Scrum Master Agile Delivery
Resume:
Bolanle Olatunji
Minneapolis, MN *****
***************@*****.***
An enthusiastic Scrum master, capable of bringing diverse minds together. With demonstrable expertise in delivering value to end clients. Skilled in building high performing teams and enable continuous improvement. A servant leader with a record of transforming teams to thinking Agile. Ability to manage multiple projects concurrently, with both collocated and distributed teams. Experienced in prioritizing task, meeting timelines and maintaining professionalism, discipline and good communication skills.
Work Experience
Scrum Master
Scrum master -Chase - Houston, TX
January 2017 to February 2022
• Maintained a continuous collaborative relationship with the product owner to ensure that user stories and vision are well defined and understood.
• provided proactive coaching to the team and enforcing the values and principles of Agile, while promoting self-organization and constantly improving our standards of work
• Helped to mitigate distractions and increase team focus.
• Encourage teams to update JIRA tasks every day to correct status for accurate reports and visibility.
• I Facilitated and/or supports Agile framework ceremonies for Agile teams
• Ensured that all team members understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
• Collaborated with Executive and Senior Leadership on applying Agile thinking across the organization• Cultivated a team that recognizes the value of Agile delivery and use that recognition to continuously inspect and adapt for areas of improvement
• Shield the team from outside “noise” or distractions that prohibit them from being successful
• Monitored sprint velocity and worked with team to determine how they can continue to improve on velocity and recognize additional efficiencies as they mature
• Ensured planning of go-live and deployment activities and facilitated their execution
• Tracked and reported key project metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
• Managed plans, dashboards, and standard project reporting that included but not limited to weekly status reports.
• Identified, tracked, and removed impediments for feature/project and team success• Facilitated the creation of a well-defined product backlog Achievements:
• Built excellent working relationships and communication between the offshore and onshore teams.
• • Improved teams agile maturity from level 2, which is considered still as "Storming", to level 5 being the team in optimized.
Scrum Master
Capital One - Dallas, TX
December 2014 to January 2017
● Coordinated the execution of deliverables across multiple Scrum Teams with a focus on scaling Scrum to manage cross team dependencies
●Assisted with resource allocation and effective capacity planning for team to determine what team can take on in any given sprint
● Accustomed to using metrics such as burndown, and burnup charts, velocity, and capacity, to visually track the team's progress.
● Reported progress, team status, and issues to senior management
● Facilitated all Scrum ceremonies
● Coach and Mentor team members promote agile thinking by ensuring adherence to the process.
● ● Ensuring Agile principles of transparency, Inspect, and adapt, are implemented throughout the process of production.
● Working closely with the product owner to ensure the backlog remains groomed and ready for team’s consumption.
● Facilitating the adoption of trust, fostering collaboration among teams and externally (team to team),including sprint goals, plans, and obstacles, thereby growing confidence among the teams, business, and all other stakeholders.
●Arbitrated and resolved conflict within the team
●Learned, understood, and actively used project management & ticket tracking software to effectively manage the team’s backlog and sprint-committed
●Managed relationships with all invested parties, including (but not limited to): Product, Engineering, Brands/Audiences, and/or other key stakeholders Achievements:
-Built a trustworthy working environment, less vocal, and quite team members started opening up.
Scrum Master
Scrum Master -Wells Fargo - Dallas, TX
March 2012 to December 2014
● Coached teams to improve collaboration and self-organization
●Coordinated the execution of deliverables across multiple Scrum Teams with a focus on scaling Scrum to manage cross team dependencies
● Encouraged strong working relationships between the members.
● Transitioned teams from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.
● lead discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution.
● Lead pre-refinement sessions with the product owner to keep backlog healthy.
● Facilitated all scrum ceremonies
● Encouraged teams to practice frequent code Refactoring and Regression testing to reduce production defects.
●Worked with development resources to ensure successful project delivery with applicable time, quality and cost constraints.
●Collaborated with Stakeholders, Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Development Managers to plan releases and manage a healthy product backlog Achievements:
- Had a better way of preventing defects early enough, by executing defect analysis. Education
Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/business admin
Metropolitan state university
Skills
• Kanban
• Scrum
• SDLC
• DevOps
• Confluence
• Microsoft Outlook
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Conflict management
• Root cause analysis
• Waterfall
• Test automation
• Business analysis
• Organizational skills
• Continuous improvement
• Requirements gathering
• Project management
• Communication skills
• Test-driven development
• Agile
• Mentoring
• Jira
Certifications and Licenses
Certified Scrum Master
Present
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