Megan Asafo-Agyei
Silver Spring,MD
Summary
Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Business Analyst/Certified Scrum Master
United Health Care
01.2022 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Researched current trends to stay knowledgeable in Scrum methods.
- Managed various IT projects to meet deadlines and customer requirements.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
- Facilitated daily Scrum meetings to debrief progress, troubleshoot snags and establish goals for following day.
- Worked with team to identify capacity and set realistic sprint objectives.
Business Analyst II
Peace Health Care Inc
01.2020 - 01.2022
- Works closely with the stakeholder (clients) in gathering and documenting requirements
- Serves as a leading contributor in the design, development, and support for numerous project modules
- Experience documenting communications, minutes, agendas, and presentations for stakeholder groups
- Leads and manages requirements and analysis activities
- Facilitates work sessions, ensuring the process stays on track
- Articulates requirements, makes recommendations for process and business flows, develops consensus on requirements, and documents requirements via the approved process and templates
- Interacts with functional and technical staff
- Serves as primary contact with the Subject Matter Experts and the champion of their needs across the software development life cycle
- Prepares release documentations by coordinating with the team to capture full scope of quarterly or monthly releases
- Facilitates and manages meeting sessions with business owners, business system owners, development team, testing team, and process control team
- Experience documenting communications, minutes, agendas, and presentations for stakeholder groups
- Involves in Performance testing, Regression testing, System testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Experience working in a fast-paced
- Facilitates defect (bug) review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify the severity and set priorities as per client requirements, ensuring accuracy and conform to deadlines.
- Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.
- Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
Business Analyst
ISI
01.2018 - 01.2020
- Interacted with internal customers to understand business needs and translate into requirements and project scope.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define project objectives and criteria.
- Created data models to support decision-making processes.
- Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.
- Implemented business intelligence solutions to increase operational efficiency.
- Improved business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.
- 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.
- Generated business intelligence reports to inform strategic decision-making.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Performed gap analysis to identify areas of improvement.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
- Analyzed open orders, backlog, and sales data to provide sales team with insights.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Morgan State University
Skills
- Web Development Technologies
- Public Speaking
- Reviewing Test Scenarios
- Meeting Participation
- Stakeholder Negotiations
- Atlassian JIRA
- Planning Meetings
- Customer Needs Assessments
- Organizational Structure
- Customer Interaction
- Risk Identification
- Customer Requirements Analysis
- Sprint Planning
- Development Team Trainings
Accomplishments
- Certifications:
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Timeline
Business Analyst/Certified Scrum Master
United Health Care
01.2022 - Current
Business Analyst II
Peace Health Care Inc
01.2020 - 01.2022
Business Analyst
ISI
01.2018 - 01.2020
Bachelor of Science -
Morgan State University
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