Chinonso Agu
Scrum Master
Cerritos,CA
Summary
Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Incredibly focused professional with more than 5 years of experience delegating tasks and managing projects.
IT leadership experience delivering complex and business critical transformation projects across multiple domains. Experienced in waterfall and agile methodologies with exceptional demonstrated knowledge of product management, requirements management and business process improvements. An effective leader, who cherish key relationships, builds highly competitive global teams, and thrives in a dynamic environment Operate effectively in busy, deadline-oriented settings and work well with all stakeholders, product owners, and developers.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
ESPN
, CA
04.2019 - Current
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Managed minimum of 8 projects each year while maintaining adherence to budget, schedule and scope requirements.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Provided all support to team using servant leadership style whenever possible and led by example.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Assisted with dependency management and cross team coordination.
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
Scrum Master
Walmart
, CA
03.2016 - 02.2019
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Communicated with Product owners and Stake Holders to keep projects on schedule.
- Coordinated with local business and product owners in order to utilize products finished my Scrum team
- Led two scrum teams both on and off shore.
Program Manager/ Scrum Master
VIIINO System
Cerritos , Ca
12.2015 - 01.2016
- Coached team members on productivity strategies, policy updates and performance improvement plans to accomplish challenging goals.
- Interacted with customers and clients to identify business needs and requirements.
- Monitored progress of programs, using and applying programming documents, program directives, funding documents and other program material.
- Addressed and resolved technical, financial and operational concerns by working with team members and directors.
- Resolved problems and provided solutions to customers by communicating requirements to subordinates.
- Assessed performance and scheduled cost control while maintaining contractual and internal performance requirements.
Education
Exercise Science
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZBachelor of Science - Kinesiology
California State University - Long Beach
Long Beach, CAHigh School Diploma -
Cerritos High School
Cerritos, CASkills
- Planning Meetings
- User Story writing
- Agile Project Management
- User Story Mapping and Estimation
- Backlog Management
- Servant Leadership, Product Management,
- Application development
- Defect Management
- Conflict Management
- Lean /Agile Mindset
- Quality Assurance
- Process Improvement and Communication
- SAFe, Scrum
- TDD, BDD
- FDD
- XP
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Azure Devops
- SQL
- Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- SharePoint
- Kanban
- Miro, Mural
- Analytical Thinking
- CI/CD
- Business Analysis
- Change Management,Sprint Planning
Certification
- Certified Professional Scrum Master
Additional Information
- Led the change management training effort by delivering 40+ unique artifacts,
- Setting precedence with all levels of the organization to entrust and enable teams to execute the Agile framework.
- Trained multiple traditional waterfall teams into the new framework of agile scrum.
- Through this new framework Overcame challenges that distributed teams by creating best practices and increasing velocity by no less than 3% sprint by sprint between 2017-2019.
- Coached 20+ teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhered to the Scrum framework at Walmart
Timeline
Scrum Master
ESPN
04.2019 - Current
Scrum Master
Walmart
03.2016 - 02.2019
Program Manager/ Scrum Master
VIIINO System
12.2015 - 01.2016
Exercise Science
Arizona State University
Bachelor of Science - Kinesiology
California State University - Long Beach
High School Diploma -
Cerritos High School
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