Scrum Software

Morolake Williams

Cincinnati, OH *****

513-***-**** ***********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly trained IT professional knowledgeable in Software development lifecycle processes. Skilled in leading global cross-functional and offshore teams through collaborative, open communications, and scope management within waterfall and agile software projects. A Certified Scrum Master with definitive leadership qualities coupled with strong critical thinking and decision making skills. SKILLS

● Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile

● Agile Frameworks: Scrum,

SAFe,KanBan,TDD,XP

● Servant Leadership

● Project Management

● Requirement Gatherings/Analysis

● Business & IT planning

● Team building & mentoring

● Strong communication skills

● Conflict Resolution

● Risk mitigation planning

● Stakeholder Management

● Scope Management

● Quality assurance

● Business Analysis/Data Analysis

● PM Tools: Jira, Rally, WebEx,

● MS Office : Excel, PowerPoint, word,

access

WORK HISTORY

AGILE CONSULTANT/SCRUM MASTER 06/2018 to 03/2020 KeyBank - Cincinnati, OH

● Facilitated scrum ceremonies simultaneously between two agile teams implementing SAFe and helped my RTE plan PI, Scrum of Scrum (S0S) meetings, coordinate inspect and adapt (INA).

● Coached my scrum teams in utilizing agile best practices with project development

● Worked with other scrum masters and RTE to create high performance teams, manage dependencies, identify risks from inject work, and integrate work

● Help my train to identify bugs and defects in our system, assessed the priorities and cleanup

● Conducted backlog grooming meetings, DSU calls (onsite and offshore resources), iteration planning, iteration reviews and iteration retro meetings

● Worked with product owners to prioritize, refine and validate user stories.

● Investigated and corrected project issues, radiating/escalating major issues to program and delivery managers as necessary.

● Assisted my teams in capacity planning, story estimation, and retro discussions

● Documented and tracked project issues, risks and concerns, with the mindset of resolving the in a timely manner.

● Used Jira and Confluence as the main collaboration tools to plan, track and release software.

AGILE CONSULTANT/ SCRUM MASTER 02/2016 to 02/2018 ANOVY Care - Cincinnati, OH

● Facilitated Scrum framework ceremonies – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.

● Served as the scrum master for multiple teams delivering high quality customized healthcare applications for hospitals, patients and different healthcare vendors.

● Worked with developers to translate business needs into operational software solutions. Worked on continuous improvements of our systems and processes.

● Led 1 systems team in the implementation of an enterprise level Tele-Health and Language Services software package to enable patients to communicate in their native language, allowing for better understanding of their medical health situation, and thus better understanding of their treatment plan.

● Incorporated agile methodology and scrum techniques to manage requirements and enhance the evolving applications.

● Facilitated dry run war room sessions on strategic rollout methods for new healthcare apps completed for our clients.

● Coached teams in applying agile best practices, encouraging team cohesion and collaboration, and training teams on overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.

● Partnered and worked with the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog to maximize business value

● Actively participated in weekly scrum of scrum meetings with other scrum masters to identify and resolve issues faced amongst our teams, and also share knowledge on creating highly productive and performing teams.

● Participated in Product Discovery Sessions (PDSs), Requirement Gathering Sessions

(RGSs), Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs) and Technical Quality Audits (TQAs)

● Assisted teams in effective internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information to appropriate parties when required

● Responsible for creating project Weekly Status Reports such as burn-down reports and defect rates for clients and delivery managers.

PROJECT COORDINATOR/SCRUM MASTER 05/2011 to 12/2015 TOPCOMM NG

● Engaged Clients, Business Performance Managers and Program Managers to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams

● Analyzed Requirements and created Use cases, Use Case diagrams, Process Flows, and Activity Diagrams.

● Translated stakeholder requirements into over 10 different tangible deliverables such as functional specifications, user cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow/data model diagrams...

● Worked with technical team members to understand all aspects of the product being developed/produced and the earned value implications of the project

● Determined root cause of problems and issues to implement courses of action required to implement solutions.

● Captured and authored user stories that accurately reflect business requirements

● Provided recommendations and lead discussions with leadership on business gaps in order to provide solutions and implementation plans.

● Incorporated agile methodology and scrum techniques to manage requirements and enhance the evolving applications.

● Set up agile framework for the team to follow and guiding team to have better understanding of agile principles and protocol.

● Facilitated various agile ceremonies for various software projects. Events such as; sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, backlog grooming and release.

● Implemented set of comprehensive tracking processes to monitor project performance.

● Developed long-term business strategy by using customer feedback to identify necessary process improvements.

EDUCATION

Lead City University – BSc.

Mass Communication, 12/2010

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

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