Information Technology Release Train

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Tunde Akintemi

Zip code: 77389

*********@*****.*** 240-***-****

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Summary

Experienced Release Train Engineer and Agile delivery lead with practical years of building and delivering top end projects to customers. Previously worked in Banking, Mortgage, telecommunication and information technology, Legacy system engineering, pilot systems design and system enhancement. A professional with Information Technology Degrees from University of Ilorin and currently doing my masters at Bowie State University. Have used my stellar leadership skills in establishing team effective environment, addressing team dynamics (Team Management), clearing impediments, encouraging good work relationships, and developing executive level communications.

Experience

Release Train Engineer/ Agile Coach

Bank of America

September 2021 – Present (2 years)

• Organize and facilitate all the Agile events for the ART (Scrum of scrum, PM/PO Sync, Agile Transformation meeting, PI Planning, PI System Demo, PI Planning Retrospective).

• Facilitate project planning, resource planning, kick off, roadmap creation, release planning and Iteration coordination to deliver on the objectives.

• Coach and mentor teams routinely on Agile methodologies and frameworks while consistently guiding them through the agile mindset transformation.

• Created an atmosphere of trust and safety where conflicts were managed without fear of blame or retribution.

• Facilitate training to Technology and Business teams on the Agile framework like Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban that are geared towards achieving the organizational goal.

• Encouraged teams to participate in various agile training like CI/CD, Test Automation, Lean Agile transformation, Security enhancements and other training to maintain quality.

• Improved our agile delivery by ensuring that the team backlog grooming was engaging and productive by coaching the team on the need to maintain a healthy backlog of stories that are DEEP and ready for future iterations.

• Assist the product Management team with feature prioritization using MOSCOW technique, requirements gathering, business value and release planning.

• Prepared team for PI planning by ensuring the project management team, System architects and other stakeholders are involved in pre-PI planning events that helps the team to be successful.

• Organize, facilitate, and communicate events towards PI readiness especially with logistics for both collocated and distributed team.

• Coordinate with the team to manage the timebox, capacity, risk, dependencies for upcoming Iterations ensuring that our risk were ROAM and dependencies understood and resolved.

• Facilitate discussion with the team to manage dependencies for effective Agile delivery and release execution.

• Ensured the team’s objectives are well aligned with the PI objectives in the ART. Tunde Akintemi - page 2

• Remove impediments, blockers and anything identified that could stand in the way of the Agile teams fulfilling our PI objectives.

• Facilitate inspect and adapt workshops that are tailored towards solving major problems during the innovation and planning iteration with the team and other stakeholders.

• Routinely provides team metrics to stakeholders on progress towards fulfilling our PI objectives. Metrics like committed vs completed, percentage of completion, variance, risk, dependencies, defects, program performance metrics, program predictability measure.

• Organize system demos for stakeholders to review progress towards our PI objectives.

• Effective use of JIRA, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI to manage agile teams/projects and communicate progress with transparency to all the stakeholders.

• Introduced estimation techniques that helped Agile team improve on their Epic/Story estimation which impacted our PI planning positively avoiding overloading or underutilizing team capacity.

• Designed and provided capacity planner across the train that helped our PI readiness.

• Ensured each Test Approver on the Agile created CRQs for quality assurance test with the QA team for proper accountability and value delivery to the end user. Senior Scrum Master II

Citi Bank

Sep 2020 – September 2021 (1 year)

• Coached, mentored and helped my team deliver consistently on its committed objectives.

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, Sprint reviews and retrospective).

• Lead a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging experimentation and innovation.

• Servant leader to a team of 20 professionals. Tracked and communicated team velocity and sprint progress using JIRA for metrics, requirements, and documentation.

• Worked closely with PO to confirm user stories were properly refined, prioritized and clear for upcoming sprints.

• Used empirical data to help the team(s) assess their ‘Scrum Maturity’, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPI’s, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance.

• Improved transparency by encouraging discussions, decision making, conflict resolution by building an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding in the team.

• Built a safe and trusting environment where conflicts were managed in a productive way without fear of blame or retribution.

• Implemented our sprint retrospective to be engaging, exciting and rewarding to bring team’s cohesiveness and enhancement.

• Protected team from external interference and distractions to enable optimal functionality and productivity.

• Prepared the team for PI planning ensuring team’s readiness especially with logistics for collocated and distributed team.

• Lead the team to manage the timebox, capacity, risk, dependencies for upcoming sprints.

• Ensured the team’s objectives were well aligned with the PI objectives in the ART.

• Consistently identified opportunities for team improvement with data gathered during sprint retrospective using Trello, Mural creating an atmosphere of fun to keep team members engaged.

• Enlighten the team on the need to communicate technical terms to stakeholders effectively.

• Delivered 2 products that were both under 8% of the budget. Tunde Akintemi - page 3

Scrum Master

Diageo

Oct 2018 – Aug 2020 (1 year 11 months)

• Assist in organizational transformation from waterfall to Agile by mentoring them to deliver capabilities using Agile practices.

• Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each sprint.

• Work with teams that develop several Data Omni functions as well as multiple POS functions.

