EZEKIEL A Ekukanjuh

Senior Scrum Master

Location: TX Mobile: 469-***-**** Email: ad3uaw@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

Hands-on Certified Scrum Master with over 8+ years’ experience facilitating the scrum framework in software development projects where I motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations.

Experience with the fundamentals of iterative software development by virtue of having a development background dealing with concepts including technical debt and clean code.

Possesses keen ability to develop and analyse team metrics to help understand process improvements to increase overall productivity and support teams to understand the JIRA & Confluence systems.

Accomplished servant leader and Certified Scrum Master with extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle, Agile and Waterfall framework processes, Systems Testing, Integration, Training, Documentation, and implementation in fields such as finance, healthcare, and software development

Bringing forth the ability to determine product specifications, production timelines, and in-depth plans for product development.

Effectively tracked team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.

Empowered teams to be self-organized and grow cross-functionally.

Using agile management tools like Rally, Jira for status reporting and planning.

Having good knowledge with experience on MS Office, Confluence and Quality Centre.

Also know about Team Foundation servers, Salesforce, ATDD and TDD.

Excellent Client relationship management, analytical, problem solving, written and oral communication, and presentation skills.

Accomplished servant-leader capable of delivering large scale software and web development projects on time.

Skilled in providing servant leadership-style in fast-paced, deadline driven environments with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills.

Particularly interested in delivering the highest quality software products on time using Agile software development techniques like scrum.

Excel at coaching teams about scrum values and principles.

Work with the Scrum Team to make an effective and efficient decision, track issues and remove impediments.

The day-to- day responsibilities of a certified Scrum Master which include developing and maintaining Agile training, providing guidance, ensuring that processes are aligned with the goals of the business, and measuring processes against the corporate quality goals.

Skills

Methodologies:

Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and SDLC, Waterfall

Scrum Master:

Confluence, SharePoint, MS Visio, MS Projects and MS Access

Cybersecurity:

IT Audit, Change Management, GRC Analyst, Third party Risk Management, ITGC, ITAC, Incident Management, IT Security Auditor, Internal Audit.

Tools:

Jira, Rally, MS Office Suite, MS Outlook and Quality Centre, Safebase, Control Map

Database:

Redshift, DynamoDB, SQL, Oracle

Others:

Team Foundation Server (TFS), CRM, ATDD and TDD

Operating Systems:

Windows, Mac, Linux

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Law and Political Sciences, University of Dschang-Cameroon 2005

Associate degree of Science in Network Support and Administration (CCNA Track), Richland College-Dallas Texas

2019

Certifications:

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum Alliance

Oracle 11g database Administration/SQL

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager

IC Agile Certified Professional-Agile Coach-ICP-ACC

Experience

Epsilon, TX Nov 2019-Current

Role: Senior Scrum master

Responsibilities:

Leading 4 geographically distributed teams’ transition to Agile development in 3 months.

Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

Assisting product owners in managing product backlog while defining sprint goal with the developers during sprint planning meeting.

Facilitating daily stand- up meetings with developers which were time-boxed for 15 minutes and ensuring they were all on the same page about their daily goals, what they did the previous day, what they plan to do and solve their impediments.

Driving improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking concealed tasks will increase customer satisfaction.

Facilitating Agile adoption within the organization, including and guiding teams with outcome that result in enhanced performance.

Ensured the team followed generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to promote prioritization, team readiness and commitment to each sprint.

Taught the team to create clear and concise backlog items.

Promoted a trusting and safe environment where problems could be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.

Facilitated a culture of getting the worked one without coercion, assigning and or dictating.

Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Provided all support to the team using a Servant Leadership whenever possible and leading by example.

Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems when they arose.

Eliminated downtime and maximized revenue by providing top project quality control.

Assisting teams in making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and

Coach the team and product owner on Agile processes to ensure team is continually improving.

Participate in the Agile/Scrum Community of Practice to introduce and continually improve agile processes within the organization.

Dell Technologies, TX Sep 2017- Oct 2019

Role: Senior Scrum master

` Responsibilities:

Serving as Scrum Master for the project and ensures team maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery.

Facilitate team meetings and teamwork to continual improvement of team’s agile practices.

Strong ability to balance data with other factors when making decision, ability to integrate agile principles and work products.

Ability to work effectively in cross functional team environment, and able to balance workload and prioritizes effectively. Able to manage self and time to meet commitments.

In depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle process which includes Waterfall, Rational Unified Process methodology (RUP) and Agile-Scrum.

Experienced with Atlassian project management tool; Jira. By understanding and tracking the values and commitments of the development team based on their capacity and velocity.

Helped balance prioritization of technical features and software delivery by creating a positive and easy communication channel (team, product owner, stakeholders).

Strongly knowledgeable with Agile methodologies and Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.

Properly manage the backlog and aid team in determining suitable commitments for product backlog items and sprints.

Understanding the incremental delivery, backlog tracking and the value metrics (burn down chart metrics, average velocity and the tasked definition).

Facilitated discussion and facilitate consist Transparency, Inspection and Adaptation throughout the process in ways that will promote value to the organization.

Ensured extrinsic transparency is baked into the culture of the team to facilitate real-time knowledge sharing with the business.

Work with Product Owner to ensure the roadmap is updated and top 5 epics are identified prior to Program Increment (PI) Planning.

Dynamically adapt and enforce Scrum practices to manage change to new norms throughout team. Identified and resolved impediments to success by working collaboratively with team and driving intelligent solutions.

Coaching Teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Managers and Executives on the Agile Methodology while serving as a guide on the implementation of Scrum and other Agile Frameworks.

Manage the JIRA boards for the team(s). are defined well to indicate. G) Manage the user JIRA access and permissions on the board by being a JIRA board admin role.

start and close sprints for the teams. I) generate reports from the JIRA board and communicate with stakeholders on a regular basis.

Epsilon, TX Aug 2015 – Aug 2017

Role: Scrum master

` Responsibilities:

Facilitates scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, daily stand up, review demo, retrospective, backlog refinement or grooming.

Empowers team to be self-organized, collaborative and cross-functional.

Escalates both internal and external impediments in a timely manner.

Tracks and communicate team’s velocity and sprint progress.

Efficiently manages issues, risk, follow-ups and escalation.

Encourages backlog prioritization to meet the expectation of stakeholders.

Organize and schedule trainings with both internal and remote team members in using scrum framework.

Help team members and stakeholders to understand scrum framework.

Use different techniques to facilitate daily standup and retrospective meetings.

Facilitates discussion, decision making and conflict resolution among team members.

Created blackouts in OEM to disable alerts from OEM while performing database maintenance activities such as PSU patching.

Utilize Automatic Database Diagnostic Monitor (ADDM) to reduce DB time by diagnosing key problems.

Daily health check-up of the database and SQL Queries using AWR, ADDM and TKPROF and Tuned the SQL's using TKPROF and STATSPACK reports.

Facilitates "self-organization" of the team to accomplish objectives and continuously improve processes.

Experience working as a Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams, including distributed teams.

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