JOSEPH OMASHENU
TORONTO,ON
Summary
Extensive experience at driving the adoption of agile values, principles and practices. Adept at leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple location, with veritable track record of managing complex project. Currently seeking a position as a Scrum Master, bringing 7+ years of experience. Team-oriented individual promoting exemplary presentation, project management and risk oversight skills. Demonstrative Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SCRUM MASTER
AIRBNB
Toronto, CANADA
10.2020 - Current
- Facilitate daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
- Perform the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices
- Support Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready
- Actively coordinating engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders
- Work with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities
- Facilitate and coordinate User Story Inter-dependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule
- 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
- Project Management
- Customer Interaction
- Scrum Value and Principles
- Backlog refinement
- Coaching/Mentoring
- Kanban
- Ci/Cd/Devops
- Conflict Resolution
- Team Empowerment
- SAFe Agile
- Sprint Planning
- SDLC
- User Story
- Sprint Retro
- Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
- Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application
- Guide and Coach both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Track key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders
- Identify and remove team impediments/escalating as necessary to management
- Facilitate crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
SCRUM MASTER
COCA COLA
LAGOS, NIGERIA
01.2015 - 09.2020
- Responsible for ensuring that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented
- Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement
- Coaching product owner; 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
- Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example
- Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches
- Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress
- Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries
- Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating
- Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable
- Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team
- Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
AREA SALES MANAGER
GUINNESS NIGERIA PLC, A DIAGEO COMPANY
LAGOS, NIGERIA
05.2013 - 12.2014
- Developed sales plans to achieve and exceed sales targets in territory
- Generated sales in territory through effective team management
- Conduct market visits to check route compliance, monitor competition and search for opportunities
- Updated distributors with information and plans
- Ensured product availability and visibility
- Monitored and tracked team with the use of SFA (sales force automation)
- Provided leadership in team motivation and engagement
- Collaborated with vendors and built effective partnerships devoted to capitalizing on emerging and sustainable sales opportunities.
TERRITORY MANAGER
GUINNESS NIGERIA PLC, DIAGEO COMPANY
LAGOS, NIGERIA
05.2009 - 04.2013
- Ensured achievement of sales drivers for territory in terms of quality, distribution, visibility, promotion, pricing and persuasion
- Grew market share by 25% versus completion year on year
- Effective execution of promotions and activations
- Ensured customer development to counter competitive activities
- Developed and reviewed sales routes and journey plans quarterly
- Ensured effective redistribution and coverage by van sales representatives
- Ensured price compliance and parity against competitor brands
- Developed sales strategy based on research of consumer buying trends and market conditions.
Education
MBA - MARKETING
Redeemers University of Nigeria
NIGERIA01.2016
Mechanical Engineering
University of Port Harcourt
Nigeria10.2008
STUDENT UNION GOVERNMENT - undefined
Certified Scrum MasterCustomer Service Retail SalesBasic leadership certificate - undefined
Skills
- Skills
- Customer interaction
- Development team trainings
- Project Management
- Risk identification
- Risk mitigation planning
- Quality assurance
- Reporting template development
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Critical Thinking
- Data Entry
- Jira Software Proficiency
- MS Office
- Web development technologies
Accomplishments
- Documented and resolved impediments which led to early delivery to market.
- Achieved increase in velocity by completing scrum events with accuracy and efficiency.
- Achieved visible results through effectively helping with collaborative facilitations.
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Collaborated with team of 9 in the development of In-Touch software development.
Certification
- MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional
- Certified Scrum Master
Work Availability
monday
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morning
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Quote
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Timeline
SCRUM MASTER
AIRBNB
10.2020 - Current
SCRUM MASTER
COCA COLA
01.2015 - 09.2020
AREA SALES MANAGER
GUINNESS NIGERIA PLC, A DIAGEO COMPANY
05.2013 - 12.2014
TERRITORY MANAGER
GUINNESS NIGERIA PLC, DIAGEO COMPANY
05.2009 - 04.2013
MBA - MARKETING
Redeemers University of Nigeria
Mechanical Engineering
University of Port Harcourt
STUDENT UNION GOVERNMENT - undefined
Certified Scrum MasterCustomer Service Retail SalesBasic leadership certificate - undefined
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