Yunus Usman, PMP, CSM
Langford,BC
Summary
Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Dedicated professional with more than 7 years of experience delegating tasks, managing projects and top-notch abilities in organizing workflows, solving complex problems and making accurate decisions based on sound judgment and analytical strengths. 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
15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
Work History
Manager, Customer Experience
TD Canada Trust
Victoria, BC
02.2023 - Current
- Ensured cross-functional coordination between teams.
- Identify and remove impediments.
- Ensure Scrum Framework is implemented effectively and provides coaching and training at the team level to maximize its benefits.
- Maintained and published Agile metrics, regularly reporting to business leadership.
- Adopt positive attitude about processes, ensure tasks are flowing from one phase to the next, facilitate basics of processes and procedures.
- Participate proactively in developing and maintaining standards, tools and best practices.
- Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders, and leadership on benefits of Agile and Scrum..
- Assist with internal and external communication to improve transparency.
- Directly involved in identifying and assessing customer needs and documenting business process via user Stories.
- Assist with making appropriate commitments to deliver business value through story selection, definition of tasks and estimation.
- Provide support with risk management, release management, and facilitate release planning activities.
- Maximized performance by monitoring daily activities and mentoring team members.
Assistant Manager
Zenith Bank Plc
Gombe, Nigeria
05.2008 - 05.2022
- Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
- Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
- Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
- Helped teams to get activated in agile format by conducting trainings for leadership and teams.
- Increased readiness of the teams, defined roadmap for agile implementation.
- Guided and coached the Scrum Team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum/Kanban practices and values to satisfy customer expectations.
- Led both Scrum and Kanban team to get the most out of self-organization.
- Collaborated with Product Owner on daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospective meetings.
- Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums or Standups, Sprint Review & Retrospective.
- Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
- Resolved several impediments faced by developers by contacting other stake holders.
- Scheduled Retrospective meetings at the end of sprints and documenting action items to help improve the team.
- Worked with Product owner On Artifacts Such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Sprint Burn down.
- Facilitated distributed project team and all aspects of Agile/Scrum development, including daily stand-ups, iteration and release planning, retrospectives, demos, and daily work.
Education
Master of Arts - Master in Global Management
Royal Roads University
Victoria, BC10.2023
Bachelor of Science - Geology
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria, Nigeria12.2006
Certification
SAFe Scaled Agile 6.0
CSM Scrum Master
Project Management Professional
Work Availability
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Quote
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs
Skills
- Strategic planning
- Staff Management
- Verbal and written communication
- Policies and procedures
- Schedule optimization
- Business Development
- Improvement initiatives
- Coaching and mentoring
- Business planning
- Project Management
Timeline
Manager, Customer Experience
TD Canada Trust
02.2023 - Current
Assistant Manager
Zenith Bank Plc
05.2008 - 05.2022
Master of Arts - Master in Global Management
Royal Roads University
Bachelor of Science - Geology
Ahmadu Bello University
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