Scrum Master Project Manager
Resume:
ZOBA O. JOSEPH. MBA,PMP,CSM, SA*, RTE.
***************@*******.*** linkedin.com/in/chizobajoseph
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATE
Master of Business Administration (MBA) University of Lagos
B. SC (ACCOUNTING)
CERTIFICATION: CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER, [CSM], SCALE AGILE [SA5], RTE.
Project Management Professional + MS Project & Primavera P6 Training [PMP]
CAREER OBJECTIVES
Value-driven Certified Scrum Master through Scrum Alliance with over 7years’ of experience in coaching and leading Scrum teams in a timely and incremental delivery of value. I have experience and passion for excellence in Scrum Mastery and removal of impediments.
Strong facilitation skills in leading the daily scrum, planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.
Proven ability to build constructive relationships and drive towards alignment and clarity with a variety of stakeholders, such as executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
Excellent organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage and execute on multiple projects simultaneously.
Experience with Agile project management tools (Jira, Rally, Confluence, Azure Devops,) and remote tools (Zoom, Teams).
Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work under pressure to balance competing priorities in meeting business deadlines.
SKILLS
Scrum Values & Principles •Coaching/Mentoring• Conflict Resolution• Team Empowerment• Backlog Refinement/Grooming• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)• SDLC• User Story • Sprint Planning •Sprint Review •Sprint Retrospective • Scrum Metrics
Highly Proficient in: Word ●Excel ●PowerPoint ●Outlook ●Azure DevOps ●JIRA ●Zoom ●Mural ●Confluence ●Microsoft Teams ●SharePoint ●WebEx ●Skype
SENIOR SCRUM MASTER
Suntrust Bank Inc. (Contract) August 2021 to date
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's full team engagement.
Establish cross functional collaborative, supporting environment that led to an increase in high quality value delivered to our customers from 50% to 80%.
Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.
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.
Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.
Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.
Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating.
Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.
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.
AGILE SCRUM MASTER
Sigmund Engineering Works Limited Aug 2015 – May 2021
Transition the team from waterfall to Agile methodology using Agile practice.
Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
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.
Establish cross functional collaborative, supporting environment that led to an increase in high quality value delivered to our customers from 40% to 70%.
Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.
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 a servant leader role across scrum teams and supported them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies.
Encouraged team to use JIRA & KANBAN in order to track their progress.
PROJECT MANAGER –
Fidelity Pensions Managers Limited Sept 2005 - June 2015
Selected Achievement:
Responsible for Planning, organizing, executing and monitoring team objectives and priorities
Develop and execute reporting and process design
Supervised multiple projects from project start through delivery by prioritizing needs and delegating assignments.
Gathered, analyzed, translated and delivered information in clear, concise and meaningful formats based on specific project/program requirements and according to established project management standards.
Created and maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
Oversaw on-boarding and mentor-ship, planned and executed meetings and developed project documentation.
Utilized talents in project management, organization and time management to successfully juggle simultaneous tasks and clients
Offered data-driven recommendations aligned with overall company strategies and prioritized process improvement initiatives.
Promoted project success and team member safety by coordinating proactive and thorough training programs.
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