Francis Emeka

About Francis Emeka

Team-driven Scrum Master knowledgeable in task prioritization, risk management and workflow optimization. Committed Agile expert with over 8 years of expertise in public speaking, presenting information clearly and developing high performing teams. A True servant leader with the abilities to protect the team, guide in removing impediments, resolve dependencies and conflicts. Experienced in several work domains such as Software development, Data Analytics, Data Management, Cyber Security and Cloud Infrastructure. Using tools like JIRA, Azure DevOps, Miro, Mural, Confluence, MS Teams, MS Office, MS SharePoint, Power BI, and iOBEYA to support Software Development Life Cycle.

Experience

1. Sr Scrum Master

   Humana

   Sep 2022 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Supported RTE by providing accurate data quality of Dashboards for Draft plans, which includes Team Objectives, Features, Capacity and Load for all iterations and Metrics as requested• Managed scope creep and injects, prioritizing requests allowing team to focus on delivering sprint objectives.• Coached the teams on Agile Best Practices (e.g, T-Shaping, BDD) and facilitated test driven development on all projects yielding increasing application quality over 50%.• Created capacity planning template that allowed the teams to track available capacity which improved planning and ensured team members were not overwhelmed. • Installed a measurable metric to help track the progress of the Agile development teams, which lead to an increase in value to our customers from 60% to 90%.• Identified dependencies and ensured there were no delays in accomplishing sprint goals.• Tracked process improvement initiatives identified in the Retrospective and other forums and championing Scrum process improvements.Planned and facilitated all scrum events such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review and sprint retrospective to ensure they were effective and productive.• Provided guidance to development teams to ensure alignment with Scrum & Kanban framework while promoting a collaborative team environment leading on-time delivery of major initiatives. • Coached the Product Owner and development team in effective product backlog management, Definition of Done (DoD), Definition of Ready (DoR), and the identification and mitigation of sprint risks.• Evaluated scrum maturity of the teams and organization and coached teams to excelling levels of maturity at a pace that is reasonable and consistent for the team and organization. • Identified complex impediments and blockers, assisting team in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments without delay and ensure deadlines are met.

Education

• University of Buea

  Bachelor's degree, Management

• University of Vaasa

  Master's degree, Economics/Business Administration