Scrum Master Time Delivery

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

I am a committed and exceptional servant leader to high performing teams of employees, contractors, and partners to deliver high quality products with over (5) years of experience applying knowledgeable expertise of Scrum and Agile principles, practices, and values. I have demonstrated tremendous success in facilitating team events to implement and improve Agile methodology. I relish facilitating trainings, coaching, and mentoring individuals, teams, scrum masters, product owners and leaders on how to transform themselves to work more effectively with more agility and fostering communities that provide sustainability for Agile transformation. I am a critical thinker, strongly motivated, adaptable, and versatile with a reputation for integrity and accustomed to supporting and managing multi- functional teams. My focus and passion are assisting teams in unlocking their full potential in creating sustainable outcomes and ensuring teams are self-organized and operate at optimal performance.

EDUCATION

2000 - 2005 Ambrose Ali University Benin, Nigeria.

BSc. Biochemistry. (Evaluated by WES).

2015 - 2018 Walden University Maryland, United States.

MPH. Public Health, Epidemiology.

2018 – Expected 2023 Walden University Maryland, United States.

PhD. Epidemiology.

SKILLS

Expertise in Scrum, Agile methodologies, Agile Project Management, Agile and Waterfall Methodologies, Agile Leadership and SDLC.

Demonstrated expertise in data systems like Jira, Kaban, Confluence and SharePoint.

Expert in data analytics, Microsoft excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft word, Microsoft office, power point and copy writing.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Safe 5.0 Scrum Master.

Professional Scrum Master (I&II).

Certified Professional Project Manager (CPPM).

Doctoral Student Researchers.

EXPERIENCE

2020 - Present CoreVest Finance Irvine, CA.

Project manager/ Scrum Master

Support the self-organizing, self-managing team to achieve its daily and iteration objectives.

Facilitate the teams assessing and planning for risk.

Facilitate the teams and relationship with internal and external stakeholders.

Track and utilize agreed upon metrics to drive meaningful conversations and improvement opportunities.

Coach Agile team in self-organization and cross-functionality and promote Agile mindset.

Protect the team from interruptions and distractions to clear a path for throughout.

Foster a positive environment for the Agile team to continually improve and learn.

Continuously learn new approaches to facilitation, Agile best practices and how to improve team dynamics.

2018 - 2020 Fifth Third Bank. Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Scrum master

Assisted product owners and project managers in preparing and refining the backlog for program increment as well as sprint planning.

Mentored my team, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution, and transparency.

Supported the team through servant leadership in bringing them to a self- organized state.

Trained team members on the agile mindset, processes, and frameworks.

Identified and removed impediments that interfered with the Scrum Team’s ability to deliver the sprint goal.

Led and coordinated the daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demo, sprint retrospectives and backlog refinements resulting in on-time delivery rate of 97%.

Collaborated with product owner to manage the product backlog, ensure user stories are refined, understood, and accepted by the development team during the backlog grooming meeting.

Coached the Scrum team on user story writing, story slicing, story estimation, prioritization, definition of ready and done to deliver high volume product.

Coached the team on Agile principles and scrum framework to enable iterative delivery value.

Practice and encourage Agile mindset and behaviors; coach, inspire and mentor teams on Agile principles, values, and practices while role modeling leadership behaviors.

Lead the application of Agile practices for a single team. Practices may be Scrum and/or Kanban based.

Actions often include visualizing work, limiting work in progress, managing workflow, planning and guidance for daily stand- ups, sprint planning, short, mid, and planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings.

Ensure progress toward objectives, KPIs and commitments; guide assigned Agile team to deliver the required product increments and outcomes.

Identify opportunities to improve team-level Agile performance; focus the team on customer value, quality, and continuous improvement activities.

Utilize learnings and best practices in furthering the effective use of Agile practices.

2017 - 2018 Space Coast Credit Union Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Scrum Master

Support the teams focus on delivery of high valuable stories on a predictable, sustainable cadence.

Facilitate the teams assessing and planning for risk.

Facilitate conversations between Product Owner and team regarding rebalancing and reprioritizing work within a sprint.

Ensure Product Owner has backlog prioritized for each iteration.

Facilitate open communication among team members and stakeholders; promote positive team dynamics to ensure members collaborate and work effectively.

Build and leverage effective alliances across other teams and the technical and business.

Guides and coaches a team on Scrum practices across Anthem devops team. Facilitates Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Demos/Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives).

Facilitates scaled planning for the team (for example, Pre-Planning/ Preparation and PI Planning Events) and represent the team in Scrum of Scrums/ART Syncs.

Helps the team define norms/agreements, like a Definition of Ready and Definition of Done, and enforce the agreements.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

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