Kelvin Ibezim
NewYork,NY
Summary
Formatted a mobile application for a start-up with 30+ employee and $50m+ in annual revenue. Scrum Master with 8 years of experience with a keen ability to understand and build complex systems and focus relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer-centric products and leading high performance teams.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
Shopify
New York, NY
12.2019 - Current
- Implemented Agile Scrum practices that empowered a 21-member team to increase efficiency by 88% within first year of agile adoption.
- Improved scrum team with implementation and adaptation of JIRA which reduced the time to create and manage tickets by an average of 2days.
- Mentored a cross-functional team of 16 to deliver quality projects to $15M in revenue in 2021.
- Enforced Kanban principles as scrum master that cut down Cycle time by 25% and increased the project team's throughput in less than 9 weeks.
- Executed projects and demonstrate a business-focused approach, achieving business objectives, and identifying further business opportunities.
- Building and deploying applications by adopting DevOps practices such as continuous development, continuous integration(CI), and continuous Deployment(CD) in runtime with various tools like azure, power BI, Jenkins, ansible, docker, and AWS.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
Project Manager/ Scrum Master
Hornblower Cruises And Event
NewYork, NY
07.2017 - 11.2019
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for the product development lifecycle, realizing a 99% reduction in project errors over the sprint cycle.
- Serves as liaison between Development and Business to ensure smooth communication and prioritization of work.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
- Enforced alignment of project strategy with business objectives and made modifications to promote efficient project completion.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Managed projects from procurement to commission.
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
Business Analyst
Union Maritime Ltd
Lagos, Nigeria
01.2014 - 06.2017
- Analyzed key aspects of the business to evaluate factors driving 100% results and summarized them into presentations.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Implemented Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase velocity within the first year of adoption by 60%.
- Led 8-member cross-functional team across four offices to implement a new CRM system for 300+ employees globally.
- Met with stakeholders to establish favorable business relationships and support mutually beneficial interests.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ2022
Skills
- Agile Frameworks- Scrum
- Kanban, XP
- JIRA and JIRA Portfolio
- Agile Project Management
- Software Development Life
- Confluence
- Servant leader, Interpersonal
- Effective Communication, Analytical
- Scrum Methodology
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Problem-solving, Resourceful
- Kanban
- Azure DevOps
Websites
Certification
Certified Scrum master CSM), Agile Project Management.
Timeline
Scrum Master
Shopify
12.2019 - Current
Project Manager/ Scrum Master
Hornblower Cruises And Event
07.2017 - 11.2019
Business Analyst
Union Maritime Ltd
01.2014 - 06.2017
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Phoenix