Scrum Manager

SOLOMON. O AKANIRU

Phone: 319-***-**** Email:****************@*****.***, Linkedin.com/in/Solomon-Akaniru-12691a1a1, Skype:akanirusolomon02.

SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master, 5+years’ experience in IT solutions, developing and implementing projects, Dedicated team Player, Skilled at Mediation and conflict resolution, seeking to cut cost and raise efficiency/revenue, Savvy with agile-scrum principles & methodology. Demonstrated ability to motivate, Lead, guide and coach scrum teams in a fast paced, deadline driven environment across multiple locations. Experienced in Lean-Kanban, SAFe practice & waste management aimed at Optimum solution. Certifications & Education

• Certified Scrum Master

• Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner SAFe® 5 Agilist, SAFe® 4 Scrum Master (4.6),

• Certified SAFe Product Owner Product Manager 5.0

• M.A – Peace & Conflict Studies, 2012 - 2014

Technical Skills

• Database Management - SQL SERVER 2008 Agile/ Waterfall- Development Method & Operating System - Windows 7/10 Microsoft PowerPoint Outlook

• Project Management tools - MS office (Word, Power point, Excel, Access, Outlook.

• Agile Management tools - Jira, Confluence

Professional Consulting Experience

Express Script St Louise MO.

Scrum Master, December 2018 till present

• Facilitated all the Scrum Ceremonies; Daily Stand ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming, Sprint Retrospective and Sprint Review meetings and drafted meeting minutes (MOM).

• Exposed to SAFe PI planning event and coordinated with other team Scrum Master in planning the dependencies deliverables and communicated to businesspeople if required

• Responsible in coordination between Infrastructure teams including implementation and planning teams to budget, plan and deliver best business value to the application.

• Maintained two Scrum development teams comprising Offshore and Onshore resources with time management across the globe.

• Acquired and developed project teams to get better performance for the end goal of the project.

• Created and maintained issue logs during the whole project lifecycle.

• Led multiple projects as a Scrum master during the sprints and facilitated sprint planning for BI development projects.

• Prepared business cases of various projects and provided their profitability view to the management.

• Worked with project manager to analyze the vision of the product, while prioritizing and developing the software release planning.

• Tested applications in real and virtual environments in accordance with the test plan.

• Analyzed the different use cases and recommended changes in the user interface of the application.

• Ensure team practice Automated testing as required (automated acceptance testing, unit testing, and automated regression testing) TDD, DevOps/Continuous Integration, etc

• Managed offshore and onsite resources, scheduled tasks and provided status updates to the management.

• Facilitate proper communication with internal and external teams to improve processes, transparency, and proper information radiation.

• Build and maintain healthy relationship with Product owner Development team and stake holders to ensure smooth team's interaction planning and execution.

• Collaborate with other Scrum Masters to improve and effectively apply Scrum in the organization. Nestle Purina Healthcare Company

Scrum Master, December 2017- November 2018

• Introduced and Led Digital Transformation of Agile teams to understand As-is tools stacks and led transformation to automated toolsets like Microsoft Azure, RPA, Jenkins etc.

• Acted like a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member can focus on the timely delivery of products/Project goals.

• Shielded the team from impediments and removed obstacles that may impact the delivery of the project goals.

• Worked closely with Business owners and Product owners to refine the team and product backlog continuously.

• Attended SoS (Scrum of Scrums) meeting across various project team and maintained transparency for Infrastructure dependencies and have break out session if needed for work arounds

• Reviewed and maintained Definition of Done (DoD) across the team and aligned it as per process changes if needed.

• Emphasized the development team to use Kanban board/technics for handling impediments.

• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (daily stand up, sprint planning, retrospective and sprint demos) and help the team’s clear impediments promptly

• Track and share team velocity, cycle time, burndown chart and sprint release schedules to coordinate deployment promptly

• Collaborate with the Dev Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery

• Collaborate with Product Owner to groom Product Backlog and refine each story for Sprint planning.

Lennar Corporation

Scrum Master, February 2017- September 2017

• Developed and followed agile project management plan.

• Facilitated Sprint Planning meetings to build product backlog into sprint backlog with cost estimates and priority

• Worked closely with product owners and development team to coordinate Product backlog grooming and story estimation

• Coached teams’ members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives

• Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts

• Introduced and coach Scrum processes, Functionality testing, Performance Testing, Test case management and product backlog management.

• Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into Sprint Planning sessions.

• Implemented Scrum Practices while handling teams and facilitated Scrum Ceremonies like Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning Meeting, Sprint Review Meeting and Sprint Retrospective meetings.

• Protected team from internal and external distractions to help the team to focus on their goals.

• Ensured that the respective scrum artifacts were visible to the product owner and the team.

• Tracked project dependencies within and outside of the project team, ensured control by attending Scrum of Scrum Meetings and helped in prioritizing user stories that were dependent, escalated the issues as necessary.

• Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions

• Coordinate with Program Manager to ensure project goal, requirements are aligned to meet business value

• Organized and facilitated project sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and other related meetings as scheduled by the organisanisation References: Available on request.

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