Scrum Project

Ehi Otoide

Email: ******.******@*****.*** Cell: 612-***-****

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

* ****’s experience in Scrum Master with a proven record of driving project success in the IT industry. Resolving conflicts and building consensus to increase productivity. I excel in serving Agile teams, Project Planning, minimizing scope change, and controlling project performance. My commitment to work combined with a servant-leader approach enables me to build cohesive teams that deliver value.

Core skills

Certified Scrum Master with thorough understanding of Iterative Software development, and Agile processes such as Scrum

Experience in diversified fields of the Software Development Life Circle with expertise in Managing end to end lifestyle processes using Agile methodologies.

Experience of working effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced development, coordinating between multiple teams.

Ability to estimate the resource load, prioritize and proactively manage the IT.

Efficient verbal and written communication, including the ability to effectively interact with all levels of management in an organization.

Excellent team facilitation and conflict resolution skills including arbitration, negotiation.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Scrum values & principle

Backlog grooming

Coaching/mentoring

Conflict Resolution

Team Empowerment

SDLC

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

User Story

Sprint Planning

Excellent analytical skills

Scrum Master

Heraeus April 2019 – Present

Supporting product Owner ensuring the product backlog is properly refined-prioritizing to maximize value and using and elaborating on users’ stories to be ready for upcoming 1-2 sprints.

Facilitating Daily scrum, release and sprint planning sessions, Sprint review and sprint retrospective

Ensuring all participants understand the purpose of a ceremony and keep to the time box.

Fostering and encouraging conversations and collaboration both inside and outside of team allowing them to self – organize.

Identifying and removing impediments, prevents distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver sprint goal.

Mentoring and assessing the team to maturity

Facilitating effective communication and working relationships between Scrum team, product Owner, stakeholders, and third-party vendor

Ensuring team understands the need for clear and concise product Backlog items and achieve this through techniques like splitting user stories.

Enforcing the values and principles of Agile by focusing on continuous learning and feedback loop

Scrum Master

Bank of America May 2017-April. 2019

Responsible for ensuring that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented

Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there is full team engagement

Coaching product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding.

Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.

Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

Assisted with multiple Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.

Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress

Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating

Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.

Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.

Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices

Scrum master

Target Minneapolis May 2015 – April 2017

Facilitated daily scrum daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

Performed the role of servant a leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore scrum teams on agile good practices.

Coach the team for continuous improvement at a sustainable pace for the organization

Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to communicate transparently

Work closely with the Product Owner to define, plan, and maintain the product backlog

Uses agile project management tools to track team adoption and adherence to procedures and best practices

Delight internal and external customers through frequent delivery of high-quality software

Facilitate timely delivery through effective team collaboration, decision making, and conflict resolution

Embraced servant leader role across scrum teams and supported them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies

Sustained an environment of collaboration and safety that creates value for the members

Snr. Project Coordinator

Medtronic May 2013 – April 2015

Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance

Creating full scale project plans, including WBS, task estimate, resources, project milestones and associated documents.

Setting up project milestone and summary task and assigning task to resources in MS project.

Tracking project progress against, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads with the help of MS Project.

Maintaining project team SharePoint site, including ensuring required project documentation are posted, ensuring version control, and access for team members.

Education:

Saint Paul Technical College AAS. Project Management

Saint Paul, MN

Minnesota State University, Moorhead BSc. Project Management

CERTIFICATIONS:

Certified Scrum Master

Six Sigma Lean Green Belt, Certified

Member Organizations:

PMI, Kappa Beta Delta

Volunteer:

Feed My Starving Children

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