SUMMARY:

• A seasoned certified Scrum master and data base analyst with five years’ experience in scrum/ Agile practices and five years of relevant experience.
• A servant leader, results driven, goal - oriented and a solid track record of success in agile practices, delivering projects on time and within budget.
• Distinguished ability to employ problem solving and decision-making skills to quickly deliver solutions to complex problems.
• Adaptive in driving full project lifecycle from concept, design, development, testing, and delivery.
• Able to establish and maintain productive relationships across all organizational levels, strong persuasive language technique to effect change in situations.
• I am known to be collaborative, Empathetic, courageous, confident, Persistent, Proactive and a continues learner.
• I am fluent in English, French, and a good team member.
• I am resilient to getting solutions to complex problems and comfortable playing the agile/scrum role in every environment.
• I am particularly skillful with a pedagogic background and great technique to train less experience team members.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCE.:

• Agile/scrum methodologies
• Project management, budgeting and control
• mastery of other Agile practices (Kanban, safe, XP, lean, TFS, Pair Programming, Feature - Driven)
• Mastery of Microsoft office tools, Jira/confluence, TFS, salesforce Devops and vision one.
• Sound knowledge on business environment
• Digital marketing and networking skills with financial background.
• MS Office ( Word, Excel, PowerPoint,and Outlook), Bamboo, Bitbucket, Git, Slack, Confluence.
• Diverse project experience: banking, human resourse, healthcare and insurance company projects experience etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Successfully transformed the development team from waterfall to agile through workshops, coaching and cultivation of agile mindset and values. Technically keeping the team self - motivated, cross functional, transparent and fostering collaboration.
• Working with web and net based developers using HTML5 and block chain platforms to debug codes, adjusting user interface, designing gaming products and reward points earned on slot machines. Maintaining customer security and designing interactive media content with attractive graphics to present the products to customers online.
• Assists the product owner to study, analyze and add more explanations to new story points to ensure the development team gets the exact customer requirement.
• Protecting the development team from external distractions that could stress the team and prevent the team from reaching its goals. Enabling self-organized and cross-functional work environment.
• Tracking team progress and impediments using Jira with most attention to changes on burn down and burn up chats. Identifying impediments and removing them timely.
• facilitating sprint planning, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives and reporting timely to the product owner and executives/stake holders.
• Giving immediate attention to conflicts and resolving them without holding down the development process. Identifying gaps in the process and closing them
• Fostering extensive communication within the team and to management/stake holders, fostering collaboration and making sure the team stay motivated towards work

AGILE SCRUM MASTER

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Significantly improve customers experience through working with the product owner to study, analyze and classify new stories before our sprint planning sessions to ensure the development team get the exact customer requirement.
• Organize and facilitate all agile/scrum ceremonies which set the stage for continues improvement and efficiency within the development team.
• Remove and escalate impediments in a timely manner to prevent them from becoming a risk.
• Resolving conflicts and building a trusting work environment where people feel free to share their ideas/opinions.
• Assist team with empirical data needed to assess their agile/scrum maturity, optimize team velocity and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.
• Understands and follow the software development life cycle and all release processes appropriately to ensure all risk, security and development requirements are met.
• Foster collaboration between team members and promote extensive communication to ensure that information flows constantly within team and to organization management/executives.
• Coach the team to be more productive and set the stage for celebrating success and improving team performance.
• Facilitates all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demos, retrospectives, story grooming and release planning.
• Reporting to the product owner, top management officials and stake holders as required and remain a focal point for information.

TECHNICAL PROJECT MANAGER

Confidential, Austin,Texas

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate and achieved remarkable progress in continuous build up, testing and maintenance of the interactive e - commerce platform for online shopping.
• Protecting the team from external distractions that could stress the team and reduce performance.
• Remarkable successes in facilitating the team adapt to frequent changes that result due to multiple vendors and changes in ps while keeping a keen attention to dependencies.
• Ensure business needs are being met and key communication happening as intended in order to ensure transparency within the team.
• facilitated geographically distributed team or offshore development team and working on the requirements of third-party vendors (software vendors, hardware vendors, content providers)
• Track team progress and impediments making sure impediments are resolved promptly to avoid slowdown of team progress.
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, missions, values, standards of ethics and integrity.
• Assist the team in sizing story points and prioritizing story points based on the team alignment and acceptance criteria.
• Leads the development of Omni channel projects and programs and ensure continues delivery of software.
• Facilitates all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint demos, retrospectives, story grooming and release planning.
• Reporting to the product owner, top management officials and stake holders as required and remain a focal point for information.

SCRUM MASTER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully facilitated two teams within a scale agile framework (safe) in digital transformation of 3G mobile carrier with various imbedded features using GSM and digital platforms.
• Successfully facilitated the buildup and release of e - pay products in partnership with commercial banks such as BICEC BANK and ECOBANK providing mobile wallet facilities to customers.
• Remarkable successes in assisting teams continuously maintain and update features to meet customer requirement in the highly competitive industry.
• Assist the teams to create clear and concise Backlog items
• Remove impediments to team deliverables and product goals.
• Facilitate discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
• Build trusting environment where the team is comfortable raising issues without
• Fear of blame, retribution or being judged, with emphasis on problem solving.
• Identifying and managing dependencies to ensure that the process goes on undisturbed.
• Give great attention to maintaining a self-motivated work environment and protecting the team from external distractions.
• Facilitate internal and external communications to promote transparency and accountability.