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AONDOSOO VITALIS VANDEFAN

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SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with over 7 years of experience in improving processes and complex product deliveries by implementing a scaled Agile environment. Hands-on in training teams and supporting product owners to remove impediments, backlogs, enhance velocity, and help team adopt Agile methodology with Proven history of successfully working with cross-functional teams. Experience in the retail banking business which, includes mainly in lending and support for non-oil/gas companies. Good technical and project management skills with the ability to successfully manage multiple projects across different sectors. Self-motivated with a mindset for creative and innovative solutions. EDUCATION

M.Sc. Risk Disaster & Environmental Management

University of Huddersfield

Huddersfield UK

B.Sc. Tourism has & Hospitality Management

Eastern Mediterranean University

Cyprus Famagusta

EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Bp

Durham, NC

Worked on multiple projects for process improvement and implementation of software through the use of BI, SAP, and Business Data Warehouse BW

Scrum Master for a Team of Software developer Modeling, Data Loading, Scheduling deliveries of Gas, Motoring, and Reporting performance

Considerable experience in SAP BW/BI, documenting, design and Analysis of reports Using The BWBI Architect to adapt to changes and meet business needs Ensure that the team is not limited by the capability of the product through SAP feedback

• Conduct Release planning and write user stories to fill the product backlog

• Evaluate and communicate project status with stakeholders.

• Facilitate team-building exercises and Review

• Coordinated cross-team dependencies and reported on team progress

• Facilitating Release Planning, Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement/Grooming, and Retrospective meetings.

• Removing team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.

• Working with Technical teams to identify options to meet business requirements.

• Tracking the day-to-day execution of the activities involved in designing, developing, and maintaining proposed solutions. Scrum Master/Project Manager

Web Indices

Abuja, Nigeria

The company primarily specializes in developing and marketing database software and technology, cloud engineered systems, and enterprise software products—particularly its own brands of database management systems Requesting a Ride

• Payment & Errors Massages

• Maintenance Windows

• Cross-Functional Reviews & Testing Coordination

• Quality Assurance QA Testing Cycles

• Quarterly QA environment Data Refreshes

• Quarterly Production Deployments

• Lead team of six in the assessment and modernization of Banking consultancy services with NEXIM bank

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies for consultancy services on building App for ride-hailing which is currently one of the top successful ride-hailing apps in Nigeria.

• Determine, document, and manage the scope of project, tasks, milestones, timelines, the budget, and resources

• Lead and mentor scrum teams.

• Use Jira as the primary Agile project management, planning, and tracking tool.

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EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing system for Agricultural Edo, Nigeria

NIRSAL is a dynamic, holistic USD500 Million public-private initiative with a major investment focusing on agricultural value chain. Work with the development teams for the delivery of investment and loan solutions for farmers across Nigeria.

• Created procedures for agricultural value chain financing and capacity needs assessment to local farmers.

• Oversees successful delivery of all projects within the portfolio by leveraging project management fundamentals, including work planning, budgeting, scope containment as well as issue and risk mitigation.

• Increased Revenue by 29% within one month for the on-going assessment of project portfolio, including cost, benefits, risks, and strategic alignment

• Facilitate daily stand-up, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospectives, and backlog grooming sessions.

• Guide team in estimating practices and facilitate team estimates.

• Write down detailed acceptance criteria for tasks

• Foster an environment of continuous improvement and team empowerment.

• Measure, evaluate, and communicate team metrics.

• Collaborate between different departments and stakeholders to promote efficiency.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to establish scope and priorities. Scrum Master

Nigerian Export Import Bank - NEXIM

Abuja, Nigeria

• Collaborate with the Product Owner to make sure support tickets get taken care of in a timely manner

• Lead 2 Scrum teams consisting of 12 members to streamline a compliance delivery and Mitigation patterns

• Coordinate backlog refinement with Product Owner to resolve blocking challenges

• Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of the final product.

• Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning.

• Organize and facilitate daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning.

• Collaborate with the Product Owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized.

• Ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon by all teams and stories are ready for sizing. Scrum Master

National Space Research & Development Agency

Abuja, Nigeria

Transform the Agency/organization in its Scrum adoption

• Planning Scrum implementations within the organization

• Helping scrum team and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical product development

• Identify and document business and project requirements, plans, and progress on disaster awareness and mitigation

• Lead Scrum ceremonies and provide team support during sprint planning and execution

• Improve efficiency and encourage the use of continuous integration CI and automation. This approach reduces the risk, time, and effort associated with traditional development methods.

• Ensuring that goals, scope and product domain, etc. are understood by every member in the Scrum Team properly Scrum Master

Royal Mail

Leeds, UK

Adoption of scrum rules, removing impediments, and fostering self-management

• Tracking and managing product backlog, burn-down metrics, velocity, and task break-down

• Fulfill the role of the Scrum Master, leading product development teams in the delivery of business

• Critical, enterprise software development projects on enhancing the delivery services of Royal Mail Leeds Project Management Intern

Salamis Bay Conti & Casino

Cyprus

Trained on how to use process improvement tools such as Jira to combine tasks into an efficient workflow

• Facilitate management and tracking of the IT Project portfolio, including working with Lead PMs on status updates for all bookings made online

• Prepare monthly reporting information for the project manager

• Assist project management team with administration of project-related work

• Participated in developing project delivery insight, challenges, knowledge and investigate areas for improvement

• Assist project manager by tracking, organizing, and analyzing project financial information.

• Attending coaching sessions, observe and identify an area of waste that is causing workflow disruptions and focus efforts on formulating a recommendation

Agile/Scrum Jira Tools Scrum Ceremonies Project Management Risk Management Process Documentation Risk Mitigation Time Management Environmental Policy and Regulations Mac OS Windows OS Ms Suite

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STRENGTHS

Team builder

I create a productive culture as a servant leader to my scrum team and bring people together to achieve the team goals

Mentor, Leader & Coach

I support others to achieve migration from the

traditional approach to Agile and Scrum methodologies ACHIEVEMENTS

I am proud of

Formed a fully operational Agile and Scrum technical teams which generated $ 3M in annual sales from application fees within my time with NIRSAL

Leadership

Led strategic teams as the head project manager with Web indices in the assessment and modernization of the NEXIM Banking loan application process to reduce client

onboarding costs by 30%, saving the bank an average of

$750.000 a year

CERTIFICATION

Certified Scrum Master

SELF LEARNING PROJECT RESEARCH (IN PROGRESS)

Looking at how the Pandemic has transformed the digital landscape leading to an increase in Cooperation adaptation to Agile Methodologies and Jira The above topic would be looking into the following questions It's my intention is to explore how Agile frame work and Jira working tools as the new wave for businesses, and what the adaptation rate would be in the next 5 years How Remote work has transformed the US digital Landscape Embodying Core risk management into an Agile framework How remote work has been reshaping businesses and working tools used by businesses to meet productivity PROJECT EXPERIENCE

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