Imuetinyan Ugiagbe

Baltimore, MD

347-***-****

advnzg@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary:

Seeking a challenging Scrum Master role to utilize my 5 years of experience in coaching and mentoring teams, leading and motivating cross-functional teams to achieve product goals, and implementing agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, SAFe) for delivering high-quality results. With my strong business analysis skills and ability to translate business requirements into effective solutions, I am confident in my ability to ensure key stakeholders receive the right level of details for successful product delivery.

Skills:

Professional Certifications:

Professional Scrum Master 1 - Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Master 2 - Scrum.org

Leading SAFe (5.1) – Scaled Agile Framework

Work History

Sr Scrum Master, 01/2022 to Current

Audacy Inc

• Manage projects in JIRA, Confluence, and Smartsheet; providing software training to team members as needed redirects

• Coach teams in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets, support Product Owner with pre- planning, backlog creation and refinement, and track and communicate within Agile

(SAFe) Framework

• Identify and remove impediments, creating tracking plans such as burn down and burn up charts

• Coaching and corrective action to improve team dynamics, performance, and quality of deliverables directly within teams within their scope of responsibility and Scrum Masters

(Agile Coach)

• Business Development Jira Agile

Methodologies Scrum Kanban Project

Management Coaching Servant Leadership

Team Building People Management Leadership

Scaled Agile Framework Azure Slack

Smartsheet Confluence Risk Identification

• Backlog Management

• Web Development Technologies

• Agile Best Practices

• Acceptance Criteria

• Customer Interaction

• Impediment Resolution

• Clear obstacles and protect teams from distractions, over-committing, and scope creep

• Promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and responsibilities

• Facilitate vision, roadmap, release and sprint planning, and other team ceremonies

• Facilitate distributed project team and all aspects of agile/scrum development, including daily stand ups, iteration release planning, demos, and retrospective

• Ensure cross-functional coordination between Product Owners, Analysts, Developers, and QAs

• Capture and drive robust feedback and communication loops across teams

• Facilitate team events and ceremonies with teams: daily stand-ups, end-of-iteration retros, iteration reviews, sprint demos

• Work with team and Product Managers to maintain a rich backlog, facilitate estimating, story pointing, and holistic decomposition

Scrum Master, 02/2019 to 01/2022

Spotify:

• Supported Product manager/Product Owner to draft User Story, Groom User Story and Prioritize User Stories Facilitate Scrum Ceremonies; Daily Stand Up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review Meetings, Retrospective.

• Protected the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

• Built a safe and trusting environment where conflicts are managed in a healthy way without fear of blame.

• Educated and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members.

• Directed and led development team from project initiation through delivery of final product. Manage and prioritize team member’s daily tasks based on deliverables.

• Collaborated with the development team to ensure they first understand the customer’s requirements and deliverables for each Project and Maintenance Request.

• Managed ongoing communication with stakeholders to ensure their expectations are aligned regarding the development, delivery, and timely completion of their requests

• Participated in program implementation (PI) meetings Sr. Scrum, 04/2016 to 02/2019

Spectrum

• Led Agile delivery and digital transformation for Secure customers payment gateway platform

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.

• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.

• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.

• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.

• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.

• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.

• Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.

• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.

• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.

• Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.

• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical Development Manager, 04/2014 to 07/2016

Spectrum

• Analyzed business processes to identify functional gaps and points of external integration

• Ensured that teams are effectively executing against the highest value priorities Studied

• Participated in product development planning and product intake while providing key insight based on predictive modeling which helped PM, PO, Dev

• Team build product for the customers

• Worked with business owners, clients/customers, and stakeholders to observe processes, needs and practices to come up with a model, plan, and goals to help achieve business needs

• Created presentation on Scrum theory, practices, rules, and values and ensured the process was followed

• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective Meetings

• Documented, implemented, monitored & enforced all processes for testing as per standards defined by the organization

• Identified and removed impediments for Scrum team and lead the teams’ efforts towards continuous improvement

• Defined product marketing communication objectives

• Provided senior leadership with analyses & reports of research for customer products and responded to questions and requests

Business Analyst, 06/2011 to 03/2014

Citi

• Projected analysis, documented business requirements, detailed issues, and risks, drafted business processes, and data flows

• Coordinated with various areas of operations, Middle Office, Finance, Technology, and Senior Management to build business requirements, procedures, and processes

• Performed Data analysis, data collection, synthesis, and translation of results Identified gaps between requirements and drive resolution of mitigating controls

• Partnered with training and communications with teams to adopt change management/ training plans and appropriate communications related to project delivery and training

• Developed and implemented solutions that strengthen business operating models, enhance the client experience, and improve efficiency and controls

• Worked with business partners to design and implement enhancements in process re- engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree: Business Administration and Management Cazenovia College

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