Tiwalola Oloyede

Scrum Master (PSM*, SSM, SPC, PMP)

Phone: 401-***-****

E-mail: ad3t31@r.postjobfree.com

Agile Certified Scrum Master, 10 years of information technology experience and over 8 plus years' experience coaching, mentoring scrum teams and stakeholders in Agile software development practices. Proven servant leader and motivator inspiring teams become high performing, self-organized delivering high quality valuables.

Summary of Professional Skills and Background

Result driven servant leader, mentor multiple teams transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.

Analytical, committed, influential and innovative Scrum Master, with outstanding teams' velocity.

Excellent knowledge and experience in: SAFe, SCRUM, KANBAN, SCRUMBAN frameworks.

Drive communication between developers, product team, stakeholders, DevOps, API, AWS teams, etc.

Proactive, excellent risk mitigator, solution driven and very effective at tracking and dependencies.

Coach and mentor product team on user stories refinement of business and enablers epics/features.

SDLC coordination: planning, design, coding, testing, deployment, release, and maintenance.

Team-growth focused, continuously foster an environment for high performing cross functional teams.

Proficient in emotional intelligence, soft skills, conflicts resolutions to upkeep team's morale.

Skills

Facilitation

Conflict Resolution

Organizational

Strong knowledge of Scrum and Agile

Technical

Problem-Solving

Strong Communication

Time Management

Leadership

Coaching

Methodologies and Tools

Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe, TDD

Work Management Tools: JIRA/Confluence, Rally, Step up, MS Office, Visual Studio, Remedy

Communication Tools: Webex, MS Teams, Skype, Google meets, Zoom, Slack

Technical Tools: Linux, Windows, Cisco, Git, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS

Databases: Oracle, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MS SQL

Work History

2022-06 - Current

Senior Scrum Master

AXA XL, Stamford CT

Exhibiting lean agile leadership by helping teams embrace SAFe core values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles and implement SAFe practices.

Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines.

Using JIRA tool in collaboration with Agile frameworks to track team's progress while aligning the team's efforts to their goal and optimizing delivery.

Coaching Product Owners and other teams in role execution, backlog management, facilitating meetings/ceremonies and conflict resolution.

Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and define resolution paths where required.

Possess excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines.

Team award for consistent delivery excellence for 3 consecutive quarters, achieved through early identification and removal of blockers, consistent team coaching and training.

Facilitate retrospective sessions using different approaches to ensure team participation and increase morale.

Demonstrate ability to work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track.

2021-07 - 2022-05

Scrum Master

Syosset, New York

Organized and facilitated scrum team events: sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review - demo, sprint retrospective, backlog refinement, release planning etc.

Collaborated with developers, product owners and stakeholders to break down epics to small slices that do not span iterations or programmed increments.

Led and assist teams improve and sustain the teams ‘velocity and the delivery of backlog items ahead of stipulated deadline.

Coached teams to stay focused on value delivery and not the process so they stay aligned to Agile principles.

Encouraged teams to become self-organized, cross functional and more focus on their tasks for a quicker turn around.

Tracked risks and dependencies at program level for visibility while guiding towards proper removal of blockers to increase productivity and reduce defects.

2017-03 - 2021-06

Scrum Master

3RYMATECH, Atlanta, GA

Led two Scrum teams responsible for enterprise solutions and eCommerce products.

Coordinated with business stakeholders to manage IT and business deliverables.

Facilitated all aspects of Scrum process training and ceremonies.

• Worked closely with Product Owner to maintain a healthy product backlog.

Delivered Agile metric reporting using burn-up charts and team velocity metrics.

Managed project scopes to ensure delivery compliance.

Collaborated with other Scrum Masters in Scrum of Scrums meetings.

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

The SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

Scrum Fundamental Certificate

SAFe Agilist 6.0 (SPC) - Leading SAFe 6.0

PMP- project Management professional

Customer Service & Assertiveness Certification – Compliance

Education

Bachelor of Law (LLB)

Lead City University

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