Micheal Adufe
Mansfield,TX
Summary
Highly experienced Scrum Master, Agile Project Manager, and Coach with a demonstrated history of leading teams and projects in the Information Technology, Insurance, and Financial sectors. I am highly skilled in Coaching, Technical projects, Agile Methodologies, Mentoring, and Servant Leadership. Project leader with hands-on technical backgrounds in Cloud and Data analysis, DevOps Position in a dynamic organization where I can leverage strong leadership and communication skills to drive continuous improvement and successful project delivery. Proven experience leading cross-functional teams in building people-focused solutions that drive optimal customer value. Solid experience in defining projects/initiatives with clear goals, objectives, and protocols. A good mastery of collaboration with multiple team members across different geographic areas alongside tracking progress against timelines, milestones, and budget revision as needed.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master / Project Manager
USAA
11.2019 - Current
- Utilize Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe simultaneously to address complex agile projects across teams
- Work with project sponsors to define project goals and objectives; conduct business analysis with a keen eye on enterprise resources; align business analysis and project goals
- Promoting and empowering teams by shielding the sections as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries
- Help teams prepare for ART activities, including Quarter release Planning, Art sync, System Demos, Inspect, and adaptation
- Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while providing all .to the team using a servant leadership style
- Research, execute, monitor, report, control, and finalize projects according to the firm’s Information Technology processes and procedures.
- Coaching product owners: helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
- Coaching the Product owner in writing user stories and prioritization techniques
- Organize and facilitate time-boxed events: Backlog Grooming, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, ..Reviews, Retrospective, and Release Planning.
- Project and sprint updates to the leadership team and stakeholder
- Facilitate Scrum of Scrums, dependency, and alignment conversations across teams and workstreams.
Scrum Master
Statefarm Insurance
06.2018 - 11.2019
- Coached and Mentored teams in planning strategies to attract new customers that utilized the mobile payment platform to optimize user experience
- Ensured impediments to the team were proactively and reactively removed; also elevated awareness of any organizational conditions discovered which resulted in the attainment of milestones and objectives
- Leads planning, team learning, and adaptation of processes to ensure the quality of team solutions
- Led and coached the Scrum team responsible for developing software projects and automated tools for financial services
- Evangelized Agile Methodology throughout the organization to improve communications between IT, Engineering, Product Management, and Business, providing transparency and obtaining excellent business value
- Increased team velocity by 35% within the first three months of Agile adoption by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions
- Facilitated scrum ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily standups, etc.)
- Enacted change and continuous improvement, increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 15% and the quality of deliverables by 30%
- Worked closely with the project manager to create compressive action plans concerning resources, time frames, and the overall project process
- Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts to develop process improvement reports for setting forth progress, adverse trends, and appropriate recommendations and conclusions
- Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity charts) to help deliver committed work.
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Unishippers
05.2016 - 06.2018
- Served as a project manager responsible for overseeing multiple concurrent initiatives within major programs
- Managed client expectations and ensures project is delivered iteratively and incrementally while adhering company’s SDLC, Release and engineering standards
- Facilitates team level events, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Backlog refinement, Sprint Demo and Retrospective
- Supported the team by collaborating with integrated teams to deliver technology solutions to support key product initiatives by working closely with business partners
- Responsible for resource allocation/ forecasting in Clarity (MS OWB) and MS Excel
- Assisted in developing and maintaining a ‘master schedule’ (Schedule Management) within the programs to summarize project milestones
- Oversaw between 3 to 5 projects simultaneously; managed the entire life cycle of projects from inception through completion
- Developed standardized change materials for internal finance partners and external consultants to leverage when executing projects
- Managed day-to-day activities related to Oracle-12 implementation to ensure the achievement of business goals and objectives
- Formulate plans, identify key stakeholders, and manage relationships
- Resolve concerns on highly significant matters and escalate risks and issues
- Developed chart-holding facilities and assisted in training staff
- Assisted various projects from start to finish through the SDLC process.
