Ulrich Aurel Nguedia Aguazen
Phone: 702-***-**** • Email: ad8mm6@r.postjobfree.com• Las Vegas 89102•
Professional Summary
Professional, detailed oriented certified scrum master and business analyst with over six years of professional experience offering a proven record of delivering software projects with high performing teams. I have experience collaborating with multiple teams (distributed and co-located) agile teams in healthcare, finance, and coordination projects. I am a skilled servant leader with excellent communication, critical thinking and in-depth technical analysis skills which helps me work well in a multi-tasking team environment.
Skills
Software Development Lifecycle
Scrum master
Product Owner
Planning and implementation
Coaching and mentoring
Business Analysis
Project management
Excellent problem-solving abilities
Strategic Planning
Change management
Program execution
Digital transformation
Process design
Release Planning/QA tools
Project Documentation
Agile coaching
Process improvement
Lean processes
Microsoft Project
Kanban
JIRA
RALLY
Azure DevOps
SAFe
Release management
Microsoft Office: Excel, Word, Visio, Outlook
Work History
Sr Scrum Master, 06/2019 to present
CreditOne Bank, - Las Vegas NV
Responsible for maturing and leading two teams in the scrum framework and Agile process.
Responsible for facilitating agile scrum events: sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and bug triage meetings
Facilitated a project kick-off for a new team and equipped them with the necessary training required to be fully Agile.
Worked with software engineers to translate business needs into operational software. Worked on continuous improvements of our systems and processes.
Coached teams in Agile best practices and provided necessary trainings and workshops to help improve agile mindset of business units and development teams
Consulting with PO’s and business stakeholders who are new to agile to outline strategic goals and define MVPs for current and future endeavors.
Helping in establishing priorities, structured process improvement strategies, managing cross-functional teams, directing and monitoring work efforts, identified and managing resources, developing metrics, and performing quality control reviews.
Proactively identifying and resolving conflicts and impediments deterring my teams from achieving sprint goals.
Increased the overall performance of teams and improved on delivery and accurate estimation within the Organization.
Participated in weekly cross-functional IT status meetings. Schedule and facilitate planning and analysis sessions with vendors and internal teams
Worked with product owners to prioritize and validate User Stories.
Scrum Master, 02/2016 to 05/2019
EQ Health Solutions– Baton Rouge, LA
Helped Design, document and executed maintenance procedures, including system upgrades and patch management using update manager.
Provided coaching and guidance for two teams ensuring they were constantly adhering to agile best principles and practices.
Facilitated and scheduled sprint ceremony meetings, demos, and decision-making processes to ensure that the proper collaborative processes were in use.
Utilized and implemented key agile metrics such as the burn-down/burn-up charts, to measure team performance and ensure team members were working at optimum capacity.
Worked with Product Owners in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.
Planned and coordinated testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing.
Performed measurement and risk analysis to minimize risks and optimize returns.
Worked with Product Owners in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting
Planned and coordinated testing environment deployments and application / system integration testing.
Helped to establish and maintain a culture of self-organization and self-accountability amongst the team so they could be more effective
Coached and mentored project managers, Product Owners, development teams into adopting and executing agile effectively.
Engaged with other Scrum Masters consistently to share agile processes, tools and lessons learned. Worked closely with multiple scrum teams to encourage knowledge transfer, pair programming.
Scrum Master, 07/2013 to 12/2015
Travelers – Baton Rouge, LA
Contributed advanced knowledge in formulating systems scope and objectives relative to the organization's business plan and user requirements, process flow definitions and functional specifications.
Documented digital transformation strategy; current state of the business operations, marketing, sales, support and storing documents in SharePoint.
Draft and maintained business requirements and aligned them with functional and technical requirements.
Recommended operational improvements and established an effective management control and reporting system based on tracking and analysis.
Helped to establish and maintain a culture of self-organization and self-accountability amongst the team so they could be more effective.
Worked with product management to identify key project funding horizons that delivered outmost business value.
Provided mentoring and coaching needed by testing teams to drive DevOps culture and effective testing standards.
Collaborated with the Product Management team to ensure the product backlog is continuously prioritized and maintained.
Worked with development teams in resolving impediments daily to allow them to be more focus on meeting timely deliverables.
Worked with the Product Owner and the engineering team to determine scope and schedule for releases.
Project Manager, 02/2012 to 07/2013
Travelers – Baton Rouge, LA
Supervised multiple projects from project start through delivery by prioritizing needs and delegating assignments.
Conducted discovery workshops for new customers and worked closely with the sales teams on closing the contracts.
Collaborated with project leaders to comply with accounting needs for project maintenance requirements.
Developed executive presentations and reports to facilitate project evaluation and process improvement.
Kept projects on schedule by managing deadlines and adjusting workflows as needed
Coordinated presentations for clients, customers, and project members to detail project scope, progress, and results.
Coordinating all business requirements gathering efforts with management /Vendors/ stakeholders
Tracked progress of User stories and involved in reviewing, prioritizing & estimation to approval and move to release.
Created and maintained System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documentation. Preparing UML diagrams (Page flow diagrams, Process flow Diagrams, use case diagrams), and creating BRDs/FRDs/Data dictionaries/validations rules. Worked with developers to translate business needs into operational software
Worked with the development team in migrating and deploying to test, integration, stage and production environments.
Education
Bachelor Management Information Systems
University of Buea, Buea-Cameroon
Certifications
Certified Scrum master, CSM
Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)
SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)
SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM)
Project Management Professional (PMP)