PETER IJEKHUEMEN
Kitchener,ON
Summary
Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Senior Scrum Master
Home Depot Canada
12.2022 - 04.2024
- · Supported three teams that delivered on quality engineering test initiative for Home depot Canada's online business and delivered 100% turnaround in release sign-off and reporting.
- · Executed automation project in test engineering team that comprised automating testing within multiple projects/pages in Home Depot website.
- · Enhanced quality of testing and reporting with targeted information to key stakeholders escalating areas of continuous SLA breaches.
- · Delivered best in class project management by leveraging agile/Safe principles to deliver multiple technical and non-technical projects quarter by quarter in E-comm.
- · Leveraged people skills in managing all technical projects from SAP as I acted as liaison scrum master on behalf of E-comm team.
- · Achieved multiple credits and awards for team's role role in ensuring data setup support for all test data in lower life cycle test environments
Release Train Engineer
Bell canada-contract
06.2022 - 12.2022
- Facilitated SAFe events/ceremonies at program level( Refinement, PI planning, Inspect and Adapt, System demos, problem solving sessions
- Onboarded 6 new SAFe scrum teams into ART(78 team member ART)
- Onboarded 6 value aligned stream teams, one System team, One platform team
- Increased ART predictability index from 35% to 60% between two Program increments.
- Support 4 scrum masters, 8 product owners, 5 solution architects
- Supported ART in managing program risks, external dependencies, significant dependencies as it affects team PI objectives
Scrum Master
Bell Canada-Contract
02.2022 - 06.2022
- Facilitated 6 SAFe scrum events (daily stand-up, iteration review, iteration refinement and iteration retrospective across team).
- Supported RTE in PI planning workshops, system demo, inspect and adapt workshops for future PIs
- Supported five product owner/product management in maintaining, refining and prioritizing product backlog.
- Enhanced coordination of dependencies across ART teams.
- Assisted product owner in prioritizing features, user stories and support Epics.
- Tracked team progress using team velocity, churn rate and burn-down chart resulting in 4 milestone/transformation projects being delivered.
- Attended all SAFe scrum of scrum events with architects, RTE and product managers.
- Coached and support 5 agile teams in increasing team agile maturity.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
Scrum Master
Acosta
02.2021 - 02.2022
- Increased customer value delivery by 30% through effective facilitation of scrum events.
- Performed role of servant leader for two Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.
- Supported Product Owners with refinement and maintaining product backlogs,making sure user stories are sprint ready.
- Actively coordinated engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders.
- Worked with Agile Release Train Engineer to drive definition and refinement of program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities
- Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across scrum teams for purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.
- Built trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised.
- Maintained metrics that provided visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.
- Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application.
- Guided and Coached both Scrum Team and Development team on self organizing to fill in intentional gaps left in Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to teams and stakeholders.
- Identified and removed team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.
- Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.
- Assisted with internal and external communication resulting in improved transparency
- Assessed Scrum maturity of team and organized and coached team to higher levels of development
- Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment
Scrum Master
Danone
01.2017 - 12.2020
- Effectively supported two scrum teams in integrating Danone ERP from Nav to SAP.
- Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches.
- Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters.
- Led daily Scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects.
- Defined workflows and processes in fast-paced, Agile environment and distributed models through whiteboarding and mind-mapping.
- Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management
Ekiti State University
Ekiti State06.2012
Skills
- Project Management
- Change management
- Team Empowerment
- Safe Agile
- SDLC
- Kanban
- Release planning
- Lean principles
- Agile Best Practices
- Stakeholder Management
Certification
- SAFE Release Train Engineer, 6.1 certification
- Certified Scrum Master(CSM)
- Professional agile leader (PAL 1)
Accomplishments
- Achieved 35% in team predictability through effectively helping with risk management and identification strategy.
- Collaborated with team of 78 in the development of RPA automation.
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master
Home Depot Canada
12.2022 - 04.2024
Release Train Engineer
Bell canada-contract
06.2022 - 12.2022
Scrum Master
Bell Canada-Contract
02.2022 - 06.2022
Scrum Master
Acosta
02.2021 - 02.2022
Scrum Master
Danone
01.2017 - 12.2020
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration And Management
Ekiti State University
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