Scrum Master Continuous Improvement
Resume:
Derin Adesida
Chicago 215-***-**** Email: *****.*******@*****.***
CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER
A Certified Scrum Master with 5+ years of experience and a proven record of accomplishment in delivering agile projects with time and budget. Strong concentration and enormous success utilizing Agile methodology, focusing on end-user value to improve business objectives. A servant-leader capable of delivering projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching Scrum teams and organizations. Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments and situations for delivering high level results. CORE SKILLS
Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile
Framework/Processes: Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe
Agile Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Miro board, Azure DevOps, Mural Board, Visual Studio & Rally Office Tools: Microsoft Office suite, teams, Google Office tools, Zoom Meeting tool, Slack, Miro, Mural, Webex, HTML, Adobe, SharePoint, PowerPoint
Key Skills: Experience working with Co-located, Distributed and Offshore teams using different visual platforms Scrum Skills: Agile/Scrum Coaching & Servant Leadership, Capacity Planning, Change Management. Meeting Facilitation; Agile planning & forecasting, Agile estimation and coaching, communication, collaboration, Conflict resolution and Relationship building PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
PROJECT MANAGER SCRUM MASTER
Albiware 05/2023 - Present
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Coaching Product Teams on Agile frameworks, methodologies, and best practices
• Partnering with the team’s Product Owner to lead developers, stakeholders, and other impacted players to ensure teams are set up for success
• Facilitating and leading team ceremonies, including Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Demos, and Sprint Retrospectives
• Tracking and reporting key metrics (e.g., team velocity, sprint burndown, budget spend, etc.) to the Product Owner, stakeholders, and other impacted players
• Coaching individual team members when needed and facilitating discussion and conflict resolution
• Identifying and reducing external team dependencies
• Identifying and resolving/removing blockers that impede the team’s delivery ability
• Promoting continuous improvement in workflow, productivity, and outcome delivery
• Promoting a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation
• Participating and even leading process improvement, Root Cause Analysis, and brainstorming workshops
• Gathering and analyzing user requirements
• Prioritizing features and creating a product backlog
• Collaborating with stakeholders to define product vision and roadmap
• Conducting market research and competitive analysis
• Defining user stories and acceptance criteria
• Providing feedback and guidance on product development progress
• Gathering, monitoring and analyzing product metrics and performance SCRUM MASTER
Ziegler Investment Bank. 07/2019 - 04/2023
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Led the delivery of all sprints and interacted with product owners to help prioritize Product Backlog.
• Monitored and tracked progress, prepared status reports, resolved issues, coordinated tasks and activities directed toward completing the project goals.
• Worked closely with product owners to ensure understanding of user stories and kept the backlog groomed with the development team involved.
• Facilitated and handled all sprint planning meetings, estimated user stories for the next sprint while ensuring Velocity was constant.
• Monitored sprint burndown and conducted daily stand-ups, encouraged open communication within the team.
• Assisted the team in estimating story points and measured velocity to plan future sprints.
• Facilitated sprint planning, retrospective, and sprint reviews and demos meetings.
• Removed impediments to delivery success through proactive management of external dependencies, complex problem-solving, and the development of novel solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges.
• Communicated and reported team progress and accomplishments, ensuring transparency of progress and outcomes.
• Monitored and tracked project progress and performance against project plans, reported status to project stakeholders through structured communication.
• Established and actively managed all project and key stakeholder expectations, assuring timely delivery of sprints.
• Mentored the team on adopting principles of Agile and the values of agile.
• Monitored team backlog daily and ensured it accurately reflected the current state of the sprint.
• Managed new product features and improvements in terms of scope and quality. SCRUM MASTER
ANHEUSER BUSCH, MOSAIC SALES SOLUTIONS. 05/2018-5/2019 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Created an environment and guided our development team to becoming self-managed and organized.
• Coached team members and stakeholders on agile and continuous delivery best practices.
• Conducted daily scrum meetings, scrum retrospectives, sprint planning meetings, Story grooming, and task drill-downs.
