Kwasi A. Dokyi
Columbia,MD
Summary
Experienced semiconductor engineering technician and scrum master with over 7 years in technical and software development roles. Resourceful and enthusiastic team player with a strong understanding of quantitative and analytical methods. Thrives in coaching operation policies and processes across multiple projects with multi-million-dollar budgets in various companies. Possesses the ability to minimize operational setbacks and ensure business integrity within the organization under immense pressure and deadlines. Holds an active security clearance.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Team Lead Lithography SST
Linithicum
02.2023 - Current
- Perform cause and corrective action activities to permanently eliminate defects using root cause analysis tools
- Use SPC tools to ensure process control
- Leads team effort in relentless improvement, defines and implements improvement stories to increase velocity and quality of program
- Manages project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at high performance
- Develop and incorporating process improvements to resolve problems and remove roadblocks
- Play key role in creating systems engineering documentation, including but not limited to requirements specifications and standard operating procedures
- Troubleshoot production/tooling/facility issues and implementing improvements and solutions
- Certified on multiple DUV tools including steppers, tracks, metrology tools, dry etch tools, and inspection tools
- Create, track and maintain detailed project schedules for development efforts
- Participate in program meetings, coordinate meetings, and prepare and/ or edit meeting timeboxing and presentations
- Trained 4 team members by relaying information on company procedures and safety requirements.
Scrum Master/Project Coordinator
THERANOSTIX
04.2021 - 12.2022
- Proactive escalation of issues of concern or risk related to deliverables, able to work with Stakeholders and Development Managers to address or mitigate such issues to drive efficiency realization across the enterprise
- Supported the growth and development of the Business Analyst and RPA Analyst roles
- Facilitated workshops with stakeholders to elicit process requirements
- Knowledge of data entry software and operation of pathology laboratory and automated grossing/histology equipment such a microtome and Leica processing machines
- Led a team of 20 lab techs to process test requests with accompanying specimens and enter orders as required
- Used established policies and procedures for specimen acceptability and troubleshoot or clarify questions regarding specimen integrity
- Participated in the analysis and review of current processes and systems to determine effectiveness and efficiency
- Performed project validation for enterprise projects involving switch to digital pathology and electronic ordering systems in order to determine strategic alignment, project scope, stakeholders required, cost-benefit analysis, level of effort, timeline, and recommended approach
- Collaborated with project management during the project lifecycle
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Scrum Master
Peloton Interactive
03.2019 - 02.2021
- Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies: Daily Stand-Ups, Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Retrospective, and Iteration Review
- Exposed to SAFe PI planning event and coordinate with 3 Scrum Masters in planning dependencies deliverables and communicating to business as needed
- Served as servant leader with excellent listening and interpersonal skills
- Experienced with Automated Testing, CI/CD pipeline, and associated frameworks
- Worked closely with product owner in writing and breaking down user stories to meet INVEST criteria and prioritize product backlog using MOSCOW technique
- Coached and guide organization using Agile and lean principles, experiment with processes and tools that encourage continuous improvement
- Partnered with Engineering Lead to facilitate delivery through effective team collaboration and decision making
- Improved team efficiency by implementing Agile and Scrum methodologies for project management.
Scrum Master
Brontech Solutions
01.2017 - 03.2019
- Scrum Master for 2 teams, provide a learning environment to maximize team efficiency and overall business value
- Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand Up, Iteration Planning, Review, Retrospective, backlog refinement, Program Increment
- Collected data from traffic management software to provide teams and the organization with relevant feedback on velocity, quality, and overall impact of efforts
- Supported the Product Owner to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
- Escalate when blocking issues were beyond the team’s authority and required support from other teams
- Represented the team in the Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting, passing along information from that meeting back to the team
- Coordinated with the System Team, User Experience, Architecture, and Shared Services Teams
- Assisted in driving and documenting development, configuration, migration, integration, testing, and maintenance of data pipelines tied to the analytic methodologies generated by the data scientists and Subject Matter Experts
Education
Bachelor of Science - Engineering Management
Arizona State University
Arizona City, AZ05-2026
Associate of Arts - Communications
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NYCommunication And Marketing Science, Project And Career EXPL in Business, Career Planning Management, Concepts And Applications of Information And Technology
University of Maryland
College Park, MDSkills
- Microsoft Office
- IT Systems Management
- Database Administration
- Training and Development
- Jira
- DevOps tools and Practices
- Confluence
- EVM
- Green Belt
- Python
- Azure Cloud Management
- Tableau
- Atlassian
- Linux
- C/C
- Team Player
Certification
- SQL
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Scrum Master (SSM)
- Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
- PMP Pending
- RCCA
Securityclearance
SCI Clearance
Timeline
Team Lead Lithography SST
Linithicum
02.2023 - Current
Scrum Master/Project Coordinator
THERANOSTIX
04.2021 - 12.2022
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Scrum Master
Peloton Interactive
03.2019 - 02.2021
Scrum Master
Brontech Solutions
01.2017 - 03.2019
- SQL
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Scrum Master (SSM)
- Oracle Certified Associate (OCA)
- PMP Pending
- RCCA
Bachelor of Science - Engineering Management
Arizona State University
Associate of Arts - Communications
Monroe Community College
Communication And Marketing Science, Project And Career EXPL in Business, Career Planning Management, Concepts And Applications of Information And Technology
University of Maryland
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