Anita Odia

ady1pi@r.postjobfree.com

Tel: 626-***-****

Los Angeles CA

www.linkedin.com/in/anitaodia

Professional Summary:

Experienced Certified Scrum Master focused on delivering tangible outcomes, leading successful Agile transformations, and achieving organizational objectives. Demonstrated history of embracing Agile practices and methodologies to consistently deliver outstanding results. Possesses exceptional skills in team leadership, conflict resolution, and project management, with a proven ability to motivate teams and foster value-driven development. Collaborates effectively with stakeholders and product owners to prioritize backlog items and align them with business goals. Proficient in Agile & Waterfall methodologies, Jenkins, project portfolio management, and crafting user stories.

Skills:

Agile Leadership, Team Motivation, Mentoring, Conflict Resolution, Team Management, Agile & Waterfall Methodologies, Jenkins, Project Portfolio Management, Azure Devops, Jira, Time Management, Leadership, Product Road Mapping, Project Planning, Problem Solving Servant, Leadership, Coaching, Sprint Planning, Jira Align Team Building, User Stories, ATDD,TDD,BDD, CI/CD.

Certifications:

•Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

•SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM)

•Profession project management (PMP)

Work Experience:

University Arizona Medical Center – Tucson

Role: Scrum Master/Project Manager 10/2022- Present

Accomplishment:

•Tracked project metrics, enabling a thorough assessment of project progress, witnessing a remarkable rise from 35% to 82%.

•Protected team from internal and external distractions to help them focus on daily activities to be productive and this led to quality delivery from 30% to 80%.

•Collaborate closely with product owners to prioritize backlog items, align them with business objectives, define user stories, improve velocity, and successfully execute such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective, leveraging Azure Devops to enhance the software development lifecycle. This led to a substantial 20% to 75% increase in production.

•Accountable for identifying and resolving impediments impacting Scrum team's ability to deliver on Sprint goals, mitigating risk and dependencies. This increase team production from 35% to 87%

•Fostered and lead training sessions and coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives.

•Lead and promoted communication between the team members, product owners, and stakeholders through knowledge transfer sessions, coaching, and teaching Agile methodologies and best practices, resulting in a remarkable increase from 45% to 80%.

•Responsible for tracking production incident tickets and working with teams to get them resolved using Jira and Confluence page.

•Lead weekly status report sessions with the client for visibility to provide updates on the tracks the teams are working on. This helped the team focus and meet the client expectations. It helped increase productivity by 75% and reduce bottleneck to 10%.

Bank of the West – San Ramon, CA

Role: Scrum Master (Remote) 03/2021-09/2022

Accomplishments

•Organizing and Facilitating scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, daily scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, release planning and other Agile ceremonies using slack.

•Lead and work with product owners and development teams to track open defects to closure. This helped increase productivity by 73%.

•Lead and track input to release planning using team capacity and skill set information to enable the deliverable for the sprint to meet client expectations.

•Collaborate and lead resolutions for various conflicts that arise with distributed teams working on the application.

•Supported and led grooming sessions with the team and maintaining the product backlog thus maximizing the value of the team's work to meet the expectations of the client.

•Protecting and shielding teams from external and internal dependencies which lead to on-time deliverables of project initiatives as to what deliverables were needed.

•Leading teaching, coaching, mentoring and empowering teams to be self-organized, ensuring all team members are adhering to scrum values resulting in increased productivity and improved product quality. This helped to foster and increase communication and collaboration in the team.

•Helped foster effective communication channels between business stakeholders and my teams, so we will all clear on product requirements, sprint goals and product builds.

•Worked with Product Owner and Development Team in the use of JIRA and Confluence to manage the team's backlog and documentation, ensuring transparency and alignment with stakeholders.

Walmart – Fremont, CA

Role: Scrum Master 06/2018- 02/2021

Accomplishment

Led the Facilitation and implementation of scrum ceremonies, conducted grooming meetings, Daily standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective meetings using Microsoft teams.

Facilitated grooming sessions with product owners to ensure product backlog were prioritized to meet the Definition of Ready to meet the sprint goals and objectives.

Fostered Communication with all stakeholders keeping them informed about the project status reports, issues and milestones on a weekly basis to look at any risk or dependencies to be addressed.

Led and worked with team members on the remove impediments that prevented them from achieving sprint goals, making sure teams were always working at optimum productivity.

Teaching, Coaching and empowering team members to be self-organized and self-managing as well as facilitating team discussions and resolving team conflicts.

Led and tracked and analyzed project metrics such as burndown and velocity charts to judge project progress while managing risk, stakeholder communication plan, vendors, in-house and outsourced resources.

Communicated team progress and dependencies with other team leads during scrum of scrums.

Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensured that the team was adhering to Agile principles, resulting in increased team efficiency and productivity.

Epic

Epic Go-live Consultant 03/2016 to 04/2018

Accomplishment

Walked nurses through initiating a telephone encounter and note only encounter when appropriate.

Efficiently routed specific workflow related question to the appropriate LSS (Local Support Staffs).

Helped secretary with routing patients call back request to the appropriate pools.

Assisted nurses through creating their episodes and linking their encounter to it.

Assisted provide with effectively completing their patient history and successfully completing their chart.

Explained the security privileges to the Nurses and MAs, helping them understand why they are not able to do the same thing they were doing in their old EMR system. Assisted providers with initiating patient's letter.

Responsible for the coordination and overall management of the local system physician practice EMR implementation and support system in the Houston market.

Education:

•Bachelor’s in education University of Calabar – Nigeria

•Social and behavioral science, South-west college Los Angeles

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