Scrum Master Business Analyst
Resume:
Imuetinyan Ugiagbe
Baltimore, MD
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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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