Samuel Fadina

• Managing team of 16 developers, QA, and Data Engineers to create real-time reporting tools and dashboards for tracking over 1 million calls and 400 thousand messages per month
• Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans.
• Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
• Managing multiple internal and outside scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
• Working with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
• Trained and mentored team members on the best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins
• Coaching and mentored team members, stakeholders, and leadership on the benefits of Agile and Scrum.
• Working with the product owner and Dev Lead to drive projects to production, meeting deadlines and outcomes.
• Removing impediments and protecting team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
• Ensuring the team follows the definition of Done protocols and Scrum Framework/Agile methodology.
• Acting as a peer mentor to other Scrum Masters and partnered with Agile Coaches to drive agility throughout the organization.
• Use KPI/ metrics like Burndown Chart, backlog health, and capacity utilization to help the team identify patterns and opportunities

Working with 2 Remote Scrum Teams, consisting of 6 developers each in 2 weeks Sprints. Teams use JIRA tool for planning and tracking workflow.

• Supported product owners by providing templates for SMART objectives in line with Portfolio Epics and business categories.
• Supported RTE by providing accurate data quality of Dashboards for Draft plans, which includes Team Objectives, Features, Capacity, and Load for all iterations and Metrics as requested.
• Coached the Agile Release Train on Agile practices, prepared the team by driving transparency of the process, coaching them on expectations for PI Planning, and ensuring the team took proactive steps toward PI Preparation.
• Participated and contributed to various Agile Communities of Practice and Scrum of Scrums for dependency resolutions and impediment escalations.
• Promoted Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development, and testing departments.
• Facilitated Release Retrospectives and Cross-team retrospectives to improve PI process and outcomes.
• Collaborated with Business stakeholders and Product owners in driving transparency of process, impediments, and conflict resolution.
• Initiated and facilitated Scrum Community of Practice (CoP) to provide support for new scrum master and supported the enterprise Agile transformation needs.
• Identified potential project risks and helped developed mitigation plans to resolve potential issues.
• Facilitated effective refinement sessions and user story-writing workshops.

Worked with 2 Teams, 1 Team added a platform to request prescriptions and modify existing prescription request online while the other Team worked on supporting enhancements to the existing application.

• Ensured stories are ready for upcoming Sprints by assisting Product Owner to effectively manage Product Backlog through writing effective User Stories, Backlog Prioritization, Estimation, and acceptance criteria during Backlog refinement sessions.
• Facilitating quarterly review with stakeholders to provide transparency on team growth, significant achievements and organizational impediments that affects the teams.
• Ensuring the team remain focus on delivering most prioritized value items during the Sprint by leveraging on work in progress limits to optimize productivity.
• Created Capacity planning template that enabled the team track available capacity which enhanced planning and ensured team members were not overwhelmed.
• Facilitated discussions on continuous improvement by leveraging on different retrospective techniques that enable developers produce empirical solutions that improved their work process.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Help teams to become self-managing by empowering them to take ownership of their processes and support each other through challenges while having business value as their focus.
• Monitor team backlog daily and ensure it accurately reflects the current state, including burndown chart and status, at the release and sprint levels.
• Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile environment and distributed models through whiteboarding and mind-mapping.
• Managing projects using JIRA and Confluence to monitor and report on key Agile performance metrics to Scrum of Scrums and stakeholders.

• Coordinate Agile ceremonies like sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and other needed meetings to help the team deliver high quality value
• Managed multiple internal and outside scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
• Guided Scrum team finalizing Sprint Backlog during planning and communicate committed stories for the upcoming sprint to the Release Train Engineer or Senior Management and other stakeholders
• Work with the team to formulate a plan for demos prior to meeting time.
• Managed work items, workflow and tracked velocity, ensure resource utilization, delivery, and productivity, using Jira and the physical board for transparency.
• Coached team members to apply agile and lean thinking to specific environments and impediments they face.
• Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team(s) and organization and coached the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the teams and organization.
• Identifies skills and competencies of scrum team members and adjusts accordingly to promote development and highly effective teams.
• Supported the Product Owner to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy intra-team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
• Track and Communicate sprint status with management and other corporate stakeholders

• Focused on project monitoring and management by developing forecasts and tracking expenses.
• Forecasted, scheduled and monitored project timelines, personnel performance and cost efficiency.
• Led meetings with internal team members, consultants and contractors.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Reviewed budget and subcontractor estimates in detail and analyzed for accuracy with scope of work relevancy in mind.
• Built and established strong partnerships with teams, vendors and contractors.
• Determined project staffing needs and led resource management.
• Conducted periodic inspections of job sites for quality and progress.
• Identified needs and coordinated resource allocation to deliver quality standards on time and within budget.
• Modified project plans when needed to better align with organizational objectives.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.