Project Manager Scrum Master

David Atima

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I am a certified Scrum Master with over 8 years of experience leading Agile teams. I have a proven track record of successful project delivery using Scrum and have a deep understanding of the Agile values and principles. I am passionate about helping teams improve their performance and always looking for ways to help my team members grow and develop. I am skilled at spearheading Agile transitions utilizing the following key skills/stances: Change Agent, Mentor, Coach, Facilitator, Teacher & Servant Leadership

Agile Team Management Software Development Agile Delivery & Coaching Project Management Product Roadmaps Stakeholder Management Vendor Management Budget & Resource Allocation Agile Transformation

Tools & Proficiencies: MS Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, Visio)

Confluence, Jira, Clarity, Trello, Miro, Smartsheet, Project Portfolio Management tools, HP ALM

Project Management: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Waterfall and Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban SAFe)

SCRUM MASTER- JP MORGAN CHASE

FEB 2023 – PRESENT

Work with the PO to build a roadmap of sprint goals and release plans to give stakeholders a clear view on expectations.

Implement changes to increase team productivity by instituting Agile best practices.

Utilize tools such as Sprint report, burndown, and velocity charts to track team progress and maximize effort.

Work in tandem with Product Owner and development team to demonstrate teams progress at Sprint Review session.

Track OKRs and KPIs to promote/demonstrate continuous improvement.

Maintain records to track product quality metrics: Defect escape rate, Technical Debt.

SCRUM MASTER- UPMC

OCT 2019 – NOV 2022

Led the Data migration process from single tenant to multi-tenant.

Facilitated Sprint Cadence of events.

Helped build a roadmap of sprint goals and release plans to give stakeholders a clear view on expectations.

Implemented changes and steps to increase team productivity, suggested Agile best practices.

Employed tools such as Sprint report, burndown and velocity charts to track team progress and maximize effort.

Work in tandem with Product Owner and development team to demonstrate teams progress over sprint at Sprint Review session.

Track OKRs and KPIs to promote/demonstrate continuous improvement.

Maintain records to track product quality metrics: Defect escape rate, Technical Debt.

Use Smart sheet to capture teams Agile Maturity Matrix

Assist Organization in PI planning, tracking dependencies.

Partnered with the Product Owner, especially concerning grooming and maintaining a healthy backlog.

SCRUM MASTER- AMAZON

AUG 2017 – AUG 2019

Facilitate team/agile ceremonies (Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective), timely removal of impediments, and ensure the appropriate individuals are assigned to blockers for quick resolution.

Foster collaboration with teams by working with them to create team working agreements, Definition of Ready (DoR), Definition of Done (DoD), and deliver workflow of user stories, maximizing value of people working together.

Coach Product Owner – build a strong product backlog, prioritize the backlog, and create good User Stories that satisfy INVEST criteria and maximize ROI (return on investment)

Facilitate Scrum of Scrums meetings following the Agile Methodology, collaborate with other scrum masters, non-agile teams, and shared services during Program Increment (PI) Planning events and identify dependencies.

Ensure transparency of work progress and status via open and timely communication with the teams and stakeholders.

Track Backlog Change, Throughput & Defect Ratio

Contribute to the Agile community of Practice to ensure standardization of issues across organizations.

PROJECT MANAGER: BELCO COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION

MAR 2016– JUN 2017

Overall Responsibility for project finances, resources and relationship between stakeholders, vendors and IT team

Coordinated Agile Training activities as part of the IT transformation process.

Assisted in agile transformation by building roadmap of changes to get from waterfall to Agile.

Contribute to organizational Agile SOP

Created business case for acquisition of agile tools to encourage transparency (Atlassian Tools)

Coached more junior project managers in some Agile principles and peculiarities (e.g., Story pointing etc.)

Gathered Business Requirements from Business team to complete URS documents.

Facilitated workshops to elicit AS-IS and TO-BE workflows.

EDUCATION

BSC MICROBIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF PORT HARCOURT

CERTIFICATIONS

SAFe SCRUM MASTER (SSM)

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