Nwafor AGUNWAH

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I am a High-performing professional with 10+ years of experience as a Scrum Master, Project Manager, and Agilist in various industry sectors (Information Technology and Logistics). I seek a new opportunity to provide key leadership in a dynamic organization.

oScrum Master and Project Manager with a career-long track record of successful project/solution delivery in both private and public-sector organizations.

oExperience in facilitating sprint planning, daily scrum, reviews, retrospectives, and stakeholder meetings.

oBroad expertise in Project Management, Program Management, full-SDLC software/product implementation, Business Analysis, IT procurements, COTS & SaaS systems, and infrastructure implementations and IT Operations.

oExperience working as a release train engineer in Agile Scrum environments, coaching teams, and working with cross-functional teams.

oDemonstrated experience simultaneously managing multiple projects of varying scopes of complexity with minimal supervision.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Methodologies:

Agile-Scrum

Agile-Kanban

Tools:

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

Microsoft Project, Office, Visio

Information Gathering & Data Extraction

Business Process Optimization

Relationship & People Management

Program & Project Management

Risk Management & Mitigation

Documentation Management & Reporting

Problem Solving & Decision Making

Conflict Management & Resolution

Regulatory & Compliance Standards

Leadership, Training & Coaching

EXPERIENCE

LEAD Scrum Master, (01/2020- present)

WELLS FARGO, Charlotte, NC

Implemented Agile Scrum Methodology by leading daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies to improve communication, provide more transparency across departments, and obtain greater business value with shorter turnarounds.

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies while enacting change and empowering teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.

Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain agile practices while following SDLC to ensure that all risk and development are accomplished.

Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 63%.

Instruct and model core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, and team accountability while ensuring consistent application of Scrum methodologies across the enterprise.

Communicates Agile values and escalates risks and issues to product owners and managers to solve impediments that affect the teams production.

Facilitated definition and prioritization of work through Epics, Features, and Stories Track through Rally Kanban.

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings

Establish and support communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles.

Lead strategic release planning and tactical iteration planning sessions.

Coordinated cross-functional team efforts, including business analysts, UI/UX designers, CMS architects and developers.

Coach teams, managers, and executives on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts.

Accomplishment for WELLS FARGO :

Successfully managed capacity planning that improved teams performance.

Optimized Scrum teams Velocity.

Coached to be cross functionally through peer programing.

Successfully coached and help 3 teams increase in their Agile practice and Agile maturity assessment.

Agile Project Manager, (02/2014- 01/2020)

Apple - COG Systems & control technology, Charlotte, NC

Coordinated cross-functional team efforts, including business analysts, UI/UX designers, CMS architects and developers.

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings

Facilitated definition and prioritization of work through Epics, Features, and Stories Track through Rally Kanban.

Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement

Monitored progress of projects and developers leveraging a variety of data management tools and technologies including Talend and MuleSof.

Established milestones and adherence to project scope, requirements, design documents, and schedules.

Accomplishment for APPLE - COG Systems:

Protected team over-commitment, managed backlog, and prioritized resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of six major innovative products.

Successfully migrated more than 4 projects from Waterfall to Agile within 9 months.

Identified and managed dependencies and risks that helped avoid impediments.

SCRUM MASTER (06/2011- 02/2014)

BIU SCIENCE & TECH

Responsible for conducting business process evaluations; developing and documenting detailed business requirements; and responding to project-related requests from stakeholders and clients in support of business case development.

Collaborate with business stakeholders and partners to understand and support their business strategies, and to elicit, analyze, evaluate, and document user needs to provide technical solutions and optimized business processes.

Responsible for undertaking business, system, and data analysis as well as related services within the management team.

Accomplishment for BIU:

Delivered solutions on-time, enabling the agency to secure three additional years of funding.

EDUCATION

Master’s in Economics of Leadership & Management, Szent Isvan Unviersity

Bachelor of Political Science and International Relations, University of North Carolina

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Certified Scrum Master

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Practitioner

References

EXCELLENT REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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