Isreal Edosomwan
Project Manager | Scrum Master
Mansfield,TX
Summary
Certified Scrum Master with a background in managing cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects within set timelines, and a seasoned IT professional with exceptional leadership and project management skills. Well-organized, systematic, and diplomatic in building consensus and spearheading teams. Committed to improving team efficiency, enhancing communication, and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Successfully steered previous organizations towards agile methodologies by fostering an environment of transparency and trust. Specializes in planning and implementation. Skilled in managing complex IT projects from conception to deployment, ensuring alignment with business goals. Possess deep understanding of project management lifecycle (SDLC), risk management, and stakeholder communication strategies. Strengths include leadership, problem-solving abilities, and adaptability to changing technology landscapes.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Security Scrum Master
INTEL CORPORATION
03.2023 - Current
- Organize and facilitates all scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, backlog grooming/refinement, retros, demos, sprint reviews and planning sessions) including other ad-hoc meetings ensuring participation and engagement from all team members.
- Collaborate with other Scrum Masters within the Agile Release Train (ART) to coordinate inter-team dependencies, and escalated impediments/risks to the RTE that cannot be resolved at the team level via Scrum of Scrums and other channels.
- Manage internal and external dependencies for the team before, during and after PI planning in a SAFe agile environment to ensure that accepted dependencies are completed on agreed schedule.
- Support the growth of the team and the ART by ensuring that the delivery teams apply agile best practices through continuous improvement.
- Support the team by proactively removing any impediments and barriers inhibiting the team’s work process and progress in a timely manner to help the team in achieving the sprint goals.
- Create and maintains APTS dashboards in JIRA to track sprint and work progress, capturing and reporting essential metrics to the team and stakeholders at the end of every sprint.
- Encouraged a cross-functional and self-organized team environment that empowers and energizes team members, with a focus on accountability, adaptability, collaboration, and high-performance.
- Work with POs and stakeholders to develop and refine team strategies using agile best practices.
- Ensures the APT is compliant with the team working agreement and the effective use of JIRA by the team to manage story work flow and progress with daily update to story statuses.
- Promoting an empowered, self-management, collaborative, multidisciplinary and cross-functional team environment that fosters ownership, creativity, and innovation.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Generated reports for IT project progress and performance.
Contract Scrum Master - Humana
ATOS SYNTEL
02.2021 - 03.2023
- Led multiple and distributed scrum teams (On-shore/Off -shore), while fostering a learning and a continuous improvement mindset by enabling and empowering team members to be self-organize and to grow cross-functionally.
- Acts as a catalyst for change by ensuring an evolving work process for the entire team while championing a continuous improvement mindset that aided the team’s growth and maturity.
- Helped the teams improve productivity through agile leadership, mentoring, coaching and effective meeting facilitation techniques while Promoting Agile ideas and acting as a 'Change-Agent'.
- Supporting, educating, engaging & mentoring the team members (including POs), managers & other stakeholders to follow Agile principles and clarifying their responsibilities when required.
- Working with the team and the Change Advisory Board (CAB) for the timely approval of change requests (COs) in ensuring a timely and effective deployment/release to production.
- Supporting the team during releases to aid a successful deployment to prod. and PPV validation.
- Promoting an empowered, self-management, collaborative, multidisciplinary and cross-functional team environment that fosters ownership, creativity, and innovation.
- Creating a team environment that is open, non-judgmental, and trustworthy without a fear of retaliation, while enabling a problem solving and collaborative work environment.
- Foster collaboration and communication within the team, and drove Agile transformation through cultural change within the organization.
Scrum Master
TELETECH INC
04.2020 - 02.2021
- Scrum master for multiples teams and was accountable for the team’s effectiveness and improvement.
- Coordinated and facilitated all scrum meetings such as daily standup, retrospectives, sprint planning and coached the team on story sizing, estimation, deployment, Definition of Ready and Done.
- Ensured the teams continuously improves, and increases its productivity by meeting sprint goals and metrics and adhering to defined organizational goals.
- Aided the team to continuously deliver value by removing any impediment or roadblocks to the flow of value in an effective and timely manner.
- Noticeable improvement to the team’s velocity after the implementation of team working agreement and adherence of best-known Agile development methods, practices and principles by the team.
- Coaching the team to adopt different dynamics such as self-organization, cross-functionality, and becoming more autonomous in making local decisions.
- Facilitated the creation and updating of knowledge base and project documentation in Confluence.
- Ensuring team backlog is ready (groomed), and available before sprint starts, and ensuring proper coordination of dependencies with external teams and other scrum masters during the sprint.
Scrum Master
TELEPERFORMANCE USA
09.2017 - 01.2020
- Helped the team understand the empirical nature of the scrum framework, and how to use the data-driven approach when building products and delivery value.
- Encouraged self-organized and cross functioning cohesive scrum team; and always shielded the team from external influences to help keep the team focus on the completion of the sprint goals.
- Excellent knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques including User Stories, CICD, Continuous Testing, Pairing, and Automated Testing.
- Digital background and delivery experience including mobile (IOS & Android), web and cloud working with multifaceted teams including mobile developers.
- Played a vital role in helping the portfolio during the transition from waterfall to agile by sharing my agile knowledge and scrum expertise to help determine how best to leverage the framework.
- Scrum Master for multiple Core/Business teams that developed customer web reservation portal.
- Managed the team’s information radiators: Velocity, Burndown charts, and Confluence Pages.
- Demonstrated excellent leadership qualities by taking on additional responsibility of operation analyst to ensure increase in productivity.
- Communicated project updates to stakeholders at all levels.
Education
MSc. - Healthcare Administration
University of Arlington
Arlington, TXB.A - Communications & Public Relations
Minot State University
Skills
- Microsoft Office tools
- SharePoint
- Collaboration platforms
- SQL
- Azure DevOps
- Team Foundation Server
- JIRA and Jira Align
- Confluence
- Rally
- Miro
- Slack
- Data analytics
- Business analytics
- Value stream mapping
- Story mapping
- ServiceNow
- Performance reports
- Agile methodologies
- Scrum framework
- Continuous improvement practices
- Team facilitation skills
- Risk management strategies
- Stakeholder engagement techniques
- Cross-functional collaboration skills
- Change management processes
- Conflict resolution strategies
- Effective communication skills
- Performance metrics analysis
- Agile coaching techniques
- Project management expertise
- Agile metrics tracking methods
- Software development lifecycle knowledge
- Kanban principles and practices
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
- Certified SAFe Product Owner, Product Manager (POPM)
Clearance
Position of Public Trust, 01/01/21
Military Service
Fort Benning, GA, 01/01/13, Fort Lee, VA, 01/01/13
Personal Information
Citizenship: US Citizen
Timeline
Security Scrum Master
INTEL CORPORATION
03.2023 - Current
Contract Scrum Master - Humana
ATOS SYNTEL
02.2021 - 03.2023
Scrum Master
TELETECH INC
04.2020 - 02.2021
Scrum Master
TELEPERFORMANCE USA
09.2017 - 01.2020
MSc. - Healthcare Administration
University of Arlington
B.A - Communications & Public Relations
Minot State University
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