ANTHONY OHA JR.

Scrum Master Mobile: 832-***-****

Email: adrgx4@r.postjobfree.com

Location: TX

Summary of Core Qualifications

•Over 5+ years of experience in Scrum, Mainframe development and leading mainframe projects to successful completion with quality, on time and budget using SDLC and Agile Methodologies.

•Certified Scrum Master and Scaled Agile Framework Practitioner with extensive experience in Agile methodology.

•Extensively experienced in business analysis, design, programming, debugging, testing, release management and quality assurance.

•Extensive experience in mainframe application batch and online programming and testing using Mainframe languages, relational databases, and tools.

•Develops creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations.

•Highly adept in training Product Development teams on agile mindset, processes, and frameworks.

•Possesses keen ability to develop and analyse team metrics to help understand process improvements to increase overall productivity and support teams to understand the JIRA & Confluence systems.

•Accomplished servant leader and Certified Scrum Master with extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle, Agile and Waterfall framework processes, Systems Testing, Integration, Training, Documentation, and implementation in fields such as finance, healthcare, and software development

•Bringing forth the ability to determine product specifications, production timelines, and in-depth plans for product development.

•Ability to direct, monitor the strategy, work with engineers, external & internal stake holder partners and maintain the technical roadmap of the products.

• Demonstrated Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle, having thorough understanding of the phases such as Requirement gathering, Designing, Building/Development, Testing, Deployment. Knowledge about the Agile and Waterfall framework processes.

•Highly skilled in Scrum practices such as Sprint planning, Backlog grooming, Daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint Retrospective, Velocity, Estimation.

•Experience with the fundamentals of iterative software development by virtue of having a development background dealing with concepts including technical debt and clean code.

•Strong negotiation and influencing skills. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

•We would like someone to join our team who is a motivated self-starter, logical, has creative problem-solving skills and excellent analytical skills.

•Familiarity with the use of Rally, JIRA, and other Agile tools.

•Strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills and assisting Product Owner in writing user stories, prioritize Product Backlog Items (PBI) and facilitating meeting between Scrum team, product Owner

•Excellent interpersonal abilities, Communication skills, time management and team skills.

Professional Experience

Epsilon, TX

September 2019-Current Role: Scrum master

Key Responsibilities:

•Document Team Impediments when reported and make sure they are addressed as soon as possible. Facilitate Stakeholder Question and Answer session.

•Coach product owner on writing user stories and assigning business value to them

•Track how team is getting close to the sprint goals and guide discussions around adjustments to the team’s committed plan.

•Facilitate Sprint Planning sessions. Create an agenda for Sprint Review/ Demo Meetings

•Document team definition of done and review best practices with the team ensuring criteria such as change tracking, automated acceptance and regression tests, revision control, code reviews and technical best practices are adhered to.

•Work with the team to formulate a plan for demos prior to meeting time.

•Protect the team from external interruptions from stakeholders or management.

•Support product owner, the team by understanding the product vision.

•Track and Communicate sprint status with management and other corporate stakeholders.

•Help team with proper story sizing, and estimation process.

•Coach the team and product owner on Agile processes to ensure team is continually improving.

•Participate in the Agile/Scrum Community of Practice to introduce and continually improve agile processes within the organization.

•Coordinate Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, sprint reviews, daily scrums, Sprint retrospectives, and other needed meetings to help the team deliver

Environments/ Technology: Java, Angular JS, Testing Tools HL-ALM, ORACLE, API and Tools for Agile project management tools: JIRA, Confluence and MS Office, SharePoint, Azure devops, Agile Methods Safe Enterprise Framework TDD, Agile, XP, Kanban, Scrum

Synergy, TX

November 2018- September 2019 Role: Scrum master

Key Responsibilities:

•Collaborated with product owners and SCRUM teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint.

•Guided SCRUM team finalize Sprint Backlog during planning and communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the Release Train Engineer or Senior Management and other stakeholders.

•Ensured the team vacations and holidays reflected in available capacity/velocity and appropriate production and other support requirements are considered while determining the actual Sprint load.

•Scheduled and facilitated daily stand-up meetings. Epitomized the team at the Scrum of Scrums meeting to report progress.

•Communicated team’s plan/commitment to get back to the line Report impediments, if deviating from the ideal burndown for escalation, identify and share risks/concerns for review at program level.

•Facilitated retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint - ensured highest priority retrospective points are followed up on and closed out.

•Worked on SAFe Framework curriculum. Tested in different environment including web and mobile.

•Shielded the SCRUM team from outside influences and interferences to ensure that the team does not get distracted and stays focused on Sprint and Release Objectives.

•Motivated the team to strive for continuous improvement by implementing action items identified during retrospectives, acquiring new skills - both technical and functional and increases velocity by getting increasingly efficient.

•Facilitated Story estimation and help with detailed tasks creation. Met with system users to understand the scope of the projects

Environment: /Technology: Salesforce, ServiceNow, Java, ORACLE, HTML5, JavaScript, Angular JS, Python, SQL Server, Oracle, Azure Devops, ANT, Jira, BABOK, Agile, UML Agile Methods SAFe Enterprise Framework TDD, Agile, XP, Kanban, Scrum

BCBS, TX

January 2017- October 2018 Role: Scrum master

Key Responsibilities:

•Preferably coming from a technical background (application development, systems engineering, automated testing, production operations etc.).

•Deep understanding of Agile and Lean principles and how they underpin the Scrum processes.

•Mastery of Agile practices and tools.

•Organized process flows, maintenance, and Kanban boards in JIRA & Confluence systems

•Communicated with management and outside stakeholders. Helped protect the team from uncontrolled injection of work

•Enabled close cooperation across all roles and functions, addresses resource issues and deviation from Agile practices

•Applied Lean-Agile practices, such built-in quality, Kanban, continuous integration, and continuous deployment

•Removed impediments so the team can focus on the work at hand and follow Agile practices

•Support the Product Owner to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy intra-team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope

•Gathered inputs from operational metrics, employee feedback, and management direction to identify challenges and opportunities with “Change-over / Set-up” and production processes

•Social Skills and a good communicator. Strong interpersonal and team-working skills.

•A good understanding of the principals and practises of coaching.

•Demonstrate track record in delivering complex projects and/or programs with a strong focus on execution.

•Able to work effectively with dispersed, remote and global teams when needed.

•Experience with all phases of the software development lifecycle experience to include: Design, QA, etc.

•Development project life cycles and advanced project management skills.

•Self-starter, able to work effectively with facts and ambiguity.

•Strong Microsoft office program experience, including Word, Excel, and Access.

•Work effectively with Executives, Business Partners, Directors, and Product Owners.

•Have helped individuals, teams, and leadership to understand and apply Agile and Lean values, principles, and practices effectively.

Skills

•Agile Project Management

•Microsoft Office

•Agile Methodologies

•Lean Manufacturing and 5S

•Scaled Agile Framework

•Computer Aided Manufacturing

•Budget Management

•Process improvement

•Agile & Waterfall Methodologies

•Stakeholder Management

•Business Analysis

•Product Lifecycle

•Agile Leadership & Planning

•Removing Impediments

•Meeting Facilitation

•JIRA Azure Solid works

Education

•2018 Pima Medical Institute, Physical Therapist Assistant Associate of Physical Science, Physical Therapy Houston,

TX

•2007 Prairie View A&M University, Bachelor of Science Prairie View, TX

Certifications

•PSM1 – Professional Scrum Master

•Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Institute

•Certified SAFe Agilist

•Certified Product Manager

•CPR Certified

•BLS Certified

•Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant

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