UTA E EKPE

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Summary

Vast experience driving the adoption of agile principles, values, and practices with a successful track record of managing complex projects, and delivering continuous process improvement to all stakeholders. Strategic thinker and creative problem solver with advanced personnel training and development skills, and team building within the government, mortgage, and financial domains. Highly motivated to utilize team leadership and interpersonal skills to impact a growing company through a continuously improved Scrum Master role. Adept at using all scrum ceremonies and metrics for increasing transparency and resolving challenges.

Skills

●Verbal and Written Communication

●Knowledge of SAFe

●Technology Implementation

●Documentation and Reporting

●Data Analysis

●Performance Monitoring

●Work Planning and Prioritization

●Attention to Detail

●Schedule Management

●Project Management

●Project Team Coordination

●Agile Best Practices

●Backlog Management

●Customer Requirements Analysis

●Scrum Processes

●Effective Customer Communication

●Software Process Management

●Presentation Skills

●Risk Assessment

●Coaching and Mentoring

●Communication Planning

●Team Leadership

●Conflict Resolution

●Deadline Driven

●Project Planning

●Change Management

●Software Development

●Relationship Building

●Deliverable Tracking

●Stakeholder Negotiations

Experience

Western and Southern Financial Group.

Scrum Master

01/2022 - Current

●Responsible for the definition, adoption, and optimization of an agile methodology, processes, and practices

●Drove and facilitated sprint ceremonies including planning, backlog grooming, and refinement, daily stand-up meetings, and retrospectives

●Guided, coached, and motivated the team to be highly effective, self-organized, productive, and accountable, with an emphasis on achieving sprint commitments

●Partnered with product owners to effectively create, maintain, and refine the product backlog

●Facilitated communication channels for the Scrum teams and associated business and technical stakeholders to ensure the vision, goals, progress, and product delivery commitments are visible and well-understood

●Identified and removed impediments and blockers preventing teams from delivering sprint goals

●Taught, mentored, facilitated, and refined Scrum practices and Agile Principles within the teams

●Monitored progress and team performance throughout the life of initiatives and monitor and manage project scope and deliverables

●Used relevant metrics to guide development teams and show progress in meeting business objectives

●Reviewed UAT test plans, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios; involved in UAT

●Generated GAP analysis to ensure that the requirements gathered was extensive and thorough

●Track record of delivering measurable business value through process improvements

●Interfaces with product owners and users of applications to understand business needs and desired changes for new or existing production systems

Cummins Inc. Texas

Scrum Master

04/2018 - 01/2022

●Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile and good practices

●Assisted the Product Owner in setting realistic expectations using the team's capacity and velocity and planned accordingly by conducting product-related presentations

●Effectively communicated weekly project status using the Burndown charts and other required metrics to the business leadership, which sustained transparency and organization best practices

●Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog Refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective

●Observed and coached the team for a successful implementation of Agile/Scrum practices, values, and framework, while resolving impediments through collaboration

●Worked closely with the developers working on Microsoft visual studio to integrate it with different software applications like Javascript, Csharp, and sequel programming languages

●Assisted with multi-site Scaled Agile framework (SAFe) quick start and release train launches

●Coordinated with the scrum team during each Sprint towards a shippable product release working closely with the Product Owner to make sure each user story in the Sprint Backlog was worked on

●Tracked and managed all change requests taking them through the complete change request lifecycle Product Backlog Items (PBIs) using techniques like MoSCoW and estimated Story Points using Planning Poker

●Fostered strong team values, created an environment where the teams were self-governing, and continued to explore and implement ways to improve

●Assisted the PO in setting realistic expectations using the team's capacity and velocity and planned accordingly by conducting product-related presentations

Securitas Security Services USA Indiana

Scrum Master

05/2016 - 02/2018

●Met quality standards by ensuring TDD (test-driven development) was adopted during sprints

●Facilitated fun retrospectives

●Worked with PO on Epics, backlog grooming, requirement gathering, and prioritizing

●Reflecting and radiating the metrics like burn down chart progress, quality, and velocity continue to the team and various stakeholders

●Prepared various dashboards in JIRA using advanced JQL and filters

●Ensured INVEST criteria are met for all the user stories in the backlog

●Ensured the teams are adhering to the DOR and DOD criteria.

●Coached the team on the usage of Confluence for business requirements.

●Facilitated continuous improvement initiatives and process reviews.

●Optimized workflow efficiency and led the ceremonies and ensured smooth delivery.

●Removed impediments and maintained development team focus.

● Facilitated the migration of an application to AWS, resulting in improved scalability and availability

● Implemented automated deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps, reducing deployment time by 50%

● Managed a team of developers using Google Cloud Platform to develop and deploy microservices in a highly agile environment

Federal Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment Nigeria

Business Analyst

08/2012 - 11/2015

●Functioned as a liaison between various stakeholders, Commodity Associations (executives, legal, IT, and value chain of the commodity sector

●Identify the commodity of interest based on its value, prospects, and potential for the economy

●Assisted in creating Business Requirements Documents, and Functional

●Specification Documents

●Assisted with the review of Business Requirements, and Functional Specifications to ensure the quality of SDLC deliverables

●Identify the value chain actors, primary producers, and processors of the commodity into products

●Assisted with the system testing/user acceptance testing (UAT)of the functional enhancements as needed

●Evaluated information gathered from multiple sources, reconciled conflicts, decomposed high-level requirements

●Reviewed test cases and scenarios and met all project data deliverables and deadlines

Education and Training

Bachelor of Science (BS) in Business Management & Administration

Diploma in Personnel Management

Certifications

●Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

●Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

●Certified SAFe 5.0 Agilist

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