staff.

Managed the external contractor to develop a Customer Relation Management Project (CRM).

EDUCATION & PROFFESIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Science in Risk Management

Executive Masters in Project Management

B.SC (Hons) Computer Science

Project Management Professional Certified (PMP)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Prince2 Practitioner

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