Amaka Chibuoke

Summary

A certified Scrum Master with over 5 years of agile technical experience in the IT, financial and healthcare industries. Experienced coach of multiple co-located and offshore cross functional teams, with expertise in scrum, end to end project implementation, requirements testing, and project delivery of projects budgeted up to $25M. Continuously delivering value to organizations, with my leadership and coaching skills, I have influenced teams and stakeholders, resolved conflicts, and implemented processes increasing efficiency and business value up to 20%.

Technical Skills

Agile values, principles, and frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), Agile transformation

Project management, planning, assessment, and implementation

Software development life cycle, Software documentation, Test Management.

Defect tracking, Dependency management, Process Adherence, Process Improvement,

Soft Skills

Technical team leadership, conflict resolution, communication, collaboration.

Tools

Jira, Trello, Rally, Miro, MS Suite, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Projects, Confluence, Slack, Notion, Air table.

Education And Certifications

Professional Scrum Master 2020

Certified Project Management Professional 2017

Rivers State Polytechnic, Mechanical Engineering 2002

Professional Experience

Stripe Sept 2017- Current

Sr Scrum Master

Facilitated a software team of software engineers, designers, and quality engineers, building web and mobile applications successfully delivering increments using best agile practices.

Utilized the Scrum framework and facilitated all Scrum ceremonies for the teams: Daily Stand Up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review Meetings, Retrospective.

Successfully Coordinated diverse offshore teams to ensure synchronization and compliance with scrum values enabling an improvement in effective Product Increment delivery.

Engineered release capacity planning, tracked sprint and release progress in JIRA.

Utilizing Rally reports to plan the sprint and keep track of the project.

Positively Influenced stakeholders and vendors, mitigated, or escalated risks/issues as needed.

Delivered monthly releases consisting of new features, enhancements to existing features, and technical upgrades.

Proactively monitored Sprint Burndown and Release Burndown Chart to track the team’s velocity and sprint progress for forecasting.

Collaborated closely with Product Owner in Backlog Refinement and creating/ refining user stories achieving a continuous delivery of goals and milestones.

Andela Feb 2010 – Aug 2017

Scrum Master / Sr Project Manager

Led 2 cross-functional teams in all aspects of the agile SDLC, ensuring smooth transition from waterfall to agile: and implementation of scrum from planning meetings to retrospectives.

Developed program-level dependency tracker, covering all workstreams allowing me to forecast and identify impediments and potential blockers.

Co-ordinated the team in all aspects of innovation and improvement initiatives for the Organization’s Digital Channel in the U.S. and Canada.

Worked with implementation partners and other financial services vendors to coordinate application build-out and cross-team dependencies.

Organized and facilitated agile scrum ceremonies, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and bug triage meetings.

Adopted Jira in administration of projects and in tracking and generating key agile metrics for reports and progress.

Utilizing Rally reports to plan the sprint and keep track of the project

Helped in developing a more trusting, collaborative, and transparent team environment where problems could be raised without fear of blame or being judged with a complete focus on problem resolution.

Tracked, managed, and escalated impediments to allow the team to deliver on committed sprint goals.

Optimized teams’ velocity by incorporating capacity planning during sprint planning and helping team members improve estimation with planning poker many other rotated fun methods.

Konga Technologies Jul 2005 – Mar 2010

Project Manager

Built consensus through collaboration and influence teams as an authority on the Agile methodology.

Coached the Scrum team in self-organization, cross-functional skillset, domain knowledge and communicated effectively, both internally and externally working within the Scrum team.

Worked with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, leadership visibility, appropriate prioritization, and to keep the backlog healthy and prepared for execution.

Maintained product backlog and release plan and facilitate productivity by setting up meetings and removing impediments that may obstruct the pursuit of the team's sprint goals.

Assessed and effectively managed all the risks associated with their business objectives and activities

Konga Technologies Oct 2002 – Jun 2005

Business Analyst

Created Agile-type tracking system for the Support and Stability team and centralized tasks, to create reporting and metrics for the team enhancing data sharing and overall improvement in communication up to 30%.

Facilitated effective communication across teams, product owners and external vendors/stakeholders.

Developed detailed estimate of the level of effort, schedule, and budget necessary to successfully complete the project.

Performed measurement and risk analysis to minimize risks and optimize returns.

Coached and mentored teams to be self-organizing and deliver product increments with little supervision.

Collaborative team environment for team members quest to bring up problems without the fear of being blamed or judged

Reduced company expenditures and met budget targets by closely monitoring, tracking, and controlling expenses.

Maintained positive customer relationships by responding quickly to customer service inquiries.

Directed merchandising, promotion, and brand loyalty efforts for business segment with greatest sales volume.

Assessed supplier quality to maintain tight cost controls and maximize business operational performance.

Analyzed and interpreted store trends to facilitate planning.

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