Edward Asong

Location: Columbus, OH Email: ad4mff@r.postjobfree.com Mobile: +1-614-***-**** LinkedIn Url: www.linkedin.com/in/edward-asong-csm-safe-8b410622b CAREER PROFILE

• Results-driven Sr Scrum Master with expertise delivering agile best practices to impact agile product delivery in enterprise environment. Offering 12 years of expertise in leadership, project & product management.

• Capabilities in teaching, coaching, and mentoring organizational leaders and agile teams to adopt and implement Agile methodologies and practices including Scrum, Kanban and Scaled Agile Framework.

• Proficient in facilitating the execution of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CICD), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Data Analytics, Architectural Design, Artificial Intelligence, ERP Implementation (SAP), CRM Development (Salesforce), and E-commerce Development. CERTIFICATES

• Certified SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master

• Certified SAFe Agilist (Leading SAFe)

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

AREA OF EXPERTISE/Skills

• Adept at leveraging emotional intelligence and business acumen to foster a collaborative environment that support the alignment of agile strategies with organizational objectives.

• Agile Coaching: Proficient in coaching teams and stakeholders on agile principles, facilitating collaborative decision-making, and fostering a culture of innovation and adaptability.

• Agile Transformation: Skilled in orchestrating successful agile transformation & team performance.

• Agile project management tools: Agile View, Agile Plan, Jira, Jira Align, ServiceNow, PowerBI, Rally, Azure DevOps, VersionOne, Miro, amongst others.

• Operating Systems: Windows 2003 Windows7 Windows XP Linux7.1 Mac OSX

• Databases: Oracle 9i/10g, SQL PL/SQL MySQL SQL Server

• Java Technologies: Java, JavaScript and Web Services

• Repositories: GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Scrum Master

GFT Group, New York May 2022 – Present (Closing)

• Develop, customize, and deliver tailored training materials to meet the unique needs of cross-functional teams.

• Collaborate with Product Owners and fellow Scrum Masters across teams to apply, implement, and uphold Scrum principles and practices through targeted workshops.

• Ensure seamless communication and collaboration within and across scrum teams to drive alignment and productivity.

• Spearhead strategic collaboration with the leadership and development teams to meticulously plan, execute, and oversee CRM Releases.

• Provide expert guidance and coaching to multiple Scrum and Kanban teams, fostering a culture of iterative software development and delivery.

• Engage stakeholders to define Release schedules, fostering transparency and trust by effectively communicating release status to stakeholders and management.

• Lead efforts to facilitate Agile Core Values adoption and Agile Principles implementation across six (6) teams within a value stream.

• Utilize historical team velocity data to calculate team capacity and velocity, guiding teams in estimating story points, work effort, and complexity.

• Employ Jira to monitor and track product development progress across sprints, ensuring comprehensive documentation of sprint reports for continuous improvement.

• Collaborate with Scrum teams to build, test, and deploy products while fostering continuous improvement, cadence, and synchronization throughout the process.

• Actively participate in Agile Centre of Excellence initiatives and workshops aimed at promoting effective agile practices company-wide.

Scrum Master

Key Bank, Cleveland, OH February 2019 – April 2022

• Administered all Agile ceremonies including Daily Stand Up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, and Iteration Retrospective for 3 cross-functional Agile teams,

• Coached Agile team to increase their throughput using techniques including swarming, and high-collaboration approaches such as Paired Programming.

• Leveraged Azure DevOps to track team progress and generate performance reports that would help guide scrum team improvement areas.

• Assessed, identified and removed roadblock and collaborate with the team members in effective root-cause analysis techniques including the 5-whys technique, and open Sprint Retrospective discussions to ensure team alignment.

• Led scrum team to be self-organized and performance resulting in various successful processes automation.

• Worked with the scrum team and leadership on embracing Agile culture using collaboration tools such as Team, Skype, Zoom, Wiki (Confluence), and MS Office Suite. Scrum Master

London Stock Exchange, Columbus, OH March 2017 – January 2019

• Supported Agile Teams in building a Centralize platform used by different departments to manage Data Integration.

• Worked together with the Team to identify the changes needed in the technology and processes used for Data Integration.

• Utilized JIRA for all scrum ceremonies and tracking the progress of work towards the sprint.

• Coordinated all Scrum ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration retrospectives, Iteration Reviews, and Backlog Refinement for 2 Agile teams.

• Track key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity, capacity) to help deliver committed work.

• Assisted PO with effective Backlog Refinement, prioritization, estimation and establishing Acceptance Criteria.

• Ensured QA capacity aligned with QA team effort and development work.

• Introduced working agreements to promote transparency and clarity within the Agile team. Scrum Master

US Bank, Cincinnati OH March 2016 – April 2017

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to ensure effective story mapping, prioritization and backlog refinement, in order to optimize product delivery quality.

• Facilitated Stakeholder Alignment sessions and supported the implementation of scrum events including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Review, Retrospectives, Refinement, and Release Planning.

• Utilized Rally to monitor and track project progress iteratively.

• Provided coaching and training for scrum teams to facilitate organization agile maturity. IT Project Manager

UBA Bank September 2014 – February 2016

• Facilitated the transition of product and services delivery from project-base to product-base.

• Successfully identified project scopes, constraints, risks, and deadlines for the projects, ensuring clear project parameters and goals.

• Facilitated effective communication between the product teams and the operational team.

• Use Jira to monitor and track project progress iteratively, assign stories to iterations, tag defects to stories and split stories to tasks.

Project Coordinator June 2012 – August 2014

MTN Mobile

• Planed the project from start to completion involving deadlines, milestones and processes Develop or approve budgets and operations.

• Devised evaluation strategies to monitor performance and determine the need for improvements.

• Supervised all program and project managers involved to provide feedback and resolve complex problems as needed.

• Ensured program operations and activities adhere to legal guidelines and internal policies.

• Present quarterly reports to Management

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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

• BSc. in Information Technology, University of Dschang

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