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Buchi Nwosu

Houston,Texas

Summary

Scrum Master/ Agile Practitioner Requirement Gathering | Agile Coaching | Implementation, Delivery and Change Management Wuchi is a Seasoned Top-Performing Scrum Master with extensive experience in Requirement Elicitation, Analysis, Process Management and Delivery. Highly efficient in creating dashboards and tracking KPI’s and other metrics which identify shortfalls that assist Product Owners and Stakeholders in decision-making, planning, and implementing performance improvement strategies. He is adept in coaching teams to agile maturity by redefining team processes and educating on Agile best practices and principles. A truly dedicated, goal-oriented, Servant-Leader, who thrives as an integral member of various cross-functional teams and organizations. Serving as a mentor and a resource that provide guidance and protects the teams from external influences, while fostering a positive environment that promotes business agility.

Work History

Mortgage Mortgage Broker

GTA
  • Communicate with clients and team about project expectations and goals
  • Collaborated with clients, finance teams and other team members on budgeting
  • Managed deadlines and progress across the team to ensure the project is delivered on time and on budget
  • Organized third-party providers and vendors to deliver elements that can't be produced in-house
  • Supported diverse teams: UX/UI teams, cloud infrastructure teams, mobile application team and payment portal teams at various points who used different programming languages such as procedural programming, functional programming, object-oriented programming and logic programming languages
  • Oversaw the delivery of projects and adjust as necessary to ensure they are delivered to specifications and high standards
  • Supported all project managers with all requirements as regards to on-going projects

Senior Scrum

Flagstar Bank
  • Master
  • Facilitated the Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint, Daily Standup, Reviews, Demos, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinements) as well as other business and technical meetings
  • Helped teams self-organize and self-manage
  • Organized and facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related ceremonies
  • Collaborated with Business and IT partner teams to support development and software delivery
  • Assisted the Product Owner and Technical Product Manager in user story creation/prioritization and product Backlog grooming via emergent requirements
  • Asked difficult questions, removes impediments, and makes issues and problems visible
  • Escalated issues to the appropriate persons of contact (POC) and tracked effectively through resolution
  • Coached the development team and stakeholders on how to use Agile/Scrum practices at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization
  • Ensures the development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility using the INVEST Model, MOSCOW, Plan It Poker and Fibonacci Sequence and T-shirt Sizing
  • Mitigated all risks and issues “real-time”, executing resolutions on demand
  • Developed excellent interpersonal skills and rapport with diverse teams and personalities, fostering a positive environment even in situations of high pressure with extremely tight deadlines
  • Demonstrated awareness of Agile technology practices (e.g., Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration).

Scrum Master/ IT Lead

Upscale
  • Supported business by Facilitated As-Is/To-Be design sessions to create features for enhancement of various applications
  • Supported the user interface and technical baseline development of a claim adjustment and underwriting apps
  • Coordinated research, design, building, verification, and validation testing of various feature enhancements
  • Coordinated the integration and development of system requirements throughout project life cycle
  • Facilitated important meetings and Scrum Ceremonies/Events
  • Created use cases to supports system implementation as well as provide then necessary training to stakeholders and end users on new processes/functionality
  • Communicated organizational impediments to leadership and escalated when necessary, to heads of department
  • Set up and Implemented the use of ALM tools to drive the project initiatives through delivery
  • Helped the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements resulting in better reporting and reducing errors by 30%
  • Proactively analyzed client requirements, performed fit-gap and propose solution
  • Supported deployment lead and assisted the QA teams with identifying dependencies and risks related to application build.

Scrum Master/Program Manager

NRL Mortgage
  • Guide the scrum team and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum principles to promote collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
  • Supported engineering teams to implement use case and deliver product use cases through validations of deliverables
  • Facilitated Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions to generate use cases and context diagrams
  • Utilized MS Visio to create various Flow Charts, Data Flow, Use Case to provide detailed outline of the design system and interaction of its components
  • Documented requirements and included flow chart and analytics for better context for the development teams
  • Extensively interact with vendor support team to ensure quality integration solutions are built, deployed and supported throughout their life cycle
  • Collaborated with project managers, teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment of project scope
  • Collected requirements and prioritized in an effectively to ensure continuous upgrades and releases.

Project Coordinator

Mint Staffing
  • Coordinated the development of a program for vendor management that effectively manages the reporting on vendor contracts
  • Responsible for providing task-list, KPI’s and Project Analysis report and metric views
  • Coordinated stage gate meetings, provided minutes on meetings, and signed off on each meeting
  • Program team utilized Kanban Framework, documented required program features for program development backlog
  • Worked closely with teams to identify and remove blockers, managed workflow and work plans, risks, issues and change requests
  • Worked with team on end user testing and developed test cases, scripts and plans for proper validation.

Education

EDUCATION - Management Information Systems

Texas Southern University

Skills

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  • Areas of expertise/Skills include:
  • Agile Facilitator for Scrum events`
  • Ensured agility by coaching on agile principles and practices, being a servant leader to ensure team functionality
  • Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, SAFe)
  • Agile Tools (Rally, Jira, VersionOne, Confluence, Azure DevOps) Others (SDLC, SharePoint, ITIL Service Delivery, SQL Basic queries, Enterprise Database, Salesforce, Automation Anywhere) Microsoft Office (Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word, Macros, Visio)

Accomplishments

  • ProfessionalCertified Scrum Master – Scrum.org – PSM
  • Financial Planning and Quickbooks Certified
  • TECHNICAL SKILLS
  • Software: Microsoft Office (MS- Excel, MS-Word, MS- PowerPoint), Oracle
  • Salesforce, Streamsets, Azure, Google Cloud, SAP, AS-400, Image Now, Monday.com
  • Meeting Tools: Teams, Zoom, Blue Jean, Modern Hire, Skype, Slack, Tableau, Power BI
  • ALM Tools: JIRA, Rally, VersionOne, Azure DevOps, Monday, SharePoint, Confluence
  • Business Modeling Tools: MS Visio, SNAG IT, SNIP IT

Timeline

Mortgage Mortgage Broker

GTA

Senior Scrum

Flagstar Bank

Scrum Master/ IT Lead

Upscale

Scrum Master/Program Manager

NRL Mortgage

Project Coordinator

Mint Staffing

EDUCATION - Management Information Systems

Texas Southern University

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