Alfred Coker

ad06lv@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfred-coker-ba83011b0

917-***-****)

PROFFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●Skillful High-performing professional with 7+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, and Team Lead in various industry sectors (Information Technology, Retail, Healthcare, pharmaceutical and Manufacturing)

●Educated, reinforced scrum methodology and agile framework to team members/key stakeholders and managed multiple projects of varying scopes of complexity with minimal supervision.

●Experience working in Agile Scrum environments, coaching teams and Product Owners in creation and maintenance of Product backlog.

TECHNICAL / SOFT SKILLS:

●Expertise in SDLC methodologies – Agile: Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall.

●Strong technical command of project management tools – Rally, JIRA/Confluence, Version One, MS Project, and MS Office Suite,

●Well versed in project version control and collaborating tools – SharePoint, ServiceNow, Salesforce, SAP Oracle, GitHub, GitLab, AWS

●Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.

●Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work with diverse personality types

●Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meeting.

●Excellent team player and team builder

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●Thorough understanding of agile software development methodologies, values, and procedures

●New Product Development & Continuous Improvement

●Ensure the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility

●Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal

●Excellent communicator: leverage technical, business, and financial acumen to communicate effectively with client executives and their respective teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Wellsfargo, Charlotte, NC

February 2023 – Present

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities

●Helping teams apply Scrum framework,agile principles and values.

●Facilitating team's working agreement meeting.

●Utilize servant leadership approach in leading.

●Facilitated Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective.

●Work with Prouct Owner and Development team to ensure transparency of team artifacts.

●Encourage team to be self organized,cross functional and resolve conflicts.

●Remove and manage team impediments to enable the team to deliver value.

●Worked and support teams to coordinate cross team dependencies and risks.

●Supported and guided the Product Owner in Prioritizing Grooming Product Backlog

●Helped team to focus on delivery of high quality stories.

●Provided guidance and support in developing agile process and best practices.

Liberty Coca-Cola, South Brunswick, NJ

April 2019 – January 2023

Scrum Master

Responsibilities

●Coordinate with business stakeholders while working across multiple business areas to manage both IT and business deliverables for Digital/eCommerce project.

●Leading a scrum team to implement Salesforce Service Cloud for enablement solutions.

●Provide guidance to scrum teams on achieving high levels of Agile maturity while complying with defined Agile Core Principles and enterprise frameworks.

●Facilitating all scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and, user story refinement, sprint retrospective)

●Working with the Product Owner and business stake holders to determine Release Backlog based on the Product Backlog.

●Coaching and guiding Product Owners on how to write user stories and coordinate user story acceptance criteria.

●Coaching and guiding the team to remove blockers and impediments to enable them deliver value.

●Agile metric reporting using burn up charts and team velocity.

●Empower the teams to self-organize and be cross functional.

●Ensuring entire development team followed policies and procedures.

●Provided leadership and coaching to organization management team.

●Applies Lean-Agile practices, such built-in quality, Kanban, continuous integration and continuous deployment

Express Scripts, Franklin Lakes NJ

April 2018 – March 2019

Scrum Master

Responsibilities

●Coached waterfall team through an Agile transformation using Scrum framework by delivering migration project.

●Scrum Master for 2 agile teams that delivered SAP Application.

●Facilitated Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Release Planning events.

●Remove and manage team impediments to enable the team to deliver value.

●Confirmed project acceptance and satisfaction using retrospectives during project milestones and project completion.

●Worked and support teams to coordinate cross team dependencies and risks.

●Supported and guided the Product Owner in Prioritizing Grooming Product Backlog

●Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

●Collaborate with other Scrum Masters during Scrum of Scrums to effectively mitigate risk identified.

●Tracked team’s progress using JIRA and effectively communicated team’s performance during the Agile Release Train to business owners/Stakeholders.

Johnson and Johnson, Raritan NJ

September 2016 – March 2018

Scrum Master

Responsibilities

●Responsible for ensuring the scrum team delivered web enhancement project using the scum framework.

●Scrum Master & Coach for 2 team, represented and participated in Scrum of Scrums.

●Facilitated & Coach scrum team delivering Service software using Continuous Deployment Platform (CDP)

●communicated project milestones to business stakeholders to confirm project acceptance, satisfaction, and to establish lessons learned.

●Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meeting.

●Worked with the Product Owner to ensure we continually use efficient product backlog practices.

●Conducted Retrospectives with the team for continuous improvement.

●Provided leadership and coaching to organization management team.

EDUCATION

Nigerian Law School (2010)

Bachelor of Laws(LLB) Olabisi Onabanjo

University,Nigeria (2009)

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

Scale Agile Framework (SAFe 5.0)

Scrum Fundamentals Certified

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