Emikele Agboola

Leander, Tx. ***** 214-***-**** adct06@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Experienced Scrum Master / SAFe and Kanban with more than 9 years of experience in system implementation, program management, and experience managing software development project with a proven track record of working large project and delivering high-quality software, on-time and within budget. Proven history of Lean-Agile, TDD, BDD, Iteration, PI, ART, delivering high-quality software on-time and within budget. Over 10 years of experience in leading projects, planning, mentoring, and coaching Scrum teams through different methodology, with strong verbal and written communication, conflict resolution skills, with great collaborative skill, and experience working with external and internal cross-functional stakeholders on projects with over 20 team members and 5 scrum team(s). I lead cross-functional teams to iteratively deliver complex and global-scaled products. I facilitate and manage the success of each iteration, PI, ART, and challenge my teams to refine processes to increase efficiencies and deliver well-polished, working software at every iteration.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master.

Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

Data analysis and data visualization

Evangelist of agile/scrum principles and methodology.

Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.

SAFe with knowledge of PI, ART, continuous integration, continuous Testing, user stories, and automating testing

WORK HISTORY

IT Project Manager Consultant Scrum master

Pathway Vets Alliance (Contract)

October 2019 – Present

Provide project management, prioritization, direction, and leadership to team members in order to accomplish defined project deliverables.

Develop project scope, goals, budgets, objectives, schedule, and communication plans that align with defined business strategy.

Overseeing project & resource planning and the implementation of Agile/Kanban based execution within two teams.

Collaborate with the Product Owners and team members to give input and support to the strategic direction of the initiative.

Creating self-organizing agile teams and facilitates the delegation of tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team members. Acts as a moderator for sprint planning, daily standups, sprint demos, and refactoring/reflection sessions.

Ensure appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team’s velocity and productivity

Participating in PI planning, System Demo, Scrum of Scrum, ART Sync and Agile Community of practice.

Organize and facilitate Story Grooming (user stories), Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives and other Scrum-related meetings

Ensure that development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and progress visibility

Project Manager/Scrum master

Strive Dental Management

April 2019 – September 2019

Partner with Product owner to prioritize sprint backlog. Partner with development teams to deliver project objectives through iterative delivery by offering expertise in addressing blockers and dependencies.

Collaborate with user communities and project teams for seamless QA activities including UAT. Contribute to continuous improvement and drive product quality and engineering velocity, perform peer to peer coaching, training and mentoring to improve process competencies

Planned and monitored project spending/budgeting, and guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.

Create Agile communication plan to support the team's understanding and communicating performance and effectiveness.

Leads agile teams as the scrum master and team member and employ best practices for Agile Methodology/Scrum Framework

Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown for four software programs.

Forecast daily sprint, and sprint iteration with team.

Scrum Master EPIC System

Prime Healthcare System

October 2018 – March 2019

Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.

Work closely with product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features for Epic software development and implementation

Facilitate daily sprint, sprint review, retrospect, and Agile release training.

Direct, coach, and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product in agile process and tools.

Guide and coach scrum team on Scaled Agile framework to meet business expectations and exceed customer expectations.

Build and maintain effective collaborative relationships within the team and among stakeholders.

Used Jira, Teamwork, and WebEx for communication, as teams were co-located.

Assistant Director RCM Data Visualization

Dallas Nephrology Associate

October 2017 – October 2018

Analyze and define data to assist in delivering optimal healthcare management and decision making.

Using data quality to drive operational excellence, achieve administrative needs, and goals to meet customer requirement.

Understanding of both internal and external data warehousing.

Utilizing different data sources for analyzing vendor contract management.

Using Tableau to Convert data from EPIC EHR into usable information that is easy to understand.

Developed reports use for presentations, design development, and process models.

Communicate analytical insights to management for proper documentation and presentation.

Assist in data creation and database standardization in the marketing lead funnel.

Responsible for data scraping, analyzing marketing campaigns and programs against defined KPIs, and helping marketing operations create dashboards and reports that lead to actionable insights and recommendations on how the team can improve.

Work closely with the marketing team leads, sales operations, sales, and other key GTM functions.

Provider Network Manager EVV Project

Molina Healthcare of Texas

April 2015 – October 2017

Increased transparency for providers on Molina products like Medicare A, B, and D, Medicaid, MMP, Market place, Star-plus, and long-term care by serving as an information resource.

Mentor and coach teams (including the Product Owner) in Agile practices and mindset to foster a growth mindset and spirit of continuous improvement and learning

Identify and resolve impediments and roadblocks that hinders team progress whether internal or external to the team

Work alongside Product Owners to refine and groom the product backlog, forecast sprint iterations, and resolve team/stakeholder conflicts

Ensure effective communication within the teams and influence/facilitate the empowerment of self-organizing teams

Schedule and facilitate cross-functional meetings

Ensure appropriate progress tools, information radiators, and reports effectively provide transparency on team’s velocity and productivity

Work with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum

Trident USA

Project Supervisor System Development

September 2014 – March 2015

Manage a variety of project cross functional team

Assist with Project life cycle from initiating, planning, execution, monitoring, and closing

Planned over 4 projects from project charter, scopes, scheduling, task distribution, all the way to implementation

Participated in the building/developing of Telcor system as the primary UAT tester.

Assist in writing test case and participate in system integration testing

Scrum Master

Legend Healthcare Inc.

April 2007 – April 2014

Worked with the scrum teams to facilitate, educate, and coach them on the Agile Scrum framework

Inspired management to adopt new processes and improvements based on program retrospectives.

Provided support in delivering effective programs through collaboration with cross-functional teams to enhance productivity and improve agile/Kanban methodologies.

Successfully facilitated two Scrum teams and a Kanban team simultaneously.

Motivated and led workforce with emphasis on quality and on-time delivery of projects to accomplish business aim and enhance operational excellence.

Successfully transitioned a Waterfall team to Agile methodology.

Created team-building opportunities, developed learning solutions aligned with business outcomes for all levels of employees and ensured employee performance improvement.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

Education:

Western Governor University, Salt Lake City, UT: MBA, Healthcare Management

University of Phoenix, Dallas, TX: Bachelor of Science, Business Administration

Certification:

Scrum Alliance: Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scaled Agile, Inc: Certified SAFe 5 Agilist

PMI: PMP Training

University of California, Davis: Data visualization with Tableau

Professional Development: Certified Medical Revenue Manager (CMRM)

Technical Proficiencies:

SQL, SaaS, Emdeon, InstaMed, Allscripts, MS (Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Cerner, Epic, Relay(change system) Meditech, Echo Credentialing System, HL7, Emptoris, Cactu, QNXT, Tableau, Power BI, Gantt chart, Waterfall, Agile, Kanban, Lean, SDLC, SAFe, and Scrum Master.

PM Tools: JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, Trello, Vivifyscrum, Smartsheet, Teamwork, MS project management, Marketo, Salesforce, and Dynamic CRM

The Senior Scrum Master leads teams through work actio

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