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Monisola Dare

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PROFESIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished and fully dedicated certified scrum master with 7+ years of experience and advocate of the Agile Mindset. Highly proficient and experienced in working in Agile, Scrum, and Lean–Kanban environment. Responsible for guiding the planning, tracking, and day to day activities of Web development teams for many $1 billion retail companies during their transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.

A fully committed servant-leader capable of delivering large scale software and Web development projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching multiple Scrum teams. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum rules, removing impediment, and fostering self–management. Ability to effectively utilize problem solving skill to ensure an iterative and incremental process approach to software development in order to optimize predictability and control risk

Always focused on stretching goals, creating energy, and fostering enthusiasm. An ability to change dynamically while frequently checking and demonstrating project management trends. Always staying ahead of agile trends and best practices through reaching out to industry experts and professionals while keeping the team focused and delivering success in a rapidly evolving and dynamic environment.

Core Competencies

Excellent Communicator

Maximizing Business value

Servant Leader

Jira, Confluence, Data Entry, SharePoint, Rally VersionOne, Word, Excel, Access Outlook, OneNote and Power-Point,

Good conflict resolution

Flexibility and Persistence

Introducing Best software Engineering Practices

Organization and Empathy

Scrum processes and Scope Development

Scrum and Agile proficiency

Financial Modeling, Planning, and Forecasting

Experienced in transitioning teams from waterfall to agile

Agile Estimation & Planning

Enforcing Scrum Principles

Facilitator

Coaching Agile best practices

Removing Impediments

Customer Requirements analysis

Planning and problem solving with product management and delivery teams

WORK EXPERIENCE

Macy’s Inc, Duluth, GA February 2018 - Present

Scrum Master

Facilitated the teams’ development of the Macys mobile app, a way of allowing our customers to access the Macys website including their customer information, and enhancing our mobile app with the focus of investing in regrouping the entire application to make the whole thing faster and easier for customer to use.

Getting Team to high performing level by recognizing areas of strength and improvement and employing appropriate coaching and development techniques

Responsible for ensuring Scrum is understood and the Team adheres to Scrum theory

Resolving team impediments with other Scrum Master to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.

Facilitating and support all Scrum events; Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives

Protecting Development team from outside distractions, impediment or team conflicts, maintaining focus on product backlog and project timeline

Assisting with internal and external communication, improved transparency and radiated information

Communicating with other management engineers, product managers and support specialist on product issues

Meeting goals of addressing and resolving issues within 24hrs

Directing and leading Development team from project initiation through the delivery to the final product

Educating and reinforcing Scrum Methodology and Agile framework to team member and key stakeholders

Creating an energy and enthusiasm in the team ensuring there is an absolutely conducive environment for the Development team to work

Helping Product Owner maximizing productivity by monitoring the backlog and release plan

Ensuring that the Development teams keeps to five values of scrum which are courage, focus, commitment, respect openness among themselves

Guiding and coaching the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our customers

Building relationship with Product Owner and other stakeholders to facilitate team’s interaction with them

Helping the Teams to understand the need for clear and concise Product Backlog Items; understand the product planning in an Empirical Environments

Helping Teams to solve problems rather than providing solution

Tracking and Monitoring by effective communication with the team’s velocity and Sprint/Release progress to all affected teams and management

Coca Cola Enterprises, Atlanta, GA June 2017 – December 2017

Scrum Master

Facilitated the team on support of Coca-Cola Freestyles Soda Dispenser which creates an engaging way to make custom drink mixes and give consumers more control and personalization via their smartphones. The team worked on enhancing the experience with an application that allows users to save mixes, share them on social media, and receive special offers for coke products.

Responsible for guiding the planning, tracking, and day to day activities of development teams during the transition from waterfall to Agile methodologies.

Successfully migrated more than 20 projects from waterfall to Scrum within short periods

Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure the smooth adoption

Facilitated Scrum of the Scrum for offshore teams in Indian

Organized and facilitated Sprint planning, Daily stand up meetings, Sprint Review, Retrospectives, Release planning, Demos and other Scrum related meetings

Identified and reconcile errors in client data to ensure accurate business requirements

Managed project through status meetings, weekly reports

Identified risk and tracking issues

Delivered cost effectives, High performance technology solutions

Negotiated and liaised between business team, technology teams and support teams

Helped to promote and support Scrum as defined in the Scrum guide

Ensured that the goal, scope and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible

Coached the Development Team in organization environments in which Scrum is not yet fully adopted and understood

Planned Scrum implementations within the organization

Helped employee and stakeholders understand and enact Scrum and empirical products developments.

Caused change that increases the productivity of the Scrum Team

Instructed and modelled core Agile principle of collaborations, team accountability and visibility, ensured consistent application of Scrum methodology across the enterprise

First City Monument Bank, Lagos, Nigeria March 2013 – January 2015

Scrum Master

Facilitated my teams’ development of an application called Business to Customers online mobile banking app which provides the use of a token device (OTP –One Time Password) in other to enhance security.

Conducted technical training session regarding Agile development.

Ensure the techniques for effective product backlog management.

Ensure an optimized outcome of retrospective analysis.

Lead and coached the development team and the organization of Scrum adoption.

Facilitated communication and information exchange between external group and development teams.

Ensure that the lives agile value and principles, followed the process and practices that the team agreed they will use.

Established an environment where the team could be effective.

Acted as referee in escalated internal and external disputes that heavily impacted the teams.

Helped the development team with my internal authority to improve the internal process to become more self-organized and self-contained, to become value driving, in essence, a well-formed team.

Acted as the conscience of the team, especially when it comes to the team value, so that behaviors can be modulated.

Flourish Global Clothier- Nigeria January 2010 – February 2013

Business Analyst

Performed monthly compilation of salaries, also worked on budgeting and forecasting on a monthly basis, analysis om marketing and research, handled customers complaints, and educated the team on the shared products, requirements analysis, requirement management, and feedback derived from communication with the customers.

Responsible for specification, implementation and analytics.

Evaluated products and trends to understand competitive environments and assess current strategies

Communication and training saving the company on average $300/month.

Created and improved intelligence resources to facilitate consistency.

Execute and Validate test cases

Served customers by running and viewing reports

Facilitated creation of collaboration of plan and the Team Building plan

Ensured back –up resources available for smooth project function

Modification of business system or IT system

Interacted with the business stakeholders and subject matter expert in order to understand their problems and needs.

Analyzed business needs and requirements

Worked with development team during the whole implementation process to make sure the client needs are satisfied

Elaborated the details the of the projects, understanding the requirements of the business

Discovered and determined the underlined and fundamental courses for system failures

Accessed business needs, models and integrated the whole organization with modern technology.

Preparation for and conduct business analysis, documented and presented analysis and modelling results and transferred knowledge to application/database developers and management.

Evaluated business process, anticipated requirement and uncovering areas for improvement

Led ongoing review reviews of business process and developed optimization strategies.

Verified, recorded and gathered the business requirements and information technology

Created and developed a good confidence and assurance with development team so that uncertainty, doubt and worries could be dealt with and well discussed in detail before the implementation process proceeds.

Acted as a liaison and link between the management, stake holder, development team and end users

Facilitated identification, assessment and escalation for problems and changes request

Ensured that goals, scope and product domain are understood by the development team as well as possible.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

SAFe Agilist (SA) – In progress

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification

Federal Polytechnic, Nigeria

Bachelor of Science

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