Henry Akale.

Experience

1. Safe Scrum Master

   Capital One

   Jan 2020 — Present

   Organized and facilitated agile ceremonies, iteration planning, daily stand up, iteration review, iteration retrospective, PI planning and release Planning- Orchestrated the organizational transition process from the traditional waterfall to Agile and created a couple of Agile/scrum workshops to train the team members on the new methodology- Responsible for facilitating all project meetings, taking meeting minutes, action items and working with project teams and management to identify project issues, risks and contingency plans or mitigation strategies as necessary- Assisting project team in eliciting requirements through client interviews, document analysis, business process descriptions, tasks and workflow analysis- Tracked and communicated the team\'s velocity and performance with the use of metrics,(quality, delivery rate, velocity, cumulative flow, burndown charts etc.) to the team and management and identified areas of improvement- Assisted teams with making appropriate commitments through user story selection, tasks definition and estimation- Responsible for ensuring all client requirement are defined as initial high level user stories based on identified requirements from SOW, client and internal operations department- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group including clients, external executive managers- Provide weekly status reporting to initial SLS management.