Kiko Nyomo
Austin,USA
Summary
Agile Leader with over 15 years driving enterprise transformations and coaching teams. Successfully improved team productivity and delivery predictability through SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban frameworks. Committed to servant leadership and aligning Agile practices with strategic business goals.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAFe Scrum Master Lead II
Truist
Atlanta, USA
02.2025 - 03.2026
- Ensured consistent implementation of Scrum and SAFe Agile practices across multiple delivery teams, enhancing alignment with enterprise digital banking initiatives.
- Led cross-team dependency management and release readiness, aligning monthly releases with strict testing gates (SIT/UAT/Regression).
- Drove enterprise Agile metrics and maintained backlog health to enhance predictability, support velocity tracking, and inform executive reporting.
- Facilitated cross-team risk escalation and dependency management, ensuring delivery timelines and quality standards were maintained.
- Collaborated with Product Management, Engineering, Business Operations, and Finance teams to improve delivery capacity planning and forecasting.
- Mentored a team of Jr. Scrum Masters, aligning Agile practices with enterprise strategy and leadership competencies, resulting in improved delivery consistency and team performance.
- Partnered with executive stakeholders to translate strategic initiatives into measurable team-level outcomes, driving Agile maturity through governance forums and continuous improvement practices.
- Contributed to development of enterprise Agile governance frameworks and delivery standards, reinforcing organization’s Agile operating model.
- Established clear performance expectations, Agile maturity benchmarks, and delivery KPIs for Scrum Masters supporting engineering and product teams.
Sr. Agile Transformation Coach
Administration Office-United States Courts
Washington, USA
04.2023 - 02.2025
- Led Agile transformation initiatives supporting federal technology modernization programs across multiple delivery teams.
- Coached engineering, product, and program leadership on Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices.
- Coached and managed Scrum Masters to enhance cross-functional delivery team performance.
- Established Agile governance practices ensuring alignment with federal program management and portfolio oversight.
- Introduced Agile best practices that improved delivery predictability, team productivity, and release management processes.
- Led continuous improvement initiatives focused on Agile maturity, delivery efficiency, and program transparency.
- Reduced delivery blockers by establishing escalation paths and cross-team collaboration models.
Lead Agile Coach
Cisco
Atlanta, USA
03.2019 - 04.2023
- Increased team maturity by coaching Scrum Masters on advanced Agile practices, driving measurable improvements in velocity and team engagement.
- Coached Scrum Masters in performance management and career development, enhancing their effectiveness in Agile practices.
- Facilitated Agile delivery for enterprise networking and software engineering teams, achieving greater release predictability and improved development throughput.
- Implemented Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices across distributed engineering teams.
- Implemented process improvements that enhanced team velocity and reduced cycle time, resulting in higher product delivery quality.
- Worked with teams to deliver secure, low-latency payment processing systems leveraging cloud infrastructure.
- Enabled data-driven delivery and KPI alignment, connecting Agile execution to BI outcomes.
- Collaborated with senior leadership to align Agile delivery with business objectives, ensuring strategic initiatives were effectively executed at the team level.
Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Team Coach
Meteorcomm
Seattle, USA
01.2016 - 03.2019
- Implemented Scrum practices across engineering teams to enhance collaboration and delivery in telecommunications and wireless communication systems.
- Facilitated Agile ceremonies including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Coached engineers and product teams on Agile best practices and backlog management to foster effective iterative development.
- Led initiatives for Agile maturity uplift, strengthening team accountability, transparency, and delivery cadence in an engineering-driven organization.
- Managed dependencies, risks, and milestones across multiple Agile teams.
- Supported leadership in improving team collaboration, accountability, and delivery transparency.
- Operated in a hybrid Agile environment (Waterfall → Agile transition) with evolving Scrum adoption.
- Helped teams adopt Agile ceremonies, backlog structuring, and incremental delivery practices.
Sr. Scrum Master - Business Intelligence and Analytics
AT&T
Atlanta, USA
05.2013 - 12.2015
- Managed and completed AT&T Stores payment application predictive analytics projects, generating an estimated $15 million in quarterly revenue in 2015.
- Facilitated quarterly planning (PI Planning) to align teams' work with long-term roadmaps.
