Scrum Master Project Manager
Resume:
HAKEEM MORADEYO
B.Sc., PMP, SaFe
**************@*****.***
SUMMARY
Accomplished, committed and creative Scrum Master / Project Manager with a passion and enormous success using agile and multi-methodology focusing on customer centricity and improving business objectives at a sustainable pace. I am a dedicated team player and able to motivate, organize, lead, and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, with a verifiable track record of supporting complex products while delivering on time, under budget and above expectations. Analytical problem solver and flawless preparation of presentations and willing to work as a key player in any challenging and creative environment.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Agile Values, Principles and Practices
Collaboration / Facilitation / Coaching
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Backlog Refinement
Servant Leadership
Agile Project Management
Stakeholder engagement
Jira / Confluence
Microsoft Office:
Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Visio, Outlook, Microsoft Projects
SharePoint, ServiceNow, DevOps
Scaled Agile Framework
Agile Methodologies
Leadership in Crisis Training Program
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS
B.Sc. Marketing
Project Management Professional, (PMP)
Safe Scrum Master, (SSM)
Professional Scrum Master I, (PSM I)
Certified Scrum Master, (CSM)
Scrum Master Accredited Certification, (SMAC)
Scrum Fundamentals Certified, (SFC)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Scrum Master
PNC Bank, Pittsburg, PA
March 2022 – Present
Serving, assisting, and supporting the Product Owner and Development Team to align with the product vision in the quest to do everything possible to predictably deliver high quality value to customer.
Track all dependencies amongst teams by creating blockers and bugs, making sure all team members are aware of the progress associated with these dependencies.
Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with business owners, product owners, project sponsors/managers and stakeholders.
Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team level progress.
Track and communicate team progress, as well as sprint or release progress.
Delivering effective conflict resolution between individuals and teams with an assertive but friendly attitude with excellent interpersonal skills; delivering effective methods and practices for managing and resolving impediments.
Track how team is getting close to the sprint goals and guide discussions around adjustments to the team’s committed plan.
Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
Building a trusting and safe environment of collaboration where problems can be raised, open dialogue without the fear of blame, retribution, being judged with an emphasis of problem solving.
Support and coach the Product Owner, especially on refinement, managing and maintaining the
product backlog.
Provide all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible,
leading facilitation and getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.
Facilitate productivity by removing impediments the team will encounter, communicate organizational impediments to leadership, mediating through conflicts, helping teams to make decisions, and adhering to continuous improvement principles.
Set-Up touch base and follow-up regarding defects found during our testing platform in a very fluid and fast paced environment.
Provide daily update at the End of Business via emails, teams, dashboard, and confluence to visually show teams status and progress.
Scrum Master
7-11 - Irving, Texas
January 2021 – February 2022
Supported Product Owner with grooming and maintaining Product Backlogs, ensuring we have a healthy backlog and making sure user stories are small, clear, testable and are sprint ready.
Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity, while coaching the team to conduct continuous improvement events.
Ensured effective and open communication across and within teams to effectively provide transparency and foster healthy collaboration.
Facilitated Sprint planning, Sprint retrospective, Sprint review / Sprint demo for Stakeholders.
Empowered my teams to be self-managing, self-organizing and cross-functional through proactive training and coaching.
Tracked metrics (velocity, burndown, burnup charts, qualitative metrics-self-assessments) for sprints outcomes.
Take responsibilities for managing dependencies between program teams, third parties, release managers and other scrum teams.
Encouraged a consistent culture of improvement through inspection and adaptation.
Embrace the concept of continuous learning and instill the same in the team.
Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Distributed Scrum Teams on agile good practices.
Improved Development Team morale through education and aggressive pre-emptive impediment removals (which resulted in positive impact on velocity).
Ensured that release deliverables are submitted and that quality standards defined by the team are consistently met (per acceptance criteria and definition of done).
Scrum Master
Rite Aid - Etters, Pennsylvania
December 2019 – December 2020
·Facilitate all scrum events including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews retrospective and other meetings as needed.
·Collaborating and coaching team to be self-organized, self-managed and cross functional.
·Work with Product Owner in writing better user stories that are short, clear and concise.
·Coaching the team in slicing user stories using relative estimation.
·Ensure the teams prioritize user stories that bring the most value to the organization.
·Track, escalate, and remove impediments using internal and external resources.
·Identify risks and issues and escalate them to the right team and management when necessary.
·Building an environment that showcase a safe place where all team members can trust each other with no fear of retribution, voice out opinions without being judged.
·Promote good practice by ensuring team members update tasks often in Jira.
·Utilize metrics such as capacity, velocity and burn down charts to keep track of team health.
·Facilitate story estimation using agile games such as planning poker.
·Participate proactively in developing and maintaining teams engineering best practices such as pair programming, code reviews, test automation, continuous integration/continuous deployment.
·Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration and the point of contact for external communications e.g., from stakeholders or members from other teams.
Scrum Master
Fifth Third Bank – Cincinnati, Ohio
February 2017 – December 2019
·Coached Product Owner in providing business and customer value and assist in the management of the backlog.
·Educate Product Owner, stakeholders, and development team on the agile best practices.
·Resolved impediments by finding the right personnel to resolve them, escalate when necessary and protect teams from external interferences.
·Coach the team in resolving issues/impediments before escalation.
·Facilitated all scrum events (daily scrum, sprit planning, sprint review and sprint retrospective) and ensured all outcomes are defined, understood, and achieved for all scrum teams.
·Partner with Product Owner to ensure product backlogs are continuously prioritized in line with business priority.
·Built and fostered an environment of trust and teamwork.
·Empowered the scrum team by providing continuous improvement opportunities to efficiently solve problems and provide critical thinking skills.
·Proactively anticipated, detected, and protected the teams from any distraction that may impede the team from achieving their sprint goal.
·Directed and led scrum teams from project initiation through to the delivery of a “done”.
Scrum Master
UnitedHealth Group – Baskin Ridge, NJ
May 2016 – January 2017
Facilitated and monitored the scrum process from initiation through delivery.
Served as a liaison between the product owners and development team to ensure that all targets and requirements are met.
Experience in pushing back on the team if they are taking on too much work in a sprint and remove impediments as they arise.
Facilitated and oversaw the Scrum process and coached the team.
Facilitated and participated in daily scrum, sprint review, grooming, retrospective, and planning meetings.
Facilitated all Scrum meetings to ensure full team engagement.
Removed impediments (e.g., cultural barriers, logistical challenges)
Always the first point of contact with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners to identify and resolve issues.
Managed project risks, including the development of contingency plans, i.e., removing impediments for the team.
Mentored and coached scrum teams to instill agile values and principles.
Project Coordinator
Netswift Inc – Burbank, California
April 2010 – March 2016
·Defined project scope and objectives through internal project management methodologies.
·Coordinated Hybrid IT Project Teams from implementation-thru-delivery of complex infrastructure projects leveraging SDLC processes against Waterfall and Agile projects.
·Established effective communication for the department with consistency across development and business management. Presentations, recommendations and updates provided.
·Coordinated offshore teams in different geographical places.
·Ensured task completion to specifications, on time and within budget.
·Designed and implemented service-oriented architecture (SOA) frameworks using JavaEE stack.
·Worked collaboratively with enterprise architecture team to ensure that the proposed solution is aligned with enterprise architecture direction.
·Coordinated implementation and solution architecture for application enhancements.
·Provided technical and architectural guidance to team members.
·Designed Architecture workflow for N-tier applications and implemented re-usable components.
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