Sunday Odebanke

Saint Louis, Missouri • 314-***-**** • ad0zap@r.postjobfree.com

AUTHORIZED TO WORK IN THE USA FOR ANY EMPLOYER

Certified Scrum Master with five years of IT experience and more than three years’ experience as a Scrum Master. As a Scrum Master, I play key roles in coaching team members with a focus on Agile practices and principles aligned to the manifesto. I closely work with developers and testers who maintain a vast array of skills ensuring each member is engaged, committed, and passionate about their work. I have a proven track record of delivering high-quality software, on-time and within budget.

EDUCATION

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria: Bachelor of Science in Economics.

Scrum Master Certified

Project Management Professional Certified

2011 – Present

Chartered Institute of Strategic Management

EXPERTISE

●Strong knowledge of software development practices

●Excellent team player and team builder with strong interpersonal skills

●A background in retail financial services and a proven ability to quickly understand the business strategy and objectives

●Requirement Elicitation and documentation

●Requirements management, track and change control

●Ability to build and maintain a strong working relationship with all levels of Management.

●Good Presentation skills with strong communication skills.

●Strong process modeling using UML (Use Cases, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams)

●Excellent conceptual and working knowledge of System Development Life Cycle, Waterfall, Agile Scrum and UML Methodologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tools: VersionOne, JIRA, Rational ClearQuest, HP Quality Center, HP ALM, MS Office, MS Visio, SharePoint

Requirement Management Tools including Rational Requisite Pro, Rational Rose and Caliber RM

core competencies: agile & waterfall methodologies, project/product management, system/software implementation, quality assurance, risk mitigation, conflict resolution, business analysis.

Work experinces

Blue cross blue shield of Kansas city March 2018- Present

Designation: Agile Scrum Master

Liaise with Operations Division and Development team using Agile Central Rally, and JIRA to manage the Scrum process to create user stories that will deliver service model that supports the team. A Proactive, Analytical and Self-Organized Scrum Master with strong technical Background, with comprehensive years of experience in Scrum Master, Business Analysis, and client management.

●Assist Product Owner to create User Story, Groom User Story and Prioritized User Stories

●Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies; Daily Stand Up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review Meetings, Retrospective.

●Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

●Work closely with product owner in backlog refinement and continuous delivery of features, goals and milestones.

●Managed and prioritized team member’s daily tasks based on deliverables.

●Collaborated with development team to ensure they first understand the customer’s requirements and deliverables for each Project and Maintenance Request.

●Delegated action items to each team member based on request deadlines.

●Managed ongoing communication with customers to ensure their expectations are aligned regarding the development, delivery, and timely completion of their requests.

●Manage and tracked project using JIRA.

●Manage and coordinate an offshore team.

●Participated in program implementation (PI) meetings

●Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members.

Mastercard St. Louis, Missouri

Designation: Scrum Master Nov 2017 – Feb 2018

●Responsible for establishing Scrum practices and rules and ensures the process is followed.

●Facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews and Retrospective Meetings.

●Document, implement, monitor & enforce all processes for testing as per standards.

●Identify and remove impediments for Scrum team and leads the teams’ efforts towards continuous improvement

●Analyzed business processes to identify functional gaps and points of external integration

● Embrace, coach, and evangelize agile values and principles

●Developed a successful flow with the scrum team that promoted collaboration, shorter feedback loop, minimized dependencies, improving completion ratio, customer satisfaction, and team dynamic

●Collect, report, and refine agile metrics to quantify and communicate team performance

●Catalyze continuous improvement of process and practice through collaboration with team and organizational leaders to identify and implement improvements

●Design, development, testing, troubleshooting and debugging of the software/ web application.

●Conducted user walkthroughs, documented customer concerns and communicated to project management teams.

●Reviewed test cases and scenarios and met all project data deliverables and deadlines.

●Conducted user training and prepared training material for user retention and future use.

●Conducted walk-through, requirements gathering meetings and worked with the stakeholders to ensure the right solution

●Evaluated information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decomposed high-level requirements

TechMahindra Limited (contract) Chicago

Designation: Project Coordinator May 2015 - June 2017

●Maintaining and monitoring project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets and expenditures.

●Organizing, attending and participating in stakeholder meetings.

●Coordinating weekly status meetings with project team.

●Sending out meeting notes and following up with action items.

●Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings.

●Ensuring task deadlines are met.

●Create a project management calendar for fulfilling each goal and objective.

PROJECT LIST

●Windows Server Migration.

●PST migration.

●Hardware Rollout.

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