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- Introduced and implemented Azure DevOps for the team and stakeholders, significantly improving transparency and streamlining communication across projects. Streamlined Sprint planning by integrating 3 Amigos and refinement sessions, reducing planning time from 4 hours to 30-minute sessions.- Developed and optimized efficient ways of working for the Product Team, enhancing delivery speed and consistency.- Initiated and guided scrum ceremonies, providing mentorship to Delivery Managers on best practices for running Agile processes.- Fostered a culture of accountability, resulting in highly self-organizing teams capable of driving progress independently.- Owned weekly reporting on key milestones, risks, and impediments, ensuring clear visibility for all stakeholders.- Coached squads to become self-sufficient, enabling them to resolve blockers and impediments with minimal assistance.- Created detailed sprint reports to track progress against the Statement of Work (SoW) and key deliverables.- Collaborated closely with the BA and lead developer to ensure stories and acceptance criteria were well understood by data engineers.- Coached Delivery Managers on improving team efficiency and aligning their squads to meet target delivery dates.

- Continuously educating the team on scrum, agile, XP, and Kanban, ensuring that the agreed process is being followed, frequent inspection is done to adopt better ways of working, and most especially understanding the reason we do what we do.- Motivated development teams to achieve business goals and improve efficiency. This was evident with the steady increase of the team’s velocity, achieving a stable balance between the committed/done ratio, and working increments on a sprint-by-sprint basis.- Supported the product manager and system architect in managing and scheduling the project roadmap, managing multiple work streams and conflicting priorities.- Brought teams to increase performance through communication and openness between team members and through, techniques such as peer programming, peer reviews, and a constant focus on continuous improvement.- Make sure that the scrum team is not interrupted during the sprint.- Act as a servant leader to the team, facilitating planning, and team learning in the form of retrospectives to ensure the quality of team and solutions - Track and report on day to day activities as well as remove roadblocks and impediments- Facilitate the sizing of backlog items and estimation of tasks.- Present Sprint and Release progress to Management and Product Owners and ensure accountability to the process and values of Agile and Scrum- Alert and Involve appropriate management when necessary- Protect the team from outside interruption or distraction- Protect the scope of an iteration so the team can commit to work and meet those commitments.

- Helped the team to mature in courage and openness to identify any impediments at the early stage, and take ownership to find a solution to resolve them or escalate them.- Successfully coached and taught the product owner how to use Jira more efficiently inputting artifacts which increased visibility, reduced the bottleneck of information, and a roadmap for milestone tracking.- Fostered the agile transitioning from the waterfall with multiple teams and several individuals outside the team. Continuously coaching and mentoring them through the stages of adoption. Used strategies such as a webinar, tailored seminars, one-one sessions, presentation slides, etc.- Set the stage for scrum events and ensure that the required outcomes are achieved- Supported the Product Owners and Agile teams to manage and keep a healthy backlog in JIRA.- Facilitated quick resolution meetings to solve issues, especially the ones blocking the sprint goal.- Nurtured self-organizing, high performing teams through servant leadership- Fostered a continuous improvement culture - Acted as a guide for collaboration and effectiveness- Facilitated reflection on both internal processes and team dynamics- Guided the creation of measurable objectives- Cultivated trust and psychological safety

- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and key decision-making meetings.- Identified, created, and presented metrics applicable to the team.- Always proactive and available to the team and attuned to their needs to stay ahead of roadblocks before they form.- Empowered the teams to make process improvements and keep the team accountable for improvements.- Protected the team from outside interruption or distraction- Educated colleagues on Agile principles by providing training- Worked directly with leadership to create a culture where teams can thrive - Encouraged the teams to be accountable and adhere to ways of working, code of quality standards, stories adhering to meet the definition of ready before it goes into the sprint backlog, and meeting definition of done when it turns to an increment at the end of each sprint.- Worked collaboratively with the product owner to organize and suggest techniques to improve the product backlog to improve transparency and better value optimization. - Facilitated scrum events and encouraged the team to self-drive events themselves to avoid heavy reliance on the scrum master.

- Design process map flows for Proof of Concepts- Process improvement – rewriting instructions, training materials, and training staff in the process- Produce, submit and track new hire business cases for approvals within Chief Technology Office- Assist in onboarding and training of new team members- Responsible for vendor management with third-party suppliers - Support Chief Technology Office with tracking and processing purchase orders for Global teams

- Negotiated contracts with artists and clients.- Worked with the brand team on company branding, promotional campaigns, and marketing communications.- Assisted clients in resolving issues by responding to questions in a timely and professional manner.- Coordinated and managed brainstorming meetings and creative sessions.- Supervised department's daily workflow and monitored deadlines