YEMI ODINA

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PROFILE

An enthusiastic and highly motivated scrum master with 6 years’ experience working with software development teams, championing scrum, and agile principles. Relentlessly supporting development teams to succeed in delivering working software and experienced in coaching and guiding teams in becoming self-organized. Proactively take on challenges in a growing and dynamic environment and embrace agility for long-term digital transformation. KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Exceptional agile experience e.g.,

Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe.

Business change management and

continuous improvement.

Knowledge about tasks, backlogs

tracking, burndown metrics and

velocity.

Digital solutions delivery & product

development; customer focus.

Month on month cycle time

reduction, Design thinking.

Coaching, management, Sand

leadership skills.

Exceptional experience of user story

writing using INVEST.

Negotiation and communication.

TOOLS

Jira & Confluence, Trello, Mural, Miro, MS Office suite (Visio & Project), SharePoint, Oracle cloud applications (financials/resources and budget management) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Insight Global Inc/Guidehouse Inc/Dept of Veteran Affairs, DMV 2022 – Present Scrum Master

Plan and Review business objectives during PI Planning.

Encourage, trust, teamwork, collaborations, and the need for commitments to assigned task. Thereby increasing productivity, quality, and happy clients.

Acted as Agile Coach, Scrum Master and Servant Leader for technical cross functional teams implementing Scrum practice.

Identified and removed impediments prevent distractions that interfere with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal, facilitate discussion, and conflict resolution.

Effective communication between clients and team on daily status, check-ins, and meetings.

Organized dependencies between/among 3 teams; Created Mock-ups of minimal viable product (MVP) to stakeholders.

Engaged stakeholders in achieving business value; applied System thinking to expose bottlenecks.

Improve the predictability of solution delivery; Setting up governing policies to support Agile- based approaches.

SDLC Partners, LLP, Highmark Inc, PA 2021 - 2022

Scrum Master

Assist the teams with conflict resolution, removing impediments, achieving self-organization, establishing trust among my team members.

Lead increment; facilitate discussions and team ceremonies, including the daily scrum, product backlog refinement, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and sprint planning.

Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.

Assessing 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.

Write user stories that meet the INVEST criteria; Work with the Product Management team to develop release plans and ensure product backlogs are well-groomed, prioritized, and visible to all stakeholders.

Created roadmaps, user story grooming and iteration planning.

Assist the team with identifying & managing dependencies and risks.

Utilize Azure DevOps for backlog management, metrics tracking and defects management. Gainwell Technologies, LLC 2017 - 2021

Oklahoma Healthcare Authority, Oklahoma

Scrum Master

Provided support and guidance through servant leadership; influenced and collaborated to drive continuous improvement through advocating transparency, inspection and adapt.

Led and directed all Scrum ceremonies, including the daily Scrum, weekly backlog refinement, and bi-weekly Sprint planning and retrospective events.

Facilitated formulation of team charter document, Definition of Ready (DOR), Definition of Done (DOD), and workflow of user stories.

Guided the team through estimating, forecasting; encouraged and motivated team to focus on iteration goals.

Assisted the team in tracking and communicating team progress and metrics. Used burn-down metrics to report project updates.

Mapped complex combinations of resources against objectives, track dependencies and risk, assessed impact of change across interdependent work streams and projects.

Monitored, reported, and presented team performance metrics/analytics including burndown/burn up charts, capacity and planning, sprint status, impediment patterns, WIP (Work in Progress), Cycle Time, and Product Plan Delivery reports.

Cognosante LLC, Columbus, OH 2014 - 2016

Project Manager

• Developed projects through defining client requirements, establishing scope, and developing project plan. Managed budget, resource allocations, change requests, and milestone. achievements.

• Defined Project charter, Project plans, daily, weekly, and monthly team deliverables for each phase, drafting WBS and RBS systematically using MS Project.

• Cross functional collaboration with software developers, architects, and project management to assess feasibility of product and software implementation while maintaining project constraints of time, scope, and cost.

• Documentation and translation of project requirements into product features and specifications.

• Prepared Statement of Work, mitigated risks, and oversee development timeline.

• Built and managed the project schedule, defined the critical path, and tracked activities to ensure functional team members are meeting agreed upon deadlines.

• Lead and managed all phases of the program/project lifecycle from initiation through closure, including project planning, project execution, and tracking and reporting.

• Effectively collaborated with key stakeholders to define requirements, develop project plans, and execute project activities.

Business Analyst 2013-2014

• Led meetings with key stakeholders to gather business requirements to enhance business operations while implementing Waterfall methodology into project framework.

• Collaborated cross-functionally with software developers, architects, and project management to assess feasibility of software implementation while maintaining project timeline constraints.

• Conducted gap analysis in business process and led integration projects from conception through deployment.

Facilitated user interviews and workshops to gather requirements.

• Prepared project charter and baselined it while collaborating with stakeholders.

• Created and maintained process workflow documents to support business needs.

• Maintained effective communication by providing transparency on project status and risks to cross functional team members and business leadership team.

Generated and communicated status reports, and escalated critical issues as needed to ensure project success.

Prepared the UAT Test Plan based on business Requirements. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Certifications

PMP Certification – Project Management Institute (PMI) November 2023 to November 2027

Scum Master Certification – Scrum Alliance November 2022 to November 2024

Safe Advance Scrum Master 6.0 – Tentative for February 2024

Six Sigma Black Belt – Tentative for January 2024 Degrees

BSC Computer Science University of Calabar, Nigeria

General Studies Florida State College Jacksonville, Florida

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