Scrum Master Project Manager

FRANCIS O. ANYAEBOSI M.SC, PMP, SPS, PSM II, SASM, SSM, CSM

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER SCRUM MASTER

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA +1-609-***-**** ****************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/francis-o-anyaebosi

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Passionate, value-driven Agile program manager with experience leading cross-functional teams to research, plan, build, launch and manage high-visibility IT, telecom and world-class IaaS, SaaS innovations. Blend technology skills with extensive Project/Agile/Scrum/Kanban experience, a business orientation and analytical abilities to constantly deliver customer requirements. Partner with senior leadership to develop and implement innovative, enterprise-wide solutions to complex business challenges, prioritize and manage multiple projects within specifications and budget restrictions. Outstand communicator and business acumen.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

Program Management Leadership Change Management Stakeholder management

Project management IT Deployment Risk Management Coaching

Agile Waterfall Software development Budgeting Conflict Resolution

Scrum SaFe Process Improvement Teamwork Communication

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager Scrum Master Toptal – Remote, United State June 2020 – Present

• https://www.toptal.com/project-managers/resume/francis-obichukwu-anyaebosi

• Conduct project discovery calls to ascertain client project requirements and propose development teams and solutions in the form of a Discovery Document (Project Charter).

• Supported stakeholders in creating business proposals, business cases for strategic MVPs and calculating ROI.

• Coached on prioritizing requirements, validation of customer needs hypothesis, discovering customer value, MVP launch.

• Be the point of contact for external communications (e.g. from customers or stakeholders).

• Facilitating the team to self-organize; enabling continuous improvement of change and run activities, aligned to the product roadmap and customer expectations.

• Remove impediments and coach the scrum team on removing impediments and escalating issues opportunely. Senior IT Project Manager Augix Resources – Remote, Lagos, Nigeria Aug 2021 – Feb 2023

• Ensure objectives of the program deliverables are met as per the business expectation in terms of Quality, Cost, Schedule and project goal. Completed the Implementation of a new software system that improved efficiency and productivity, resulting in a 20% increase in revenue growth over the previous year.

• Negotiate resources, manage deliverable timelines, coordinate dependencies and evaluate change requests to be included within a release, ensuring enhanced system functionalities are made available to support core business processes.

• Preparing weekly status reports, attending staff meetings (AMS time zone), issue review meetings, etc.

• Track and report on budgets, timelines, progress and resource allocations as required.

• Coordinate change requests and attend CAB reviews with the local Delivery team. Knowledge of Change Management processes is a plus.

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• Developed Processes and procedures as well as Program Plan, Risk Assessment, Organizational Structure, Communications Plan, and Change Management Plan.

• Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders on agile projects.

Senior Project Manager Scrum Master InAllMedia – Remote, United State Feb 2022 – Dec 2022

• Proactively manage sponsor and stakeholder expectations throughout the project lifecycle.

• Driving development teams and engineering teams; and executing the program of projects against committed milestones.

• Manage and actively provide oversight of the execution of multiple project plans.

• Acts as a point of contact for project team members, collaborate with key stakeholders to manage the tactical execution process, from creation to delivery, of product engineering projects.

• Monitor scheduling, project flow, dependency mapping, planning and resource management from accepted concept through delivery for product engineering projects.

• Facilitate effective and efficient meetings including all Scrum ceremonies and daily stand-ups.

• Escalate and radiate impediments for resolution and assist with identifying and mitigating risk.

• Help identify external dependencies and assist the Product Manager and Engineering Managers in planning and facilitating the maintenance of the team backlog.

Senior Project Manager Product Manager Scrum Master Sterling Bank – Marina, Lagos Mar 2020 – Feb 2022 I successfully led a team of 30 employees to deliver a complex software project on time and on budget. I was able to streamline the process, identify inefficiencies, and implement strategies to increase productivity and reduce costs. I also developed a comprehensive training program to help stakeholders become proficient in the use of product. As a result, the project was successfully completed and the team achieved a high level of customer satisfaction.