DevOps Admin
Unishippers
04.2015 - 06.2017
- Owned production alerts (through) and acted as the point of contact for all infrastructure incident
- Wrote terraform scripts from scratch for building, Development, Staging, and Production environments
- Assisted developers with all their day-to-day activities, such as pull requests (PR), merge conflicts, Jenkins access and permissions, Jenkins issues, deployment issues, application logs
- Originated Jenkins files to package our microservices, push them into the GitHub repository, and build and test the docker images into AWS ECR
- Led the management of Git workflow, pull request, and the whole release workflow from the dev, QA, and stage to the production environment
- Configured Jenkins nodes/enslaved people to master with SSH and launch agents to distribute the Jenkins controller server’s workload
- Also, I configured Maven jobs and freestyle projects in Jenkins for various projects
- Enabled Jenkins master to pull the source code from GitHub automatically when there is a new commit
- Use Maven and other plugins to compile, test, review, package the source code and store the Artifact in the AWS S3 bucket
- Assisted in setting up Kubernetes cluster, and node group from scratch for test and production environment in AWS
- Debugged failed deployment; configured tools to send notifications in case the deployment or a build fails.
Data Analyst
Intuit
01.2012 - 04.2015
- Reviewed and created detailed documentation of business systems and user needs, including workflow, program functions and steps required to develop or modify application programs
- Assisted in developing and maintaining business & financial reports and IT work/databases, which was required to support the various lines of business and specific projects
- Consulted with IT personnel to determine business, functional and technical requirements for specified applications
- Participated in code Reviews, System Testing, and UAT followed by production verification, post-production testing and support
- Performed internal & external reporting, cash management, cost reduction & efficiency
- Created and Executed SQL Queries for Ad Hoc Report
- Generated reports in various formats like Table format and Matrix format using Reporting Services (SSRS) to display in a customized form as per business requirements
- Microsoft Suite (Management Studio, Business Intelligence Development Studio (SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), and Power BI
- Implemented Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft BI stack (SSAS, SSRS, SSIS) and developed enterprise applications
- Defining Data Sources and subtotals for the reports using SSRS
- Experience with advanced Power BI topics such as complex calculations, table calculations, parameters, geographic mapping, and performance optimization.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Mathematics
Ambrose Alli University
Edo State, NigeriaSkills
- Continuous Improvement
- Conflict Resolution
- Lean Implementation
- Deployment Coordination
- Release Planning
- Capacity Planning
- Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
- Jira and Confluence
- Kanban Azure Dev Ops/Team Foundation Services (TFS)
- Rally
- Story Mapping
- Burndown charts
- Data and Business Analysis
- Microsoft Office Tools: SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Word, Outlook, SQL
- Maven
- SonarQube
- Centos/RHEL 6,7,8 & Ubuntu
- GitHub
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Apache
- Nginx
- Tomcat
- Slack
- Chime
- Opsgenie (On-call rotation)
- Skype
- Microsoft Team
- Outlook
- Bash Shell Scripting
- Pipeline as a code
- Yaml
- Waterfall
- SDLC
- ServiceNow
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- NEXUS
- CI/CD pipelines
- WebApps (PaaS solutions) on the Azure portal for deploying web
applications using Azure DevOps pipelines - Proficient in Java, Microservices, and cloud platforms
Certifications Education
- Professional Scrum Master (PSMI) – Scrum.org
- Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM 4.6) – Scaled Agile Framework
- HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
- Bachelor of Science (BSC) Industrial Mathematics - Ambrose Alli University, Edo State, Nigeria
Certification
Professional Scrum Master (PSMI) – Scrum.org
Certified SAFe Scrum Master (SSM 4.6) – Scaled Agile Framework
HashiCorp Certified Terraform Associate
Timeline
Scrum Master / Project Manager
USAA
11.2019 - Current
Scrum Master
Statefarm Insurance
06.2018 - 11.2019
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Unishippers
05.2016 - 06.2018
DevOps Admin
Unishippers
04.2015 - 06.2017
Data Analyst
Intuit
01.2012 - 04.2015
Bachelor of Science - Industrial Mathematics
Ambrose Alli University