Chinedu Okeke

Scrum Master

West Orange New Jersey 07052

862-***-****

adzbnt@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

bp America Gas Company— Scrum Master

July 2021 - PRESENT

Create a viable working atmosphere with developers along with product owner for co-located sprint teams.

Helped to develop high performing and self organizing teams.

Using a servant leadership style to provide all support to the team.

Chaired weekly meetings with the product owners to discuss team progress, backlog status, roadmap status and any risks or issues.

Created a positive environment along with a smooth workflow with product owners to asses sprint progress.

Helped to develop, teach and maintain standards, best practices, and tools.

Lead scrum and Kanban teams simultaneously.

Help to develop and maintain an up to date and agreed definition of done and ensured all stories met the definition of done.

Facilitated the team in the development of a definition of ready that was agreed upon.

Oversee scrum process while coaching the team facilitating transparency inspection and adaption.

T-Mobile, Trenton NJ — Scrum Master

January 2020 - July 2021

Rigorously helped to manage and review backlog and in progress items. Reported project statuses and maintained team metrics on regular basis to product owners improving decision making and transparency across the organization.

Facilitated ceremonies such as daily standup, sprint planning, sprint review/demo, and retrospective meetings.

Facilitated the team through sprints and the production of the minimum viable product and working software.

Sustained team norms and and balanced workload for developers, product testers, and product owners improving customer satisfaction.

Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through task selection, task definition, and feature selection. Keeping employees engaged optimally.

Identified and removed impediments that interferes with the ability of the team the sprint goal. By removing impediments, it resulted in meeting sprint goals.

Fostered an agile culture building collaboration and trust across all team members.

Ensured the development team is practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visiblility.

Open communication and dialog with stakeholders, product owners, developers and product managers to gain a clear understanding of the business priorities for the upcoming sprint.

Shell, Dallas, TX Remote — Scrum Master

April 2018- January 2020

Successfully facilitated agile ceremonies such as, sprint planning, product backlog refinement, daily stand up, sprint review/ demonstration meetings, and restrospectives.

Mentored and coached the team on the scrum/agile framework, theory, practices and principles. Made sure the team abided to the scrum/agile framework along with continuous delivery practices. Shielded the scrum team from outside interferences. Removed roadblocks and impediments from the scrum team.

Communicated and monitored on status updates and team progress using project performance reports along with information radiators and tools such as velocity charts, burn down/burn up charts, and sprint health gadgets.

Created various project deliverables such as, weekly status reports, communication plan, the project plan, stakeholder register, Action log,project roadmap project kickoff presentation, etc.

Utilized Jira to create and manage project boards and made sure it was to all stakeholders the single source of truth.

For upper management I produced different Jira dashboards. Customized Jira to meet requirements of the scrum team.

For the team, served as an agile coach encouraging team self-management, empowering team self organizing along with transforming scrum team members in being more effective and efficient.

Helped scrum teams to increase velocity within multiple sprints by utilizing agile scrum practices.

Participated in PI Planning, System Demo, INA, ART Sync. Agile Community of Practice, and Scrum of Scrum.

Successfully cultivated sustainable and robust relationships between technology and business teams to foster a cross-functional team environment.

Managed numerous scrum teams in different locations such as onshore and offshore i.e., US, India, and Europe.

J. P. Morgan Chase Bank, New Jersey — Scrum Master

August 2016- March 2018

Facilitated scrum ceremonies. Worked closely with the product owner to ensure that the backlog stays healthy and refined.

Coached teams to improve self organization and collaboration.

Everyday encouraged teams to update JIRA tasks for status correction for accurate reports and visibility.

Created an open and positive communication channel between team members, Project Manager, Product Owner, and Stakeholders.

Helped in maintaining above target productivity and customer satisfaction metrics.

Led discussions, conflict resolution, and decision making.

Facilitated for the team where we are and wasn’t to improve in the sprint by tracking data from the sprint process and reporting regularly.

Coordinated and planned the execution of comprehensive enterprise release work; budgeting, scheduling, training, metrics, resources, and development planning.

EDUCATION

Kean University, Union New Jersey — Bachelor's Degree Psychology

September 2012 - May 2016

PROJECTS

Remotely Operated Vehicle Project (ROV)

Used Microsoft Excel and Solidworks to design an ROV for a competition. This ongoing project had to do with flow simulations in the inspection of hydrodynamics of the design proposed.

SKILLS

Agile Methodologies/ Frameworks - Scrum, XP, Kanban

SAFe, SSM,CSM Certified

Agile leadership

Jira & Jira Portfolio

MS Ecel, PowerPoint, Project

About/Summary

Engaging and experienced scrum master with strong communication and interpersonal skills. I come with strong problem solving and decision making skills aswell. I have a well versed history in understanding and building complex systems. Experienced in facilitating agile ceremonies. a dedicated servant leader leading and managing enterprise-wide projects initiatives in diverse industries. I have worked with multiple project management methodologies from legacy waterfall to agile methodologies such as, Scrum, Kanban, XP etc. Driving projects to successful completion.

Languages:

English, Igbo, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish.

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