BIM OBAYANJU, PMP, CSM, SAFe *

Phone: 469-***-**** ad2zzl@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Extensive knowledge in agile principles, values and best practices. Adept at leading cross-functional teams, coaching, guiding and mentoring agile teams, scrum masters, product owners and executive leadership team in a fast-paced environment to achieve organization’s strategic goals and objectives. Currently seeking a position as an Agile Coach, bringing expertise in areas as the followings:

Agile Values & Principles

Project Management

Conflict resolution

Story Pointing/Relative Sizing

Stakeholder Engagement

Backlog Refinement

Team Mentoring

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Waterfall Methodology

Team Coaching

Scrum/Kanban/Extreme Programming

Cross-functional Teams

Risk Management

Process Optimization

Team Empowerment

CERTIFICATIONS

Scrum Alliance- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

PMI- Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP)

Scaled Agile- Leading SAFe Agilist (SAFe 4)

PMI- Agile Practitioner (PMI- ACP)

Scaled Agile- Implementing SAFe (SPC) Anticipated Completion-February 2020

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Toyota Financial Services International, Plano, TX, June 2019- Present

Agile Transformation Coach

Responsible for early adoption of agile, influencing, coaching agile teams and senior leadership for a leading-edge Toyota Financial Service Digital Transformation supporting enhanced financing and protection options for customers and dealers.

Work closely with scrum masters, factory owners, business stakeholders and agile transformation partners to execute the adoption of TFS Agile methodology at the portfolio, domain and factory level.

Work closely with delivery/program managers and business experts to ensure visibility and resolution of technical and business impediments

Mentoring and coaching scrum masters with building team dynamics and the mechanics of Scrum

Preparing and conducting training/workshop session to educate agile teams and leadership to promote agile maturity across TFS platform

Helping the organization to identify impediments to successful agile adoption and working with executive leadership and agile teams to create effective strategies to overcome them.

Guiding agile teams in capturing and utilizing key metrics like burndown, burnup, velocity, lead time, cycle time, throughput and other key metrics to improve team performance, predictability and release forecasting.

Successfully transitioning the organization and Scrum teams from Waterfall into an Agile Scrum framework/mindset.

Streamlining business process and improving efficiency by helping the team identify bottlenecks and waste

Creating and maintaining team’s work visibility using agile tools such as JIRA, version one, confluence, planview and pivotal tracker

BNSF Railway Technology, Dallas, TX, November 2018- June 2019

Agile Team Coach

Implemented, facilitated and enabled the scrum and SAFe process at leadership and team level for a key BNSF initiative project that supported locomotive operations.

Acted a servant leader and ensured adherence to scrum practices in order to continually improve team’s performance, value and functionality delivery.

Facilitated scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at regular cadence and ensured there’s full engagement.

Lead and coached product owners on how to write good user stories that meets the INVEST criteria, story estimation and breaking down EPICs if necessary.

Supported and worked closely with the product owner with respect to backlog refinement, managing and prioritizing product backlog items.

Assisted development teams in identifying, removing and escalating impediments to TS solution manager if required.

Worked closely with the release train engineer and program manager to track team dependencies and drive execution of program increment deliverables.

Created and maintained team’s work visibility using agile tools such as JIRA, version one, confluence, planview and pivotal tracker.

Tracked key metrics through burndown and burn up charts, work cumulative flow, velocity, defect summary report and making sure team progress radiated to the teams, program managers and key stakeholders.

Worked closely with business managers to track and help on board resources

Facilitated agile release trains at portfolio, program and project levels of the organization

Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empowered the delivery teams to self-organize

Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL, August 2018- November 2018

Agile Coach

Trained, coached and mentored 3 cross functional teams {offshore and onsite} project manager, business manager and leadership team in agile values, principles and scrum practices

Coached, trained and mentored scrum team responsible for implementation of a quoting engine infrastructure that streamlined the quote business flow

Facilitated scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at regular cadence and ensured there’s full engagement.

Ensured teams adhered to Scrum processes in support of product owner and development team

Supported and worked closely with the product owner with respect to backlog refinement and managing the product backlog items.

Assisted scrum teams in identifying and removing impediments to teams work progress.

Ensured the outcome of retrospectives are implemented towards continuous improvement.

Tracked key metrics through burn-down, burn-up, team velocity and made sure team progress radiated to the teams and key stakeholders.

Guided Scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating and team velocity.

Ensured teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD)

Amegy Bank, Irving, TX, June 2015 – July 2018

Senior Scrum Master

Acted as a Scrum master for multiple cross functional teams both distributed and collocated

Facilitated scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at regular cadence and ensuring there’s full engagement.

Ensured teams adhered to Scrum processes in support of product owner and development team

Supported and worked closely with Product Owner with respect to refining and managing the product backlog items.

Assisted scrum teams in identifying and removing impediments to teams work progress.

Ensured the outcome of retrospectives are implemented towards continuous improvement.

Facilitated organizational learning, change management and process adoption of Agile via metric, benefit realization outcomes, and retrospective findings.

Tracked key metrics through burn-down, burn-up, team velocity, defect summary reports and ensured progress radiated to the Scrum teams, Program Managers, Leadership and key stakeholders.

Guided Scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating and team velocity.

Ensured teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD)

Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empowered the delivery teams to self-organize.

Used Agile tools such as JIRA, Pivotal Tracker, SharePoint and Confluence to track team progress and delivery performance.

Amegy Bank, Irving, TX, June 2012- May 2015

Scrum Master

Applied my Scum Master experience within the team to implement solutions using the System Development Life Cycle Methodology

Coordinated with the Program manager to plan releases and managed the project with cross functional team

Managed project reviews and recommendations to improve project completion performance

Tracked and communicated project’s progress from schedule, cost and risk perspective to the project team and project stakeholders

Lead the implementation of TCS BaNCS core solution which increased the consumer lending back- office processing efficiency by 40%

Coached team to adopt Agile practices and continual improvement

Facilitated the implementation of TCS BaNCS for consumer lending solutions

JP Morgan Chase Bank, Dallas, TX, October 2006 – June 2012

Agile Project Manager

Managed a cross-functional highly visible project for sales and campaigns with a team of 10 personal bankers.

Overhauled sales process, systems and training to achieve campaign goals, hitting targets of 15% revenue increase annually.

Developed strategies and business for the firm by building corporate relationships with customers and the industry/market leaders.

Identified "bottlenecks" and implemented new and improved processes and policies.

Coached, trained and supported 3 branches by mentored 15 bankers in business lending which resulted in increased client acquisition and retention from 50% to 75%

Reviewed constantly the customer feedback and then suggested ways to improve the processes and customer service levels which increased the satisfaction rate from 82% to 90%.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION & AFFLIATES

Project Management Institute

Scrum Alliance

American Society for Quality (ASQ)

Irving Chambers of Commerce

EDUCATION

CE-Project Management Northlake College, Dallas, TX

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