Scrum Project

Emmanuel Eisiri

Phone: 347-***-****, Email: ****************@*****.***,

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-eisiri-310070187/

Experienced servant-leader with over 6 years of combined leadership, developing and employing IT solutions, as well as streamlining delivery of products and services. An Agile practitioner who has delivered large-scale software and developmental business processes and system solutions from conceptualization to implementation by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Agile/Scrum teams for optimal throughput. Seasoned at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, ensuring a sustainable pace of delivery, while promoting self-organization through a servant leadership style and constantly improving on quality of delivery. I bring overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping Agile teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments with a strong knowledge in People management, Conflict Management and business analytics.

Core Competencies:

Agile - Scrum Methodology; Project Management; Business Analysis; Process Improvement

Team Building; Servant Leadership; Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Sprint Planning

Process Reengineering; Change Management; Project Status Reporting; Requirement Identification

Conflict Resolution; Sprint Retrospective facilitation; Excellent team player

Training and Development; Excellent Communication skill

Professional Experience

Technosoft Corporation, Chicago, IL - July 2018 to Present

Scrum Master

Responsibilities

Developed a successful flow with the Agile teams that promoted collaboration, shorter feedback loop, minimized dependencies, improved completion ratio up to 78 percent, customer satisfaction, and team dynamics thereby creating an environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Knowledgeable and/or experienced with widely successful Agile techniques: ATDD, TDD, User Stories, DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pair programming, Agile Games & Automated Testing.

Facilitated periodic synchronization SAFe meetings, including the ART sync at the Program Level and the value stream sync for Solution Trains while Assisting with economic decision-making by facilitating feature and capability estimation by Agile teams using planning poker and the roll-up to Epics, where necessary and Coached leaders, Agile teams, and Scrum Masters in SDLC, SAFe practices and lean-Agile mindsets.

Drive relentless improvement via SAFe Inspect and Adapt workshops; assess the agility level of the ART and Solution Train and help them by removing impediments while enforcing SAFe principles.

Directed and lead both collocated and offshore development team on SDLC, DevOps practices and processes from project initiation through delivery of final product reinforcing scrum methodologies, scrum processes and agile frameworks.

Improved the Agility of the team and organization by more than 20 percent while coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Knowledge and use of industry-standard project methods, tools and techniques (Kanban, velocity charts, control charts, burn down metrics, JIRA, etc.).

Zero & One Technology, United Kingdom - Jan 2017 to June 2018

Agile Scrum Master

Responsible for cultivating the adoption of Agile practices and change management throughout the organization as we worked on various deliverables ranging from website to mobile app and other software, coordinating and leading both collocated and distributed teams.

Responsibilities

Drives efficient Agile teams’ operations by promoting a common understanding of lean-Agile mindsets, Scrum roles, rituals, artifacts, and processes, ensuring their adherence through a voice of reason and authority, and by facilitating all Agile/Scrum ceremonies.

Protects the Agile/Scrum teams and puts the needs of the team first, keeping each team member focused on their role by proactively flagging and removing impediments to the team’s delivery on sprint commitments and overall performance, resolving conflicts both within the Agile/Scrum teams and with stakeholders outside of the team.

Optimized the team to their highest potential and embodied the spirit of Agile and continuous improvement, by motivating the Agile team towards self-organization, by surfacing data and learnings that illuminate areas to improve, and by continually learning and applying new Agile tools and techniques to lead and coach the team.

Created transparency into the Agile team and trust with the business and stakeholders, by continuously improving teams’ estimation capabilities, while keeping the teams aligned to deliver on their roadmap commitments, and by providing visibility into team’s progress through burndown charts, velocity charts, demos, sprint progress reporting, and other available Agile metrics.

Directed and lead both collocated and offshore development team on SDLC, DevOps practices and processes from project initiation through delivery of final product reinforcing scrum methodologies, scrum processes and agile frameworks.

Improved the Agility of the team and organization by more than 20 percent while coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Motivated cross-functional Scrum, XP and Kanban teams at SAFe, to provide value to the Product Owner and project goals while ensuring that logical and physical data models were developed in line with corporate standards and guidelines.

Lead sprint planning meeting, daily stand-up meeting, sprint review meeting, Demo and feature Demo meetings, and sprint retrospective meeting for the scrum teams and coordinated the activities of offshore distributed teams.

Documented the complete process workflow with JIRA to describe project/program development, logic, testing, and implementation, application integration and coding.

Access Bank plc., Lagos, Nigeria - Feb 2015 to Dec 2016

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Responsibilities

Coordinated teams with making appropriate commitments through User story selection, User story estimation using Fibonacci series and task definition and proactively in developing and improving Scrum team standards, tools and best practices using JIRA hence reducing development time by 35%.

Facilitated Agile adoption retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided the Agile/Scrum teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance up to 10 percent.

Utilized Agile team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, velocity, etc.) to identify areas with growth potential and finally improving the scrum team’s delivery rate from 65 to 85 percent.

Enabled improvement in Scrum team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying and tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction and improved productivity by 15 percent.

Convened Scrum of Scrum meetings to analyze any roadblocks to scrum teams as well as itemized points of dependencies between the various scrum teams and chat ways to remediation thereby increasing their velocity.

Understands, and actively used project management and ticket tracking software (JIRA, etc.) to effectively supervise the Agile team’s backlog and sprint-committed items (sprint backlog) to ensure accurate and timely reporting against delivery targets and project/program governance.

Monitors sprint velocity using Agile methodologies and works with Scrum team to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature.

Lead and coached team members on Agile techniques, processes and facilitated Sprint planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts that improved the Agile/Scrum team’s efficiency of up to 25%

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions thereby maximizing productivity which resulted in increased velocity ratio of about seven percent.

Access Bank plc., Lagos, Nigeria - May 2013 to Jan 2015

Business Analyst

Responsibilities

Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats.

Facilitated interviews with product team to gather functional requirements. Successfully used Agile/Scrum Methodologies for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshops. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.

Developed crucial functional requirement specifications, creating detailed use cases and process flow diagrams to support functional specifications.

Assisted with resource allocation and effective capacity planning for Scrum team to determine what team can take on in any given sprint.

Assisted the Project Manager in managing project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment.

Conduct and coordinate financial, product, market, operational and related research to support strategic and business planning within the various departments and programs of the client group.

Interpret, evaluate and interrelate research data and develop integrated business analyses and projections for incorporation into strategic decision-making.

Plan and coordinate the development of primary and secondary market research studies in support of strategic planning and specific marketing initiatives, as required and presents findings of studies to client committees.

Access Bank plc., Lagos, Nigeria -Feb 2007 to April 2013

Banking Officer

Responsibilities

Worked as part of a team in the headquarters of the second largest bank in Nigeria.

Solicited prospective clients through presentation of financial services at large corporation.

Advised and educated customers on a wide variety of banking products and professionally maintained their portfolio

Prepared and executed letters of credit for businesses

Created and presented Monthly performers report (MPR) to stakeholders to show team’s achievement in financial and E-banking deliverables.

Educated customers on E banking products like Cards, Online banking and POS.

Education & Certification

Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering

Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. Nigeria

Certified Scrum Master

Scrum Alliance

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