Scrum Master

EYVONNE ELEKO

469-***-**** ************@*****.***

Certified Scrum Master Project Manager

Certified scrum master with 6years of experience and proven history of facilitating teams that has delivered high-quality, small to large scale software, ontime and within budget using agile methodolgies.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Agile Values & Principles • Team Coaching

• Scrum/Kanban • Conflict Resolution

• Team Mentoring • Cross Functional Teams

• Stakeholder Engangment • Team Empowerment

• Risk Management • Business Analyst • Scope & Resource Management • Project Management

• Subject Matter Expert • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Bridgecrest Financial

Scrum Master Nov 2018- Present

Fort Worth,Texas

A servant leader and a mentor to two agile teams, also ensure adherence to scrum practices in order to continually improve team’s performance, value and functionality delivery by guiding, coaching,removing impediments and empowering the team.

Facilitate crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empowered the delivery teams to self-organize.

Track key metrics through burn down and burn up charts, work cumulative flow, velocity, defect summary report and making sure team progress radiated to the teams, program manager and key stakeholders.

Facilitate scrum ceremonies(sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at regular cadence and ensure there’s full engagement.

Support and work with product owner with respect to backlog refinement, managing and prioritizing product backlog items.

Assist the development team in identifying,removing and escalating impediments.

Lead and coach product owners on how to write good user stories and meets the invest criteria, story estimation and EPICs breakdown if necessary.

VIG ACQUISITIONS

Scrum Master

Dallas, Texas Apr 2016- Oct 2018

Guided the Scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating and team velocity.

Ensured teams adhere to Scrum processes in support of Product Owner and Development Team.

Assisted Scrum teams in identifying and removing impediments to team work and progress.

Facilitated Scrum events for multiple cross functional teams ( Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at regular cadence and ensuring full engagement

Tracked metrics through burn-down and burn-up chart, team velocity and radiating progress to the teams and key stakeholders and using agile tools like Jira to track progress and delivery performance

Coordinated with software engineers and clients to optimize software performance, track defects and complete change requests while adhering to the agile values and principles.

Facilitated crucial team conversations when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empowering delivery teams to self-organize.

C E GLOBAL

Scrum Master

Garland, Texas April 2013- May 2016

Risk and issue management while coordinating with clients, site engineers and various stakeholders to optimize performance.

Facilitated scrum events daily for multiple cross-functional team and empowering team to self-organize

Ensured the outcome of retrospectives are implemented towards continuous improvement

Provided support and educated the product owner with grooming and prioritizing product backlog.

Ensured teams had a clearly defined and enforced Definition Or Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD).

Assisted teams in identifying, removing impediments to maximize and increase the velocity of the team.

Monitored scrum processes and scrum meetings by motivating the team and pushing for change that will ensure quality and timeliness.

Empower Inc

Project Coordinator

Abuja, Nigeria Mar 2010- Apr 2013

Ensured projects adhered to frameworks and all documentation was maintained appropriately for each project and deadlines.

Conducted online training sessions for new clients, led onboarding processes to ensure and increase project success rate.

Maintained and monitored project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures.

Shared relevant information and documentations with project teams and provided regular support to the stakeholders and teams.

Provided support to the project managers and the team as required.

Ensured resources and equipment were always available.

Understood and ensured all formal escalation and review processes were followed.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Igbinedion University

BSc. Mass Communications

Bearded Eagle, Dallas, Texas

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

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