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Blessing Edim

Roseville,California

Summary

Experienced Scrum Master with 7 years experience supporting complex projects. With a servant leader mindset and critical thinking have facilitated small and large Agile transformations within the IT and Financial Industry, supported teams that have improved the overall system performance by 400% and successfully implemented the integration of Cloud based Universal connectors(Snowflake and Parquet) to the organization's offerings for efficient data storage and extraction.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Scrum Master

Aria Systems
04.2021 - 04.2023
  • Facilitated multiple stakeholder interactions and Scrum ceremonies for various projects as needed
  • Coached and supported product owner in efficient backlog and user story management
  • Supervised coordination and communication across cross-functional co-located, co-distributed, and offshore teams while ensuring no breach in communication.
  • Utilized appropriate Agile approach to generate new changes while continuously evaluating team KPIs and working with team members both individually and collectively
  • Facilitated communication between business and Development team to ensure maximized value for organization.
  • Worked with team to deliver Snowflake connector that would allow clients quickly and efficiently store extract data from their cloud instance, thereby increasing ROI by 50%
  • Monitored and tracked project progress to support timely completion
  • Devised test plans to validate accuracy of IT projects
  • Streamlined and optimized workflow and communication by implementing Agile frameworks

Scrum Master

Hertz Corporation
05.2019 - 04.2021
  • Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, backlog refinement sessions, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Used our project performance reports and progress tracker, which include Burndown/Burn-up charts, velocity, and sprint health gadget, to continuously monitor and convey my team's progress
  • Trained and guided my team on Scrum theory and values, as well as Agile best practices, to make sure it is applied consistently
  • Worked in collaboration with my product owner to draw up roadmap for our projects and prioritized sprint backlog and with development team to meet project goals iteratively.
  • Teams integrated 20 Applications to One on Dash Software (Scrum, Kanban) using Java and Python.

Scrum Master/Agile Lead

Capital One
02.2018 - 05.2019
  • Supported Team's transition from Waterfall to Agile and provided Top-down training on values, concepts, and application of Agile best practices.
  • Acted as vital link between product delivery team, product manager, and senior management by giving vital direction, facilitating communication, and guaranteeing high quality of products and services delivered to our clients
  • Supported effective setup of their Scaled Agile framework (SAFe) program and coached team on running PI planning events for worldwide enterprise thereby increasing frequency of delivery by 15%
  • Developers used JavaScript, Scala, on backend and worked on automating credit card application and approval systems for corporate client employees.

Scrum Master

Instacart
09.2016 - 02.2018
  • Led simultaneous adoption of Agile methodology and Scrum practices by two Scrum and two Kanban teams in order to efficiently build complicated projects.
  • Continuously introduced improvement initiatives to track and lower development errors and roadblocks, boost team productivity, and standardize business procedures.
  • Encouraged and supported team members and made sure they had resources and information necessary to complete their tasks without being distracted or interrupted.
  • Coached and developed strong connections by employing effective critical thinking techniques and transparency
  • Started cross-training programs and developed team-building opportunities for all personnel levels that were in line with corporate objectives.
  • Ensured that management and departments adopted learning solutions to achieve predetermined goals.
  • Team developed close to 10 features and capabilities were successfully added to application by teams in record time.

Education

Diploma - Leadership Principles

Harvard Business School Online
10.2021

SAFe 5.0 Certificate -

Scaled Agile Framework
United States
05.2021

Certified Scrum Master -

Scrum Alliance
United States
05.2020

Bachelor of Science Microbiology -

University Of Calabar
Calabar, Nigeria
11.2011

Skills

  • Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
  • Client and Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • Process Improvement Initiatives
  • Jira, TFS, Scrum Metrics
  • Effective Coaching and Conflict Resolution
  • Team Leadership & Training
  • Kanban, Extreme Programming
  • MS Office Suite (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Project Management
  • Backlog Management
  • Scrum Processes
  • Customer Interaction

Timeline

Scrum Master

Aria Systems
04.2021 - 04.2023

Scrum Master

Hertz Corporation
05.2019 - 04.2021

Scrum Master/Agile Lead

Capital One
02.2018 - 05.2019

Scrum Master

Instacart
09.2016 - 02.2018

Diploma - Leadership Principles

Harvard Business School Online

SAFe 5.0 Certificate -

Scaled Agile Framework

Certified Scrum Master -

Scrum Alliance

Bachelor of Science Microbiology -

University Of Calabar

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