SAMUEL OLORUNFEMI IJELUOLA

Email: ad3l8f@r.postjobfree.com Cell: +905********* Location:Konyaaltı, Antalya, 07130. Türkiye SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

As an experienced and certified agilist with over 13 years of experience in various domains, including IT, Marketing, Production, and E- commerce. A professional with hands-on experience as an Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Agile Project Manager, College teacher and Technical support personel, I have worked on different projects spanning from Software development, Change Management, Process Improvement, UI/UX design, Informatica Master Data Management, E-commerce, and web and mobile app development. Highly skilled in various Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, and Scrum@scale. I have proven competence in leading cross- functional remote and onsite Agile teams with diverse backgrounds to deliver the right products and services within approved budgets, timelines, and quality standards. Exhibits servant leadership and agility through the implementation of agile values across diverse teams and projects.

My knowledge in DevOps, Git, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and continuous integration/deployment, coupled with my ability to coach and mentor teams, sets me apart as an exceptional Agilist. As a Servant Leader, Value Enabler, and Facilitator, I am committed to delivering high performance, value, and quality to meet business goals and customer needs. My proficiency in PCDS, PDCA, and SDLC, combined with my knack for quality delivery, relationship building, and stakeholder management, makes me the ideal candidate for any Agile project. SKILLS SET:

Verbal and written communication

Facilitation, Coaching, Training and Mentoring

Stakeholder and Client management

Qualitative and quantitative research analysis

UAT and Functional Testing

Transformation and change management

Critical, Design and System thinking

Problem and conflict resolution

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Distributed Limited

London, United Kingdom

Software Development company

Scrum Master/Agile Coach: August 2022 – Till present

Currently support three scrum team that are working on software, web and mobile app development.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders including Product Owners, Quality Analysts, Business Analysts, Data Analysts, & Software Developers, D365 developers, Solution Architect, and UI/UX designer to achieve business goal and customer satisfaction.

Guide development teams to adopt agile practices by mastering the Scrum framework.

Coach and mentor teams and product owners in agile methodologies, enabling them to deliver outcomes with a focus on high performance and quality.

Use Flow Metrics to monitor team performance and identify areas for improvement, resulting in improved workflow and increased transparency.

Schedule and facilitate the iteration/sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective events, ensuring positive, productive, and timely discussions and decisions.

Facilitate the backlog grooming/refinement to ensure that work items meets INVEST characteristics/definition of ready (DoR) and release planning meetings.

Drives effective communications across and within team using information radiators such as metrics/dashboard.

Facilitates good engineering practices within team, including User Stories, BDD, TDD, CI/CD, Automated Testing, and Agile Games. Zhill Systems, Colony, Texas

Information Technology & Services

Scrum Master: Jan 2019 – Apr 2022

Supported two Scrum and Kanban teams that worked on software, mobile and web app, and master data management projects.

Led agile teams of Product Owner, Quality Analyst, Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Informatica Engineer, Software and web Developers.

Protected the development team from interferences and proactively removed impediments/blockers.

Motivated the team and drive acceleration techniques such as swarming, WIP limit, and interrupt buffer.

Planned the team capacity and ensured it influences the sprint load to prevent over-commitment.

Drove effective communications across and within team using information radiators such as metrics/dashboard.

Educated the Product Owner and Dev Team on spike, vertical slicing, metrics interpretation & story decomposition.

Collaborated with the Product Owner to ensure product backlog is ordered and prioritized towards business value.

Facilitated all Scrum events such as: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, and Sprint Retrospectives.

Promoted a safe environment that supports self-management, fail fast and fail cheap, trust & innovations.

Participated and co-facilitated in scaling activities such as ART Syncs, PI Planning and Scrum of Scrums.

Collaborated with the RTE in aligning with the PI (Program Increment) vision and ART Syncs.

Increased team knowledge of Agile, Lean and Scrum through workshops, lunch & learn and 1:1 coaching.

Understood the need for change and drove it following PDCA with minimal disruption to the flow. Saritay IT solution.

An Information Technology company focusing on building different web and mobile app solutions Scrum Master: Jan 2016 – Dec 2018

Drove the e-commerce website development covering database backend, authentication, user friendly frontend, database backend and payment gateway for credit and debit card payments.

Supported the agile team of Product Owner, Quality Analyst, Database Administrator, Front End Designer, Software Engineers, Solution Architect and Business Analyst.

Defined project vision from a strategic perspective and the sprint goal in alignment with roadmap.

Collaborated with the Business Analyst and other Product Owners to elicit and analyze requirements.

Defined minimum viable product (MVP) and definition of done (DoD) for features in scope.

Conducted different analysis on new initiatives such as needs vs wants, CBA, Risk analysis, CoD to aid prioritization.

Coached and mentored the team to follow agile, PDCA, SDLC in the product design, development, testing and release.

Supported in developing test cases and conducting user acceptance (UAT) and unit testing.

Collaborated with the team to ensure backlog items were well refined and met the definition of ready/INVEST.

Supported the team to define done (DoD) and ensuring increments meets desired quality state.

Reviewed and accepted user stories and demo increments to the stakeholders during sprint review/demo session. Naturevantage Health Resources Limited.

A production and Marketing company

Product Owner: Jan 2014 – Dec 2015

Supported the UI/UX initiatives covering ease of use, visual communication, interaction design and architecture of the company’s marketing mobile and web app.

Identified solution MVP and supported the team to timely deliver it for quick feedbacks from the stakeholders.

Maintained a healthy backlog following the INVEST and DEEP guidelines.

Elicited requirements and translated them into epics, features, and user stories.

Drove alignment with strategic objective and program vision using communications, roadmaps, and sprint goals.

Scheduled and facilitated design thinking, ideation, brainstorming, story mapping and research sessions.

Defined sprint goals and assisted in defining done (DoD) and acceptance criteria. INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC/ ACCESS BANK PLC - IT Project Manager Nigeria • Jan 2008 – Mar 2012

Designed business processes, performing functional and technical analysis in line with business demands in banking information Technology projects

Facilitated backlog grooming/refinement and release planning meetings

Performed functional tests of developed applications and coordinating user acceptance tests

Collaborated with both internal and external stakeholders.

Coordinated material procurement and required services for projects within budget requirements

Managed projects from procurement to commission

Prepared and submitted project invoices for review and approval

Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety

Led and managed staff of 10 team members engaged in administering complex IT infrastructure EDUCATION:

Master of Business Management for Managers (M.BA): Istanbul Aydin University.

Higher National Diploma (HND): Computer Technology, Federal University of Technology Akure. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) ScaledAgile

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Scrum.org

Registered Scrum Master (RSM) Scrum Inc

Registered Product Owner (RPO) Scrum Inc

TOOLS & TECHNIQUES:

Agile Tools: Jira, DevOps, Confluence, Mural, Rally and Version One

Microsoft: SharePoint, PowerPoint, Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio

Mapping: Feature mind maps, Activity Diagram, Product Roadmap, Empathy map

Devops: Git, Ansible, Jenkins, Continuous integration, Docker and Kubernetes

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