Anthony B Akinshowon

Scrum Master

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-akinshowon

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Champlin MN, 55443.

ad3qz9@r.postjobfree.com

763-***-****

SKILLS

●Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban)

●Software development Life Cycle (SDLC)

●Servant Leader

●Conflict Resolution

●Team Building

●Good Communicator

●Process improvement

●Change Management

●Conflict Resolution

●User Stories

Jira, Confluence

WORK EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master, Securian Financial – June 2021 – Present – Minnesota, USA.

Facilitate Scrum events as needed fostering creativity, empowerment, cooperation, communication, and productivity.

Ensure the team is self-organizing and operating to maximize productivity and continuously improve.

Helped my team embrace tagile frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban for product delivery.

Helped my teams to use the knowledge of Scaled Agile in solving business problems and technical challenges within my teams in an Agile way.

Collaborate with project leads to aggressively address issues, risks and mitigation plans

Implemented a strategy for smaller user stories, accelerating customer value delivery by 30%

Identifying Anti-patterns and coaching the organization to resolve them.

Work with leaders to identify and remove organizational impediments.

Work closely with Product Owner and Stakeholders to develop good backlog practices, goal-based roadmaps, product vision and the concept of value creation.

Understands ET operating principles and key plans and integrate them across all workstreams and stakeholder groups.

Demonstrates awareness and deep understanding of team metrics (e.g., Velocity/cycle time) to identify barriers and champion their removal to overall team effectiveness.

Scrum Master, Wells Fargo - Nov/2019 – June/2021- Minnesota, USA.

●Worked in a SAFe environment with two teams, one of them working the Lending and 401k portal and the other handling card payment applications, financial tracker, and software development.

●Facilitates all scrum events and related meetings like Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog refinement

●Guides product owners to prioritize and groom user stories in the product backlog to achieve enough READY items for the next sprint and reduce the sprint planning time by 80%

●Tracks and communicated team velocity by interpreting the burndown charts which improved the team’s sprint planning

●Coaches the advantages of Scrum values and Agile principles with development teams and organization stakeholders

●Increases team efficiency by 40% by inspiring motivation, spins, and changes for quality and timeliness

●Performed the role of a servant leader for Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices

●Coordinated a team of developers to implement improvements in the mobile banking application within 6 months

●Guided and Coached the Scrum Team to be self-organizing and to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

Scrum Master, Mayo Clinic - Nov/2016 - Oct/2019- Minnesota, USA.

●Worked on Developing, improving, and enhancing software applications like MayChat using the pair programming software development techniques.

●Partnered with Kahua software to enhance owner’s and consultants work within the same system via collaboration solutions that enable effective project communication.

●Co-ordinated the team using a servant leadership style that realized 50% improvement in the efficiency of the delivery team and data governance.

●Facilitates all scrum events, like Sprint Planning, Daily Standup, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and Backlog refinement

●Facilitated two teams’ transition from waterfall into scrum framework in less than 5 months.

●Drafted sprint report from burndown chart to evaluate the team's velocity

●Analyzed all tasks and activities assigned to the scrum team to ensure timely development with minimal technical debts, while maintaining the highest quality of performance which accelerated on-time delivery by 40%

●Guided product owners at grooming sessions and maintained product backlog.

●Ensured early identification and negotiation of dependencies on external teams

●Increased Team efficiency by 60% through continuous motivation for collaboration

Project Manager, Wells Fargo -May/2015 - Nov/2016 - Minnesota, USA.

●Created full-scale project plans, including WBS, task estimate, resources planning, project milestones and associated documents.

●Monitored project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and identify solutions to address the problems in advance

●Developed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Change Controls, tracked the progress of error resolution, assisted in research, performed system analysis, and data mappings, and presented to all levels of leadership within the organization.

●Managed end to end development process for quarterly application upgrades, resulting in a smooth internal process.

●Drove implementation of project deliverables in the project charter and project plan

MORE PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES

●Loan Document Specialist, Wells Fargo - July/2014 - April/2015

●Project Manager, Intercontinental Bank - May/2012 - May/2014

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATES

●2008 B.Sc. in Banking, Corporate, Finance, and Securities Law, University of Lagos, Nigeria

CERTIFICATIONS

●Scrum.org: Professional Scrum Master 1 & II

●AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

●AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

●Microsoft Certified: Azure Administration Associate

●PMI - Agile Certified Practitioner (in progress)

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