Abraham Salako

Operated as a scrum master/ project manager to a developing and maintain B2B web applications. Joined the team during its agile transformation journey and mentored the team in creating a more interactive application for software engineers to store and document design information. Monitoring scrum processes and scrum events by motivating the team, pushing for change that will guarantee quality work, and ensuring the team understands how the agile methodology is implemented and how the process should be applied.

• Led and facilitated the agile transformation for a team developing and maintaining a B2B web application, ensuring the effective adoption of agile methodologies.
• Simultaneously managed two large-scale projects with a combined budget of $4M, delivering on time and under budget by $225K.
• Improved development processes, reducing average story point size by 10% and increasing team velocity by 100% within 10 months; decreased development cycle time by 46%.
• Created and managed project plans in line with project management frameworks, identifying and resolving issues to ensure smooth implementation.
• Coached Product Owners on defining product value, maintaining the Product Backlog, and prioritizing user stories for optimal team commitment.
• Monitored key metrics such as burndown charts, burnup charts, and velocity to enhance team performance.
• Influenced and organized partner meetings, driving process improvements benefiting all stakeholders.
• Managed client, company management, and project team expectations by providing project metrics and recommending necessary changes based on performance data.

Led the team’s agile adoption and successfully transitioned the distributed team from waterfall to Agile Scrum framework/mindset. Team primary focused was migrating the legacy on prem application to AWS. Effectively coordinated and managed the new design, architecture, features, and deployment of the organization’s scrum team, which is responsible for constructing and developing medical record software that supports end-users in gathering and documenting patient information.

• Spearheaded the team’s transition from waterfall to Agile Scrum, focusing on migrating legacy on-prem applications to AWS.
• Coordinated and managed the design, architecture, features, and deployment of a medical record software system, ensuring alignment with Agile principles.
• Facilitated Scrum events including sprints, daily stand-ups, sprint planning, and sprint reviews to enhance feedback and adaptation.
• Achieved 20% cost savings through effective vendor relations and site issue resolution.
• Engaged with C-level leadership to communicate project progress and strategic insights.
• Conducted root cause analysis to develop counterstrategies, improving team performance.
• Fostered effective collaboration among internal and offshore teams, preventing siloed work environments.
• Developed comprehensive project plans covering scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk management, ensuring adherence to approved funding.

As the scrum master for the agile development team, I facilitated the company’s compliance team within the claims application. The team was responsible for making new digital assistance available to other businesses to help them more effectively, such as enhancing the software that enables front to back-end users to manage their to-do lists, notifications, claims approvals, and workflow while creating and ensuring secure access to the database.

• Bridged communication between the Product Manager and the scrum team, aligning goals and managing stakeholder expectations.
• Gathered requirements from stakeholders and served as the liaison between IT and business departments.
• Mentored agile team members on Scrum and Kanban processes, providing constructive feedback.
• Utilized Jira to manage user stories and internal resources, tracking key metrics such as burn-down and burn-up charts to monitor team velocity.
• Led and coached the product owner and team on writing effective user stories, story estimation, and breaking down epics.
• Coordinated with software engineers and clients to optimize software performance, track defects, and manage change requests.

Assisted in providing project management expertise to internal stakeholders to coordinate the development of organization-wide change. Coordinated detailed and comprehensive plans while assisting PM in managing multiple projects to successful completion within the organization; this led to significant cost savings.

• Assisted in coordinating the development of organization-wide change, contributing to multiple successful project completions.
• Worked with project managers and transition teams to implement training and integrate legacy systems with new processes, achieving significant cost savings.
• Communicated project scope, schedule, and budget with customers and contractors, ensuring transparency and alignment.
• Supervised tasks from initiation through completion, ensuring adherence to project timelines and quality standards.
• Evaluated products and processes, suggesting improvements to enhance efficiency and quality.
• Developed and implemented project organization and communication plans, fostering effective collaboration within the project team.