Scrum Master Senior

Bassey J. Udoh

LEAN SAFE CSM

Address: Oakland California

Phone: 470-***-****

Email: ************@*****.***

PROFILE

As a highly result driven, motivated & Certified Scrum Master with wide background on Project Coordination, I have unique experiences and extensive knowledge of the Agile Scrum Process spanning over 7 years which utilizes practical agile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban. I am a strong motivator, coach and influencer with effective servant leadership and communication skills capable of transforming any team to become highly productive, self-organizing and value driven.

CORE COMPETENCIES

•Hands-on experience of agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® 5.0 and Lean.

•Working knowledge with development teams to implement the DevOps mindset and dimensions of Business Agility.

•Excellent understanding of agile principles and practices such as XP (CI, Test First; TDD, ATDD, Refactoring, Pair Programming, Collective Code Ownership, etc.

•Experience coaching agile mindset shift and behaviors across multiple scrum teams including Senior Leadership.

•Experience in collaborating with stakeholders to manage their expectations and engaging them to address project issues.

•Experience working with agile collaborating tools like Jira, Confluence, Rally and Versio

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION

•Project management professional (PMP)

•Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

•Public Sector Accounting (University of Manchester)

•Post Graduate Diploma (Public Administration)

TECHNICAL & PERSONAL SKILLS

•Agile

Frameworks:

Scrum, Kanban, Programming, SAFe, LEAN Collaboration:

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Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) ATDD TDD Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Automated Testing

•Frameworks

Backend: Python, .NET, Java,

Frontend: React, Angular, iOS, Android

e-commerce: Magento, WordPress, Big Commerce

UI/UX:, Adobe Xd, Photoshop, Illustrator

•Personal Skills

Adaptability Communication Leadership Teamwork Flexibility Analytical Planning and Evaluating Problem Solving Resource Management Networking Change Agent

EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Kaiser Permanente

Oakland, California

Scrum Master

. [03/2021 – Till date]

•Led and directed team members in innovative project implementation processes to streamline workflows.

•Led the facilitation and implementation of the Program-Increment (PI) Planning, Retrospectives and Backlog Refinement to decompose prioritized Features into User-Stories.

•Conducted Iteration-Planning to identify User-Stories selections for the next iteration based on priority and capacity.

•Summarized Iteration-Objectives into PI-Objectives, get Business-Value assigned to individual User-Stories in Jira&JIra Align to track & monitor Iteration and progress of team and remove impediments to the Development Team’s progress.

•Recorded and reported Performance Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for Software Development Team. Manage the opening and approval tracking for Service Now requests for lower environment and Production deployments and close projects in Version One after successful deployment.

•Defined metrics to measure how the Scrum & Kanban teams are doing; to drive growth, customer satisfactions and continuous improvements

•Coached the Scrum teams on story estimation, task definition, Definition of Ready & done while ensuring high value requirements are delivered faster.

•Proactively identified and removed impediments that could serve as blockers

Provided support to the teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master/ Agile Coach

Wells Fargo. Contract- Atlanta Georgia [03/2018 -03/2021]

●Served as a scrum master to Multiple teams and as a coach to the organization at large, educating them on scrum theory, practices, rules, and values.

●Supported the Agile teams, product owners, delivery team, testing teams on enterprise-level Agile transformation in a hands-on change leader environment.

●Worked with a SAFe train to common make sure we are working towards a goal.

●Worked closely with Product Owner, Product Manager, RTE on Prioritized backlog, issues, risks, dependencies

●Coached the Scrum teams on story estimation, task definition, Definition of Ready & done while ensuring high value requirements are delivered faster.

●Proactively identified and removed impediments that could serve as blockers

●Provided support to the teams using a servant leadership style and leading by example.

●Ensured that development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

●Motivated and protected the teams from external disturbance to ensure they stay focused on delivering potentially shippable product increment every week.

●Helped build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear

●Facilitated discussions and help resolve conflicts

●Assists Product Owner in ensuring requirements are better expressed as independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small and testable user stories

●Ensured transparency of the product backlog, sprint backlog, burn-down & burn-up charts and communicates team overall progress tracking burn down/burn up metrics, velocity, and productivity.

●Encouraged team knowledge sharing and collaboration through designs sessions, programming pairing, code reviews, around knowledge silos to reduce risks

●Research ways of becoming more agile and sharing the knowledge with the teams

Bluewave Computing

– Atlanta Georgia [July 2016 – March 2018]

Scrum Master

Project Coordinator

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•Shadow the Senior Scrum master while Coordinating several related Projects and facilitating the networking of different Teams

•Conducted Iteration-Planning to identify User-Stories selections for the next iteration based on priority and capacity.

•Summarized Iteration-Objectives into PI-Objectives, get Business-Value assigned to individual User-Stories in Version One, track & monitor Iteration and progress of team and removed impediments to the Development

Team’s progress. Recorded and reported Performance Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) for the Software development Team Team.

Managed the opening and approval tracking for Service Now requests for lower environment and Production deployments and close projects in Version One after successful deployment.

•Defined metrics to measure how the Scrum & Kanban Teams are doing; to drive growth, customer satisfactions and ensure continuous improvements

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