Oluwatobi Olubayo

Profile

Talented Agile professional with 4+ years of experience specializing

in leading teams to agile maturity from product development through successful product launches. Accustomed to managing multiple teams and priorities in fast-paced environments. I have led, served, and coached cross-functional teams in both Agile Scrum frameworks to deliver high value results that met and exceeded stakeholders' expectation. Also developed strong oral, written, analytical, communication and interpersonal skill as well as leadership competencies and a high level of emotional intelligence. I am passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences. I am a result oriented, a servant leader and a team player.

Employment History

West Governor University

November 2022 — Present

Scrum Master • Organizing and facilitating daily stand-up meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, backlog refinement, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings with the scrum team and stakeholders to improve transparency. • Partner with deployment engineer, Product Owner, Program Manager and QA engineer to ensure safe, bug-free deployments into production. • Track team's progress on the JIRA board using velocity reports, burndown/burnup chart, cumulative flow diagram and creating team's roadmap for the team and stakeholders. • Closely monitoring scrum process, communicate and suggest changes accordingly to improve quality and output of the development team through a collaborative effort.

• Ticket reviewing, grooming and breakdown into small shippable functionalities with team members and product owner. • Facilitate cadence-based Program Increment PI Planning breakout sessions and coordinate with other teams of the Agile Release Train. • Seamlessly facilitating 2 cross-functional teams using the core agile methodology of Scrum and escalating high priority issues as needed • Coach teams on need for commitment to deliver working software on time and the value of metrics and incremental delivery. • Successfully resolve conflicts by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect • Use JIRA to track progress of impediment or blockers in backlog. • Worked with Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done (dod), definition of ready (dor), user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement, acceptance criteria). • Coached scrum teams to maturity and lead process improvements across multiple teams • Coached product owners to help them understand their role in story writing, backlog grooming, prioritization, and sprint planning.

Details

Baltimore

United States

443-***-****

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Skills

Sprint Planning

Communications

Planning

Agile Methodology

Office Suite

Stakeholder Engagement

Microsoft PowerPoint

Leadership

Microsoft Outlook

Skype

Certified Scrum Master

Microsoft Office

Integration

Microsoft Word

Process Improvements

Indicators

Agile Software Development

Key Performance Indicators

(KPIs)

Scrum (Software

Development)

Infrastructure

Conflict Resolution

Software Development

Azure DevOps

Scrum Master at Wells Fargo

August 2020 — Present

• Promoted an empowering and self-organized team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries. • Ran the scrum ceremonies and ad-hoc meetings to ensure coordination and integration of output. • Seamlessly facilitated onshore, offshore and distributed scrum teams on agile principles, and stayed updated via emails and video calls with offshore teams. • Conduct sprint review meetings where sprint products are demonstrated (demo) to stakeholders. • Monitor progress of agile team's key performance metrics (Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) • Provided team with resources, information, communication, and practical advice to enable team to predictably deliver working software and the desired capabilities. • Assisted the product owner and the agile team in identifying trade-offs between short- and long term benefits to drive shared vision. • Worked with PO to identify product backlog items to be worked on in a sprint, define scope and to estimate the level of effort of development activities. • Built strong relationships with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to enable effective strategies for optimization and automation. • Identified dependencies between Agile teams and help communicate and resolve dependencies between different teams to enable improved agility and delivery excellence.

Tier 1 IT Support Specialist at Laureate Education Inc. May 2019 — Present

• Troubleshoot and communicate basic, routine, and advanced technical inquiries and escalations clearly and concisely. • Assisted in IT orientations for all new hires. • Maintained existing IT processes, procedures, and trainings, while creating and documenting new ones in our knowledge base/help center • Provided relevant coaching, training and support to champion a self-service culture. • Tracked daily, weekly and monthly metrics to better understand how our employees interact with IT's infrastructure with the goal of exceeding expectations in team performance. • Manage and prioritize tasks/projects efficiently including solid resource planning, problem solving and analytical skills. • Point of contact for external and internal communications – with customer and internal teams

Education

Associate Degree in Art, University of Maryland Global Campus January 2024

DevOps

ServiceNow

Capacity Planning

Writing

Resource Planning

Agility

JIRA

Refinement

Problem Solving

Prioritization

Microsoft Excel

Internal Communications

Languages

English

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