Adetola Winters

Phone: 909-***-**** Email: admyaq@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

A Certified Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience in leading software development and coaching in Agile and waterfall environment with outstanding organizational and problem-solving skills while driving the adoption of agile values and practices by leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable. Proven ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams. Highly skilled in the use of IT project management tools.

Area of expertise:

Servant Leadership

Ceremony Facilitation

Team Building

Removing impediments

Agile Ceremony facilitations

Team collaboration

User story and Epic creation

Breaking down of requirements

Product Backlog management and prioritization

TECHINAL AND SOFT SKILLS

Expertise in SDLC methodologies – Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, BDD, FDD and TDD

Strong technical command of project management tools – JIRA

Salesforce, Willingness to learn new technologies.

Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SAPIENT LOGIC LLC

Scrum Master (MAR 2017 – JAN 2021)

Project- My team worked on implementation of a salesforce service cloud to ensure better customer support. Allowed clients to track (in real time) analytics, customer successes, customer complaints and a variety of other CRM functions with the ease of cloud storage and access for users.

I consistently facilitated and coached the team as a servant leader in implementing scrum and agile concepts and principles.

Lead the delivery of all sprints and interaction with product owners.

Served as the voice of transparency, inspection and adaptation in an iterative environment.

Communicated and collaborated with product owners, upper management, and stakeholders on the status of the product through weekly reports.

Developed and assigned planned epics and user stories for the newsprint.

Tracked, escalated, removed impediments, and protect the team from distractions.

Drafted user stories use cases and functional specifications to support product development.

Coordinated with the development team to reach a consensus on what can be achieved during each sprint.

Leveraged historical data (velocity, capacity) in showcasing the growth stages in the life cycle of the product.

Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint demos.

PREMIER CARE MEDICAL SUPPLIES

SCRUM MASTER/BUSINESS ANALYST (FEB 2015- FEB 2017)

Worked closely with the Product Owner with breaking down requirements on each product we worked on.

Assisted the project manager in developing use cases and project plans and managed changes using rational suites.

Work also involved defining the scope of the project by doing gap analysis, preparing required artifacts, and then creating the functional documents for the design and implementation of the project.

Facilitated the team to estimate story points and measured velocity to plan future sprints.

Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint demos.

Continuous facilitation of events and ceremonies to bring productivity while paying attention to delivering stakeholders expectations from the ROI standpoint.

VERDANT ZEAL MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS

BUSINESS ANALYST (JAN 2012– OCT 2014)

Worked in an agile environment, attended daily stand-up meetings, scrum planning meetings.

Part of scrum ceremonies - concept team, sprint estimation, sprint planning.

Requirement gathering from the client or stakeholders, creation of high-level test scenarios as per acceptance criteria Product owner.

Part of scrum ceremonies – daily stand up, sprint planning, sprint review gathering all the requirements from the client, creation of high-level test scenarios as per acceptance criteria, review by product owner, test execution, defect reporting & tracking, and retest of fixed defects.

Facilitated and attended JAD sessions with management, users, subject matter experts (SME), and other stakeholders to define the project and to reduce the time frame required to complete deliverables.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

BSC(Hons) MATHEMATICS

UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS AKOKA LAGOS STATE

Certifications:

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM) I

Scrum Fundamentals Certificate (SFC)

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