OLADAPO FADAHUNSI

ad4yqt@r.postjobfree.com 209-***-**** Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 75043

Summary

To work and grow in a challenging and dynamic establishment that emphasizes teamwork, Hard Work and Creativity. Responding adequately to the challenges and dynamism of Information and communication Technology. Results-focused, Scrum Master with over 5 years of proven success in developing and leading cross-functional development teams to execute and deliver quality software. Demonstrates expertise in team coaching and mentoring, requirement gathering, and industry best practices, highly effective communication facilitator and contributor to key partnerships, projects, and collective team objectives across, telecom, network, hosting, security, governance, and vendor management to achieve positive impact on all business outcomes.

Skills

Software Development process management

Performance Metrics

JIRA

Customer requirements analysis

Scrum processes Improvement.

Backlog management.

Meeting Facilitation

Agile Values & Principles

Risk analysis.

Requirements gathering

Team building

Conflict De-escalation

Agile best practices

Impediment Removal

Analytical Skill

Data Visualization

Experience

Tata Consultancy Services San Antonio, TX

USAA Federal Savings Bank

Scrum Master/PMO

02/2022 – Present

Fostered and encouraged conversations and collaboration both inside and outside of the team allowing them to self-organize.

Guides the team and organization on how to leverage Agile/Scrum practices and values to maximize the delivery of business value.

Tracks and publishes prescribed team metrics.

Guides the team on applying self-organizing, self-corrective behaviors, analyzing and adapting to the feedback inputs (eg. Metrics, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, etc.), all for the purpose of building high performing teams.

Tracked and Reported KPIs on workstreams deliverable solutions on time.

Built a trusting environment where issues are raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on correcting and problem solving.

Facilitated collaborative discussion, decision making, and problem solving.

Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Facilitated and encouraged participation from all team members in scrum ceremonies (Scrum, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) and longer-term planning exercises (Road Mapping, Release Planning)

Ensures Definition of Done (DOD) & Definition of Ready (DOR) are discussed, agreed and met consistently.

Collaborated with KYC/AML department leaders and project sponsors to define and develop projects.

Established project plans, including deadlines and priorities.

Facilitated productive Daily stand-ups, work planning meeting and Retrospectives.

Identified and troubleshoot obstacles that are hindering the workstreams (Infra, Apps, Cyber, Data) progress.

Proactively assists with mitigation of issues and impediments.

Provided regular reporting/communication to stakeholders and partners for transparency and awareness of outcomes and impediments; creates visual displays and communications with key metrics and agile updates for leadership.

Supervised the project management process to ensure work meets quality standards and falls within established deadlines and budget.

Collaborated with the team to refine the delivery processes and established clear guidelines for collaboration and decision-making, this reduced ambiguity and minimized potential sources of conflict.

Facilitated discussions, decision making, and conflict resolution with team members to ensure consistent improvement.

Quadot Capital Inc Franklin, IN

Scrum Master

04/2020 - Current

Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team.

Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement.

Participates in scrum-of-scrums (SoS) to support the management and remediation of dependencies across multiple product/application teams.

Liaising with product owners to outline project scope and objectives, groom backlog and sprint planning while properly elaborating on user stories ready for upcoming 1-2 sprints.

Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.

Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering the team to self-organize.

Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

Owned the agile practices of the team/product group/journey including cross-portfolio impacts, planning, mapping dependency, OKRs and key metrics for success in partnership with Product Management, business partners, digital and technology modelling agile methods, values, and principles.

Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.

Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.

Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.

Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.

Supported and coached the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining a healthy Product backlog.

Lead the team in the successful planning, execution and implementation of projects from initiation through closure.

Globeview Inc San Leandro, CA

Scrum Master

07/2016 - 02/2020

Facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

Guides the Scrum/Kanban team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted agile practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.

Coached the agile team and management; helping the team to understand their role and how to create an effective cohesive product visioning that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding.

Used Agile principles & processes to ensure sprint goals are delivered within the target iteration, adhere to quality standards, and meet the stakeholder's expectations and business needs.

Assisted the Release Train Engineer with multi-site SAFe quick start and release train launches.

Partnered with product owner and product managers to communicate delivery of work product from the team(s) and escalates key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.

Worked closely with the Product Owner to define, plan, and maintain the product backlog.

Used agile project management tools to track team adoption and adherence to procedures and best practices Facilitate timely delivery through effective team collaboration, decision making, and conflict resolution.

Embraced a servant leader role across scrum teams and supported them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies.

Ensured all product vision, planning and development activities are rooted in Agile and Product Values & Principles.

Delivered capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.

eCco Solutions Ltd

Product/Business Development manager

03/2011 - 11/2015

Defined and implemented short- and medium-term retail sales forecasts.

Facilitated and managed external contracts/ relationship with vendors and merchants.

Directed and controlled the corporate sales functions having overall responsibilities for planning, budgeting implementing and maintaining cost.

Evaluated the merchants/clients and their business before deploying terminals.

Monitoring the impact and development of our competitors with comparison to our sales, branding and customer support department.

Ensuring that merchant's outlets are in line with the company's Merchant's Policy standard.

Monitored and reported competitive intelligence products.

Estimating the effects of promotional materials being deployed into the.

Market that affects the e-Payment business.

Education and Training

Harvard Business School Online Boston, MA

Entrepreneurship Essentials: in Management

Louisiana State University at Shreveport Shreveport, LA

MBA in Business Administration

Expected in 07/2024

University of Ibadan Oyo, Nigeria

Bachelor of Science in Economics

Websites, Portfolios, Profiles

linkedin.com/in/olatunji-fadahunsi-95654354

Certifications

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1)

Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)

Certified Scaled Agile Framework 6.0 Agilist

PMP - Project Management Professional Affiliations Project Management Institute

International Institute of Business Analysis Association of Purchasing card Professionals.

Master of JIRA Workflow

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