PERSONAL DETAILS
Full name: Dominic Oguda
E-mail: *************@*****.***
Phone numbers: 929-***-****
PERSONAL STATEMENT
A seasoned Scrum Master with a passion for helping my team grow, and a proven track record of delivering high-quality software within various industries, on time and within budget. I have developed a wide range of communication and interpersonal relationship skills throughout the years that has aided growth as a team player and a servant leader
AREA OF EXPERTISE
•Experience with SAFe Agile methodologies.
•Experience in conducting requirement gathering and technical documentation development.
•Versatile with PMI PMBOK, SDLC methodology and AGILE methodology.
•Knowledge of other Agile practices like Kanban and XP.
•Experience in version one, JIRA, Rally, Salesforce and TFS.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Methodologies: AGILE SDLC
Standards: Project Policies / Procedure / Compliance
Software Skills: Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project 2003, 2007, 2010 & 2019
2013, Project Server, MS SharePoint, MS Visio, Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence, Version1, Salesforce, Miro, Rally, Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub, Linux.
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION
Bachelor of Science in Medical Biochemistry (WES evaluated) - University of Benin, Edo, Nigeria. 2016
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Leadership, Ethics and Civics (LEAP AFRICA)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Beta consulting (Optimum Healthcare IT) Florida Sep 2021-till date
Scrum master/Project Manager
•Generating reports to keep both the Internal and External stakeholder to keep them informed of the development.
•Supported the Product Owner with documentation of User Stories and Acceptance criteria
•Clearly articulate the delivery plan vs the tracking the actual plan.
•Develop, manage, monitor, and report on all project/program tasks, activities, expectations, controls and deliverables; and/or provide management and oversight.
•Ensure the team has enough backlog refinement to ensure there’s a collective shared understanding among team members prior to sprint planning.
•Create a tailored capacity planning for the team to track time off, planned vacation, possible risk, average velocity which will be used to plan the sprint.
•Keep standup and SCRUM calendars accurate: Holidays, and time-off.
•Help Remove Impediments and Visualize Flow.
•Ensure all stories meet invest criteria and conforms to the Definition of Ready checklist.
•Ensure only Committed User Stories are put into "Defined/Committed".
•Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to Agile delivery methodologies, standards, and tools.
•Ensure backlog remains healthy and necessary for the business.
•Listen and effectively communicate with clarity and transparency.
•Implement at least two lessons learned from each sprint retrospective into follow-up sprint to make continuous improvements in processes and with people.
•Protect team from over-commitment, manage and prioritized backlog.
Beta Consulting (Amazon) NY December 2019 - August 2021
Scrum Master/Project Manager
•Manage, Monitor and report on all projects, risk, bugs, activities, expectations, and releases and provide management oversight.
•Provide help to the team by making sure the team is focused on the committed stories.
•Design working agreement with the team and also ensure its updated regularly
•Keep standup and SCRUM calendars accurate: Holidays, and time-off.
•Help Remove Impediments and create a visualized flow on a spreadsheet of the status of the risks and impediment.
•Develop a sprint report and Scrum team status report at the end of the sprint.
•Ensure the team stays focused on the commitment of the Program increment.
•Ensure only Committed User Stories are put into "Defined/Committed".
•Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to agile delivery methodologies, standards, and tools.
•Ensure backlog remains healthy and necessary for the business needs.
•Listen and effectively communicate with clarity and transparency.
OPUS TECH (MTN) Nigeria January 2018- October 2019
Project Manager/Scrum Master
•Manage a team of 20, and guided through the transformation journey from traditional method to Agile framework
•Provide help to the team by ensuring all proper documentation and requirements.
•Design working agreement with the team to provide guidance to the team.
•Keep standup and team calendars accurate: Holidays, and time-off
•Help Remove Impediments and Visualize Flow.
•Develop a sprint report and Scrum team status report at the end of the sprint.
•Prevent Impeded Stories from being moved to In-Progress and how much is unplanned work being done.
•Ensure the team is constantly improving and providing proper coaching to the team.
•Understand, apply, promote, and contribute to agile delivery methodologies, processes, and tools.
•Ensure the backlog remains healthy, emerging businesses are updated in the backlog and valuable to the business needs.
•Listen and effectively communicate with clarity and transparency.
VCONNECT Nig Ltd. Nigeria, August 2016- October 2017
Digital Marketer
. Work with the digital agency on campaign ideation, creative strategy, targeting, segmentation, budgeting across SEM, display and social advertising channels.
. Assist with managing google analytics, both tactically and strategically to understand our online digital experience across the website and digital advertising channels.
. Monitor market and digital space and present new marketing ideas.
. Track performance of all online campaigns.
. Monitor market and digital space and present new marketing ideas.