JASON AKINSOLA

Personal Details

Telephone: 074**-******

E-Mail: ad01ly@r.postjobfree.com

Gender: Male

Nationality: British

Personal Profile

I am a versatile certified scrum master with 6+ years of experience in Scrum and agile framework, with a proven track record of building agile/scrum corporate culture and improving productivity. I focus on terms and delivering customer centric products and features. I am a devoted servant leader and mentor with the ability to guide exceptional project teams, encourage the use and application of industry best practices, and provide hands on support and coaching to ensure timely delivery while exceeding quality standard. I have a passion for motivating teams and encouraging collaboration and cross-functional working. With my vast experience in using different Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean principles, I am passionate about unlocking potential within a team through training, mentoring, teaching, and coaching. My ability to adapt to dynamic concepts and changing environments has shaped me into an enthusiastic, fast learner who is passionate about learning new transferrable skills and eager to take on additional responsibilities which enable me to serve the company to the best of my ability.

Occupational History

Citi Banking Group – Scrum Master Jan 2020 – Present

Motivated agile teams to deliver meaningful outcomes using Agile techniques.

Supported and educated the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog with multiple scrum teams/squads.

Removed impediments and organisational risks across teams.

Managed continuous improvement release's scope and timeline, ensuring dependencies are understood, managed, and tracked.

Planned and reported on teams’ capacity, collaborated closely with team leads and managers on scope commitments whilst considering both the delivery needs and developers' growth, removing single points of failure.

Implemented changes that improved the efficiency and quality of delivery addressing challenges raised in the retrospective.

Fostered better collaboration and transparency with the stakeholders by providing weekly and monthly reporting on the delivery, capacity utilized, ROI, challenges, and process changes to achieve higher delivery satisfaction.

Guided the development teams to higher scrum maturity, building a productive environment where team members had a sense of ownership of the product and enjoyed working on it which led to better self-organization.

Administered and managed the required JIRA workflow, set up and reports.

Used great facilitating and mediating skills in events, meetings, and beyond, getting people to communicate and find the right way forward as key.

Protected the team from distractions or risks ensuring stakeholder expectations are delivered.

Helped the team manage interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for growth encouraging an open not biased mind with a focus on the solution than the person/problem.

Removed organizational impediments as well as guided the team on how to resolve impediments to independency.

Led the collaborative, dynamic planning process - prioritizing the work that needs to be done against the capacity and capability of the team.

Coordinated inter-team cooperation and helps the team operate well on the train.

PlayStation – Scrum Master Mar 2017 – Jan 2020

Facilitated daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.

Owned, managed, and drove the execution of sprint deliveries.

Collaborated with the scrum team and other appropriate stakeholders to create and agree the delivery plan.

Eliminated impediments so that the scrum team could remain focused.

Functioned as mediator between the team and the Product Owner to keep a healthy, and productive relationship.

Motivated the team and managed interpersonal conflicts, challenges, and opportunities for team growth.

RAID management such as managing risks and issues as they arise, collaborating with senior business or technical roles as required to resolve them.

Facilitated communication between roles and protect the team from distractions, interferences, and uncontrolled expansion of work.

Constantly enabled the team, not doing the work for them, nor solving their problems for them or taking over meetings for them. Encouraged team to drive events and openly involve more with conversations leading towards decision making.

Enabled team members to achieve their goals and help them to thrive and develop within the organization, identifying opportunities to cross-skill, utilizing swarming techniques, and adding maximum value to the team.

Helped the team measure the value produced by having the product owner interact with the team, and the customers to define and validate the value of the software produced (reviews).

Supported the team in estimation so that it could accurately forecast the number of deliverables possible in an iteration.

Coached the team through Agile practices, processes and tools and continuous process improvement.

Represented the scrum at governance forums and reported scrum progress and status to the appropriate boards.

CBRE – Supplier Engagement Coordinator / Jnr. Scrum Master Aug 2016 – Mar 2017

Completed meetings with company suppliers and maintained healthy relationships.

Organised major company events.

Managed finances by raising POs, processing invoices, and chasing payments from suppliers.

Promoted diverse suppliers through events, internal catalogues, and campaigns.

Led an agile feature team to deliver business value in a timely manner and using agile scrums.

Ran the daily scrum, sprint planning, backlog refinement and showcase sessions.

Used continuous improvement techniques, tools, and metrics to measure productivity and quality.

Maintained strong relationships with internal business stakeholders, product owners, designers, Solution Architecture teams, test manager and release managers.

CBRE – Contract Support. Aug 2015 – Aug 2016

Conducted weekly progress meetings and prepared weekly and monthly reports.

Planned and provided essential training, managed, and delegated weekly tasks to team members.

Kept to KPIs by ensuring internal requests, projects and reactive jobs were completed on time.

Maintained a productive, positive relationship with the client.

Education

Sep 2015 – May 2019 University of Hertfordshire

Sport & Exercise Science BSc Hons

Sep 2013 – Jul 2015 City and Islington College

BTEC Level 3 Sport and Exercise Science

Sep 2006 – Jul 2011 St. Mary’s High School

11 GCSE’s including grade A* - C including Maths(B), English Language(B), and English Literature (B).

Skills

Working in high pressure environments.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Servant Leadership.

Great and effective Customer Service.

Effective Communication.

Leadership.

Working in various frameworks and methodologies including Agile, Waterfall, Kanban, LEAN, Nexus, SAFe and XP.

Bringing about self-organisation and autonomy of teams.

Observation and Proactivity.

Effective conflict resolution.

Coaching and mentoring.

Various tools including Miro, Jira, Teams, Slack, Outlook, and Workshop.

Strong analytical, problem-solving skills as well the proactivity to enable and administer effective change.

Personal References

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