Experience

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  Emeis Global

  • United States

  • Scrum Master

    • Jun 2023 - Present
    • United States

    ● Support a brand new scrum team, from scratch, coaching the new team on Scrum values thereby ensuring team cohesion in realizing business objectives● Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and feature reviews in various fun ways, causing an increase in the team’s productivity and morale. ● Collaborate with product owner to create a value- based prioritized backlog and ensure the user stories are well captured and written resulting in well- refined backlog.● Champion the adoption of agile values, principles, practices, creating a culture of learning and continuous improvement across the team. ● Providing Scrum training to the scrum team and the organization, thereby fostering an in-depth knowledge of Agile to foster collaboration across teams● Identify and cause the removal of impediments while coaching the team to self-organize and do same● Support the organization on agile culture and development practices

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  Spl Solutions Ltd

  • United States

  • Scrum Master

    • Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
    • United States

    ● Facilitate Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and feature reviews in various fun ways, causing an increase in the team’s productivity and morale. ● Collaborate with product owner to create a value- based prioritized backlog and ensure the user stories are well captured and written resulting in backlog constantly meeting the INVEST criteria.● Champion the adoption of agile values, principles, practices, creating a culture of learning and continuous improvement across the team. ● Improve performance by facilitating Cross-Team Collaboration, building trust with Internal Stakeholders,● Generate, analyze, and publish agile metrics, providing visibility into the health of the project resulting in increased overall project performance. ● Identify and cause the removal of impediments while coaching the team to self-organize and do same● Support the organization on agile culture and development practices.

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  Ricoh

  • Georgia, United States

  • Scrum Master

    • Oct 2018 - Sep 2022
    • Georgia, United States

    ● Supported product owner through coaching and the introduction of frequent backlog refinement to ensure a healthy backlog leading to reduction of time spent on spring planning.● Facilitated Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and feature reviews in various fun ways, causing an increase in the team’s productivity and morale. ● Ensured metrics were visible through JIRA, this increased visibility for ongoing tasks and productivity ● Identified and caused the removal of roadblocks and impediments, enhancing team performance ● Tracked dependencies and developed action plans to track them and ensure projects stayed on schedule

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  Insight Publicis

  • Lagos State, Nigeria

  • Human Resources Manager

    • Feb 2014 - Sep 2018
    • Lagos State, Nigeria

    ● Provided HR expertise to business line leaders across group company, developing and delivering training to employees on critical employee initiatives and leading the implementation of organizational design changes with minimal impact to business operations resulting organizational performance and industry leadership.● Engaged with key stakeholders to anticipate organizational needs, prepare the business for change, and prepare employees for change, enabling the company to make necessary changes without disruption thereby maintained a stable workforce during a period of significant turnover among competing organizations.● Managed search for executive level talents, identifying and recruiting candidates with diverse backgrounds and fostering a more inclusive and collaborative culture thereby increasing employee engagement● Led change management programs across the organization which led to reduction in resistance to change and improvement in employee involvement in the change process.● Led the delivery of strategic initiatives which led to the achievement of company-wide performance goals. ● Implemented numerous HR systems and procedures thereby improving company processes and reducing time to hire new employees