Scrum Master Delivery Manager

JOSEPH KOJO OSEI-KUSI

Mobile: 347-***-**** • ******.********@*****.***

Engaging Agile Practitioner and servant leader with a passion to inspire, coach and mentor teams to perform at their best. Skilled and experienced working with both waterfall and agile methodologies, helping high performing agile teams in developing and implementing high quality software solutions. My professional expertise includes team building, agile transformation, project risk management, conflict resolution and data analytics. Possess a strong background in Cybersecurity and a proven record of industry experience which helps me add even more value to technical teams.

Skills

● Agile Frameworks (Scrum, SAFe, Kanban)

● Data collection

● Stakeholder management

● SDLC

● Documentation management

● MS OFFICE Suite: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access

● Waterfall-to-Agile Migration

● Servant Leadership

● Team building & mentoring

● Conflict Resolution

● Tools: Jira, VersionOne, Confluence, RTC, SLACK, SHAREPOINT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Walgreens

New York, NY

Scrum Master Feb 2019 - Present

Facilitates various scrum events such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

Ensures the development team were practicing the core agile values and principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, visibility, and transparency.

Communicates with management and stakeholders on the progress of team development.

Capable of implementing Kanban into the Agile processed as a response to rapidly changing business requirement priorities

Helps teams identify and remove impediments detrimental to team's success and sprint goals.

Protects the scrum team from outside interruptions and distractions; Support the team by helping them manage agile tools

Aids development teams during their agile transformation journey by creating workshops and setting training sessions

Liberty IT Solutions LLC

Herndon, VA

Agile Lead/ Scrum Master Feb 2018 – Jan 2019

● Worked with product teams providing support and maintenance for web applications used within

Liberty IT Solutions.

●Facilitated various scrum events such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint

reviews and sprint retrospectives.

●Communicated with management and stakeholders on the progress of team development.

●Aggressively worked with development teams, quality assurance teams, designers, and

management to ensure & deliver the most valuable products

Aryan Technologies Solutions LLC

Somerset, NJ

Junior Scrum Master/ Risk Analyst March 2016 – Jan 2018

● Led multiple teams with diverse team members and planning meetings for the teams and ensured proper coordination between On-shore &Off-shore team members.

●Worked alongside Agile coach throughout the Agile transformation journey while helping build teams

●Created and maintained team reporting such as sprint review decks, roadmaps, dashboards, burndown charts, control charts, Kanban metrics and various other reports.

●Worked with the agile operations team to help evangelize agile practices to the remainder of the company

●Conducted meetings with Delivery manager, PMO & the Tech led to discuss the Release status.

●Conducted security assessment interviews to determine the security posture of the system.

●Facilitated Security Control Assessment (SCA) and monitored activities.

●Led the application with Agile practices for teams, including planning and guidance for daily

stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective meetings and provide

summaries of teamwork at internal reviews and demos.

●Tracked roadmap, dependencies, evolution, and develop a plan for mitigating risks and delivering

features that meet the requirements across multiple products.

POAM Remediation: Performs evaluation of policies, procedures, security scan results, and system settings to address controls that were deemed insufficient during Certification and Accreditation (C&A), RMF, continuous monitoring.

Security Documentation: Perform updates to System Security Plans (SSP), Risk Assessments, and Incident Response Plans, Create Change Control procedures, and draft Plans of Action and Milestones (POAMs).

CERTIFICATIONS

●CompTIA Security +

●AWS Cloud Practitioner

●Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

●SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

EDUCATION

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY ~ Ghana

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science

Language

English- fluent

French- fluent

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