ANYINKENG ABANGE

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A motivated servant - leader creating positive impact while successfully leading agile teams in Software Development using different agile tools like Jira, rally, confluence etc and focusing on implementing and sustaining value-driven enterprise transformations through facilitation, coaching, conflict resolution/problem- solving ability, communication etc.

EXPERIENCE

SCRUM MASTER, CHASE Bank

austin tx

SeptembeR 2018 – PRESENT

Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily scrum meetings, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other related meetings

Support the Product Owner and Team Lead through maintaining data in the appropriate Agile toolset, by providing transparency to the Product Roadmap and related project priorities

Provide guidance to product owner on user story creation

Track impediments and do whatever is necessary to remove them

Own, advocate, and teach agile (scrum) processes, ensuring that the team is always following the framework and looking for opportunities to continuously improve

Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition

Coach development teams in best practices of agile software development

Ensure project documents are complete, current and achieved appropriately

Coach teams and individuals to reduce challenges and improve professional growth

Build high performing agile sprint teams, focusing on continuous improvement, continuous integration, continuous development and delivering value to the customer

Facilitate valuable retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint. Ensure the highest priority retrospective action items are owned and completed within the identified timeframe

Fosters open communication and transparency

Supporting the team through servant leadership and leading by example

Organize and facilitate discussion, decision-making and conflict resolution

Promoted continuous communication across the company to ensure the success of our product releases and branding of updates and new products.

SCRUM MASTER, CHARLES SCHWAB

AUSTIN tx

april 2015 – August 2017

Empowered the teams to self-organize, improve the efficiency of the scrum teams

Ensured that the team strove to make each increment of functionality potentially releasable

Assisted the team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition

Identified and removed impediments; prevent distractions and delivered the sprint goal

Facilitated discussion and conflict resolution

Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings

Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress, maintained process documentation

Utilized scrum tools and frameworks to achieve efficiency both internally and externally

Coordinated dependencies with other teams

Remained informed about corporate practices, industry trends and best practices concerning Agile.

SCRUM MASTER, INVITAE

AUSTIN TX

MAY 2013 – February 2015

Facilitated team activities including daily stand-up meetings, grooming, sprint planning, demonstrations, release planning and team retrospectives

Managed sprint release deliverable and proactively identified and resolved impediments to ensure sprint release stays on track and updated sprint activities in agile planning and execution tracking tool

Identified dependencies between agile teams and communicated and resolved dependencies between different teams

Coached teams and individuals to reduce challenges, improved professional growth

Coordinated dependencies with other teams

Promoted improved engineering and quality assurance practices

Supported long term planning, roadmap creation

Helped team estimate and increase velocity

Removed blockers or impediments that hinder project progress

Promoted continuous communication across the company to ensure the success of our product releases and branding of updates and new products.

BUSINESS ANALYST,

WHOLE FOODS MARKET

AUSTIN TX

FEBRUARY 2012 – APRIL 2013

Worked closely with a group of cross-functional stakeholders to understand key business questions impacting whole foods regions, stores, and product categories

Collaborated with key stakeholders to create business requirements documents, system configuration documents, detailed functional specification documents, test plans and test cases

Implemented solutions to ensure that all work streams are cohesive and that cross-functional impacts are considered and mitigated

Consulted with key internal and external stakeholders to determine how best to utilize the existing data and report on main business/operations-oriented metrics to support retail and business objectives

Partnered with functional team members to understand requirements and communicate system capabilities/limitations

Supported the development of new business processes necessary to improve the efficiencies in operations

Met regularly with stakeholders to establish upcoming projects and tasks, understand business requirements, identify areas of improvement and discuss workdays roadmap in these areas

Effectively communicated with the enterprise analytics team.

EDUCATION

Certified Scrum Master through Scrum Alliance

Professional Scrum Master 1 through Scrum.org

SAFe Scrum Master (4.6) through Scaled Agile Framework

TECHNICAL SKILL

Agile Framework: Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Extreme Programing XP

Agile Tool: Jira, Confluence, Rally, TFS, RTC, Azure DevOPS, Version one

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix, Linux

Other Tools: Office 365, Power Point, Publisher, Excel

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