PRINCE UDEAGHA. (CSSM) (CSPO).

Washington DC-Baltimore Area

443-***-**** adukzx@r.postjobfree.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/prince-udeagha IT Business Analyst Product Owner SAFe Scrum Master SUMMARY

Highly Resourceful and certified Business Analyst Scrum Master Product Owner. With over six years of experience in technology infrastructure and software development life cycle (SDLC) using agile principles and values. Adept agile mindset leader, promoter, facilitator, team motivator, and collaborator.Expert at sculpting self-organized teams focused on relentless improvement and continuous software delivery in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments. Versed in system analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and documentation. Experienced in requirement elicitation techniques such as interviews, document analysis, and brainstorming.

Extremely detailed-oriented in leading efforts to effectively communicate and collaborate with both external and internal stakeholders in analyzing information needs, User acceptance testing, and end-user training. Fast learner with the ability to understand, implement and support new system design, data models, and functional components of a software system in a professional work environment whilst ensuring user requirements are met with extensive experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously while delivering quality results that meet the highest client satisfaction. Earned several promotions due to exemplary work performance Competency/ Skills /Tools

• SDLC

• Product Ownership

• Scrum

• Requirement Management

Plan

• User Stories

• Acceptance Criteria

• Requirement Analysis

Gathering

• Backlog Refinement

• Regression Analysis

• User Acceptance Testing

• Communication skills

• Kanban

• Azure DevOps

• Process Data Modelling

• Quality Assurance

• Jira

• Swim Lane

• Wire Frame

• Collaborative Skills

• Snag IT

• Process Flow Diagrams

• Slack

• Mock-ups

• Confluence

• Use Case Modelling

• Change Management

• MS Office Suites:

• MS Project, SharePoint

• Target Process

• Gap Analysis

• Lucid Chat

• JAD

• SQL

• Microsoft Office Suit

• Microsoft Visio

• Microsoft Teams

• AWS DevOps

• Interpersonal skills

• Analytical Skills

• Azure DevOps

• Waterfall

Methodology

• Project Management

Agile Methodology

• Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Business Analyst Scrum Master Product Owner AUG 2016 - Present USA

Information Technology Business Analyst.

Responsible for eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops and Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions, business process descriptions, and workflow analysis.

• Facilitates the Joint Application Development (JAD) Sessions and Requirements Gathering sessions with Stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and System Owners to capture business rules, processes, and system requirements for various projects.

• Collaborates with Developers and Subject Matter Experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.

• Leads the effort to effectively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders and product owners to analyze requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional Requirements Document, Business Requirements Document, Use Cases, Process Flow Diagrams, and Mock-up screens.

• Works independently with users to define concepts and clarify Functional and Non-functional requirements daily.

• Manages the user story backlog by ensuring that the backlog items are appropriately groomed, prioritized, estimated, and ensures that the team fully understands what needs to be delivered.

• Participates in daily stand-ups with the Scrum Master and the development team. Ensure the sprint is progressing as decided and acceptance criteria are completed at the end of the Sprint.

• Gathers Requirements during the inception phase, documented and delivered functional specification documents, and assisted architecture analysis and design using an in-house application and Snag IT.

• Responsible for defining the scope of the project, gathering business and system requirements, and documenting them textually or with models.

Scrum Master.

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings and weekly review meetings as a Scrum Master. • Organized special Collaborative KT sessions with the Team and SMEs that were necessary to help resolve the issues.

• Facilitated the Sprint Planning, Review & interactive Retrospective meetings at the beginning and the end of each sprint cycle.

• Led the daily scrum meetings and tracked workflow in the sprint cycle as it progresses

• Identified, cleared, and escalated the impediments/Dependencies/Risks faced by team members.

• Guided the team’s operations by facilitating ceremonies (e.g., daily stand-up, sprint planning) and instilling Agile principles into daily activities to ensure the smooth functioning of the delivery team.

• Facilitated internal and external communications (e.g., task coordination, progress tracking/reporting, dependency management).

• Worked with the development team to drive team velocity.

• Managed and planned development team capacity.

• Coached and trained the development team and business stakeholders on the Definition of Ready and Definition of Done as applicable.

• Coached and mentored the development team members on Agile methodologies.

• Responsible for providing written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.

• Worked with the Product Owner to ensure user stories meet the acceptance criteria of DOR

(Definition of Ready) and DOD (Definition of Done).

• Enacted change and continuous improvement, increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 25% and the quality of deliverables by 35%

• Worked closely with Product Managers/ Product Owners in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Junior Business Analyst

• Identified business and functional needs, planned and designed processes based on client’s business needs, and interpreted to the Technical Teams.

• Created and managed development artifacts (use cases, user stories, process flows, diagrams, requirements, technical specifications, high-level approaches, as needed)

• Defined Stories and prioritized the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the Features or components for the scrum team.

• Produced timely and high-quality requirements-related work products, including requirement specifications, process flows, mock-ups, and wireframes.

• Worked together with the project manager in tracking and managing the project development process following the Agile-based Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process EDUCATION

BSc Agric-Economics WAEC

Michael Okpara Federal University of Agriculture, Enuda High School, Abiriba, Abia State. Nigeria Umudike, Umahia, Abia State. Nigeria

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 5.1) Scrum Master Certified Scrum Product Owner

(CSPO) CERTIFICATE ID: 149*****-**** CERTIFICATE ID: 331********

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