Chima Nneji
Hampton,VA
Summary
A certified Professional Scrum Master and Accredited Project Manager with over 3 years of experience working as Agile Scrum Master with Caspen Media. Effectively embracing agile principles and practices to facilitate multi-teams in delivering high-quality products and solutions that fully address the needs of the customers as well as the business objectives. A servant-leader, coach, and facilitator, enabling growth in agile values, collaboration, accountability, transparency, and self-organization. I facilitate scrum ceremonies, remove impediments, track and manage progress as well as ensure alignment with the product vision and roadmap. Create an environment for continuous improvement and feedback, which results in better team performance and customer satisfaction.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SCRUM MASTER
Caspen Media Corporation
04.2020 - Current
- Act as servant leader and coach for 2 development teams, ensuring adherence to scrum principles and practice
- Encourage transparent, collaborative, and self-organizing environment, thereby shortening project time and achieving target margins
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Collaborate with product owner in backlog refinements
- Remove impediments and provide guidance and support to teams, thereby leading teams to higher agile maturity
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and implement strategies to drive continuous growth and learning
- Track, update, analyze and report project status, using metrics such as team's velocity and burn-down charts
- Facilitate effective communication and collaboration between development teams, product owners, and other stakeholders to support monthly sprint releases
- Improved process by 30%.
PROJECT MANAGER
National Examinations Council
01.2016 - 12.2019
- Directed Work Performance Standards and led periodic performance evaluation teams
- Developed Training Models and Standards of Operation
- Trained over 200 staff on workflow through diagramming with basic process flow
- Supervised optimal deployment of staff to examination centers
- Led Exam Center verifications, Exams conduct, and gradings
- Successfully facilitated academic advancement of over 100,000 candidates annually
- Drove Business Process, creative modifications, and effective Change Management by directing standardized documentation, personnel records filing, nominal roll, staff disposition records, confirmation of appointments, upgrading and promotion records
- Developed project plans, schedules and budgets based on stakeholder requirements
- Collaborated with management to approve and baseline project plans
- Improved process by 20%
- Identified and managed project risks and dependencies
- Presented project status and issues to stakeholders, and change requests to teams
- Analyzed various school's inspection reports from ministry of education
- Facilitated accreditation of schools, ensuring attainment of 70% score to qualify for examinations
- Initiated, Tracked and Monitored projects with scope to completely reorganize documentation process for examination materials, results, and certificates
- New documentation process cleared extensive backlog
- Improved business development by 30%.
Education
Bachelor's Degree - Estate Management
Skills
- Facilitating Agile ceremonies
- Agile Project Management and Delivery
- Coaching and Conflict Resolution
- Jira and Confluence
- Microsoft Office
- Communication and Presentation
- Organizational Management and Leadership
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Excellent client services
- Continuous Improvement
- Time Management
- Risk Identification
- Data Analysis
Websites
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master I
- Certified Safe 5 Scrum Master
- Accredited Project Manager
Timeline
SCRUM MASTER
Caspen Media Corporation
04.2020 - Current
PROJECT MANAGER
National Examinations Council
01.2016 - 12.2019
Bachelor's Degree - Estate Management
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