- Conducted Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, retrospectives, backlog grooming, and PI planning, to drive team collaboration.
- Partnered with Product Owners and stakeholders to prioritize and define product roadmaps.
- Monitored sprint progress through metrics such as burn-up, burn-down charts, velocity tracking, and sprint reports to enhance transparency.
- Actively identified and removed impediments, enabling teams to consistently achieve sprint goals and accelerate product delivery.
- Prepared backlog and conducted capacity planning prior to PI events to ensure team readiness.
Agile Project Manager
Cox Media Group - Technology
Atlanta, USA
06.2010 - 05.2013
- Successfully completed four projects within 90 days and a $1 million budget, boosting customer engagement for Cox Enterprise’s major newspapers.
- Led initiatives to standardize Agile processes while maintaining adaptability, resulting in improved collaboration and more predictable delivery cycles.
- Developed resource plans and quality metrics, driving continuous improvement across project teams.
- Created and managed risk and issue logs, collaborating with stakeholders on mitigation and corrective action plans.
- Identified project risks and developed mitigation strategies, ensuring smooth execution through effective contingency planning.
- Facilitated stakeholder discussions to address complex challenges, escalate issues, and identify solutions that maintained project momentum.
IT Project Manager
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, USA
01.2009 - 06.2010
E.D.I Business Analyst Associate Project Manager
Home Depot HQ
Atlanta, USA
05.2006 - 01.2009
Education
B.B.A - Marketing
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GAMaster of Science - Project Management
Keller Graduate School of Management
AtlantaM.P.M - Master of Project Management
Keller Graduate School of Management
Atlanta, GASkills
- SAFe
- Scrum
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Facilitation
- Agile Transformation
- Kanban
- LeSS
- CI/CD
- TDD
- Agile Product Management
- Lean Agile
- Agile management
- Enterprise Agile
- Agile Metrics
- Agile KPIs
- Agile Maturity
- Agile sessions
- Change Management
- Lean Portfolio Management
- ARTs support
- Jira Administration
- Confluence
- CA Technology -Rally
- Trello
- MS Project
- Smartsheet
- Visio
- Value Stream Mapping
- Miro
- SDLC
- OKRs
- SDLC
Certification
- SAFe Program Consultant 5.0, completed training
- SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
- Certified Professional Agile Team Facilitator
- Project Management Graduate Certification
- SAFe Agilist 4.0
- Certified Agile Coach
- Certified Scrum Master
Key Skills And Agile Tools
- Agile Coaching
- Agile Transformation
- Scrum
- Kanban
- SAFe
- LeSS
- Agile Leadership
- Enterprise Agile
- Agile Maturity
- Lean Agile
- Agile Training
- Agile Workshops
- Agile Metrics
- Change Management
- Jira Administration
- Data Analytics
- Business Intelligence
- Data Warehouse
- Enterprise Reporting
- Confluence
- Azure DevOps
- CI/CD
- TDD
- Agile Facilitation
- Agile Release Trains (ARTs) Support
- Lean Portfolio Management
- Agile Product Management
- CA Technology -Rally
- Trello
- Visio
- MS Project
- Azure DevOps (ADO)
- Smartsheet
- OKRs
- Agile KPIs
- Value Stream Mapping
- Miro
- SDLC
- AWS Cloud
- SaaS
Timeline
SAFe Scrum Master Lead II
Truist
02.2025 - 03.2026
Sr. Agile Transformation Coach
Administration Office-United States Courts
04.2023 - 02.2025
Lead Agile Coach
Cisco
03.2019 - 04.2023
Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Team Coach
Meteorcomm
01.2016 - 03.2019
Sr. Scrum Master - Business Intelligence and Analytics
AT&T
05.2013 - 12.2015
Agile Project Manager
Cox Media Group - Technology
06.2010 - 05.2013
IT Project Manager
Georgia Institute of Technology
01.2009 - 06.2010
E.D.I Business Analyst Associate Project Manager
Home Depot HQ
05.2006 - 01.2009
B.B.A - Marketing
Kennesaw State University
Master of Science - Project Management
Keller Graduate School of Management
M.P.M - Master of Project Management
Keller Graduate School of Management