BABATUNDE JACOBS

Greensboro, North Carolina

Email: adg4j0@r.postjobfree.com

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A Dynamic and well-seasoned agilest with 7 years IT experience and over 5 years' experience as a Certified Scrum Master helping organizations foster the successful transition from waterfall project implementation to true Agile project implementation.

A demonstrated history in IT and the service industry, gaining an extensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), SAFe and Kanban.

EDUCATION

-Master of Science: Management and Finance 2010

Birmingham City University. Birmingham, England.

-Bachelor of Science: Marketing 2007

Babcock University. Ilishan Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.

CERTIFICATIONS

-Professional Scrum master (PSM)

Skills & Tools

Skills: JIRA Administration, SAFe, Kanban

Tools: Confluence, MS Office, Webex, Jira, MS Project

WORK EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master November 2019 – September 2020, CVS Health, NY

Provided leadership and coaching to ensure the scrum team attains the most value from a self-organized team.

Facilitated agile ceremonies daily stand-up, Sprint planning meeting, retrospectives, Sprint demos, backlog grooming/refinement.

Communicated committed stories for the upcoming sprint to backlog owners and stakeholders

Kept the team focused on daily and iteration goals; and helps achievement with respect to quality, flow and velocity.

Supported the Product Owner with respect to priorities and scope.

Helped team inspect and adapt process through retrospectives tracking and creating a safe, trusting environment with space to grow. Coaching them to higher levels of performance.

Assisted with internal and external communication and improving transparency by creating visible information radiators (burndowns, velocity chart, etc.), dashboards and demos.

Provides metric reports to assist in product roadmap planning

Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution. Observes team interactions and uses emotional intelligence to discuss observations in a safe, trusting environment.

Supported product backlog by participating in release planning discussions.

Supports during execution through understanding of priority and sequencing required to deliver efficiently. Guides team in commitment making and sprint completion.

Created a collaborative team environment, partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous agile improvement

Experienced servant-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive efforts forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities.

Scrum Master December 2017 – October2019

Gilbarco Veeder-Root. Greensboro, Nc

Organize and facilitate Backlog Refinement, Iteration Planning, Daily Stand Up, Iteration Reviews, and Iteration Retrospectives in coordination with the Release Train Engineer.

Participates in Scrum of Scrums (SoS) meeting with RTE and other Scrum Masters to discuss progress towards PI Objectives, forecasting and mitigating dependencies among teams.

Facilitates preparation for Agile Release Train (ART) events and activities such as PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt Workshop.

Work closely with Product Owner on backlog refinement to ensure accurate prioritization of requirements and preparation for PI and Iteration Planning.

Monitors progress of team and sprint using metrics including team capacity, velocity & burn-down charts, using Jira, and Kanban dashboards.

Scrum Master August 2016 – November 2017 Ecolab Kay Chemical. High Point, Nc

Protected the development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog.

Ensured that the teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) are prepared for Program Increment (PI) planning events & commitments coming out of those events.

Helped Development Team to understand the dangers of over-commitments while teaching them to effectively manage backlog items.

Supported development teams via a servant leadership style.

Worked closely with Product Owner in writing user stories.

Created JIRA dashboards to provide project visibility.

Trained teams in Agile Development including the use of ALM tools like JIRA and Confluence.

Scrum Master Freud America Inc. Greensboro, Nc January 2016 – July 2016

Led 2 teams in the release of a mobile application and desktop landing pages for consumer websites.

Liaising between developers and project stakeholders; fostering quality communication between engineering disciplines.

Improved communication between development teams and Collaborate with stakeholders to increase the team's velocity by adopting the lessons learned from each retrospective.

Led the development team on the website upgrade to enhance security on the payment portal.

Facilitates preparation for Agile Release Train (ART) events and activities such as PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt Workshop.

Senior Business Analyst/ Project Manager May 2013 – May 2015 Union Bank Plc

Facilitated professional project management and business analysis training sessions for top executives across several organizations.

Highly accomplished in project management skills including need assessment, resource planning, issue resolution, communication and reporting to external and internal stakeholders.

Assisted QC team to ensure requirements are translated into executable, test plans and strategies.

Alignment of scope process, skill set and KPI with market expectation.

Analyze and assess client requests to create professional presentation of quality deliverables in form of dash boards and reports to provide additional insight to any critical indicators.

Virtually mentored a team of 3 business analyst.

Created and presented accurate estimates of effort, costs and timescales for proposed projects and prioritization

IT Project Coordinator February 2011- April 2013 Staples Advantage Plc. Birmingham, England

Worked with systems analysts, software designers and programmers to determine the best methods to achieve the projects objectives.

Executes and guides project operations through the use of systems development and project management methodologies accepted by the industry.

Evaluates and reports progress in terms of quality and performance metrics common to IT projects.

Works with client departments to coordinate systems testing, installation, training and support.

Maintain project calendars and modifies schedules as required.

Works with client departments to coordinate systems testing, installation, training and support.

Monitors and reports project status

Reviews the team’s work products and participates in staff performance evaluation.

SENIOR FINANCIAL ANALYST March 2010 – February 2011

Staples Advantage Plc. Birmingham, England

Provide daily & monthly key financial reporting

Prepare daily accounting reports & roll forwards

Monthly close responsibilities include posting journal entries and account reconciliations

Execute quantitative analyses on category and customer level sales and margin to produce actionable insights

Manage customer rebate process

Support balance sheet reviews and schedules requested by Corporate

Provide continued improvement to current process/reporting

Miscellaneous Ad hoc financial analysis and reporting

Keeps informed of technical and managerial advances in IT.

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