• Increased the team efficiency, motivating the team and resolving conflict
• Helped the team to clarify goals and actions to achieve them
• Shielded the team from distractions and interferences outside of the cross functional team
• Conducted every day scrum calls and reviews of the developed product backlog with the product owner.
• Coordinated and attended meetings to review the requirement specifications with the scrum team members.
• Managed impediment backlog to track and resolve in a timely manner using Jira and confluence.
• Facilitated daily Stand-Up, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Retro
• Groomed, developed, and assigned user stories for newsprint with the development team.
• Ensured that the Scrum Teams are working effectively towards efficiencies and productivity to execute on business objectives being delivered with high quality standards
• Communicated, documented, and archived project team activities and acted as a primary contact for project team related information
• Tracked cross team dependencies and worked with external teams which were non agile.
• Continuous collaboration and process improvement implementation with stakeholders. Scrum Master
Nickelodeon, MTV Networks, Viacom International. 01/2016-03/2018 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Responsible for managing backlog in JIRA and maintain a constant check on the burn down chart
• Assisted on the implementation of Jira and tracked agile project management across the entire team.
• Protected the team from external interference, over commitment, while prioritizing resolution of the defects and bugs on the backlog.
• Conducted every day scrum calls and reviews of the developed products.
• Responsible for planning sprints for application development.
• Groomed developed and assigned planned epics and user stories for newsprint.
• Collected, analyzed, and prepared user requirements, definitions, scope, and expectations for deliverable plans.
• Participated and contributed feedback during sprint reviews on agile projects.
• Coordinated and attended meetings to review the requirement specifications with the scrum team members.
• Assisted with the Continuous integration which increased quality by helping team implement/run daily automation processes.
• Assisted the product owner in backlog grooming (Prioritization & estimation) and establishing acceptance criteria.
• Defining goals and measuring team’s agile maturity.
• Tracked and communicated the team’s velocity sprint/release progress
• Acted as a coach and member of the agile project office with guidance to the teams managed under my supervision
• Implemented JIRA to manage and track agile projects in a structured manner for the entire team
• Provided all support to the scrum teams using servant leadership skills. PROJECT COORDINATOR
Thuzio Executive Club- Montclair, NJ 04/2015-12/2015 DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Managed benefits and performed heavy duty data entry; provided exceptional customer services while resolving issues and concerns of all celebrity clients
Key Results:
• Assisted with the execution of Celebrity hosted member events
• Responsible for the setting up and breaking down of event venue.
• Managed Event Guest List using customer management solution
• Assisted Celebrity Guests and facilitate Q/A when applicable
• Act as the point of contact and communicate project status to all participants
• Monitored project costs and scheduled to ensure project does not exceed the approved budget
• Analyzed project goals, planed schedule of deadlines for project completion, and developed action plan
• Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders
• Act as the point of contact and communicate project status to all participants
• Assigned tasks to internal teams and assist with schedule management SR SALE ASSOCIATE
USA TODAY 02/2012-03/2015
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Results:
• Scheduled print & digital ad orders, trafficked artwork
• Reviewed proofs sent to customers, Sales Executives, and Account Managers.
• Set-up new customer accounts, contracts, etc. and assisted with account reconciliation
• Ran reports including SAR, tracking spreadsheets & FTR
• Created Rate Proposals
• Supported promotional & marketing projects and ensured accurate billing for assigned groups
• Maintained contact information and records and updated data using Salesforce
• Devised an HR report generation system; thereby, reduced reporting time by 75%
• Monitored and managed operational activities; directed the branch/store/bank operational risks, financial aspect and QA and audit processes.
• Maintained human resource information, billing, bookkeeping. EDUCATION
BARNARD COLLEGE
Columbia University: Bachelor of Arts – May 2005
Certifications
Certificate: Servant leaders of tomorrow. 2018
Certified Scrum Master. Scrum Alliance
Professional Scrum Master, Scrum.org
Computer Skills
Proficient in Microsoft Office Applications & Adobe Creative Suite; JIRA, Azure Devops, Rally, Team O’clock, Slack, Confluence, Trello, Salesforce
Contact this candidate