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Godwin Nwaugha

Charlotte,North Carolina

Summary

A dynamic and motivational Agile Coach with 8+ years of experience coaching executive leaders and cross-functional teams, developing solutions and enhancing customer experiences. Bringing dedication to continuous improvement, knowledge of workflow optimization and background with organizational enhancements, providing teams an empowering working environment that is deeply rooted in trust, creating innovative processes, influencing organizational changes and facilitating trainings. I’ve led multiple teams through Agile Transformation, built high performing Scrum Master, Product Owners and Coaching Organizational structures, strong ability to communicate across multicultural and multigenerational teams, along with innovative and positive thinking, that has helped to acquire and train highly talented individual and create an environment where knowledge workers thrive through servant leadership. Currently leading a culture shift within the org towards Agile development practices that will partner with a growing DevOps and CI/CD culture.

An have an extensive background in Agile and project management across diverse industries including Healthcare, FinTech, IT, DevOps, and Insurance

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Agile Coach/Senior Scrum M/ Agile Coach

Ally Bank
05.2021 - Current
  • Facilitates Agile coaching including Scrum and Kanban practices such as ceremonies, metrics, and Artefacts
  • Coaching, training and provided mentoring for more than 15 Teams:
    Facilitate Understanding of: Iteration planning,
  • Facilitate sizing of stories during planning sprint, backlog grooming, or sprint planning sessions for t team, and plan and facilitate training session for management and product owners on product strategies and conflict resolution
  • Kick started Scrum and Kanban team by training team in both product management approaches thus fostering product based delivering across business
  • Coach teams of proper work ownership from product vision, business content, refinement, and execution
  • Develops and maintains productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors, vendors, and key clients
  • Establishing team level cadence and driving team level ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, team retrospectives, backlog refinement, etc.)
  • Work with teams to drive definition and refinement of program and team backlogs
  • Advance to leadership where needed and where possible remove impediments for team(s)
  • Maintain metrics that provide visibility to partners on team-level progress and quality.
  • Mentored new hires, resulting in stronger staff development and increased productivity.
  • Quickly adapted training plans for client needs, keeping timelines, budgets and desires in mind
  • Monitored participant workflow and behaviors throughout training process

Technology Lead / Agile Coach

INFOSYS
11.2020 - 05.2021
  • Coached and trained multiple scrum and Kanban teams, and organizations on lean values and agile principles
  • Managed and coached Agile teams of sizes 5 - 10 people (budget $5M)
  • Helped teams deliver and maintain complex solutions using Scrum, Kanban, & XP practices
  • Led and mentored global teams for application delivery and support
  • Mentoring scrum teams per agile practices and principles toward production release
  • Facilitate, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint review meeting, demo, etc
  • Problem-solving and decision-making skills
  • Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to capture business objective
  • Coach multiple teams on techniques to maintain healthy backlog
  • Work with key stakeholders and coordinate for day-to-day deliverables for team
  • Work with business and help them prioritize roadmap along with Product Owner to increase Agility
  • Actively involved in technical matters thus finding out gaps and ensuring product owner involvement in business decision and description of functional flow
  • Served as primary point of contact for [Number] Managed Service Providers (MSP), maintaining healthy business
  • Served as primary point of contact for 5 Managed Service Providers (MSP), maintaining healthy business relationships through constant communication
  • Fostered strong relationship between technology team and managers to align efforts
  • Enhanced interfaces to promote better functionality for users

Agile Coach/Senior Scrum Master

USAA
08.2019 - 11.2020
  • Coaching, training and provided mentoring for more than 15 Teams:
  • Facilitate Understanding of: Iteration planning, daily stand-up meetings, Iteration Reviews/Demos, Retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos,
  • Managed and executed iteration cadence and present project information (Code reviews, release reviews, quarterly health check) in executive-level meetings with cross-departmental leadership while working with Portfolio
  • Coached teams to evolves into Scrum or Kanban Framework, Promoted, and demonstrated core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
  • Developed Assessment Score Card with recommendations
  • Developed IT Work Intake workflow and framework in JIRA.
  • Supported team using servant leadership style and leading by example.
  • Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
  • Removed obstacles by finding right personnel to advance tasks and projects.
  • Assessed Scrum maturity of team and organized and coached team to higher levels of development.
  • Assisted with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency.
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.

Program Lead/Scrum Master

Scrum Master, Afritech Business Solutions
01.2017 - 08.2019
  • Management, Business & Release Management to understand the road map, and develop a release plan
  • Managed and coached Agile teams of sizes 5 - 10 people (budget $2.75M)
  • Worked with team that used Amazon Web Services environments, including S3, EMR, SQS, and SNS, to design, develop, deploy, maintain, and monitor web applications within AWS infrastructures
  • Demonstrated experience providing technical direction to software and data science teams
  • Developed and followed agile project management plan Agile Ceremonies
  • Facilitated build requirements log product backlog with cost estimates and priority
  • Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives

Scrum Master

Healthcare Depot
05.2014 - 12.2016
  • Worked closely with Product Owner
  • Actively participated in establishing and provide Vision of team and gained consensus based on acceptance criteria
  • Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying and tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
  • Coached team members on Agile processes and facilitated planning meetings and retrospectives
  • Maintained task board and produced daily burndown charts
  • Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for organization with leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance
  • Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.

Education

MSc - Project Management

Saint Mary’s University

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

University of North Carolina At Greensboro
Greensboro, NC

Skills

  • Coaching Agile teams
  • Lean /Agile Frameworks
  • Software Development Life Cycle Emotional intelligence
  • Change Management
  • Product Management Strategy
  • Project Management Design Thinking
  • Business Agility Coaching
  • KPI Development & Management
  • Compassionate leadership
  • Relationship building
  • Organizational strategy
  • Collaborative environments
  • Agile transformation
  • Agile delivery
  • Agile team development
  • CI/CD and DevOps culture

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance) Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (Scaled Agile) Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) Advanced Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance) Certified Agile Leadership (CAL1) Project Management Institute (PMP) CSP (Scrum Alliance) ICF-ACC LNP (March 2022)


Affiliations

  • Project Management Institute
  • International Coaching Federation
  • Agile Disciples

voluteering

Co-chair, Community Group Support Initiative- Agile Alliance

Secretary Rotaractors of the Eighties Alumni

Co-founder: Agile Disciples

Timeline

Agile Coach/Senior Scrum M/ Agile Coach

Ally Bank
05.2021 - Current

Technology Lead / Agile Coach

INFOSYS
11.2020 - 05.2021

Agile Coach/Senior Scrum Master

USAA
08.2019 - 11.2020

Program Lead/Scrum Master

Scrum Master, Afritech Business Solutions
01.2017 - 08.2019

Scrum Master

Healthcare Depot
05.2014 - 12.2016

MSc - Project Management

Saint Mary’s University

Bachelor of Science - Business Management

University of North Carolina At Greensboro

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