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ANU OGUNYEMI, BS, CSM

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Anu is an astute servant leader (Scrum master) with diverse progressive experience in project management, business development and client services.

She prides herself with a consistent track record of improving process standards and solving complex business problems, leveraging Agile Methodologies practices to ensure team members achieve peak individual performance while successfully delivering astounding cost-effective results.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with over 5 years of experience with proven ability to manage cross-functional teams in Finance, Banking and Retail domains. Equipped with technical & soft skills to scale experience into other project domains.

Experience in working with different Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) forms like Agile strategies, Scrum-Ban (Hybrid), Scrum, SAFe and knowledge on Crystal, and Spiral Model

Skilled scrum master with excellent understanding on Scrum processes, Scrum roles and Scrum Artifacts

Mastered the art of facilitating time boxed Scrum ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives ensuring timely completion and delivery of the project to the client

Experience with widely agile techniques: User stories, TDD, Continuous Integration, continuous Testing, Pair Programming and Automated Testing.

Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management within the organization

Used different Retrospective Techniques like Silent Writing, Mad Sad Glad, Star game, one Word and ESVP to inspect the Sprint process and adapt to the procedure that would increase the productivity of the teams

Conducted story writing session according to (INVEST) criteria, worked in managing Product Backlog and experienced in writing User stories.

Partnered with the Product Owner in keeping the Backlog groomed

Partnered with other Scrum Masters to ensure cross-team coordination, identify and solve dependencies.

Deep understanding of the business processes to facilitate data governance and influence the diverse stakeholders.

Used JIRA for tracking sprint progress, user story writing, backlog management, issue tracking, user story management and requirement traceability matrix and generated status reports.

Good Documentation and Process Management.

Exceptional interpersonal, presentation, and effective communication

Impeccable analytical and problem-solving skills

Technical Skills

Management Tools

JIRA, Rally, Confluence

Development Methodologies

Agile, SAFe, Scrum, Scrum-Ban

Frameworks

Scrum, XP, Kanban Principles

CRM

Salesforce, MS Project, SharePoint,

Office Tools

MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Ms Visio, One Note

Operating Systems

Windows 7/8/10/ Vista/XP, Unix, Linux

Communication Tools

WebEx, Zoom, Skype for business, Microsoft Teams

Web Application Development

HTML, JavaScript, XML

Databases

SQL Server, Hadoop, Cloud database,

Professional Experience

Wells Fargo Bank Dallas TX

Scrum Master (Project Lead) March 2017 – Present

Project Scopes: To provide enhancement App features to Wells Fargo customers. The project aimed at building software that would facilitate viewing of multiple account balances, statements, pending transactions and cancelled transactions, tracking deposits, transfer of funds between accounts, transfer history and maintenance of customer profile, alerts.

To enhance the website that would enable the customers to login and access the current, savings and fixed deposit accounts. The application would provide the account summary, facility to transfer funds between different accounts and online bill payment.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Facilitate Backlog grooming, sprint planning, Daily stand up, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings using Agile Methodology

Work closely with product owner and development team on Wells Fargo’s DMAN (Deployment Management and Notifications) application which provides enterprise scheduling and notification capability for technical infrastructure initiatives.

Protected team from over-commitment, worked with Product Owner to manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs

Use Confluence to maintain project related documents to track overall project status, documenting daily updates, documentation related to components currently being developed.

Tracked the team’s progress (burn down, velocity, and release forecast) and present reports for the upper management

Participated in scrum of scrum to share team celebration items and come up with suggestions to improve team’s quality work

Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 15% and the quality of deliverables by 25% by empowering teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality

Proactively helped the team identify and resolve impediments and shields team from interruptions on daily basis during the Sprint

Evaluated and assessed team performance relative to Agile principles, evaluated and assessed existing Agile processes, ceremonies, techniques and methods in the spirit of continuous improvement, value delivery and establishment of Agile standards and best practices

Provided guide to assist the teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the definition of Done (DoD)

Worked with team in using XML Web Services to convert from project application to web application

Worked with other scrum masters to identify and resolve dependencies

Ensured team members update stories to the right column on Jira board as needed

Helped remove impediments and ensured team is not over loaded with work during the sprint

Ensured that all user stories have an Acceptance criterion, Work ID, Epic and a good description of business requirement in the user story

Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget

Fostered open communication forum to form cross team working environment and created team-building opportunities

Used JIRA Query Language extensively to view status at sprint level, team level and team member level.

Identify, manage and escalate delivery issues and risk to management as needed

Build relationships and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure delivery of commitments.

Ensure projects are being documented appropriately to mitigate risk and to be delivered on time.

Prepare and keep project documentation such as daily reports, EMV reports, meetings minutes, etc.

Environment: Waterfall, UML, MS Visio, MS Access, MS Office, SQL Server, Visual Studio, MS Office Mock-up screen, JIRA, IBM Cognos.

Kohls Dallas TX

Scrum Master Sept 2014 - Mar 2017

Store Enhancement

Project scope: The scope of the project was to take daily inventory count of the store, using a tablet directly connecting to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and introduced ability of store users to edit orders on the order call day till the order cutoff time from within the Legacy application.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Coached teams through Agile routines and ceremonies including Iteration Planning, Backlog Refinement, Retrospective, and Product Demo - transitioning responsibility to the team over time.

Conducted Stand-up every morning and projected Burndown chart to findout where we stand in terms to finish our current iteration.

Involved in issue Tracking and Defect Tracking using Cloud JIRA tool.

Led and facilitated project meetings and presentation to leadership

Analysed client’s business requirements and process through analysis, workshops, and workflow

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

Worked with developers, architects and the QA team to ensure comprehension and feasibility of requirements.

Continually assessed project needs and resources to complete projects on time and within budget

Guided projects to completion on time, within scope, and on budget.

Ensuring the consistent quality and on-time delivery of a variety of projects.

Proactively communicated with stakeholders, sponsors and Project Teams to maintain project alignment

Empowered and assured the team is productive and functional

Utilized Jira to build dashboards and generated all necessary reports to include Burndown and Burnup charts for use as information radiators to aide in transparency, inspection and adaptation.

Used Kanban board to improve communication and transparency

Conducted velocity driven Planning and capacity driven planning in sprint planning to track the performance of the teams.

Used different Performance metrics to track the performance of the teams on Cloud JIRA.

Environment: DAD Framework, Agile (Scrum), Kanban, Rally, MS Visio, Just in Mind, MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint), Confluence, JIRA cloud, GCP(Google Cloud Platform), MS outlook, Sharepoint

Personal Banker

Wells Fargo Bank, Irving, TX July 2011- August 2014

Roles & Responsibilities:

Sold retail banking products and services to customer and prospects.

Provided broad base of financial and credit services with the goals of acquiring 100% of the customers business

Resolved clients' inquiries regarding bank account balances, documentation, and general product or service information

Provided outstanding customer service experience leading to customer's quality referrals

Worked closely with multiple departments to increase branch value for clients and ensure financial activities are in compliance with banking regulations

Educated customers on various products and services available to them. Help customers understand self-service bank technologies

EDUCATION

B.S in Business Administration- Auburn University of Montgomery, AL

Major: Business Management and Minor in Human Resource

License & Certifications: Certified Scrum Master- Scrum Alliance

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