• Proactively work with stakeholders, product manager and technical architects throughout an effort to define, groom, and prioritize scope to meet the given schedule, budget, and requirements, negotiating on budget constraints as necessary.

• Design, develop and maintain a detailed work breakdown of project milestones, deliverables and tasks to be accomplished for the initiative and ensure that tasks are accomplished on time and within budget.

• Coached Scrum Masters, Product Owners, project managers in transition, technology managers, and business managers on agile leadership that boosts employee commitment and engagement.

• Lead and handle program risks, issues, mitigation plans and continuous improvement actions.

• Ensured that project activities operated within the policies and procedures of the organization and complied with all relevant legislation and professional standards.

• Developed required processes, forms, and records to document project activities. Enterprise Project Service Technical Advisory Manager Huawei Technologies – Lagos Nov 2014 – Feb 2020 Managed concurrent, enterprise-level IT, telecom and software projects from conception to completion in a fast- paced acquisition environment and ensured that all projects are in accordance with customer's requirement while delivering on-time and within budget.

• Extensive technical knowledge of IT Program Management along with the ability to explain complex information to nontechnical personnel in an understandable way.

• Leading a project to streamline business processes and reduce operational costs, resulting in annual cost savings of $0.5 million for our customer.

• Experience serving as a liaison between business areas and technical aspects of complex projects.

• Developing solid, trusting relationships with clients, agencies, staff, peers, and management teams to facilitate efficiency and productivity.

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• Collaborate with internal and clients’ teams to evaluate, test and refine the end-to-end customer experience and ensure the quality and accuracy of all deliverables.

• Successful track record as Project Manager for IaaS, SaaS & PaaS projects.

• Cloud experience with Huawei Cloud solution and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Manager the delivery of 3 x Tier III Datacenter and 1 x TIER IV Datacenter. Associate Project Manager Senior IT Engineer Huawei Technologies – Abuja, Nigeria Oct 2013 – Oct 2014

• Managed large-scale mobile operator deployments for new rollouts and expansions, planning projects for MSC, MGW, and HLR core network nodes, including identifying and assigning resource requirements.

• Performed weekly and periodic project reporting, communicating status and escalating issues as needed. Project Manager IT Engineer FirstLogic Enterprise – Abuja, Nigeria Mar 2012 – Sep 2013

• Performed peripheral and network installation, configuration, maintenance, and upgrades as well as third-party hardware and software installs.

• Submitted status reports tracking deliverables against project KPI.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Information Technology – National Open University, Lagos State. Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Computer Engineering – Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State.

CERTIFICATIONS

Accredited Program Manager Certification™ (APGM™) Accredited Project Manager Certification™ (APRM™) Project Management Professional (PMP) Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) SAFe Advanced Scrum Master Certification (SASM) Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II) SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) Certified Scrum Master

(CSM) Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL v3) Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) CompTIA Network+ CompTIA Security+ Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt™ (CSSYB™). Huawei Certified: ICT Professional Datacenter Facility (HCIP-DCF) ICT Professional Video Conferencing (HCIP-VC) ICT Associate Datacenter Facility HCIA-DCF ICT Associate Cloud HCIA-Cloud Network Associate Storage HCIA- Storage Network Associate Unified Communication HCIA-UC Specialist Intelligent Video Surveillance HCS-IVSX.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Project Tools: Notion, JIRA, Trello, MS Project, MS Office, Apigee, SQL. Technologies: Enterprise Infrastructure, Telco, IT Network, Data Center, Unified Communication, SD-N, SD-WAN, SD- Campus, Cloud, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS.

MEMBERSHIPS ASSOCIATIONS

Project Management Institute (PMI) – New Jersey & Nigeria Chapter National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN)

Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Fintech Association of Nigeria

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Board Games, Technology trends, Swimming, Reading innovation and Entrepreneurship books, Basketball, Football

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