Blessings Chomba
Dallas,TX
Summary
Certified Scrum master / Project Manager offering 5 years of experience in product deliveries by implementing techniques in Agile (Lean, Scrum, Kanban and SAFE) environments. I am passionate about fostering collaboration and promoting continuous improvement within cross-functional teams. I Possess strong communication and leadership skills to guide teams towards successful projects completion, while following to timelines and objectives.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SCRUM MASTER / PROJECT MANAGER
IQOR
07.2019 - Current
- Leads and facilitated the agile ceremonies and teams' goals for 2 teams (SDLC / ITSM)
- Facilitates the daily scrum, spring review, retrospectives and sprint planning meetings that ensure full stakeholders' engagement
- Receives direction from stakeholders and exercise independent judgment while developing the knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements
- Coaches the team to improve collaboration and self-management, promoting healthy interactions both within the team and with external stakeholders
- Help manage risks and dependencies for both teams
- Provide Dashboard reporting to PO for bi-monthly Business Product Updates meeting as required
- Facilitates the identification and removal of impediments to the team's progress and focuses on eliminating waste and delays
- Promotes adoption of an agile mindset through teaching, mentoring, and coaching
- Ensures the team is utilizing Scrum/SAFe ceremonies effectively to maximize value delivery and facilitates Scrum ceremonies
- Escalate and track impediments
- Coaches and coordinates the scrum process for 2 high-performing agile teams
- Identifies and implements ways to strengthen agile teams and the organization through Agile / Scrum concepts and principles
- Ensures team's actions are aligned with the project goals and vision and that the agile team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders
- Assists the product owner and the agile team in identifying trade-offs between short- and long-term benefits to drive shared vision
- Fosters communication and close cooperation across all team members, encourages cross-training and supporting each other
- Works with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of scrum in the organization
- Shields the team from external interferences and removes all impediments to the team's success, such as logistics challenges.
SCRUM MASTER / PROJECT MANAGER
THE CMI GROUP
05.2017 - 07.2019
- Led and guided 2 agile teams in meeting sprint/PI goals and commitments
- Ensured the Agile teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Shielded teams from interferences, risks and removes impediments
- Helped the teams become self-managed and cross-functional
- Fostered a team environment that encourages team members to both seek help from within the team and learn to help the team achieve sprint goals
- Partnered with business to manage backlog
- Facilitated scrum/SAFE events (Daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective, Demo, etc.)
- Worked with teams to identify capacity to ensure they can meet the sprint objectives
- Participated in discussions related to trade-offs to bring in new work
- Effectively provided, collected, and shared data to help the team see information it needs to identify areas where they need to learn and grow and display process toward desired outcomes
- Actively participated in the maturation process of the Agile model and methodologies within the organization during our Agile transformation journey.
SCRUM MASTER / PROJECT MANAGER
VERIZON
05.2016 - 05.2017
- Oversaw SDLC team to ensure they are effectively delivering and meeting objectives every sprint / Program increment
- Guided the team on how to use agile values, agile principles, and agile framework practices to delight customers and contribute towards building a culture of trust, respect, simplicity, courage, transparency, and agility
- Supported and educated the Product Owner in applying the scrum framework and agile principles, and the importance of refining and maintaining the product backlog
- Managed the team to develop, capture and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements
- Protected the team from agile anti patterns
- Trained teams on foundational team related ceremonies, mindset and best practices related to the team
- Assessed the agile health of the team and coached them to higher levels of fluency at a sustainable pace for the team and department
- Oversaw the scrum process, coached the teams; facilitated transparent and adaptive culture.
Education
Skills
- Communication and Good Listening Power
- Coaching and relationship building
- Agilist (Scrum /Kanban/SAFE)
- Organization and Empathy
- Servant Leadership skill
- Flexibility and Persistence
- Partnership with the Product Owner
- Ability to handle difficult resources
- Risk / Problem Management
- Meeting facilitator
Certification
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master) - Certified
- Project management professional (PMP) - Certified
- Professional Scrum Master - Certified
- Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
- ITIL Version 4 - Certified
Timeline
SCRUM MASTER / PROJECT MANAGER
IQOR
07.2019 - Current
SCRUM MASTER / PROJECT MANAGER
THE CMI GROUP
05.2017 - 07.2019
SCRUM MASTER / PROJECT MANAGER
VERIZON
05.2016 - 05.2017
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