• Continuously guided scrum team(s) on delivering customer value while embracing the agile mindset.

• Coached scrum teams to deliver value while following scrum principles and applying organizational process to ensure compliance with enterprise and regulatory standards.

• Proactively addressed and resolved impediments and trained the team on how to handle and identify blockers.

• Mentored the PO’s and Dev teams in effective product backlog management, definition of done, ready and more.

• Tracked process improvement initiatives identified in retros and other forums.

• Serve as mentor and adviser to teams, product owner and the organization.

• Worked hand in hand with POs to communicate delivery of work to higher management.

• Delivered multiple products that helped delivery chain smoother, faster and more efficient. Scrum Master

Spotify

Jun 2016 - Sep 2018 (2 years 4 months)

• Supported/educated the Product Owner, Development team in continuous improvement and Scrum Maturity.

• Identified, removes and escalates risks, roadblocks, and cross-team dependencies appropriate.

• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and product discussions.

• Partnered with, coaches and supports Product Owner in managing the backlog to ensure it is properly prioritized and appropriately sized.

• Identified training needs, created training plan & materials, and conducted training for the team, peers and the larger group on Agile principles.

• Gathered and documented business and technical requirements from both formal and informal sessions and validated the needs of the business stakeholders.

• Conducted user interviews and documented business and functional requirements.

• Fostered Agile best practice and a culture of relentless improvement among scrum team members.

• Managed tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics and program office reporting.

• Encouraged collaborative effort among the teams and helping stakeholders at the program level. Assisted all that are involved in seeing the viability on return on investment when scope of project is properly plan.

• Determined and track team KPI.

• Guiding and Coaching the Scrum team on self-organization.

• Worked collaboratively with other Scrum Masters and release train leadership to coordinate and support the activities of all scrum teams.

• Partner with PO to plan for short- and long-term release. Tunde Akintemi - page 4

Project Manager

First Bank

Mar 2011 - May 2016 (5 years 3 months)

• Led scoping and planning discussions to document clear goals, objectives, solutions, priorities, and the definition of done.

• Conducted lessons learned after key milestones/project phases to collect and share opportunities for improvement with the project team as well as the Project Management Community of Practice.

• Identified, assigned, and scheduled project deliverables, milestones, and tasks.

• Worked with key project team members, vendors, and impacted stakeholders to shape milestones, timelines, dependencies, and strategies for successful project execution.

• Provided leadership and motivation to project team members throughout the project life cycle and confer with project staff to adjust plans as necessary.

• Implemented a project communication plan, including regular meetings and workshops to promote continuous progress and sharing of relevant information.

• Worked with departmental managers and other key stakeholders to coordinate specific assignment of project personnel.

• Logged and managed risks, issues and decisions, to ensure that appropriate mitigation strategies and action plans are in place to address them as they are identified.

• Ensured that project goals are accomplished and are in line with business objectives. Directed and coordinated activities of project personnel to ascertain that the project progresses on schedule and within budget.

IT Manager

DATLEX

Jul 2003 - Feb 2011 (7 years 8 months)

• Projected analysis, documented business requirements, detailed issues, and risks, drafted business processes, and data flows

• Coordinated with various areas of Operations, Middle Office, Finance, Technology, and Senior Management to build business requirements, procedures, and processes.

• Use application tools to monitor the progress of projects from beginning till completion.

• Performed Data analysis, data collection, synthesis, and translation of results.

• Identified gaps between requirements and drive resolution of mitigating controls.

• Partnered with training and communications teams to adopt change management/training plans and appropriate communications related to project delivery and training.

• Developed and implemented solutions that strengthened business operating models, enhanced the client experience, and improved efficiency and controls.

• Worked with business partners to design and implement enhancements in process re- engineering Provided implementation support, inclusive of testing and process change management and confirm those implementations meet requirements established by Oversight and Control partners.

• Developed subject matter expertise on specific areas within the Business and presented in a variety of forums and settings.

Education

Bowie State University

Masters, Management Information Systems, General

2022 - 2024

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Procentre Education

Project Management Professional Course

2014 – 2014

Aptech Computer Education

Oracle database

2008 - 2008

University of Ilorin

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), Geology

1992 – 1999

Licenses & Certifications

Certified SAFe® 6.0 Practice Consultant - Scaled Agile, Inc. ID: 404*****-****

Certified SAFe® 5 Release Train Engineer - Scaled Agile, Inc. ID: 856*****-****

Professional scrum master - Scrum.org

683339

Project Management Professional Number 2119885

PMP original grant date 28 July 2014

Skills

• Software Project Management • Innovative

• Software Development Life Cycle • Team Leadership

• Facilitation • Team Management

• Coaching and mentoring • Enterprise Architecture

• Effective Communication • Problem Solving

• Servant leadership • Business Strategy

• Resourceful

• Interpersonal skills

• Easily adaptable

• Active listening

• Business Analysis

• Critical Thinking

• Organization Skills

• Situational Awareness

TOOLS

Oracle Microsoft SQL Office 365 JIRA AZURE Devops Radar PowerBI Radar

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