Scrum Master Product Owner

professional Summary

Result driven Scrum Master with 5+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams in the development, documentation, and delivery of process innovations driving the attainment of business goals. Experienced in facilitating, coordinating, defining, and planning all project-related activities in system development life cycle (SDLC) utilizing waterfall Agile/Scrum framework

TECHNICAL SKILLS

JIRA Confluence MS Office Agile Scrum MS Visio MS SharePoint Azure DevOps Kanban

Professional Experience

Scrum Master TheKey Technology, Houston, TX April 2020 - Present

●Eliminate impediments that were obstructing the team from achieving sprint goals, helped the team remain creative and productive, while making sure its successes are visible to the Product Owner.

●Thorough understanding of the way project activities contributes to achieving strategic business goals and operational objectives.

●Setting up the project area and multiple team areas using the Agile project management tool (Jira).

●Managing the user administration, roles, access permissions and maintain the team dashboards and artifacts.

●Working closely with cross-functional teams and resources to achieve program and project milestones within established timeframes.

●Partner with key stakeholders and senior leadership in laying the foundation necessary for transforming to a Lean Agile Enterprise.

●Assist the Lean Agile change agents in providing guidance to the teams around developing value-driven culture and adopting Lean Agile practices.

●Facilitate various planning meetings aimed at building the roadmap of development work.

●Facilitate workshops for the decomposition of product Features into technical User Stories.

●Work in partnership with other Scrum Teams, Agile Release Trains and Value Streams as needed for planning and release management

●Facilitate Iteration events, Coach team on Agile mindset, Values and Principles and develop Self Organized and high performing team

●Create dashboards, generate reports for the team and Product Management.

●Manage and optimize the flow of work through the teams and capture via Kanban

●Foster a positive work environment that demonstrates commitment and trust amongst the teams and across functions.

●Identify areas of inefficient processes, counterproductive practices, wasteful activities and work on eliminating them.

Scrum Master Unified Technology, Houston, TX May 2017 – March 2020

●Coordinated all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint retrospectives, Sprint Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.

●Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%.

●Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

●Protected team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives.

●Met goal of addressing and resolving impediments within 24 hours.

●Managed the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment.

●Coordinated and manage code releases and shared APIs with other IT groups.

●Communicated with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

●Scheduling and allocating work, providing advice and guidance, and resolving problems to meet technical performance and financial objectives

●Coached and mentored Junior Scrum Masters on our program team. Partnering to ensure that our Agile ways of working are consistent across teams

●Assisted in defining and deploying new product development processes and in facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes

●Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress.

●Conducted system demonstrations for stakeholder feedback and validation, facilitates UAT, and conducts end-user training.

●Contributed to Agile environment and applies best practices through cross-functional collaboration.

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Bachelor of Computer Science. B.Sc

Osun State University, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria.

Certifications

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

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