Uche Obute

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Senior Scrum Master

Professional Summary

I am a Professional Scrum Master who is skilled in leveraging agile framework with business initiatives to deliver results in cadence and release on demand with demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead, and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, with a veritable track record of managing a complex project. Technical Skills

• Frameworks: Scrum,

Kanban, Scaled Agile, Test-

Driven Development (TDD)

• Agile Tools: JIRA,

Confluence, Azure DevOps.

Aha & Rally

• Microsoft Word, Excel, &

PowerPoint

• Excellent written and verbal

communication

• Digital transformation

• Conflict Identification &

Resolution

• Software Development Life

Cycle (SDLC)

• Waterfall Methodology

• Problem Solving

• Digital transformation

• Product Roadmap

• Status reporting

• Excellent Communication

• Stakeholder Management

• Group Facilitation

• Strategic Planning

Certification

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• Project Manager Professional (PMP)

• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

Professional Experience

Senior Scrum Master May 2019 - Current

Humana Louisville, KY

• Facilitate Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

• Shield scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process

• Collaborate with business stakeholders as a learning strategist to define and implement a knowledge and training strategy that will power YouTube's agent-enabled scaled expansion of creators.

• Create, manage, and deliver agent training programs in partnership with vendor-based trainers, technology writers, and instructional designers.

• Develop and manage an internal knowledge base as the source of truth for agents to reference quickly and accurately.

• Improve processes for content management and training delivery based on operational and business- aligned success criteria.

• Assess the Agile Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity.

• Build a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving.

• Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

• Support the team in area of analyzing, organizing and prioritizing work while meeting multiple deadlines.

• Help to shield and protect developers from both internal and external distractions, to focus more on our sprint goals.

Scrum Master Feb 2017 - May 2019

Netflix Richfield, MN

• Facilitated Scrum events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams, including multi-team events like Big Room Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and story mapping.

• Ensured Scrum is understood, and the team adheres to Scrum theory, practice, and guidelines.

• Worked with the Scrum Team and stakeholders, to influence and drive decision making and support organizational project or product teams.

• Guided team members in story writing and refinement, backlog maintenance, prioritization, and planning. Facilitated creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs.

• Served as teams’ or programs’ information radiator, improving transparency, and representing the team or programmed to senior management, stakeholders, and sponsors.

• Facilitated estimation and planning at the team or program level, assisting in creating useful, reliable, and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases.

• Tracked and remove impediments and guide the team to remove impediments.

• Communicated product blockers, dependencies, and team progress to stakeholders.

• Lead retrospective discussions using both metrics and subjectivity to help continuously improve our team, product, quality, delivery, responsiveness, and innovation.

• Ensured milestones are reached and deadlines are met throughout the sprint. Built strong relationships with stakeholders, application users, and program owners. Project Manager Scrum Master Mar 2016 - Feb 2017 United Airlines Houston, TX

• Gathered critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produced useful reports.

• Coordinated internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.

• Developed project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, and ensuring technical feasibility.

• Used appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule, and costs.

• Facilitated story workshops for roadmap items actions and specifics, brought together stakeholders, product users and SME’s who have clearer understanding about requirements and product vision, also team members who are able to provide information needed in terms of enhancement and improvement of the product.

• Coached development team members on how to better estimate efforts using story points, planning poker.

• Created various JIRA dashboards, including the one that enables one view of sprint backlog, product backlog items, and active sprints of multiple projects all in one view.

• Measured project performance using appropriate systems, tools, and techniques.

• Excellent communicator, comfortable managing multiple tasks, and a great problem-solving skill

• Created and maintained comprehensive project documentation and established relationships with third parties/vendors.

• Communicating with executives or the board to keep the project aligned with their goals.

• Serving as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy.

Education

Bachelor of Art Degree (BA) Fine and Applied Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. May, 1995

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