STEPHEN WEPNGONG

Certified Scrum Master Agile Coach

Results Oriented Professional with diverse experience spanning across Project Management and Sales Industries. Successfully empowered teams to improve productivity, deliver highest quality products and reduce time to market thereby contributing to the overall goal of the organizations through the adoption of agile and lean mindset.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Certifications: PMP, PSM, SAFe 5.1, BA, AZURE – 900, Data Visualization, Agile Requirement Foundation, Agile for Practitioners, iQMS For IT – Team members, Supervision and Management Skills, Introduction to Software Project Management, MTA Security Fundamentals, Linux Essential 010-160, Business Analysis Foundation, Information Technology Security and Administration Program

Skills: Servant-Leadership, Communication, Facilitation, Conflict resolution, Teaching, Coaching, Mentoring, Risk Management, Scheduling,

Frameworks/Tools: Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe®, JIRA, Mural, Confluence, MS Office 360,

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Office Tools: MS Office suite (All); HTML, SharePoint, PowerPoint

Collaboration tools: WebEx, Skype for business, Zoom, MS Teams,

Data & Software Dev: MS SQL Server, Python, Java Scripting, Junit, GitHub, VM, PHP, DevOps

TCS Scrum Master, Project Manager II

Jan 2022 - Present

Champions the Agile mindset adoption through effective training, coaching, mentorship, and removal of impediments to team progress. Building high-performing teams focused on constantly improving team dynamics and effectiveness.

Facilitates seamless collaboration and maximizes team and program performance by driving continuous improvement across co-located and distributed team(s) to ensure rapid and timely delivery of business value.

Coach teams and mentors scrum masters on the adoption of Agile practices and mindset.

Fosters a growth mindset and spirit of relentless improvement and learning among team members.

Facilitates removal of impediments to team or ART's progress whether internal or organizational in nature.

Empower product owners and product managers, especially with respect to refining and managing the product backlog and decision making.

Promotes effective collaboration among multiple teams for dependency and risk management.

Creates a safe environment for Transparency, Inspection and Adaption

Ensures team compliance with organization’s best practices by establishing clear Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD)

Facilitate team breakout sessions during PI planning where features are broken down into user stories, dependencies and risks identified, draft plan created.

Shares progress on PI Objectives for the team and escalates impediments when not able to fix at the team level.

Ensures team implements feedback on product increment ahead of System Demo.

Facilitate Agile Health Retrospective and Inspect & Adapt Session as a means of improving the ART.

Organize team bonding activities & Lunch and Learn sessions that promote collaboration and engagement.

Leverage best practices from other frameworks to improve productivity such as WIP limit, swarming and Pair Work

Empower teams and other scrum masters on different conflict resolution strategies.

ITC Management Group – Dallas TX Feb 2022 - March 2017

Scrum Master.

Responsibilities:

●Supports the Development teams and Product Owners with the management of the product release schedule including assignment of resources, planning of deliverables, and setting of milestones.

●Reports project status regularly to management, project teams, and clients through internal-external status reports.

●Facilitates all aspects of the Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning sessions, backlog grooming sessions, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives for project members to increase collaboration.

●Coach the team to become self-Managing and provide them with the tools and resources to do so.

●Identifies and helps to remove impediments to enable the success of meeting the sprint goal.

●Distributes appropriate and timely written communication with all department managers and customers throughout the life of the sprints.

●Proactively manage project risks and issues providing appropriate issues escalation to the necessary levels.

●Foster transparency and visibility and radiate information; ensure that the team's progress, obstacles, and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.

●Supports and partners with the Product Owners in managing and maintaining a health groomed backlog.

●Ensures that all team members adhere to Scrum properly throughout the SDLC processes so that code meets business requirements, company standards, and quality expectations.

●Creates a trusting and safe environment for the Scrum team where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving.

●Creates a trusting and safe environment for the Scrum team where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving.

METRO SOCIAL MEDIA Houston, TX June 2014 – February 2017

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

●Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects.

●Ensure that all projects are delivered on time, within the scope, and within budget.

●Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders, and ensuring technical feasibility.

●Ensure resource availability and allocation.

●Manage changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.

●Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.

●Report and escalate to management as needed.

●Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders.

●Perform risk management to minimize project risks.

●Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

●Engage clients to gather software requirements/business rules and ensure alignment with development teams.

●Evaluate risks related to requirements implementation, testing processes, project communications, and training.

●Identify and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements.

●Agile Requirements Foundations

●Establish and maintain business relationships with customers, partners, suppliers, government, and regulatory institutions to ensure products and services meet quality, risk, and cost expectations.

Macmillan Publishers Cameroon January 2008 – December 2013

Manager/Editor

Developing Course books for elementary, middle school and higher Education and e books in electronic form that can be read on computer or handheld devices than in print.

Responsibilities:

●Initiate book projects in line with company goals and select a team of SMEs.

●Meet frequently with artists, typesetters, layout personnel, marketing directors, and production managers to discuss projects and resolve problems.

●Read, evaluate, and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.

●Read copy or proof to detect and correct errors in spelling, punctuation, and syntax.

●Oversee publication production, including artwork, layout, computer typesetting, and printing, ensuring adherence to deadlines and budget requirements.

●Supervise and coordinate work of reporters and other editors.

●Plan the contents of publications according to the publication's style, editorial policy, and publishing requirements.

●Verify facts, dates, and statistics, using standard reference sources.

●Read, evaluate, and edit manuscripts or other materials submitted for publication and confer with authors regarding changes in content, style or organization, or publication.

●Evaluated the results of Agile Maturity Assessment and coached to higher levels of maturity at a sustainable pace for teams and the organization at large.

●Leveraged liberating structures to break down silos across multiple teams thereby ensuring collaboration, dependencies and risks identifications and management.

●Captured and reviewed agile metrics (Velocity, Predictability, Burndown chat, Volatility, Cycle Time, and Defects Leakage to Production for improved performance and relentless improvement

●Coached product owners on keeping the product backlog healthy including exploring different prioritization techniques and managing cross-teams’ dependencies.

●Maximized my strong knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, relentless improvement, and situational awareness to empower the teams for success.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - University of Calabar – Nigeria

Course Work and Demonstration of Job Ready Skills Data Analytics - Collaberry School of Data Science & Analytic

Information technology security and administration program – My compute career

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