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Daniel Achoh

San Antonio,TX

Summary

Experienced and Team-Oriented individual with over 7 years of extensive experience in coaching and mentoring newly formed; as well as mature agile teams towards the successful delivery of committed products using various agile frameworks including Scrum, Safe and Kanban. Well-versed in building positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Instrumental towards achieving ambitious goals in challenging IT environment. Diligent, forward- thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer and project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Srum Master

Gap Inc
San Francisco, CA
Jan2019 - 06.2023
  • Works with multiple teams on the implementation of Agile Methodology, specifically Scrum and Kanban
  • Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands
  • Maintains a healthy product backlog and supported Scrum framework within teams for their biweekly sprint releases
  • Facilitates the backlog grooming ceremony while the product owner prioritizes the backlog and promotes continuous delivery of features to meet business needs and deadlines, as well as, ensuring that the teams focuses on resolving compliance based issues as the primary Organisation need
  • Researched emerging technologies using and current trends without limitations, to stay knowledgeable in methods that could improve the maturity of the Scrum team
  • Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement
  • Implemented the use of parking lot as a means to resolve impediments and address concerns which the teams may be facing on a daily basis
  • Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity
  • Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint
  • Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.

Scrum Master

Wells Fargo
Richmond, VA
01.2016 - 12.2019
  • Facilitation of the team ceremonies daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and sprint retrospective
  • Actively manage and address impediments that are beyond the team's authority or require support from other teams.
  • Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
  • Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum.
  • Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
  • Documented new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance.
  • Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches.
  • Stayed current on emerging technologies and trends that could benefit production process.
  • Identified key components and integration touch points for component testing and end-to-end system testing based on design reviews.

Oracle Database Administrator

Metropol-Tech Consulting Inc
Laurel, Maryland
06.2012 - 12.2016
  • Communicate with management and stakeholders on the progress of team development by providing transparency
  • Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload
  • Keep the team focused on the goals of the iteration by shielding team from outside distractions and interferences
  • Encourage the team to self-organize and be accountable for their decisions
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
  • Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process
  • Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore
  • Installed Oracle 12.1.0.2 on Linux and Solaris dedicated boxes and currently testing the upgrade of Oracle 11.2.0.4 to 12.1.0.2 databases including the creation of container and pluggable databases
  • Installed 11.2.0.4 on all servers ( 30) and upgraded databases from 11.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.4
  • Working with databases in virtualized environments (VMware) running Linux 6.5
  • In my test environment, I Created virtual machines (oracle virtual Box) and installed Linux OS on these boxes
  • DBA supporting various production databases including data warehouse ranging in size from 100GB to 3TB (in Preprod,
  • Dev, Training, Post Prod and Production environments) in various platforms ranging from AIX (VM's), Solaris, Linux
  • Table refreshes and schema refreshes using Datapump expdp and impdp
  • Database refreshes using expdp, impdp, RMAN
  • Duplicate and cloning
  • Experienced in cloning the databases using HOT and
  • COLD backups
  • Cloning & duplicating databases using scripts as well as RMAN for test and developments instances
  • SQL tuning and Database performance tuning has been done based on reports generated by SQL Trace, TKPROF,
  • STATSPACK, Explain Plan, AWR, ADDM and monitor the database performance on daily basis
  • Responsible for setup and implementation of 2 Node
  • RAC on Linux in 10g and 11g R2
  • Implemented Dataguard, creating both logical and physical standby databases in 10g and 11g RAC environment for production database
  • Create database Objects, Tablespaces, Schemas as needed
  • Schema migrations from Development to Production via
  • Tech Test environments
  • Database refresh from Production to Tech Test as needed
  • Configured and deployed Tripwire and splunk on all servers as security measure to monitor changes to critical and other important database related files
  • Modified existing databases to meet unique needs and goals determined during initial evaluation and planning process.

Education

CSM, SAFe -

Scrum Alliance
01.2015

Bachelor of Arts - Business Management

University of Buea
Cameroon, Buea
12.2007

Skills

  • Familiarity with multiple agile frameworks Scrum Kanban SaFe, strong team management and team building skills,
  • Problem solving skills, Extremely detail-oriented, Project Tools ( Azure, Jira, Confluence, Sharepoint, Mural),
  • Leadership Experience, Development of team training, Excellent communication skills, Test Driven Environment(TDE),
  • SDLC, CI/CD pipeline, Acceptance Test Driven Development(ATDD)

Languages

  • English, French

    • Certification

    • CSM, SAFe

    Timeline

    Scrum Master

    Wells Fargo
    01.2016 - 12.2019

    Oracle Database Administrator

    Metropol-Tech Consulting Inc
    06.2012 - 12.2016

    Sr Srum Master

    Gap Inc
    Jan2019 - 06.2023

    CSM, SAFe -

    Scrum Alliance

    Bachelor of Arts - Business Management

    University of Buea

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