Nwabueze Okose

About

A certified and experienced Scrum Master with 8 years of experience, capable of Teamwork, Leadership, Coaching, and Conflict Resolution. A hardworking and goal-driven individual striving to implement the ideals and principles of Agile as well as adapting and working with agile teams to fully understand Agile practices

Experience

Westchester Academy for International Studies

Mar 2021 – May 2022

Houston Texas

Scrum Master

• Facilitated all Scrum Events including the Sprint, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, and Product Backlog Refinement. Workshops with stakeholders. • Continuously Assessed the agile maturity of teams and individuals at all levels of leadership, • JIRA admin activities for teams (created boards, workflows, filters, dashboards, reports using JQL..). • Prepared various dashboards in Jira which reflect risks, dependencies, and impediments.

Boolean Tech

Feb 2018 – Nov 2020

Abuja, Nigeria

Scrum Master

• Creating working agreements, establishing and helping the teams by all means to achieve their Sprint Goals. • Educated and ensured Agile/Scrum implementation methodology, practices, values, and framework are adhered to by team members, while resolving impediments by coordinating and collaborating with a cross-functional team. • Coordinated with the scrum team in Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Review Meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings, Backlog Grooming meetings. • Actively raised observed issues and removed impediments; resolved conflicts within and across teams, anticipated challenges, identify risks, and recommended mitigations and solutions.

Oya Now

Mar 2016 – Jan 2018

Abuja, Nigeria

Project Coordinator/Data Analyst/Agile Scrum Master

• Coordination of project implementation and execution by project specifications. • Used Coaching techniques that increased collaboration, transparency and promoted a culture of experimentation and innovation. • Assisted the product owner and team in effective road mapping and planning for the product and development teams • Transformed Project data requirements into project data models.

NNPC

Mar 2014 – Jan 2015

Abuja, Nigeria

Data Analyst/Jr Scrum Master

• Coordinated statistical data analysis, design, and information flow. • Produced monthly reports using advanced Excel spreadsheet functions. • Completed filing, data entry, and copying for the data analyst team. • Demonstrated leadership by improving work processes and helping train others.

Education

San Jacinto Community College

AS, Computer Science

Bells University of Technology

BE, Computer Engineering

Skills

Languages