THADDEUS GOMINA

Certified Scrum Master/Agile Coach with 7 years’ experience mentoring, coaching, and facilitating large-scale, complex agile-driven projects. Professional servant leader with excellent communication skills, leading agility across multiple diversified and globally dispersed scrum teams.

Senior Scrum Master/Agile Coach • Amazon, Canada                                                            Aug 2022 – Current.

• Led the Agile Readiness Assessments &Maturity assessments in the organizations to assess

the current state of agility and come up with recommendations for areas of improvement.

(Propose Continuous Integration (CI) Solutions, Standardize use of Agile tools, Capacity allocation, prioritization governance)

• Facilitate scrum/agile processes, resolve impediments, manage risk, promote architectural strength, and help to drive continuous improvements at the program level.
• Facilitate value stream mappings to understand the waste in the organization system and guide on best business process design to optimize the flow of value faster to the customer.
• Coordinating with the Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and chief Product Owners across businesses to understand progress, identify issues and ensure we are presenting cohesive solutions.
• Delivering trainings, and workshops that influence executives, leaders on Agile (principles, values, how to build, grow, and maintain a thriving agile organization at scale)
• Facilitate the release/sprint planning, daily stand-up, backlog refinement, sprint review, sprint retrospective, develop working agreements, DOD / DOR

Scrum Master • NHS Northwest Anglia, UK                                                                         Nov 2019 – Aug 2022.

• Planned & delivered Agile ceremonies, such as daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, & sprint retrospectives.
• Coached and mentored teams in adopting Agile framework thereby Increasing organizational transparency & productivity by 20%
• Participated in massivetransformational organizational change management activities supporting agile.

adoption from waterfall, transitioning entireorganization from theoretical agile to practicalagile.

• Served as agile coach in multiple capacities and to multiple teams including SMEs, other scrum masters, the scrum teams, and other stakeholders within the organization.
• Customized dashboards and used Jira to track problems while organizing product and sprint backlogs.
• Led 2 agile teams with autonomy and accountability through key ceremonies such as daily scrums, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demonstrations to ensure that sprints were on time, business needs and deadlines were met.

Scrum Master| Business Analyst • EATNGO Africa                                                           Dec 2017 – Nov 2019.

• Built agile principles and behaviors within project teams, including delivery partners and vendor organizations to facilitate broader business segments for optimal collaboration.
• Responsible for facilitating sprint planning, sprint retrospective, sprint review, daily scrum, resource planning, schedule mitigation of risks and issues. Team achieved higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhere to the scrum framework. 
• Elicited, analyzed, and documented requirements, creating BRDs and writing user stories and corresponding acceptance criteria.
• Customized performance dashboards and project reports for stakeholder management and communication.

Business Analyst/Project Coordinator. EATNGO Africa                                                    Feb 2015– Dec 2017.

• Evaluated business processes, uncovered areas for improvements, and developed and devised solutions.
• Developed optimization strategies, led reviews of business processes, and performed requirement analysis.
• Managed competing priorities and resources, monitored deliverables, and ensure timely project completion.
• Tracked project milestones and deliverables, developed project plans, and conducted user acceptance testing.