IRUNNE NWAOGU

240-***-****

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A committed, versatile, solution focused and highly motivated Scrum Master, with valuable technical knowledge and in-depth experience facilitating, Coaching and developing high performance teams acquired within diverse sectors as, Engineering, Digital Marketing, Telecommunication and Cloud Services. Determined and confident with the ability to adapt with initiative and decisiveness to frequently challenging situations. Proactive self- starter, excellent team player involved in the planning, co-ordination, and development within an establishment. Expertise spanning across a variety of core strategic activities and working through end to end of software development lifecycle, lead from a position of influence, often taking a servant-leadership stance and passionate about Agile principles and framework (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe,). Currently seeking a position where expertise, experience and enthusiasm will bring immediate value.

Skills summary: Stakeholder Engagement, Agile ceremonies facilitation, GAP Analysis (As-Is, To-Be), SWOT, PESTLE, MoSCoW, Team performance, Conflict resolution, (UML)Use cases (Diagram), Functional and Non-Functional, Backlog management, BDD, TDD, CI/CD, Swim Lane Diagrams, Impact Assessment. Tools: Jira, Confluence, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), SharePoint, Slack and MS Teams.

CAREER SUMMARY

April 2020 - Date

Scrum Master HELPMEWAKA/ Laurel, MD

Working within a newly adopted Agile Environment, from conception to deployment, on multiple Projects within the organization’s Programme, as Part of the ongoing Digital Transformation initiatives to enhance User experience.

• Helped the team inspect and adapt processes

• Facilitated all ceremonies

• Tracked, measured and reported transformation metrics to key stakeholders

• Ensured scrum is understood and adopted by the entire team

• Resolution of conflicts through focusing on scrum values of openness and respect

• Responsible for the removal of impediments within and external of the team

• Identified and improve dependencies to achieve sprint goals

• Reduced the cultural fear of change

• Empowered the team through servant leadership

April 2018 – March 2020 PANDORA

Scrum Master

• Worked alongside teams of DevSecOps Engineers, Ui developers, Data Engineers to build a public cloud platform

• Worked across squads within and outside the US. Facilitated all Agile ceremonies and ad hoc meetings with the cross functional teams.

• Attended Scrum of Scrums (SOS) with lead squads and some contributing squads, with all the critical stakeholders to remove major impediments and create better alignment and clearer end-to-end view of all the entities involved in the value chain. Also ensuring dependencies are better planned for and managed

• Made sure backlog items reflect sprint goals

• Facilitated a Value Stream Mapping exercise in an effort to eliminate waste and improve current processes through gaining visibility from when a story is considered ready and taken on by the team to Done

• Active in supporting communities of practices to promote all agile ceremonies including, backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives

• Facilitate example story mapping to better understand the story correctly, break into smaller stories if needed and help achieve the definition of ready for each story, preventing rework and help define acceptance criteria August 2016- April 2018 Vomoz.net

Scrum Master

• Worked in a distributed team, with the aid of collaborative tools and meticulously adhering to the agile principles, facilitated agile ceremonies, working closely with the Product Owner and development team to build the product backlog, determine priority, team velocity and the use of historical data on velocity to ensure high value delivery of sprint goals and release schedule.

• Worked collaboratively with the Product Owners and digital solutions architect, identifying pain points at the various customer’s touch points, gathering requirements, defining personas and mapping customer journeys to ensure the business vision and technical vision of the product are correctly aligned to deliver customer centric business value.

• Ensured the development team update their progress on the scrumboard as well as their sprint burndown on the Burndown Charts – making project status and progress transparent.

• Coached team members on the adoption of the agile practice, promote process improvement as an ongoing discipline and encourage team-building opportunities for effective collaboration

• Facilitated all Agile ceremonies with emphasis on retrospectives for continuous improvement.

• Organized and maintained project team SharePoint site, ensuring required documentation are posted for team member access

Jan 2015 - August 2016 UBA

Project Coordinator/Scrum Master

• Manages changes to the project scope, schedule and cost using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated reflective of authorized project changes.

• Breaking down Epics into User Stories

• Ensured prioritization of backlogs in order of value working alongside Product Owners

• Attended all Agile ceremonies

• Worked with Product owner to refine product backlog

• Managed and mentored an entire Dev team

• Worked with Business Architects in building organization’s capability model

• Ensured Testing’s focus on documented acceptance criteria

• Mapped out all the current state, produced data flows (GAP Analysis), helped to identify what needs to be achieved in order to close the gap Jan 2010- Dec 2015 Subadom Global Resources

Project coordinator

• Assist the PM in keeping Track of the Project Budget in an excel spreadsheet

• Scheduled meetings with all project team via GoToMeeting

• Managed changes and ensure effective communication among project team members

• Facilitated project planning and scheduling across individual projects.

• Tracked Project milestones, Schedules and Deliverables

• Reported to managers the development of the project. Education and Training

IMO STATE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance

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