Ade Ogun
***********@*****.***
Summary:
Extensive experience at driving the adoption of agile values, principles and practices.
Leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable.
Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, with a veritable track record of managing complex projects.
Currently seeking a position as a Scrum Master, bringing 5+ years of experience.
Education:
BSC Accounting, Olabisi Onabanjo University (2001)
Masters in Human Resources Management, Strayer University (2013)
Certifications:
Scrum Master Certified (SMC)-International Scrum Institute™
Scrum Fundamentals Certified (SFC)-SCRUMstudy - Accreditation Body for Scrum and Agile
Skills:
Scrum Values & Principles Scrum Master Certified
SDLC Backlog Grooming
Writing User Story Sprint Planning
Conflict Resolution Team Empowerment
Sprint Planning Word,Excel, PowerPoint & Outlook
Agile development & best practices
User stories, manual, continuous integration& automated testing
Agile frameworks - Scrum, Kanban
Quality Assurance
Coaching/Mentoring
JIRA
Sprint Planning
Coaching/Mentoring
Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook
Coaching/Mentoring
Sprint Retro
Technical Proficiencies:
Platforms: Windows 7,Windows 10 & XP
Skills& Tools: SQL, JIRA, HP ALM, SDLC, SharePoint, Confluence&Monday.
Experience:
DEEL Media Advertising & Marketing – Atlanta GA Mar 2018 - Present
Scrum Master
Responsibilities:
Facilitate high complexity Agile initiatives from initiation through release, providing oversight to ensure alignment with Agile/Scrum practices, including but not limited to, project kick-off, sprint, release and deployment planning.
Accountable alongside the scrum team for the achievement of release objectives and results that meet stakeholders’ needs and expectations
Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedules.
Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application.
Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.
Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.
Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.
Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities.
Guided and coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.
Tracked digitally key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders.
Identified and removed team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.
Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.
Develop and execute automated solutions and tools to monitor and support our software development and release processes.
Deploying and configuring services in one or more host data centers and using infrastructure as a service.
Support high end, complex problem management to identify complex problems and develop work around solutions and resolutions.
Created systematic process to measure customer requirements and enhanced the customer satisfaction measurement process.
Created innovative customer scoring algorithm used to rank the customer database.
Worldpay
Scrum Master Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Responsibilities
Organized and facilitated the sprint planning meeting.
Ran stand up meetings facilitate meetings schedule meetings demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
Developed successful flow with scrum team that promoted collaboration, shorter feedback loop.
Minimized dependencies, improving completion ratio, customer satisfaction and team dynamics.
Facilitated scrum ceremonies, and encouraged team to self-organize and cross function to boost productivity.
Helped to constantly motivate the team and keep them excited
Facilitated and mentored the team during all agile ceremonies and continually improve their efficiency
Responsible for Conducting Sprint retrospective meetings
Coordinated with other Scrum Masters across the program to manage risks, issues, and dependencies between teams.
Prepared technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
Created direct channels of communication to software and application developers to get job done .
Communicated progress as required (weekly / monthly status reporting and other enterprise governance exercises / checkpoints), raising risks and issues to Product Owner and other key stakeholders.
Shielded team from external influences not relevant to current sprint work.
Collaborated and coordinated with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Delivery Managers and Domain Managers in a multiple agile team environment.
Facilitated technical discussions with Architects and Developers to resolve technical challenges the team encounters.
Helwan Technologies Inc
Scrum Master Jan 2013 - Nov 2016
Responsibilities
Provided servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, continual improvement, and increasing transparency to the team
Removed impediments/blockers as well as guiding the team on how to resolve impediments independently to keep teams highly productive
Guided new and existing team through the ‘Forming, Storming, Norming and Performance’ stages to reach a high-performance status
Communicates team progress to Product Delivery Managers, Product Owners and other stakeholders
Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without
fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
Ensured that goals, scope, and product domain are understood by everyone on the Scrum Team as well as possible
Facilitated team for better creativity and tries to improve the efficiency of the development team
Encouraged agile behaviors, norms, ceremonies, reinforce practices and supports overall team performance and efficiency
Created an environment that breeds trust and collaboration with others.
Ensured decisions and other constraints affecting delivery were appropriately addressed.
Guided my team on how to get the most out of self-organization and collaboration to meet team goals and product deliverables
Helwan Technologies Inc
Quality Assurance Analyst Jan 2011 - Jan 2013 Project
The Mount Zion Company is a provider of specialized inventory financing and servicing programs to facilitate manufacture distribution and sale of products originating from diverse business/industry sectors. The project was involved with customer online management tools and My Account, which is a collection of various applications that enable the customers to manage their accounts via internet self servicing channel.
Responsibilities and Duties
Requirement study & analysis of the system areas involved functionally and technically.
Designed, developed and executed Test plan, and test cases.
Worked in Agile environment, attended daily stand up meetings, SCRUM meetings.
Part of scrum ceremonies - Concept team, sprint estimation, sprint planning, gathering all the requirements from client, Creation of high-level test scenarios as per acceptance criteria.
Test Execution, Defect reporting & Tracking, and Retest of fixed defects.
Written requirement traceability matrix for requirement coverage & test cases.
Executed SQL queries and joins using TOAD to validate backend data
Managed test case, defects and reports in HP Quality Center (ALM).
Performed Black Box, Manual, Functional, Regression, Integration, System tests and Smoke test for every new deployment.
Worked in coordination with the team to meet the deadlines as per schedule given by client.
Updated Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Results as per the Change Requests given by the client.