EVELYN AKWA

SCRUM MASTER / PRODUCT OWNER/ SAFE AGILIST

Tel: +1-214-***-**** adslla@r.postjobfree.com

“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" Project Management, Waterfall & Agile, Strategic planning, Process Improvement, Cost Estimation, Automation, Dependency & Risk Management, Information Radiator, Continuous Improvement, Agile Coaching, Product Roadmap & Development, Agile Maturity, Change Agent, Human Centered Design

6 years of experience, expert in agile and waterfall methodologies known ability to produce high-quality deliverables

Solutions-driven Business Analyst/Scrum Master leading cross-functional teams and driving Business Consulting, Process Innovations, Risk and Compliance, Product Development, Application Technology

End-to-end Project Management including stakeholder engagement, project feasibility, benefits value mapping, team management, risk/change management, delivery reports

Ability to influence, persuade, lead and motivate the team and project sponsors in order to achieve the various goals and objectives of the project, excellent interpersonal skills, capable of developing effective relationships across the department and engaging with the people in effective way to deliver outcomes.

Collaborative leader, proven ability to lead and develop teams, who works extremely well in dedicated and matrix team environment and cross functionally.

Translated business requirements and/or initiatives into a conceptual solution described through Epics and Stories and application of abstraction to ensure the right level of detail to the key stakeholders.

Performed the Scrum Master role managing cross-functional teams, bringing transparency and facilitating events - Sprint Planning, Estimation Workshops, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Fun Retrospectives.

Stakeholder Engagement

Requirements Lifecycle

User Stories and Process Mapping

Budgeting & costing

Project Documentation

Quality Assurance

Project Scheduling

Team Management

Risk/Change Management

Automation

Process improvement

Business Intelligence

Cross Functional Supervision

Sprint Planning

Estimation Workshops

Daily stand-ups

Sprint Review

Retrospective

Technology Summary

SDLC Methodologies

Agile Management Tools

Scrum, Agile, Waterfall, Kanban

JIRA, Confluence, Miro, Ideaboardz, Story Mapping, Capacity Planning, Skill assessment, Agile Maturity, Risk register, Dependency mapper, Remote collaboration, Fun retrospectives

CSM

Scrum.Org

Experience

MPHASIS DIGITAL RISK FEB’20 – TILL DATE SCRUM MASTER Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap

• Worked effectively within the Scrum Team to remove impediments and track them in Jira

• Guided the team through continual improvement process and best practices.

• Facilitated scrum master community of practices.

• Ensured conducive environment which fostered self-organizing and self-managing team.

• Empowered the Scrum team with regular inspect and adapt opportunities

• Encouraged the Dev team to keep sprint backlog up to date

• Facilitated all Scrum Events including the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog Refinement. Workshops with stakeholders.

• Assisted in defining and deploying the forward order processes and facilitated the continuous improvement of the existing process.

• Created Epics, Features & Stories for the team in Jira and assisted Product Owner

• JIRA admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL..)

• Planned and tracked sprints closely and helped the team to focus on commitments & delivery

• Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to the teams and management

• Organized & facilitate Team and organization Agile maturity

• Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games techniques and closure of action items on improvements

• Reflecting and radiating the metrics like burn down chart progress, quality, and velocity continuously to the team and various stakeholders

• Prepared various dashboards in Jira which reflects risks, dependencies, impediments

• Helped Product owner with effective management of Features, Epics, Stories and prioritization

• Ensured INVEST criteria is met for all the user stories in backlog

• Effectively supporting the Delivery Squad through changes in objectives and re-prioritization of requirements.

• Applied human centered design (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Implement) SOURCEPOINT MORTGAGE JUN’2015 – FEB’2020 SCRUM MASTER/ PROJECT MANAGER Responsibilities:

• Effectively guided scrum and Kanban teams

• Creating working agreements, establishing, and helping the teams by all means to achieve their Sprint Goals

• Facilitated retrospectives using innovation games

• Educated and coached the teams on usage of Jira & Confluence tools

• Took ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony

• Helped Product owner with effective management of backlog

• Ensured INVEST criteria is met for all the user stories in backlog

• Ensured the teams are adhering to the DOR and DOD criteria

• Optimized workflow efficiency, lead the ceremonies and ensured smooth delivery

• Educated and ensured Agile/Scrum implementation methodology, practices, values and framework are adhered to by team members, while resolving impediments by coordinating and collaborating with cross-functional team

• Assist in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments, removing roadblocks to their work

• Coordinated with the scrum team in Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Review Meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings and Backlog Grooming meetings

• Contribute to ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile and Traditional Project Management

CHARTER COMMUNICATION AUG’2014 – JUN’2015 BUDGET SPECIALIST/PROJECT MANAGER

• Co-ordination of project implementation and execution in accordance with project specifications.

• Direct supervision of field and Office staff seconded to Mobile Switching Centers (MSC) creation projects.

• Reporting to the Local Project Manager on status of ongoing projects.

• Working with the Field technical Manager on quick solutions to blocking points in normal project execution.

• Creation of Planning Schedules, delivery requests, work orders, etc. for customer operations.

• Mediating with Sub-contractors for supplies and technical services. EDUCATION

• September 2002-June 2008 – University of Lagos, Yaba, Lagos state - B.Sc Business Administration

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