Scrum Master Pharmacy Assistant
Resume:
NINA AYIWE
CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER
****.*****@*****.**.**
SUMMARY
I drive change in business through coaching and servant leadership. I have excellent people skills enabling coaching and the constant removal of impediments. I have a strong belief in promoting high levels of communication, collaboration, and teamwork, whilst coaching teams’ Agile principles, leading to greater efficiency, increased morale, and iterative development. Versatile working in a waterfall/agile environment using scaled agile, scrum, or Kanban frameworks leading multiple development teams into high performance.
A team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management, and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with a background in communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows. I have brought creativity, enthusiasm, and a strong ability to build and manage relationships to the roles that I have worked. My inquisitive nature, proficiency in independent initiatives, and experience in teamwork and leadership have allowed me to maintain a successful track record in business and socially responsible projects. The only thing that is constant is change, as Scrum Masters, we are agents of change, and personally, I value learning and kindness.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
MSc. Pharmacy
BSc. Pharmacy
University of Hertfordshire
University of Hertfordshire
EXPERTISE AND CORE SKILLS
Effective Facilitation Prowess
Servant Leadership
Conflict Resolution
Makes Work Fun
Impediment Remover
Great Relationship Builder
Leading Change
Patient and Assertive
Friendly Communicator
Empiricism Approach
Scrum, XP, Lean and Kanban
Jira, Confluence & Microsoft Packages
Coach with an Attitude of Empowerment
Reporting Team’s Status
Understands People
Scaled Agile – SAFe & Nexus
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
NPOWER Scrum Master (Feb 2019 – present)
Motivating the team members to drive events or suggest different techniques to run each event whilst supporting the facilitation of decisions and providing guidance.
Enabled and encouraged an environment where agile values and principles set out in the Agile Manifesto thrive well to increase trust in the team. This helped them become a more self-organized, collaborative, and productive team.
Set up recurring stakeholders and product owners’ meetings to share product insights to allow alignment so the value needed to be delivered can be optimized better.
Facilitating the Scrum events, refinements, and Scrum of Scrum
Helping teams resolve impediments, protect them from distractions by resolving certain impediments at times to keep them focused and deliver products with high value
Steering the teams towards increased collaboration, transparency, Agile mindset, and a culture of the experiment, inspection & adaptation.
Coach and mentor the teams with a focus on empathy and engagement, ensuring the teams are motivated and inspired.
Ensuring adherence to Agile processes by the Scrum/Kanban teams
Identifies and eliminates intra-personal conflicts among colleagues
Exchange feedback along with the means of improvement
Uses no control or command but influential techniques to guide others in work or collaborate better in the team and outside the team. E.g. was able to influence the development team to try technical practices like pair programming and test-driven development.
Caused changes that increase the productivity of the scrum team
Save The Children UK Scrum Master (June 2016 - Feb 2019 )
•Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
•Provide support to the team using a servant leadership style, and lead by example
•Protect the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on the product backlog sprint timeline.
•Remove team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables and maximize productivity.
•Work closely with the Product Owner, coordinating product backlog refinement, story estimation, and sprint planning.
•Monitor the sprint progress and circulate the information to stakeholders.
•Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
•Coach team members on Agile principles and provide general guidance on the methodology
•Continuously learning Agile/Scrum techniques and sharing findings with the team
•Engage with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum
LOCUM Prime Agency Dispenser (Sep 2014 – June 2016)
Community Dispensing medicines for accuracy check by the pharmacist
OPD dispensary service with the North-east London NHS foundation trust (NELFT) mental health hospitals and community clinics
Helping the multidisciplinary team with medical information
Sorting out monthly dosette box for delivery.
BOOTS Pharmacy Assistant (Jan 2012 - Sep 2014)
Helped with the daily running of the pharmacy
Accepting deliveries from drug companies and replenishing stock supply
Date checking and stock rotation
Assisted the pharmacist in bagging and handing out medication to patients
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