Ighalo Awenlimobor

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Professional Summary

• A Certified Scrum Master with over 16 years of successful work record and experience, of which over 9 years has been in complex, dynamic, and time-sensitive scrum master roles.

• Highly motivated, goal-oriented individual who is creative in the design, development, and implementation of new processes with excellent reasoning, probing, analytical, communication, and leadership skills.

• Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Core Competencies

Ability to make critical judgment decisions and solid organizational skills.

Prepare agreed deliverables in line with standards, to meet agreed quality standards and timelines.

Ability to meet established deadlines and work on multiple projects simultaneously.

Assess the Scrum Maturity of teams and the organization and coach teams to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable.

Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team and highly organized with the ability to multitask.

A proven ability to quickly understand the business strategy and objectives.

Ability to set clear performance standards, and hold team members accountable, while keeping the team engaged and on task.

Skills & Knowledge

• Scrum Master

• Strong Work Ethics

• Business Analyst

• Software

Development Life

Cycle

• Organizational

Skills

• Agile Coaching

• Sprint Ceremonies

• Daily Scrum

• Sprint Reviews

• Sprint Retrospective

• Removing

Impediments

• Encourage

Collaboration

• Interpersonal Skills

• Project Management

• Microsoft Office

• Sprint Planning

• Agile Methodology

• Process

Improvement

• Professional Scrum

Master

• Community

Relations

• Agile Development

• Agile Project

Management

• Decision Making

• Interpersonal Skills

• Agile Development

Technical Skill

I A

Agile Management Tools SDLC Methodologies Agile PM, Scrum, Kanban Waterfall JIRA Confluence

Miro Story Mapping Capacity Planning Skill Assessment Agile Maturity Assessment PAQ (Project Approach Questionnaire) Dependency Mapper Burn down / Burnup charts Risk Register Scrum Master Role

Services to Product Owner Development Team MS Office Work History

Scrum Master Dec 2022 – Till Date

FLITWIRE Inc.

Work with the Scrum team on the implementation and integration of a cloud application and migration of data from legacy systems to a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) and Enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. This is aimed at digitizing and integrating business processes through application programming interfaces (API). Key achievements:

Organizing and facilitating Scrum Ceremonies, including daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint retrospective and sprint reviews to promote the scrum pillars. Encouraged frequent inspect & adapt.

Facilitating detailed refinement workshops for the product backlog to enhance sprint planning for the next sprint/iteration.

Facilitate frequent Agile knowledge-share workshops for teaching and mentoring and aiding the team to be more self- organizing and mature by increasing agile knowledge.

Leading multiple teams to become strategically aligned, high performing. Advocating an Agile mindset, empirical and customer centric

Transformed existing organizational traditional Waterfall processes and mindsets to be adapted to working in an Agile way.

Maintaining the team's Scrum boards, sprint backlog, velocity charts, burndown charts, and product backlog. Analyzing Agile metrics to provide insight into productivity and identify and manage any bottlenecks.

Coaching and collaborating with the Product Owner to prioritize the product backlog and encourage the use of the MoSCoW technique.

Supporting the Product Owner and the team with user story writing (BDD), coaching them to follow the INVEST criteria and ensuring their user stories meet the definition of ready.

Improving the teams’ workflow by identifying and removing impediments and managing dependencies that may prevent the teams’ progress, Identifying and communicating potential risks to the completion of the Iterations, including resources, costs, and external dependencies proactively escalating as required.

Ensuring the team continually improve their delivery process by supporting them to implement action points from retrospectives.

Improving team health, engagement, and collaboration by facilitating regular team building sessions and introducing pair programming.

Extensively using Atlassian’s JIRA and Confluence for user story maintenance, documentation, and metrics; Implementing and making use of various collaboration tools (Teams, WebEx, Zoom) to aid team communication.

Scrum Master Sep 2019 – Nov 2022

Capital One Investment & Trust Limited

Responsibilities

Worked closely with the Product Owner in defining the product goal & roadmap.

Worked effectively within the Scrum Team to remove impediments and track them in Jira.

Guided the team through continual improvement process and best practices.

Facilitated scrum master community of practices.

Ensured conducive environment which fostered self-organizing and self-managing team.

