Scrum Engineer
Resume:
Joseph IC
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Summary of Qualifications/Skills
Advanced and highly Knowledgeable in Agile processes, principles and practices with over 4 years of experience. Passionate about building strong, self-organized teams and helping teams mature through consistent practice of Agile Values & Principles. Ability to build effective partnerships with clients to gather requirements and solve complex business issues; Lead and collaborate with dynamic teams to deliver results using agile methodologies; motivate and coach teams to achieve goals. Transparent, Inclusive & Feedback Adaptability.
Skills
Agile-Scrum Agile - Kanban Scrum Master and Coaching Program Planning, Execution, and Facilitation SQA Testing & Methodologies UI & Compatibility testing Data Interface & Migration Testing JIRA Continuous Improvement (Agile) Performance/Load/Stress testing Scripting & Documentation Quality Driven Management Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) Project Management QA & QC Standards Regression & Negative Testing.
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master I(PSM I), 2019 (Scrum Alliance) ISO 9001:2015 QMS, 2018 (BSI)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM), 2019 (Scrum Alliance) Lean Six Sigma, 2017 (UTA IISE)
Certified SAFe 4.6 Scrum Master, 2019 (Scrum Alliance) ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor, 2018 (BSI)
ISO 9001:2015 Leading, Managing Audits, 2018 (BSI) Critical Thinking/ Structured Analysis, 2014 (DIA)
Education
MS Industrial Engineering, Dec 2016
University Of Texas at Arlington, Tx
BS Physics, May 2005
University of Abuja, NG
Professional Experience
Scrum Master (Agile - Scrum),
G3C Tech Inc, TX. 2017 - Till Date.
●Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning each sprint.
●Worked with the team to identify and remove roadblocks/ impediments in a timely, cost effective manner.
●Ensured continuous use of Agile best practices such as continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability, JIRA tracking, product visioning, self management, empowering & role training..
●Communicated committed stories to the product owner. Ensured delivery of prioritized stories.
●Coached my team to high performance; represented team’s activities and progress.
●Worked with the team to improve the quality of releasable products and reduced defects by over 90%.
●Monitored team backlog which consisted of new model development items, defects, architectural work and other items.
●Protected my team from over commitment, managed Backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.
●Facilitated release retrospective and cross-team retrospective.
●Used key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help visualize for the team in delivering commitments.
●Worked with the Product Owner during Sprint Review sessions to make sure all stories met the Definition of Done and get the stories accepted within the Sprint.
●Communicated team progress via Release/Sprint Burn down charts, story acceptance rate and defects and ensured communication was well understood.
●Helped build the team’s Agile Knowledge and empowered the team to make process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.
●Ensured all Scrum Ceremonies were time framed and always made sure team norms were agreed upon, followed and always in sight for remembrance.
Operations/ Industrial Engineer ( Lean- Kanban),
United States Postal Service (USPS), NY. 2017
Organized daily kanban meetings for reporting on work done, work to be done as well as any issues that had to be resolved for progress to be made.
Implemented organizational six sigma and lean best practices; Kanban board (To do, doing, and done), Root Cause Analysis, Kaizen, Value stream mapping in helping remove non value added activities.
Identified process improvements and cost-saving opportunities through close partnership with cross-functional teams from end to end.
Collaborated with program managers to ensure consistent and efficient use of optimizing resource utilization and organization of work flow.
Worked cross functionally to develop and deploy effective and efficient First in First Out processes for Express mail.
Ensured cycle time for Standard mail was under 5days utilizing PDCA and 6S.
Implemented SWOT Analysis to help with Risk Management especially with undelivered mails.
Project Management Associate,
Davaco Inc, Tx. 2017
●Responsible for scheduled/non scheduled auditing.
●Liaising and driving Root cause Analysis for Quality Failures in appropriate turnaround time and driving CAPA analysis and risk mitigating controls.
●Provided support and feedback as needed to production teams ensuring that both internal and external client's needs/requirements were met.
●Tracked KPIs and developed training plans to address performance improvement goals.
●Helped in establishing direction and goals amongst the project team.
●Worked very closely with the Manager of Operations in Double checking all cost calculations for all projected project costs.
●Assign project team roles and responsibilities to individual team members.
●Attended on site and off site project meetings with stakeholders, Kept accurate records of all project expenses & then identified areas of concern.
●Ensured that vendors meet or exceed their contractual obligations by delivering quality products and services on time.
Continuous Process Improvement Analyst,
Ministry of Defence, Ng. 2007 - 2014
●Created innovative internal efficiencies for streamlining team member contributions MoU.
●Was directly responsible for oversight of all data center Analysis while also maintaining improvements and deliverables for attaches/advisers in Europe.
●Delivered high-quality, prompt communications via phone/ email addressing impediments or roadblocks in the process.
●Coordinated with the offices of DA’s to ensure timely processing of MoU agreements were met.
●Conducted studies pertaining to cost control, cost reduction in Annual DA meetings for all countries represented.
References to be provided Upon request.
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