Evelyn Egbuniwe

aduf3d@r.postjobfree.com

901-***-****

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATE

Certification: Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance. Bachelor of Science – Health Service Administration University Of Memphis, Memphis TN.USA.

CAREER OBJECTIVE

● Value-driven Certified Scrum Master through Scrum Alliance with over 5 years of experience in coaching and leading Scrum teams in a timely and incremental delivery of value. I have experience and passion for excellence in Scrum Mastery and removal of impediments.

● Strong facilitation skills in leading the daily scrum, planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.

● Proven ability to build constructive relationships and drive towards alignment and clarity with a variety of stakeholders, such as executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

● Excellent organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

● Ability to manage and execute on multiple projects simultaneously.

● Experience with Agile project management tools (Jira, Azure Devops, Confluence) and remote tools (Zoom, Teams).

● Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work under pressure to balance competing priorities in meeting business deadlines.

● Deep familiarity and understanding of Agile practices. SKILLS

Scrum Values & Principles •Coaching/Mentoring• Conflict Resolution• Team Empowerment• Backlog Refinement/Grooming• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)• SDLC• User Story • Sprint Planning •Sprint Review •Sprint Retrospective • Scrum Metrics • Kanban Highly Proficient in: Word ●Excel ●PowerPoint ●Outlook ●Azure DevOps ●JIRA ●Zoom ●Miro

●Confluence ●Microsoft Teams ●SharePoint ●WebEx ●Skype ●TFS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AUTOZONE

Scrum Master

August 2021- Present

● Working closely with Product Owner and developers to create, prioritize, and refine the product backlog.

● Ensuring that highest priority items identified during Sprint Retrospective are appropriately addressed.

● Proficiently organizing and facilitating Daily standup, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective while ensuring full team engagement.

● Proactively collaborating with other Scrum masters and Agile Coaches across the organization to resolve impediments and escalate those that cannot be resolved in our individual teams.

● Maintaining an open dialogue with Product Owner and development team members through recurring one-on-one meetings to coach on Agile best practices and principles.

● Encouraging pair programming and code refactoring to minimize technical debt.

● Facilitating discussions with the scrum team and establishing ground rules for scrum ceremonies.

● Training and mentors team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce waste.

● Assisting with internal and external communication to improve transparency and generate information radiators.

● Shielding scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity.

● Creating a fun sharing and learning environment, experimenting with various ideas to improve delivery.

● Practicing and encouraging Agile mindset and behavior.

● Working with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.

● Promoting an empowered and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestones.

● Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.

Regional One Health

Scrum Master

August 2019– July 2021

● Responsible for ensuring that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented

● Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement.

● Established a cross functional collaborative, supporting environment that led to an increase in high quality value delivered to our customers from 50% to 80%.

● Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.

● Coached product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding

● Facilitated discussions and conflict resolution while empowering teams to self-organize.

● Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

● Identified and removed roadblocks to teams' working progress.

● Promoted an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.

● Guided scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating.

● Monitored the pulse and morale of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.

● Provided direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices. Sandy Spring Bank

Scrum Master

January 2017– August 2019

● Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

● Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.

● Coached the team for continuous improvement at a sustainable pace for the organization.

● Collaborated with internal and external stakeholders to communicate transparently.

● Worked closely with the Product Owner to define, plan, and maintain the product backlog.

● Used agile project management tools to track team adoption and adherence to procedures and best practices.

● Delighted internal and external customers through frequent delivery of high-quality software.

● Facilitated timely delivery through effective team collaboration, decision making, and conflict resolution.

● Embraced a servant leader role across scrum teams and supported them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies.

● Actively sought and participated in a variety of learning opportunities such as Communities of Practice, conferences, classroom training and independent study to further develop self and community.

● Sustained an environment of collaboration and safety that creates value for the members. Jabil Circuit Inc.

Quality Manager.

July 2015– January 2017

● Supervised multiple projects from project start through delivery by prioritizing needs and delegating assignments.

● Gathered, analyzed, translated and delivered information in clear, concise and meaningful formats based on specific project/program requirements and according to established project management standards.

● Created and maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.

● Oversaw on-boarding and mentor-ship, planned and executed meetings and developed project documentation.

● Utilized talents in project management, organization and time management to successfully juggle simultaneous tasks and clients

● Offered data-driven recommendations aligned with overall company strategies and prioritized process improvement initiatives.

● Promoted project success and team member safety by coordinating proactive and thorough training programs.

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