Empowered the Scrum team with regular inspect and adapt opportunities.

Encouraged the Dev team to keep sprint backlog up to date.

Facilitated all Scrum Events including the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog Refinement. Workshops with stakeholders.

Assisted in defining and deploying the forward order processes and facilitated the continuous improvement of the existing process.

Created Epics, Features & Stories for the team in Jira and assisted Product Owner

JIRA admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL.)

Planned and tracked sprints closely and helped the team to focus on commitments & delivery.

Communicated team velocity and sprint/release progress to the teams and management.

Organized & facilitate Team and organization Agile maturity.

Facilitated retrospectives using innovative games techniques and closure of action items on improvements.

Reflecting and radiating the metrics like burn down chart progress, quality, and velocity continuously to the team and various stakeholders.

Prepared various dashboards in Jira which reflects risks, dependencies, impediments.

Helped Product owner with effective management of Features, Epics, Stories and prioritization.

Ensured INVEST criteria is met for all the user stories in backlog.

Effectively supporting the Delivery Squad through changes in objectives and re-prioritization of requirements.

Applied human centered design (Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test, Implement)

Managing the finance carefully, estimation of any change request, forecasting and ensuring that the project estimates are managed upfront.

Scrum Master Sep 2014 – Jul 2019

Fidelity Bank Plc.

Worked with the Scrum team to deliver Account, Fraud & Payment solutions for Open Banking regulatory programme.

Responsibilities:

Led multiple cross functional agile teams distributed geographically to deliver Account, Fraud & Payment solutions for Open Banking regulatory programme.

Strong experience in SAFe framework implementation and practice.

Lead Agile Chapters to adapt and Implemented Scrum/Kanban/XP practices.

Coaching PO for value-based backlog prioritizations.

Coached multiple techniques on estimations & planning techniques, conducting effective scrum ceremonies.

Setup the early readiness of design phase; project kick-off; baseline project plan, finalise contract with 3rd party suppliers; define test strategy.

Outlined work plans, determined resources, generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.

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

Understanding of Micro-services based layered architecture to develop REST APIs.

Experience in CI CD/DevOps Implementation, Automation, Deployment (Urban code) and Monitoring

Project Coordinator Jan 2011 – Jul 2014

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.

Worked with the Scrum team on the digitalization of the institution’s operational process and the complete migration from the previous analogue systems and processes. Responsibilities

Coordinated project execution in accordance with predetermined project specifications.

Drove project schedules, mentored team members, and interacted with key departments and stakeholders.

Worked with cross-functional business leads on data definition standardization for consistent performance measurement across business units.

Introduced technical documentation and processes for the deployment and testing of applications.

Tracked, reviewed, and revised project activities to ensure project deliverables met project objectives.

Facilitated all project communications (status reports, status meetings, presentations, and user acceptance testing).

Supported ad hoc requests and requirements of pmo leadership while completing special projects.

Successfully collaborated with developers and technical team to perform root cause analysis of all issues.

Team Lead, Commercial Banking Group Feb 2007 – Jan 2011 Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.

Responsibilities

Ensured administrative duties are accurately completed in a timely fashion.

Supported clients’ establishments and maintain robust relationships and interest.

Facilitated demonstrated initiatives, tasks and activities aimed at meeting the customer’s needs.

Facilitated the team to meet the agreed and working case plans of the customers.

Proactively plan, organize, and execute team brainstorming sessions to bring about new innovations to improve team objectives.

Guide and coach, the team to become self-organized.

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

Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Providing all support needed to the team including using servant leadership style and leading by example.

Core Competencies

Project Scoping, Roadmaps, and Management Stakeholder Engagement Pre-project assessment User Stories Quality Assurance Product Roadmaps Team Management Change Management Coaching and Training Process improvement Proficient facilitation Risk mitigation planning Cross Functional Support Estimation Workshops Daily stand-ups/Scrum Sprint Reviews Retrospectives Product backlog refinement

Education

B.SC Business Administration (2005) Ambrose Alli University Certifications

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

Certified SAFe® 6 Scrum Master (CSM)

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)

Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner / Product Manager (POPM)

Agile Coaching issued by ICAgile

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