Tolulope Adesina

301-***-**** ad2ojv@r.postjobfree.com

Security Clearance: Secret

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Engineering Management The George Washington University Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering The Pennsylvania State University CORE COMPETENCIES

Microsoft Office Confluence Agile Project Management Jira Azure Devops Project Coordination Team O’clock Agile Estimation Rally Project Tracking using MS Project Monday.com Vendor Management Contract Management Organizational Leadership Interpersonal Management Skills Front-end Development Cost and Budget Management Prioritization Asana Servant Leadership Microsoft Project Test Automation DevOps Kanban CI/CD Deployment Data integration using ELT/ETL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

US Department of State, Foreign Service Institute (Arlington, VA) Scrum Master/Business Analyst January 2023 - Present Job responsibilities

● Review, analyze, and evaluate business system and user needs

● Provide guidance and support to other technical positions, developers, and administrators

● Develop requirement specifications according to Foreign Service Institute guidelines

● Gathered and evaluated multiple critical information from sources, breakdown high level information into detailed low-level information for general user understanding

● Composed or assist with writing functional requirements, use cases, and interface designs

● Obtain requirements using interviews, requirement workshops, and during PI Planning

● Track metrics for continuous improvements, delivery, and acceleration

● Support team and ensure readiness for execution

● Ensure team kanban boards are updated and accurate

● Partner closely with product and account leads about status updates and details of project KPI

● Facilitated testing of release deployment and patch releases from Learning Management System provider Cornerstone

Equinix (Redwood, California)

Project/Program Manager August 2022 − January 2023 As an independent contractor, I was responsible for program delivery of multiple related projects to organizations' systems for technicians, customers, and users. Employ scrum of scrums to manage multiple teams and build effective relationships with stakeholders. Job responsibilities

● Assisted in process development and documentation of data pipeline

● Guided completion of delivery related projects features like dashboards to read project KPI required for specific business functional strategy

● Partnered with scrum and business teams to define product roadmap, goals, and implementation required for business solutions

● Engaged with multiple teams using scrum of scrums to manage and deliver MVP during sprints

● Forged effective relationship with stakeholders to understand their business needs and how to accomplish them

● Identified risks, dependencies and acted on them to ensure the team and project goals for the sprint are not derailed

● Executed ranges of planning and gathering information to develop, facilitate, and lead complex business user cases, plans, and dashboards

● Facilitated and led technical assessments, discussions, and problem-solving using resources with internal teams and external suppliers

Cianbro Inc. (Curtis Bay, MD)

Scrum Master/Project Manager December 2018 – July 2022 In this project, we enhanced the mobile portal for customers logging into the website making it accessible for customer approvals to be shorter and sales team to capture new customers and alerts team on new product purchase.

Job responsibilities

● Worked with the product owner, IT and Architecture team to document and implement mobility based on Agile methodology

• Facilitated and coached development team as a servant-leader in implementing Scrum and Agile concepts and principles

• Responsible for establishing and obtaining project scope, goals, and deliverables

• Organized and led daily stand-up meetings for project team of 8-10 members to understand project deliverable status, delays, and risks

• Responsible for routine and ad-hoc effective communications with project stakeholders, including product owners, and project sponsors

• Conducted daily scrum meetings, scrum retrospectives, sprint planning meetings, Story grooming, and task drilldowns

• Facilitated TDD, BDD, and FDD testing for functionality on working software

• Collaborated with cross-application teams to define consistent scrum process adherence

• Served as the primary recipient of new feature requests from stakeholders, analyzing change orders, and prioritizes resources needed to achieve deliverables successfully

• Coordinate project budget development efforts and tracks and manage project budget

• Routinely participate in developing contract agreements for subcontractors, vendors, and other external stakeholders to procure resources for project needs, ensuring that relevant and vital contract clauses are included in the agreements

• Responsible for project setups tasks and activities following project award and developing metrics to track progress and meeting deliverables

• Conducting User Acceptance Training with the stakeholders and business users on new product developed

• Assisted lead stakeholders to establish standards around flexibility of data model to ensure no deviations outside of established guard rails

• Collected and analyzed data on user feedback from released features from data pipeline

• Maintained data pipeline to understand user needs

• Accountable for technical management of the project, quality documentation, approval/review of invoices to stakeholders and vendors

• Designed and documented use cases coordinating with offshore teams to communicate timelines during our scrum calls to get issues resolved.

• Assisted with internal communications, transparency within internal organizations, and stakeholders to present progress reports and solutions

Office Depot, MD

Scrum Master March 2018 - November 2018

Within the scope of this project, we overhauled major digitization program to improve online sales and customer experience by reducing the user journey in buying via the online portal Job responsibilities

● Provided training and coaching to scrum teams on Agile scrum Framework, Agility Health

● Facilitated and re-enforced Agile Ceremonies (Backlog Refinement, Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, Sprint Retrospectives, Scrum of scrums, Communities of Practice)

● Facilitated and re-enforced WIP limit sessions for Kanban teams, workflow planning sessions and Kanban quantitative retro

● Worked closely with Product Owners in product backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

● Educated and reinforced Agile Framework (Scrum, Kanban) to team members and key stakeholders when needed

● Developed and managed visual system to Improve Dependency Management within teams

● Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration

● Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good Agile practices

● Conducted technical training sessions regarding Agile development methods

● Tracked data from the spring process and reported regularly to facilitate understanding of where we are and what can be improved on

● Provided direction, coaching, leadership to the team, and kept the scrum process running

● Encouraged and Improve the Inspection, Adaptation of the Agility of teams ManTech Technology, NC

Business Analyst - Jr Agile Coach October 2017 - February 2018 The project involved assisting the engineering and IT team to validate new product lines for patient demographics and verify insurance claims for those who are eligible in real time. Real time processing of claims with address verification and address history validated. Job responsibilities

● Servant Leader responsible for facilitating Scrum Ceremonies (daily Scrum, grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning)

● Provided coaching on agile methodologies

● Responsible for providing metrics, project estimations and timelines to clients

● Handled escalating impediments to Management

● Managed dependencies between other Scrum teams (Scrum of Scrums), third parties, and other non-Agile waterfall teams

● Analyzed business risks that team faced and developed solutions and plans to reduce

● Resolved cross-functional issues at project level by active communication

● Communicated and presented weekly updates to stakeholders and program managers

● Partnered with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog

● Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of the Scrum framework in the organization

CERTIFICATIONS

● Professional Scrum Master I, Scrum. org

● Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance

● Certified SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master, Scaled Agile Inc.

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