Scrum Master Information Technology

STEPHEN EMEKA

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Scrum Master

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Scrum Master with over 6 years of experience in delivering advanced technologies for Healthcare IT retail multinational clients.

Extensive knowledge of Agile (SAFe, Scrum and Kanban) which has been used in helping teams transform old unvaluable practices.

Experience In helping team improve process by breaking old organizational silos.

Excels in adapting to a dynamic environment with constantly changing requirements while coaching and developing self-organized teams.

Trusted advisor, creative problem-solver, and skilled communicator.

Respected team player who successfully helps without diminishing commitments, collaborates with others and is a servant leader of teams.

Transformed waterfall teams into high performing, cross functional, Agile teams (SAFe, Scrum, Lean and Kanban).

Outstanding communicator interacting effectively with management, distributed teams, vendors.

ACHIEVEMENTS.

Within 6 months of working with both companies I was able to help teams reduce the technical debt backlog, by introducing the practice of allocating 20% of team’s capacity towards it.

Successfully introduced the concept of ongoing Demo, that way customer feedback is gathered to have a successful product pushed to prod with few or not bugs nor tech debts.

Introduced the concept of Mid sprint review where I conducted and assess the team’s commitment towards meeting sprint Goals, that way the team can inspect and adapt so as not to end up with carryovers or a crashing sprint.

Technical SKILLS AND SPECIALITIES

Agile project management

Visual management

Scrum, SAFe, extreme programming, Lean, Kanban, Coaching and training

Agile software development

Continuous delivery

Continuous integration

Agile release process

Facilitation and team building

SDLC

Tools

Confluence Miro, Azure DevOps, SoapUI. selenium test framework, Java, angular, DB2, SQL, Jira team Rally, Mural, Planit poker

EDUCATION

MBA, Business Intelligence & Data Analytics, Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC - Ongoing

B.S Information Technology, America Military University, Charles Town, WV - 2020

LICENSE AND CERTIFICATION

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Scrum Master

Cape Fear Medical Center, Fayetteville, NC May 6, 2019 – Present

Proactively coached teams daily while persuading teams to seek for alternatives methods of delivery when faced with blockers.

Observe and coached product owners and the development team members during scrum events

Assist product owners and teams by helping them remove team and organizational

impediments.

On daily basis I identified areas of continuous improvement and immediately sought ways to address them

Own and facilitate all scrum ceremonies (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review/demo, retrospective and backlog refinement)

Used Jira to pull relevant information by use of Labels, components to keep track of work.

Drive continuous improvement of agile practices by conducting periodic agile maturity assessment, using the Agile measure and grow.

Used different techniques of retrospective to get teams engage and promote deep thinking.

Participate proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, test-driven development, refactoring, continuous integration/continuous deployment to keep the team cross functional.

Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership where I help team set long term goals, think beyond their day-day activities.

Prevent distractions by identifying, coordinating, communicating, and removing impediments as needed.

Captain of the ship where I kept details about every important update, changes to teams committed goals

Take responsibility for managing dependencies between the Scrum teams and others, collaborating within the Scrum Master network especially regarding items necessary for product release

Facilitate bi-weekly scrum of scrums (SOS) and driving conversations on cross team risks and dependencies.

Work with the system infrastructure team to coordinate quarterly releases, working to ensure all systems are safe and uninterrupted.

Scrum Master

Department of Agriculture, Reynoldsburg, OH August 14, 2017 – February 22, 2019

Evaluated team's growth and sought ways to keep them high performing.

Used knowledge transfer sessions, pair programming and knowledge share sessions to get teams T shaped and cross functional.

Constantly monitored Jira board making and checking comments to stay updated with team's progress.

Guided teams to triage and work bugs based on severity and followed up on hot fix approvals.

Tracked teams' dependency using dependency Kanban board clarity and excel sheets.

Keeps track of important team releases by doing release planning, reports ongoing progress towards releases.

Adequately keeps teams focused on milestones and prod releases, reporting and risk around this to upper management.

Facilitates teams' efforts during Breakout sessions, coaching teams against anti pattern of over committing

Proactively helps in managing dependencies during PI planning, keeping track of program board.

Ensures Action items after each meeting are properly implemented and followed up

Scrum Master

Davita Dialysis Baltimore, MD March, 16 2015 – July, 28 2017

Maintained relevant metrics to help the team monitor their performance.

Encouraged continuous improvement in engineering practices to improve code quality and delivery.

JIRA tool is used for Agile Scrum to track the team activities

Foster close cooperation across all team members; encourages cross-training and team support

Build a trusting and safe environment where problems may be raised without fear of reprisal

Actively coach other leaders, peer roles, and individual contributors on continual improvement, growth mindset, and maturing current Agile adoption. Cultivate a team culture/environment of continuous learning and improvement.

Administer metrics tracking and other means to aid team in overall planning and team throughput

Leverage advanced understanding of Lean-Agile metrics (health, value, flow, and quality) to help teams continually improve. Assesses the Agile maturity of the teams.

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