Scrum Project Coordinator

Adefunke elewode, psm, SaFe

Phone: 469-***-**** • Email: adcmom@r.postjobfree.com • Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/ in/adefunke-e-a79332182

SUMMARY

An agile enthusiast with 5 years of experience as a scrum master with a leading high-profile in the agile and lean work space. I have helped, coach and supported multiple scrum and Kanban teams, delivering products increment in a timely manner with successful numbers of software releases. I have amazing impediment resolution skills; with capability of bringing visibility to projects progress. I keep my teams focused on delivering success and adding value to the business. I am seeking an organization where I can contribute to building a mindset and a culture of continuous improvement. My main focus is creating successful teams with strong skills in self-organization and cross-functionality and a drive for continuous improvement.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Coaching/Mentoring

Conflict Resolution

Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure

Cloud Automation

Conflict Resolution

Emotional Intelligence

SAFe

Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

EXPERIENCE

CitiGroup (Kinetix Solution) Technical Scrum Master II June 2018– Present

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

Coach product owners; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding.

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

Help scrum teams and management remove identified impediments and minimize distractions to support the development team’s sprint goals. Identify and remove roadblocks to teams working progress.

Utilize JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.

Participate in Scrum of Scrums to raise team impediments and coordinate dependencies with other teams within Agile Release train.

Coach team to implement Pair Programming for the effectiveness of data migration to cloud

Successfully helping Scrum team transition from waterfall into scrum framework.

Identify and removed team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.

Facilitate crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize

PNC Scrum Master Apr. 2015 – June 2018

Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings with Scrum teams and stakeholders.

Ensured development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Facilitated user story estimation workshops using Planning Poker technique.

Communicated team overall progress by tracking burn down/burn up metrics, velocity and productivity.

Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.

Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders.

Utilized Kanban task board to visualize workflow (work in progress) thereby improving productivity.

Coached group of Devops team on important of Pair Program, which enable each person within the team to have some level of experience to perform all the assigned tasks.

Used Jira to track team progress and delivery performance.

Helped scrum teams and management remove identified impediments and minimize distractions to support the development team’s sprint goals.

Ensured outcome of retrospectives was-implemented towards continuous team improvement.

Coached Scrum teams on how to create clear and concise User Stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.

Ericsson – Project Coordinator/Scrum Master May 2012 – Apr. 2015

Facilitated daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, user workshops and removed impediments to development team progress.

Created and developed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Change Controls, tracked progress of error resolution, assisted in research, performed system analysis, created data mappings, and presented to all levels of leadership within the organization.

Shield the team from outside distractions, context switching and interference

Participated in and supported capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers.

Lead daily aspects of all assigned projects including, process definition, goal documentation, issue management, user acceptance testing, vendor management, and project deliverables.

Process mapped operations that identified redundancies, manual processes and backlogs that improved efficiency of departments and service levels.

Developed ad hoc reports using tools like MS-SQL and Excel.

EDUCATION

University of North Texas • Bachelor’s in Business Management

CERTIFICATION

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) • PSM 1

Scaled Agile (SAFe®) • SAFe 4.6

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Agile Tools: Jira, Version One, TFS

Software: MS Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, SharePoint, Visio, MS Project

Databases: SQL Server, FileNet, SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows Server, UNIX, Mac OS, Linux, AWS cloud, Azure, Openshift

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