Scrum Management

DURRELL WAJI

Scrum Master COLUMBUS, USA 614-***-****

DETAILS

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COLUMBUS OHIO 43232,

COLUMBUS, USA

614-***-****

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SKILLS

Certified Scrum Master

Core Competencies

Communication

Effective written and oral

communication - Active listening

-facilitate daily scrum/events -foster

feed back -

Agile Project Management

Achieve Sprint Goals - Adhere to

project time lines - continuously

improve on process - Encourage

transparency, inspection and

adaptation -

Project Planning. Troubleshooting.

Analysis

Build release plan- Maintain

Burndown chart and scrum metrics

- anticipate, sniff out and remove

impediments - Effective Backlog

grooming and user story

optimization.

Stake Holder Relations

Liason between PO and

Development team - Coach

organization and scrum team

on scrum rules, values and

environment - Maintain proper

balance between PO, DT and

Management

PROFILE

Directly responsible for transforming a small, obscure software development company grossing a few thousand dollars a month to a well groomed and finely tuned company grossing well over a million dollars a year by introducing scrum, holding regular meetings with upper management about the benefits of scrum, and coached the development team into a productive, self organizing team of professionals.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER at GENESIS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, Columbus June 2017 — January 2020

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• Coached three development teams throgh 23 succesful sprint reviews on Agile values and practices and constantly pushed for continuous improvements. Encouraged collaboration and transparency by having individual teams share their successes and failures with other teams and the organization.

• Increased velocity by 27% through scheduling bi weekly and monthly meetings with upper management to train and educcate leadership on the benefits of scrum, scrum roles and the rules governing scrum environment and practices.

• Used scrum metrics to increase transparency and a reference point for continuous and iterative growth.

• Colaborated with team project leads to aggressively identify issues, dependencies and risk and developed plans for corrective actions, mitigations and the removal of blockers.

• Frequently and consistenly worked with product owner on prioritizing stories in the product back log. Worked closely with development teams on and how best to optimize stories, with an emphasis on reducing stories to their lowest divisible unit without losing functionality.

• Organized and led several team building activities that helped boost daily scrum stand ups by 15% and saw a 25% increase in participation and and contribution in sprint retrospsective meetings.

• Actively participated in developing team standards from the quality of product backlog, team expectations and collaboration.

Scrum Master at GENESIS SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS, COLUMBUS - OHIO March 2014 — June 2017

• Introduced scrum metrics; velocity, capacity, burn down charts as tools to enhance inspection and adaptation.

• Monitored and managed dependencies across teams and resolved potential impediments in a timely fashion.

• Participated in iteration and sprint planning meetings to clarify the definitions of Ready and Done and acceptance criteria.

• Defined scope, managed resources in line with stake holder and product owner time frames.

• Developed and completed risk assessment strategies and helped deploy management strategies to prevent road blocks.

Program Director at Dungarvin Ohio, Columbus

December 2009 — February 2014

The primary areas of responsibility include personnel management and program coordination including but not limited to hiring the highest quality of staff, assuring they complete orientation, and ongoing training. As Program Director I was also responsible for monitoring all aspects of the program including developing individual goals and plans for implementing the program. The Program Director is also responsible for assuring coordination and management of the overall operations, medical, financial and maintenance aspects of 8 residential homes, through guiding and directing the lead direct support professional, or designee of the site. Proudest accomplishment was the ability to develop independent and self organizing staff at each residential home to implement the individual service plans of individuals in need of support. EDUCATION

BSC, Central State University, Wilberforce - Ohio

August 1990 — June 1994

BSC Water Resources Management

November 2019 — November 2019

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