OLATUNDE ISAAC ODUMBO

Phone: 848-***-**** Email: ad1swe@r.postjobfree.com State: New Jersey

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olatunde-o-19543831 SUMMARY

Experience at driving the adoption of agile values, principles and practices. Adept at leveraging agile practices with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable. Seeking a position as a Scrum Master, bringing over 6 years of experience to my prospective company. A Value-Optimizer and Servant Leader with good Mastery of the Agile Framework Skills

o Agile Values &

Principles

o Backlog Refinement

o Coaching/Mentoring

o Burndown & Burnup

charts

o Conflict Resolution

o Knowledge of Scaled

Agile Framework

(SAFe)

o Scrum/Extreme

Programming (XP)/Kanban

o Team Empowerment

o Conflict Resolution

o Emotional Intelligence

o Iteration/Sprint Planning

o JIRA expertise

o Process improvement

o Stakeholder Engagement.

o Team Performance

o Relative Sizing

o Story Pointing

o Software Development (SDLC)

o Risk Management

o User Stories

o Agile Methodologies

EXPERIENCE

Medtronic Scrum Master, New Jersey Nov 2020 – Present

● Organize and facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there’s full team engagement.

● Assist the Product Owner to continually keep a sufficient set of features prioritized.

● Facilitate discussions and conflict resolution while empowering the scrum team to self-organize.

● Identify and remove impediment for the team.

● Promote a self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.

● Guide scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating.

● Monitor the pulse and morale of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.

● Utilize JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.

● Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices

● Successfully helping the Scrum team transition from waterfall into scrum framework.

● Participate in the running of Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure the coordination and integration of output from the various teams by eliminating all impediments.

● Create an impediment backlog to keep track of the team's impediment at the Scrum of Scrum. Capital One Scrum Master, New York Jan. 2017 – Oct 2020

● Coached, mentored and helped my team deliver consistently on its committed objectives

● Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews and retrospective).

● Worked closely with PO to confirm user stories were properly refined, prioritized and clear for upcoming sprints.

● Improved transparency by encouraging discussions, decision making, conflict resolution by building an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding in the team.

● Built a safe and trusting environment where conflicts were managed in a productive way without fear of blame or retribution.

● Implemented our sprint retrospective to be engaging, exciting and rewarding to bring team’s cohesiveness and enhancement.

● Protected team from external interference and distractions to enable optimal functionality and productivity.

● Prepared the team for PI planning ensuring team’s readiness especially with logistics for collocated and distributed team.

● Lead the team to manage the timebox, capacity, risk, dependencies for upcoming sprints.

● Ensured the team’s objectives were well aligned with the PI objectives in the ART.

● Consistently identified opportunities for team’s improvement with data gathered during sprint retrospective using Trello, Mural creating an atmosphere of fun to keep team members engaged.

● Facilitated user story estimation workshops using Planning Poker technique.

● Communicated team overall progress by tracking burn down/burn up metrics, velocity and productivity.

● Used Jira to track team progress and delivery performance. Tyrx Pharma R&D Project Manager, Product Effectiveness, NJ July. 2014 – Dec. 2016

● Managed, organized, and led project core team meetings.

● Tracked project progress, managed the budget, and analyzed workloads with the help of MS Project.

● Interfaced with all functional areas of the business to ensure timely and efficient execution of project tasks.

● Collaborated with individuals and cross-functional teams to identify organizational, operational and process issues to improve the team’s knowledge and expertise in the execution of its mandate.

● Planned, organized and directed projects to optimize processes, systems and to enable business objectives.

● Developed best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics.

● Escalated any issue as appropriate to the manager in a timely manner.

● Ensured project activities are progressing to meet timelines. Taylor Technology Project Coordinator, NJ Dec. 2012 – June. 2014

● Reviewed all lease documents required for building and maintaining cell sites.

● Identified, resolved and updated risks and issues log in conjunction with the project manager.

● Supported in the preparation of project plans, resource profile and tracking product development life cycle.

● Presented weekly/monthly progress report to senior project managers and head of infrastructures.

● Managed site development finances by receiving and reviewing invoices for work done

● Helped coordinate and work on SAP projects and also receive and collating forecast data.

● Worked with QA to ensure testing completely verifies the customer requirements and are directly traceable to the requirements

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATION

● Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

● SAFe 6.0 Scrum Master

EDUCATION

● Kean University • Bachelor’s of Science in Biology TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Agile Tools: Jira, Rally, Version One, Redmine, TFS Software: MS Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, SharePoint, Visio, MS Project, PPM, Remedy, SAP.

Databases: SQL Server, SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows Server, UNIX, Mac OS, Linux

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