Foluso Adewumi

adeik2@r.postjobfree.com 919-***-****

**** **** **** **** *** 610, Durham, NC 27703

SUMMARY

SAFe Certified Agile Coach, skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline- driven environments. Experienced managing large scale software development projects. Demonstrated ability to coach, lead & organize multiple scrum teams.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Conflict Resolution

Agile Methodologies

Business Analysis

Quality Assurance

Cost Analysis

Risk Mitigation

Project Management

SKILLS

Jira

Confluence

MS Project, MS Access, MS Suites, MS Visio

Python, SQL

SAP, Oracle

.Net

Oracle Server 2010,

JavaScript, VP Script

HTML, CSS, XML

Zoho

EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Opw Fuel Management Systems Smithfield, NC July 2016 - Current

Encourage Agile behaviors, reinforcing practices, norms, ceremonies, and supporting the overall Squad performance and effectiveness.

Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices .

Maintain and update the team's process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and transparent communications to stakeholders.

Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.

Enables close cooperation across all roles & functions within the team & outside stakeholders.

Identify and remove team's impediments to enhance productivity.

Ensures Agile processes are understood and followed.

Collaborate with product owner on backlog grooming to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized.

Identify team improvement opportunities and looking externally for best practices to support continuous improvement.

Drive a collaborative and supportive team culture through team building and engagement practices.

Scrum Master

Concentrix Technologies Morrisville, NC June 2013 - June 2016

Ensured all work is tracked in the backlog and properly balanced across team members.

Managed and coordinated logistics for Agile ceremonies and practices, e.g., backlog maintenance, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Communicated with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues.

Proactively communicated any risks, design and quality issues, or increases in scope/time required to ensure projects remained on track.

Worked with Chief Scrum Masters across four sites to prepare for and facilitate potentially shippable increment planning sessions.

Facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospective, sprint and release planning.

Business Analyst /Scrum Master

Method Savvy LLC Durham, NC March 2010 - May 2013

Identified business trends and compiled analysis reports that are delivered to developers.

Implemented a comprehensive management plan for each project and held regular stakeholder meetings to keep all interested parties updated in project progress.

Engaged client to gather software requirements/business rules, and ensure alignment with development teams.

Liaised between business and technical personnel to ensure a mutual understanding of processes and applications

Deployed new software baselines to develop, test and train in pre-production and production environments.

Improved process automation end-user knowledge, producing documentation on protocols, system modifications and programming flows.

Quality Assurance Analyst / Software Tester

Amcor Rigid Plastics Youngsville, NC March 2008 - February 2010

Conducted test strategy patterns with analysts and developers.

Worked with off-site teams to complete timely tests and facilitate smooth product releases.

Performed data verification using SQL queries.

Created Quality Assurance timelines, milestone documents, assignment sheets and status reports.

Assisted development team with unit testing on various initiatives.

Project Manager

Technical & General Hammersmith, London February 2006 - March 2008

Monitored team progress and enforced deadlines.

Aligned project specifications, schedules and phase deliverables across all teams, members and external parties to ensure conformance with user needs and client requirements.

Communicated with clients, delivering timely and relevant status updates.

Completed thorough risk assessments and deployed management and response strategies to prevent roadblocks.

Mitigated production issue risks by identifying potential problems and taking effective action.

Oversaw adherence to project timelines and budget constraints.

Identified source of issues to plan and initiated correct courses of action and remediation.

Sustained safety protocol, ensuring cost-effective and safe handling equipment and material usage while adhering to OSHA regulations and MSDS documents.

Interacted with clients to provide timely and relevant status updates.

Assessed potential cost overruns by monitoring production expenditures.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Graduate Degree: Geographical Information System

College of The North Atlantic New Foundland

Bachelor of Science: Agronomy

University of Ibadan Nigeria

CERTIFICATIONS

SAFe 4.6

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Intermediate Oracle

TerraSync Trimble GPS Certified

Association for Project Management (APM)

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