Scrum Master United States
Resume:
Chinenye Ogwo
Scrum Master
Maple Grove, Minnesota, United States
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WORK EXPERIENCE
August 2023-Current
Scrum Master
Televerse Limited
Plymouth, Minnesota, United States
• Maintained a transparent environment for communication between stakeholders, developers, and the Product Owner.
• Collaborated with product owners to prioritize backlogs and ensure timely delivery of projects based on customers wants.
• Facilitated daily scrums, sprint planning, sprint retrospectives, and sprint reviews for a software development team.
• Facilitated retrospective meetings to evaluate past sprints to identify improvement areas for better team
• Developed training materials for onboarding new members into the Scrum team.
• Led efforts to resolve conflicts among cross-functional teams while maintaining focus on achieving common goals.
• Coached teams on agile and lean principles and practices, increasing agile maturity and self-organization.
• Implemented strategies for continuous improvement by leveraging feedback from internal customers.
• Developed and maintained effective relationships with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Coached teams on the use of Jira to track projects and confluence for documentation. January 2022-May 2023
Scrum Master
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Facilitates Daily Scrum calls to inspect and adapt work in progress items, identify impediments and remove to continue work smooth
work flow
• Supports the Product Owner in weekly product backlog refinement prioritize PBIs based on risks, value and priority to know product
backlog items to ready for upcoming sprints(DOR)
• Conducts after party(parking lot) sessions with Developers after Daily Stand ups to address impediments in the way of developments.
• Tracks Sprint burndown charts in on going sprints to identify areas for improvements(to know if there was over commitments or
dependencies slowing work.
• Ensure there is continuous flow of tasks in our jira board, which points that there is progress of work and also ensure each ticket has
a detailed note on where work is at.
• Conducts sprint retrospective meetings to examine work and team relationship. Running a sprint retro, makes a team reflects on its
work and how to make improvement.
• Collaborates with Product Owner in planning releases and ensure all release documents are ready and all supporting test cases/scripts
attached.
• Work with dev team to make sure all development work in a sprint meet the definition of Done(DoD)
• Coach team in using planning poker in estimating requirements during spring planning. December 2016-October 2021
Scrum Master
Cobbs Engineering, Port Harcourt, Rivers State
United States
• Coached and guided scrum teams on the agile way of work.
• Facilitated all scrum events, resolved critical/product backlogs, promoted Scrum values within the team and enhanced continuous
improvement processes.
• Worked with product owner on release plan
• Removed impediment/blockers preventing members of the team to deliver their work.
• Used Sprint Retrospective to help the team improve in their processes(inspection and adaptation)
• Worked with Product Owners during refinement sessions, to create user stories and
• Prioritized product backlog, based on value, using DEEP, INVEST and MosCow method of prioritization.
• Ensure that project is on track, including the use of continuous integration(CI) and automation.
• Onboard project teams, integrate them into the organization and mentor them about the vision and road of our product.
April 2012-April 2016
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Solartime Electric Ltd(Renewable Energy company, Port Harcourt
United States
R/S
• Facilitated effective communication and working relationship between Development team, Product Owner and Stakeholders.
• Facilitated Scrum of Scrums calls to build synergies ad bridge communication among various technology.
• Facilitated team's planning meeting(Sprint planning)
• Ensures team understands the need for a clear and concise Product backlog items and achieved this through techniques such as user story slicing and acceptance criteria
• Created SDLC tracker on every release, documented and uploaded release papers for approval.
• Facilitated stakeholders meetings on app development, requirements/process review.
• Work with Developers on following well defined acceptance criteria on every on every release. July 2009-March 2012
Project Coordinator
Metacast, Aba, Abia State
United States
• Created full-scale project plans, task estimates and set project milestones.
• Supported Project Managers by maintaining document control and tracking project activities withing timelines.
• Organized and maintained project team Sharepoint site, ensuring required project documentation are posted, version control is
maintained for team members.
• prioritized and allocated project resources based upon timing, scope and project requirements.
• Prepared project budgets and forecast.
• identified process and workflows issues, and fine-tuned schedules as necessary.
• Created meeting agendas and powerpoint presentation.
• Tracked projects and monitored progress
• Reviewed status reports prepared by project team and modified schedules or plans as required. EDUCATION
-2014
Management
University of Port Harcourt
United States
December 2014
PgD in Management
University of Port Harcourt, Port Harcourt, R/S
• Management
-2007
Bachelor of Arts
Benue State University
United States
December 2007
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Linguistics
Benue State University, Makurdi, Benue State
• Linguistics
SKILLS
Confluence JIRA Project Plans Scrum Version Control Continuous Integration/Delivery Continuous Integration Structured Software Software Development SDLC Microsoft Sharepoint Sharepoint Document Control Mentor Budgets Estimating DOD Continuous Improvement Documentation Project Documentation Onboarding Work Flow Test Cases Kanban Linguistics Excel Microsoft Powerpoint Powerpoint Microsoft Word MS Word CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK)
Professional Scrum with Kanban
Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
Professional Scrum Master
HONORS & AWARDS
Helped teams in companies transitioned from waterfall methodology to Increased sales from 21 % to 45% delivering products early to markets using the Scrum Framework in the first quarter of joining a team Mitigated risks, by ensuring teams integrate testing (extreme programming, pair
programming, pairs
LANGUAGES
English - Fluent
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