Scrum Master Project Manager

OPEYEMI ADEBANWO PSM. SMAC SAFe®..STMAC

Phone:332-***-****

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Linkedln: https://www.linkedin.com/in/opeyemi-adebanwo-a4bb6a294

SUMMARY

Professional Scrum Master with proven records of delivering high-quality software, on-time and within

budget. A certified Scrum Master with a Servant Leadership style for helping teams adopt Agile best

practices and its proper utilization and also drive continuous improvement in a fast-paced environment.

Well trained at leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are

sustainable.

Demonstrate technical expertise in process improvements, change management, and development of

tools that addressed clients’ specific business requirements.

I have over 8 years + experience as a Scrum master serving multiple teams across different domain, and 2

Years experience as a Project Manager.

I have extensive experience using JIRA, Rally Version one over the

years. I also have extensive experience in AWS and cloud migration over

the years.

I effectively utilize KANBAN task board to visualize workflow (work in progress) thereby improving

productivity.

Currently seeking a position as a Scrum Master, bringing 8+ years of experience.

Authorized to work in the U.S for any employer.

SKILLS

• KANBAN

• Meeting Facilitation

• Collaboration

• Conflict Resolution

• Interpersonal Skills

• Agile Estimation

• Time Management

• Agile Coaching

• Shielding the Team

• Removing Impediments

• Servant Leadership

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS includes:

• Served, led, and coordinated teams both Onshore and Offshore at ATT on several projects out of

which is, activation/deactivation, enhancement, maintenance of more than 170 APIs used by millions

of subscribers and various migration process.

• Coordinated highly visible Agile teams that delivered a customer facing servicing project not

previously available to direct banks. In less than one quarter over 5M in new deposits were

generated. The success of this project was published on the front page of Capital One's corporate

intranet and my teams’ achievements were applauded.

• Led and coordinated newly established scrum teams onshore and offshore in data migration project

from On-Premise to Hybrid cloud, AWS and Azure at Verizon. My team successfully migrated over

3000 unmanaged resources to the cloud. This was made possible by the effective utilization of agile

methodology and principles.

• Coordinated and led 3 teams across platforms (Donations, Transactions and Web experience) that

ensured agile best practices were effectively utilized into software development and maintenance

that translates into delivering values and increased donations and continuous positive feedback from

Donors every Quarter from all around the world at ALSAC/St. Jude Children' s Research

Hospital

WORK EXPERIENCE

Snr Scrum Master

ATT ADDISON TX

January 2022 to Present

Facilitate team meetings with a focus on achieving iteration goals and prepare the team for PI

Planning event, ensuring we make proper utilization of the IP sprint.

Strong coordination and planning skills and develops the appropriate governance to generate the

expected Program outcome and identify program risks and possible mitigations.

Engaging and Coaching teams to help them recognize the effectiveness of self-organization,

cross- functionality and continuous improvement.

Helped to shield Dev team from external distractions, remove impediments and coached them on

how to remove certain impediments too

Periodically reported team metrics using burn down, burn up charts, team velocity,

successes, improvements, challenges, and opportunities to Management and stake holder

Identified gaps in skill sets and help the team improve through facilitation, inspection and guide

team in achieving a sustainable velocity trend.

Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user

stories are sprint ready.

Created a trusting and safe environment for the Scrum team where problems can be raised

without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving.

Scrum Master

VERIZON – Irving, TX

January 2019 to December 2021

• Mentored and trained scrum team members to efficiently utilize scrum framework and agile

methodology and fostered team success by removing impediments.

• Helped the team embrace Agile Core Values, apply and implement its Principles and practices.

• I effectively utilize KANBAN task board to visualize workflow (work in progress) thereby

improving productivity

• Worked with Development team to deliver values, increased productivity, and profitability to

the business.

• Engaging and Coaching teams to help them recognize the effectiveness of self-organization and

cross- functionality and continuous improvement

• Periodically reported team metrics using burn down, burn up charts, team velocity, successes,

improvements, challenges, and opportunities to Management and stake holder

• Responsible for all aspects of scrum process training, including but not limited to sprint planning,

daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, user story refinement, and sprint retrospectives.

