Scrum Master Project Manager

Olumayowa Adebayo

Scottsdale, AZ 301-***-**** ad5fwi@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Meticulous, dedicated project manager and certified scrum master with over 8+ years of combined experience working in various domains such as government, defense/aerospace, healthcare, finance tech and software development. Certified Scrum Master with keen experience in Information and Technology leading distributed and co-located teams in delivering end-to-end applications. A certified Scrum Master, proven servant leader with expert skills and abilities developed through professional experience and education with an in-depth understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and different development methodologies like Waterfall and Agile. Highly experienced in facilitating all ceremonies in Scrum including daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review/demo, sprint retrospective and backlog refinement in a fast paced environment.

Skills

• Agile values and principles, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and Waterfall

• JIRA/Confluence, Rally, Version One,

• Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Project, and OneNote

• Strategic Planning & Execution, Process Optimization

• SDLC

• Change Management and Release Management

Professional Experience

Northrop Grumman Chandler, AZ

12/2022 – Present Sr. Principal Scrum Master

• Coached and mentored multiple Scrum Masters, fostering their growth and enabling them to effectively guide their teams.

• Led a portfolio of Agile teams through successful project deliveries, ensuring alignment with business goals and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement

• Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meeting for 4 teams

• Implemented Agile best practices at an organizational level, resulting in improved project predictability and customer satisfaction.

• Identified and removed impediments to team progress, enabling seamless workflow and increased productivity.

• Collaborated with product owners, stakeholders, and development teams to define and refine product backlogs, ensuring clear priorities and actionable user stories.

• Successfully guided an Agile team through the adoption of Scrum practices, resulting in a 20% increase in project velocity within the first quarter

Early Warning Services (Zelle) Scottsdale, AZ

10/2021- 11/2022 Sr. Scrum Master

• Scrum master & agile coach for 3 teams

• Represented the team at scrum of scrums meetings, managing dependencies and reducing risks.

• Facilitated product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meeting.

• Worked with the product owner to ensure the continuous use of efficient product backlog grooming practices.

• Continuous coaching and training around agile methodologies including scrum, lean, & Kanban to development teams and the management.

• Provided guidance and support in developing user stories, agile processes, and best practice.

• Removed team impediments & obstacles to ensure team continued delivery of features.

Select Medical, Phoenix, AZ 01/2018 - 09/2021 Scrum Master

• Coach scrum and agile framework to team members and stakeholders

• Facilitate product backlog, sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and sprint retrospective meeting.

• Work with the Product Owner to ensure we continually use efficient product backlog practices.

• Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts to meet the sprint goals and deliverables.

• Guide the team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile /Scrum frameworks.

• Provide all support to the team and organization using a servant leadership style whenever possible.

• Track metrics such as the burndown chart, team velocity and customer satisfaction

• Worked closely with product owner in backlog refinement, ensuring clarity and prioritization of story cards for easier play by development teams.

• Coordinated all ceremonies including the daily scrum meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint review meetings, and sprint retrospective meetings.

Kaiser Permanente, Bethesda MD 09/2014 – 12/2018

Project Coordinator/Scrum Master

• Coach scrum and agile framework to team members and stakeholders Made effective informal and formal oral presentations that were directed to the needs of clients.

• Built a clear argument and drew appropriate and useful recommendations while adhering to specific terms of reference.

• Critically reflected upon the project process and management to identify learning for future practice.

• Designed, justified, and applied research methods appropriate to the project requirements in an ethical manner.

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.

• Gathered critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produced useful reports.

• Ensured solutions met business needs and requirements.

Education

Grand Canyon University

Masters of Business Administration (Project management) 2024

University of Dc

Business management (Bachelor’s degree) 2014

Medical Radiology (Associates degree) 2010

Certifications

Google Project Management Certificate

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Alliance

Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master (SSM) – SCALED AGILE

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)

PMI Agile certified Practitioner PMI-ACP

Scrum Fundamentals Certified – SCRUM study

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