Uchenna A. Eluwa
Camby, Indiana
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Summary
A Certified scrum master grounded in software development with extensive experience in the information technology space and an effective leader with a track record of transforming, nurturing, growing, grooming, and coaching teams to become high performing agile teams through sustained continuous improvement.
Skills
Training, Coaching, and mentoring
Agile Methodologies (SAFe, Scrum, Scrumban, Kanban,
Jira and Confluence
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Microsoft dynamics 365 (ERP)(CRM)
Continuous improvements
Agile Project Management
Excellent interpersonal/communication skills
Scaled Agile Framework
Education
B.Eng. Electrical/Electronic Engineer- Enugu State University of Science and Technology
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
Professional Scrum Product Owner(PSPO)
Certified SAFe ® 5 (SSM)
Experience
The Tech Edge Group LLC March 2020 till Present
Scrum Master (Contract)
Facilitates all the Scrum ceremonies. Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective.
Identify, analyse, and track risks and opportunities while implementing ideas to spice up Scrum ceremonies.
Facilitates teams as they successfully migrate a legacy system to AWS cloud.
Revamping the client’s website making it more user friendly and accesible.
Works with other Scrum Masters to promote the adoption of Agile and scrum in the Organization.
Removes impediments that hinders the team from achieving their Sprint goals.
Share responsibility with Product Owner for building reusable and product backlog
Strong communication and leadership skills.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a cloud-based business applications platform that combines components of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP),
With Microsoft 365 dynamics,it helps to bring More Visibility and Flexibility to Employees & Help Them Take Action Quickly. Get the Right ERP Solution For Business that Brings all Processes Together.
Help new team to come up with baseline estimate of their velocity, until historical data is gathered.
Encourage improvement games during team building e.g. Kahoot and Hackathons games etc.
Coordinates with development teams to map out dependencies.
Act as a Servant Leader and scrum master to multiple teams.
Experience in SDLC (Software development life cycle).
Strong leadership, decision making, relationship management, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills
Leads and drives the Lean Agile mindset of continuous improvement and elimination of waste.
March Consulting Inc
Scrum Master/Business Analyst (Contract) June 2018 – February 2020
Liase with stakeholders/business oweners on new product and requirement
Cordinate with Dev team on priorization, its technique,user stories,characteristics of a good user story.
Coordinated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
Worked with Product owner and teams on Artifacts such as Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog.
Guided the scrum team and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activity to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
Managed risks to the successful completion of the project. Identified, classified, prioritized, mitigated, and developed contingency plan for risks appropriately.
Identified and communicated milestones to project teams and provided project status updates to stakeholders and senior management team.
An expert in estimation and planning. Expert knowledge of how to create useful, reliable and practical plan for software development projects.
Ensured the correct use of scrum process.
Wells Fargo January 2017 – May 2018
Scrum Master (Contract)
Support the Product Owner with grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
Guide teams through story selection and task definition.
Guides the scrum team and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
Optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
Coached scrum team to deliver capabilities using agile practices.
Drove Scrum adoption across all levels in the organization.
Maximized the benefits of scrum and aided business agility with scrum values.
Identified blockers to teams’ productivity, protected teams from interruptions and distractions and ensured teams are healthy and able to execute the vision of the Product Owner effectively and efficiently.
Monitored the overall performance and delivery of cross-functional teams using agile metrics such as burndown/burnup charts.
Provided support to teams using servant leadership method and kept teams to be focused and on track.
Worked with teams to ensure capabilities are delivered within the sprint and the objectives of shippable functionality are achieved.
LogistiCare July 2016 – December 2017
Product Specialist (Contract)
Develop product ideas based on customer interests /demands.
Identify customer problems and offering a solution
Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a cloud-based business applications platform that combines components of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP)
Liase with stakeholders/business owners on new requirement
Liase/Cordinate with scrum master on prioritization,backlog grooming.
Meet with the scrum team on features of a good user story
Coordinate prototype submissions with relevant personnel for approval
Perform market analysis on competing products and brands
Analyze market and industry trends and conditions
Conducting thorough market research, which may include taking surveys, doing desktop research, sending emails, and making calls, and even attending product launches of rival companies.
Answering all product-related questions in a polite manner and addressing queries promptly.
Collaborating and strategizing with the business and engineering teams.
Attending workshops and refresher courses in sales and marketing.
Planning and assisting with new product releases and events.
Performing product demonstrations for customers, staff, and other stakeholders.
Assisting with the development of business plans.
Scheduling training sessions and attending meetings as required.
Identifying new market opportunities and relaying this information to the Manager and other relevant stakeholders.
Making helpful product recommendations and suggestions to increase revenue.