Scrum Master Product Manager

ABANG JOHN EMMANUEL

SCRUM MASTER

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I have 6+ years of experience as a value-driven Scrum Master skilled in leveraging different agile methodologies in facilitating and optimizing the value delivery process of development teams, both at the team and program levels. Servant-leader experienced in transforming teams to high-performing, self-organizing teams, propelling them to higher levels of agile maturity. Passion for serving teams working with on-premise and cloud infrastructure and platform. Extensively worked on projects, products and programs involving Migrating Customers Applications, Databases and Datawarehouse to AWS Cloud Infrastructure, providing customers Agile and Waterfall methodologies solutions to guide and lead customers DevOps solutions for successful application deployment and just in time feature releases.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with a Servant Leader style for helping teams adopt Agile and drive

continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Strong team leader with the ability to influence team and negotiating the prioritization with product owner and Dev team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS, PROFICIENCIES & TOOLS:

Project Methodologies

Scrum, Kanban Frameworks, Safe Waterfall, Scrumban, TDD, BDD, FDD

Business Applications

Microsoft Office Suite – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Note

Project Management

MS Project, Teamwork project, MS Excel, Smartsheet, Clarizen

Application Lifecycle Management

Jira, Rally, confluence, Version One, Azure DevOps Sever (TFS)

Operating Systems

MS Windows, Unix, Linux, MAC, Amazon Linux, Redhat, Ubuntu, CentOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fifth Third Bank – Independence, OH Oct’ 20 – Present

Scrum Master

Assist teams in implementing Scaled Agile practices in collaboration with the entire ART in value delivery efforts on mobile banking application.

Plan and facilitated various scrum ceremonies at team level.

Uncover and manage impediments, dependencies and risks and helped the teams proactively resolve them.

Track team progress on Jira using metrics like velocity, burn-down, and Lead Time etc. and encouraged continuous process optimization.

Continuously challenged teams to adopt new techniques and best practices such as ATDD, TDD, Continuous Testing & process automation.

Help in swift resolution of conflicts, enabling teams focus on achieving PI objectives.

Work with cross-functional teams to ensure teams attain higher levels of maturity through coaching and periodic evaluations.

Work on migration projects: one between applications and another moving an application from on-premise to the cloud (AWS).

Serve as a senior team member responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of agile processes, principles and practices.

Organize and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, estimation, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, burndown tracking and other Scrum-related meetings.

Assist the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements.

Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.

Assist team members in identifying, prioritizing and either clearing or escalating impediments

Protected team from outside interference, removing impediments especially red tapes.

Promote environment and culture of experimentation and innovation.

Ensure Agile adherence and consistency while maintaining teams' abilities to be self-directed.

Train teams and conduct workshops in the application of agile and lean principles in software and IT.

Facilitate a culture of openness, transparency, experimentation, honest introspection, continuous improvement, learning and sharing.

Assisted Product Owner in organizing and prioritizing the product backlog.

Encouraged management to promote decentralized decision making.

Fidelity Investment Cleveland, OH Jun’ 18 – Oct’ 20

Scrum Master

Coached team on the benefits of adopting Scrum and Agile best practices.

Planned and managed team's capacity for each iteration.

Leveraged scrum metrics such as burn-down and velocity charts in evaluating team's performance.

Ensured that teams attained higher levels of maturity and self-organization.

Helped the team focus on achieving the sprint goal by protecting team from internal and external distractions.

Facilitated delivery process by helping to remove impediments facing the team.

Ensured that all team ceremonies were productive.

Travellers Insurance (fidelity investment) – Aug 2015- May 2018

Scrum Master/Product owner

Coached team on the benefits of adopting Scrum and Agile best practices.

Planned and managed team's capacity for each iteration

Assist the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements.

Provide high-touch and hands-on team guidance, support, and coaching in close cooperation and collaboration across all roles and functions, to facilitate increasing maturity at a sustainable pace.

Assist team members in identifying, prioritizing and either clearing or escalating impediments

Protected team from outside interference, removing impediments especially red tapes.

Promote environment and culture of experimentation and innovation.

EDUCATION

Madonna University,Nigeria.

Bachelor of Science, Engineering 2011.

CERTIFICATION

Certificate of Completion Presales Management – IT Solutions & Service Providers – June 2018.

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