Scrum Master Team Member

UKAMAKA NDUKA

Louisville KY ***** 781-***-**** ***********@*****.***@gmail.com

Preferred Location: Flexible

Work Schedule: Full-Time

Summary

Certified SAFe Agile Scrum Master with strong critical thinking and decision-making skills committed to executing project goals in the most effective and time-efficient manner using Lean Agile principles and values. A dedicated team player with +6 years’ experience working with collocated, offshore teams, and cross-functional teams. Experienced in leading high-performance teams and excellent at facilitating scrum ceremonies with a focus on meeting sprint goals. Self-motivated with the ability to work independently, meet tight deadlines, thrive under pressure, foster team collaboration and self-organization, and make well thought out decisions to ensure the satisfactory incremental delivery of all project goals with the use of Agile tools, Jira and Rally.

Core Competencies

Scrum

Kanban

Scrumban

Waterfall

SAFe

Lean Management

Scaling Scrum

Coaching

Servant Leadership

Release Planning

Progress Tracking

Facilitating

Continuous Improvement

Team motivation

Team Building

Self-Organization

Active Listening

Conflict Resolution

Collaboration

Software Development Life Cycle

Continuous Testing

Network Automation

Work History

UOFL HOSPITAL LOUISVILLE, KY

2020-Current Position: Scrum Master

Facilitate Scrum ceremonies such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, & Sprint Retrospectives.

Provide Servant Leadership with a Lean-Agile mindset, supporting two teams and Release Train Engineer (RTE) to embrace and adopt SAFe core values and implement SAFe practices to ensure high performance and continuous improvement within the teams.

Work closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog refinements and story estimation.

Remove impediments and protect team member from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity

Provide leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of Agile practices

Encourage and facilitate cross-team coordination and collaboration.

Supports the Product Owners in product backlog definition, management and refinement to achieve efficiently prioritized high value backlog utilizing Jira.

Supports development teams with transitioning from manually managing networks which become bottlenecks and decelerate business process to adopting network automation to automate configuration, provisioning, testing, and maintenance to save time, reduce errors, lower operation cost, and improve work efficiency.

Facilitates weekly backlog refinement sessions with the team to ensure work items meet the team’s definition of ready (DOR).

Develops and captures team and cycle metrics to measure team progress and project deliverable within a specified time period.

Develops and maintains a solid relationship with business stakeholders’ teams to enhance transparency and visibility.

Ensures effective and open communication across and within teams to effectively provide transparency and foster healthy collaboration.

Removes impediments to support Release Train and team’s ability to meet sprint commitments and escalated impediments to facilitate rapid resolutions when necessary.

Successfully tracks and communicates team velocity and sprint release/progress.

Implements Lean Agile skills to track and mitigate risks and unneeded time-consuming activities.

Promotes Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings with the team as part of continuous improvement and learning.

SUN TRUST BANK Louisville, KY

10/2017-11/2019 Position: Scrum Master

Actively facilitated and participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings.

Supported 3 teams through successful and on-time task completion and removed obstacles encountered by team members by ensuring constant collaboration, clear communication and transparency.

Monitored the project progress and communicated the information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risks and impediments (Blocking Issues, Critical Defects) on daily basis.

Communicated and collaborated efficiently with other Scrum Masters, and teams to ensure balance and consistency throughout project development.

Assisted with program and team’s execution and feature completion tracking and facilitated the team’s progress towards Sprint goals.

Documented, reported and promoted quantifiable business benefits resulting from Agile & DevOps transformation efforts and supported development team through public cloud migration of data centers.

Drove relentless improvement through active participation in discovery sessions, prototyping, document-reviews, plan setup, plan configuration with clients.

Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily QA activities to be productive and growing in ability.

I facilitated strategy meetings to review program requirements and ensure conformance to organizational policies and current statement of work. Ultimately, I was responsible for briefing Senior Leadership on section, unit and project status and earned value management reporting.

PFIZER Pharmaceutical NEW YORK, NY

1/2014-8/2016 Position: Scrum Master

Facilitated scrum ceremonies simultaneously within three teams.

Coached the scrum teams to focus on high value backlog items and activities to deliver successful and acceptable system demos of every product increment.

Communicated project progress to senior management through burndown charts. Monitored the Quality through metrics and mentored team through the project management processes.

Acted as a buffer between the team and process overhead, so each team member could focus on the timely delivery of software.

Built high-performing teams by focusing on its ever-improving team dynamics and performance attributes while encouraging consistent open communication and collaboration.

Supported PO/PM in the effort to manage the product backlog while promoting healthy team dynamics pertaining to prioritization and scope of product requirements.

Facilitated technical self-organization within scrum teams while actively participating in the “scrum of scrums” and proactively coordinating between inter-related work teams.

Drove program-level continuous improvement via retrospectives and Inspect and Adapt workshops.

Guided and coached Scrum and Kanban teams on the implementation of Agile principles and values to achieve project completion and delight customers.

PFIZER Pharmaceutical NY New York, NY

11/2010-09/2013 Position: Scrum Master/Project Manager

Facilitated Scrum events such as sprint planning activities, daily scrum, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings.

Removed team blockers and impediments to ensure team maintained high performance throughout each Sprint duration.

Facilitated Sprint Planning and Backlog Refinement to reevaluate user story estimations, decomposition, and prioritization and utilizing Jira for housing and maintaining the backlog.

Guided and coached the Scrum team on agile principles and values.

Built and maintained a trusting and collaborative environment where problems were raised and addressed successfully.

Facilitated getting the work done by reiterating and ensuring self-organization, self-discipline and mutual respect within the team.

Assisted with internal and external communication, improve transparency, and radiate information between the team and stakeholders.

Education

Your University Nigeria.

Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry Technology, 2009

Certifications & Training

SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master (SSM) – Scaled Agile

Professional Scrum Master I Certification (PSM I) – Scrum.Org

Medical Coding (CPC) – Bryant And Stratton College Orchard, NY

Agile Life Cycle Management Tools

Jira

Confluence

Rally

SharePoint

Microsoft Suite

Slack/Teams

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