• Train development team on story point estimation.

• Assisted and coached Product Owner on how to write a good user story.

• Also coached product owner on implementing product backlog grooming, refining and prioritizing

user stories

• Coached waterfall team through an Agile transformation using Scrum and Kanban

• Responsible for training development team on story point estimation and using JIRA to manage

projects, including reports and custom dashboards.

Senior Scrum Master

ALSAC/St Jude Children’s Research Hospital-Memphis,TN.

March 2018 to December 2018

• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style by proactively identifying

and removing impediments and dependencies, internal to the team as well as external.

• Facilitated the basic scrum ceremonies ranging from the sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint

review and retrospective

• Made progress of work visible and transparent using burn-down, burn-up charts, velocity charts

and is radiated to the team and key stakeholders.

• Coached team on effective collaboration and good working relationship among team members.

• I identified and escalated risks to the management and stake holders.

• I proactively adopted an effective measure in resolving conflict among the team and ensure a non

re- occurrence and make sure all parties are happy with results afterwards.

Scrum Master

Wellsfargo Bank - Dallas, TX

January 2017 to January 2018

• Trained Scrum teams on Scrum processes (sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and,

user story refinement, sprint retrospective).

• Coached Development teams in making appropriate commitments through story selection, task

definition, process, and delivery Values.

• Trained Product Owners on writing user stories and coordinate user story acceptance criteria.

• Responsible for training development team on story point estimation and

using JIRA to manage projects, including reports and custom dashboards.

• Responsible for reporting any issues, new features of various patches outside the release cycle.

• Manage project scopes to ensure delivery is compliant with scope commitment.

• Empower teams to self-organize and be cross-functional

• Ensured team adheres to Scrum best practices, performs all Scrum events, and delivers all artifacts.

Scrum Master

CVS Health – Oklahoma city, OK

January 2014 to December 2016

Ensured development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization,

team accountability and visibility.

Managed multiple technical teams in delivering cloud ERP software. Communicate team overall

progress by tracking key Kanban metrics and productivity.

I identified and escalated risks to the management and stakeholder

Distribute appropriate and timely written communication with all department managers and

customers throughout the life of the sprints.

Foster transparency, visibility, and radiate information to ensure that the team' s progress, obstacles,

and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.

Utilize metrics to assess the maturity of the scrum team and organization, coaching the team to

higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and

organization.

Ensured the outcome of retrospectives is implemented towards continuous team improvement.

Assist with DevOps initiatives (Configuration management, Continuous Integration and Continuous

Deployment).

Led daily aspects of all assigned projects including process definition, goal documentation, issue

management, user acceptance testing, vendor management and project deliverables.

Processed mapped operations that identified redundancies, manual processes and backlogs that

improved efficiency of departments and service levels.

Project Manager

CVS HEALTH - New York, NY

January 2012 to December 2013

·Identifies and responds to issues related to project plan (schedule, budget, resources, and scope), facilitating discussions

between stakeholders, and driving to a resolution. Escalates issues when appropriate.

· Ensured comprehensive change management plans are established and executed throughout the project

· Serve as primary contact for project issues and changes to scope

· Manage dependencies and impacts with other teams and business functions.

· Interact daily with the development teams, quality engineering, product managers, process owners to develop the overall program

plans, and ensure the smooth delivery of the business solution and all deliverables.

· Provide global and cross-functional leadership to local and virtual project teams, building a collaborative and productive

environment for teams to excel in.

· Developed track, and manage project budget, project plans, timelines, and scope.

· Manage project resource including procuring project staff, developing, motivating, coaching, and advising.

EDUCATION:

EKSU. Nigeria

Bachelors of Law (LLB) 2001-2005

Nigerian Law School 2006-2007

Called to bar as Solicitor & Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.

CERTIFICATION:

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1)

SAFe Scrum Master 5.0

Scrum Master accredited certification (SMAC)

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Agile Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps (TFS), Rally, Version One, TFS, Confluence

Software: MS Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, SharePoint, MS Project,

Visual Studio.

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