ORABELEMA T. AIYELABOLA

410-***-**** ad1db5@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Results-driven and experienced Scrum Master /Agile Practitioner with over 8 years background. Fully skilled coach and mentor of high performing teams resulting in increased business productivity and highest value delivery to stakeholders. Possess a track record of transforming waterfall teams to scrum teams, further complimenting the culture & management of the organization. I also enable teams on how to get the most out of self-organization and deliver working and potentially releasable software frequently.

Skills

SDLC/Agile/Scrum Framework

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Servant Leadership and Mentoring

TDD/ATDD

Team Building and Coaching

Effective Facilitator

Effective Communication and people-interaction Skills

JIRA

SharePoint

Risk Management

Cross-functional Team Building

Kanban

Confluence

Business Management

CI/CD DevOps Pipeline

Conflict Resolution

Service Now

Process Improvement

Azure DevOps

Digital.ai Agility

SaaS

Project Management.

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Professional Scrum Master 1 (Scrum.org)

Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (Scaled Agile Inc)

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL v4) – Certified

Project Management Professional (PMP)-Certified

Certified System Administrator

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified IT Professional

Microsoft Certified Solution Associate

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist

Work History

Scrum Master/Project Manager

ITConcepts Inc, 07/2022-07/2023

Utilized agile principles/scrum framework to identify and plan project activities to deliver in 2-weeks iterations.

Worked with the scrum team to enhance user experience and improve customer satisfaction.

Served as an Agile coach to the development team and PO to prioritize product backlog and monitored WIP on Kanban board to ensure faster delivery of shippable products.

Participated in demonstrating functionalities to the clients and stakeholders.

Spearheaded discussion with PO to better understand business goals and end user needs and ensure clear communication and direction to the development team.

Worked with scrum teams to design solutions and brought diverse teams together to successfully implement projects.

Coached and mentored high performing teams resulting in increased business productivity and attaining goals.

Coached scrum teams to transition to the use of SAFe thereby getting teams to run on portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.

Worked with the scrum team to continuously assess progress, communicate lessons learned, and understand next steps.

Managed cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to ensure highest value delivery; provide coaching to the team to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and user experience.

Worked with PO to Identify pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies, and value associated with features and enhancements.

Fostered collaboration with team members to drive value and collectively identify and resolve impediments.

Facilitated Team Events including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Refinement Sessions, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives to ensure teams were productive and kept within the timebox.

Supported and educated the Product Owner in the messaging of the product vision and the maintenance of the product backlog, backlog prioritization, and user story refinement process to deliver the highest business value.

Facilitated continuous improvement for the team, through facilitating conversations, providing education, and coaching.

Monitored projects to ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.

Scrum Master, 07/2020 to 06/2022

JPMorgan Chase Bank

Introduced new scrum values into team, positively impacting team and developing culture of teamwork, focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect-closed gaps in communications between cross functional teams.

Worked with Product Owners to optimize the value of the work delivered by ensuring Product Backlog is visible and understood by all.

Facilitated Team Events including Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Refinement Sessions, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives to ensure teams were productive and kept within the timebox.

Supported and educated the Product Owner in the messaging of the product vision and the maintenance of the product backlog, backlog prioritization, and user story refinement process to deliver the highest business value.

Used Scrum of Scrums (SOS) forum and coordinated with other teams to manage cross-team dependencies.

Trained Scrum teams and coached them in adopting best practices like DOD, velocity tracking, pair programming, and collaboration.

Scrum Master, 06/ 2018 to 06/2020

Walmart

Used agile and waterfall methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver solutions.

Led Infrastructure patching and upgrades, removing technical debt.

Worked with the team to provide small to medium scale applications written in Salesforce and maintained on the Salesforce Cloud services.

Worked with to the team to apply Scrum principles and practices while managing projects involved in the Salesforce application development, deployment and support of various Salesforce products and solutions.

Introduced new scrum values into team, positively impacting team and developing culture of teamwork, focus, courage, openness, commitment, and respect, closed gaps in communications between cross functional teams.

Delivered expected business results while putting the customer first, focusing on solutions that enables understanding customer behaviors while applying the EDLP and business models to all plans.

Facilitated Product Backlog Refinement meetings, Daily Scrum meetings, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, sprint, and Release Planning

Worked with product owner to prioritize and refine user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation for the sprint planning.

Empowered the team to self-manage and adhere to Scrum Principles.

Identified and removed impediments, shield the team, and prevent distractions.

Mentored and coached members of the team in all aspects of agile methodology and project management.

Rigorously reviewed and managed backlog and in-progress items ensuring an on-time feature delivery rate of 98%

Co-ordinated with Stakeholders and product owner for meeting sprint objectives

Build positive working relationships between stakeholders and product owners.

Articulated business users need software development teams - user stories.

Managed timely communication between various internal and external stakeholders.

Helped team inspect and adapt process at all Scrum events.

Communicated timely functional /technical/managerial feedback to Development team.

Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans which results in improvement estimations.

Prepared development status reports and timely communication to various account stakeholders

Project Manager, 01/2015 to 05/2018

Amazon Inc.

Developed project schedule and assigned individual responsibilities.

Managed and tracked WBS to ensure focus on deliverables.

Provided work direction to project team including assignment and review of project work.

Tracked project cost, risks, resource requirements and timelines.

Identified project-related problems, develops creative solutions, and implements solution.

Created and maintained project documentation including project charter, project plan, project schedules, project files and status reports.

Generated project status reports and presents updates to key stakeholders and executive team

Managed project scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk.

Managed vendor integration and monitors quality of vendor deliverables

Continuously monitored project needs and conducted quality reviews; escalate scope, budget, timeline issues appropriately.

Helped define and adhere to Project Management Methodology and other standards established within the PMO.

Analyzed business objectives and system requirements to define project scope, risks, and budgetary constraints.

Developed and maintained relationship with stakeholders, business owners, project sponsors, executives and vendors provide strategic guidance and insight.

Worked with various project scheduling software such as Microsoft Project, Jira, and/or Smartsheet.

Education

Bachelor of Science: Anglia Ruskin University UK BSc (Hons) Computing-Information Management. (In-View)

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