Richmond Banahene

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master & Advanced Scrum Master, from Scrum Alliance, with full product life-cycle experience

6 years’ experience in Agile methodology and Scrum successfully delivering project initiatives & in writing user stories, facilitating team cadence meetings, and responding quickly to change

Enthusiastic Agile Scrum Master; whole heartily believing in Servant Leadership and enabling the Scrum Team to be successful, transparent, self-organized and self-managed

5 years’ experience working with JIRA, Confluence, and HP ALM

Removed Scrum Team roadblocks and escalated blockers to management

Coached the Scrum team on the Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles

Thorough experience with continuous improvement of both Scrum Team and myself in many areas of Scrum, Lean & Agile Methodologies

Excellent communication skills; both verbal and written including strong decision-making and problem-solving skills

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & Certifications

·Agile planning, meeting facilitation, servant leadership, agile coaching, communication and time management.

Core Certification

-Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Professional – Scrum Alliance

-Certified Advanced Scum Master – Scrum Alliance

-Lean Six Sigma Green Belt – Fidelity Investment

-Lean Six Sigma Black Belt – IASSC

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master 2019-Present

Cincinnati Bell Technology Service – Skidmore Sales Cincinnati, OH

Facilitated scrum-of-scrums (Release GO/NO-GO), sprint planning, daily scrums, backlog refinement, sprint reviews w/ software demos and retrospectives. Maintained JIRA task board and produced daily burndown charts & metrics.

Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues & Critical Defects) on daily basis. Guided team thru each milestone

Conducted user interviews to help identify and understand different process for each user while simultaneously identifying their pain points and areas to be streamlined.

Successfully guided a development team through transition from Waterfall to Agile development and built a new Scrum Team

Determined the team capacity and velocity from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks). Helped assist the team in story estimation, identifying Epics and helped create user stores using Given-When-Then

Fully utilized the KPI Metrics (Burndown chart, team velocity, etc.) to track progress and help move the team to a more efficient model

Provided end of sprint charts like burndowns, Sprint Report and Release Burndown.

Scrum Master 2014-2019

Fidelity Investments Covington, KY

Scrum Master and Project Manager for two teams; Scrum & Kanban

In charge of budgeting and finances for the team at the Epic level

Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions

Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings

Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables

Worked with customers and Product Owner to help prioritize and validate requirements

QA Manual Test Engineer 2013-2014

Fidelity Investments Covington, OH

Created hundreds of new functional test scenarios from BRDs (Business Requirement Documents) while using only a click-thru prototype in an agile environment

Gathered requirements to create test objectives, reusable business components and functional test scenarios in Quality Center 9.2 (QC)

Performed end-to-end (E2E) manual test execution of documented tests in web based portal environments

Education

Bachelor of Science – Information Technology

Miami University

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