Ego Ahaneku

917-***-**** adqwr4@r.postjobfree.com Queens, NY

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Professional Scrum Master specialized in leading high-performing teams from product development through successful product release. Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience in coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies

Skills

Agile development and best practices, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Asana, Microsoft Office Suite,User stories, Servant Leadership, Prioritizing, Organization, Communication, Risk Management, Change and Time Management, Negotiation and Analysis, Strategic & Operation Planning, Conflict Resolution, Stakeholder Engagement, Process Improvement.

Key ACHieVEMENTs

Coordinated with 20+ business stakeholders, product managers, and development and testing lead to prioritize deliverables.

Trained three traditional waterfall teams transforming to agile scrum. Overcame challenges of distributed teams by creating best practices and increasing velocity by no less than 3% sprint by sprint between 2018-2019.

Led and coordinated a scrum team of 7 people spread throughout the US and Canada, following the Agile methodology. Planning priorities in a 3-months basis delivering cross-functional outputs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Spectrum, NC Sept 2019– Present

Scrum Master

●Manage functions pertaining to promoting continuous improvement and help the team increase productivity and foster innovation

●Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of feature

●Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders

●Facilitate and coordinate user story interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet the delivery schedule

●Coach and perform the role of a servant leader across multiple Onsite and offsite scrum teams on Agile best practices

●Meet and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to establish project scope, system goals, and requirements

●Undertake daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are being met

●Keep an objective perspective on issues and troubleshoots by applying agile principles

●Hold stand-up meetings with cross-functional teams to review project status

●Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Walgreens, NY Mar 2016 – Aug 2019

Scrum Master

●Supported Product Owner with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready

●Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

●Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving

●Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality

●Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders.

●Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize

●Determined the team capacity (velocity) from historical data and creating the Work Breakdown structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

●Updated senior management on the progress of my team through Burndown Charts and monitored quality through metrics.

●Successfully guided 3 development teams through transition from waterfall to Agile development.

●Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives. Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts.

●Experience in managing Cloud transformation

Citi Bank, TX Jan 2015 – Feb 2016

Project manager/Scrum Master

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

●Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.

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

●Guided and coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

●Actively coordinated engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders.

●Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities

●Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Medical Jan 2011 – Nov 2014

Project Coordinator/project manager

●Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.

●Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.

●Develop project plans and budgets, works with users to understand complex problems, and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timeline

●Achieved cost control objectives and clarified service parameters through clear statements of work and project classification systems.

● Developing best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics

●Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.

●Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.

EDUCATION

B. Pharm

Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

pROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS/ MEMBERSHIPS

Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) – Scrum.org

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

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