Scrum Master Data Entry

Damian Ngurukwem

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with 5 years of experience and proven track record of building agile best practices in corporate organizations. Facilitated and supported teams in project management environments. Proven history of successful work with cross-functional teams. More than 10 years of experience in project coordination, organizational management, leadership, coaching, business analysis, business operations management, change strategy, business improvement, and research. AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Communication and Project Facilitation Problem Solving and Data Analysis

• Extraordinary Communication skill Mentoring and Coaching

• Agile Planning and Estimation Collaboration and Conflict Resolution

• Sprint Planning and Strategic Development Enforcing Scrum Practices and Values

• Removing Impediments Forecasting and Budget Management

• Customer service and Servant leadership Detail Oriented and Decision Making

• Cross-functional Operations Management Agile Community of Practice (CoP)

• Azure, Rally and JIRA Application of Scrum Practices and SAFe CAREER EXPERIENCE

Texas department of Criminal Justice (Consultant) Hondo,Texas July. 2017 – Sept 2022

Scrum Master Sr.

• Facilitates scrum events and uses Jira, rally, and Confluence to manage activities.

• Clears project impediments that could slow down the team’s progress.

• Coaches two teams in self-organization and cross-functionality behavior.

• Helps teams to boost their productivity and performance through motivation and transparency.

• Helps teams to understand scrum values and principles, and scrum implementation.

• Trains teams on how to write well-defined stories and features.

• Leads teams in building infrastructure.

• Makes necessary changes to increase the productivity of the scrum teams.

• Boosts up the communication and collaboration amongst the team members.

• Helps product owners formulate techniques for effective product backlog management.

• Ensures the product owners know how to arrange the product backlog to maximize value.

• Facilitates PI planning event meetings for teams.

• Supports product owners to understand agile practices and principles.

• Creates sprint and PI goals and helps everyone involved to understand the process.

• Imparts the understanding of product planning in an empirical environment.

• Supports teams to onboard new team members: Orientation, Support tools and processes, Mentoring, and Feedback mechanism.

• Understands productivity management - task management, backlog refinement, burndown metrics, and team velocity.

Justeen Pharmaceutical Limited Lagos,Nigeria

Agile Project Manager Feb. 2014 – June 2017

• Organized daily scrum, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo, and decision-making processes.

• Managed conflict resolution by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.

• Facilitated events and used azure to oversee scrum boards and team daily progress.

• Managed the numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which is based on evidence and reliable source.

• functionalities in cloud environments.

• Coached individuals on agile scrum practices and interacts over processes and tools.

• Helped to determine project estimation, budget, and timeline with business.

• Shielded the team from outside distractions and interferences.

• Ensured the correct use of scrum process.

• Tracked and remove impediments.

• Facilitated every process with the team for better creativity and improves the efficiency of the development team.

• Helped the product owner to make the product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for the next sprint.

• Knowledge about Agile techniques like: User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing and Automated Testing.

• Understood the needed commitment to deliver products on time.

• Understood the value of metrics and incremental delivery.

• Understood tasks, backlog tracking and refinement, burndown metrics, velocity, user story writing, and so on.

CPA NOVO Enterprise Lagos, Nigeria

Project Manager Jan 2012 – July 2014

• Assisted Sales team in coordinating scrum activities on daily basis.

• Incorporated agile scrum for sales teams, built agile corporate culture, achieved able scrum sales teams, who increased their sales rates up to 50%.

• Maintained strong relationships and demonstrated excellent teamwork.

• Provided recommendations for improvements based on surveys and customers’ feedbacks to management, operation, system development and business process departments.

• Removed impediments for sales teams and management.

• Participated with management and cross-functional teams as subject matter expert to develop and improve operating policies and procedures.

• Constantly refined and stayed current with emerging themes in larger Agile community.

• Developed and modified processes, policies, and procedures to facilitate the working relationship between Global Technology and its business functions / partners. ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• IT and Agile Skills: High proficiency with Data Entry, Windows Operating Systems, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook), SAFe/Agile Scrum, and Kanban.

• Agile Project Management Software:

JIRA, Rally, and Azure.

• Language: Fluent in English (read, write and speak). Business and Management Skills:

• 8 years in data and business management analysis with effective client communication.

• Solid interpersonal Skills – able to establish strong working relationships.

• Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team(s).

• More than 10 years of process co-ordination, planning and delivery, and team building.

• 7 years of experience in scrum framework: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and user, stories.

• Ability to set clear performance standards, and hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged and on task.

• Highly organized with the ability to multitask.

EDUCATION

Lagos State Polytechnics, Lagos, Nigeria 2008 - 2011 National Diploma in Business Management

CERTIFICATIONS

• Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

• SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

• Licensed insurance life agent

RELEVANT SKILLS

• Team Player: Demonstrates cooperation, positive behavior, and commitment to the overall success; creates strong morale in a team; shares wins and successes.

• Results Driven: Performs the job to achieve a high level of quality, productivity, and service; dedicates required time and energy to the position to ensure that no aspect of the work is neglected.

• Coaching: Coaches and empowers teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally.

• Scrum: 5 years of experience in agile framework methodology. Commented [u1]:

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