Oladipupo Ayeni

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SUMMARY

Experienced Scrum Master with over 5+ years experience in strategizing and leading cross-functional teams to bring about essential change and improvement in strategy, process, and product delivery. Servant leader with effective communication problem solving, and facilitation skills.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology.

BSc. Chemical Engineering (Nov 2009)

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

Scrum Master Accredited Certification (SMAC).

SKILLS

Scrum, Agile, Coaching, Facilitation Manifesto, Epic, Quality Assurance, SDLC, Software Requirements, Data Analysis, Tableau, Scaling, Pair Programming, Continuous Integration, Jira, Trello, Version One, User Stories, Unit Test, Kanban, Epic, INVEST Model, SDLC, Testing, Coding, Increment, Stakeholder Management, Leadership, MS Office, Communication, Lean, PBI, Quality Assurance, Defect Management, Scaling, SAFE, Metrics, Information Radiators, Continuous Improvement, Retrospectives, Cycle, Code Review, Cadence, Values, Database, Retail Management, POS Systems, Vendor Management

WORK EXPERIENCE

LANCASTER FOODS

Scrum Master Jan 2018 – Dec 2019

Responsibilities

Oversees scrum process and coaches the teams on how to use scrum and Agile practices and methodology.

Facilitates transparency, inspection, and adaption.

Lead daily scrums, sprint reviews, and planning meetings to ensure full team engagement with a focus on growing the capabilities by all team members.

Manages inter dependencies between agile teams.

Works with the Product Owners to support short and long-term release planning, and to keep work backlog healthy and prepared for execution.

Shields the teams from external interference to enable optimal functionality and productivity.

Anticipates and addresses potential or actual impediments to team delivery (cultural barriers, logistic challenges).

Coaches multiple service delivery agile teams on the use of Kanban.

Focuses on increasing the skill and understanding of Agile practices and values across all interactions.

BK Enterprises

Scrum Master Dec 2017 - Jan 2018

Responsibilities

Facilitated / participated in key Scrum practices and teams.

Managed projects and facilitated scrum practices using team collaboration tools.

Maintained communication between the Product Manager, development staff, and leadership updating them on project progression, issues within the team and process, and/or the agile process progress.

Monitored and tracked development performance metrics to benefit the team.

Assessed the Scrum maturity of the team and organization and coached the team to higher levels of maturity.

Coached on Scrum/Agile processes and gave feedback to individuals and teams.

Actively participated on assigned work, fulfilling task assignments, meeting deadlines, and proactively seeking attainment of team goals.

Managed individual projects and portfolio of projects across multiple teams.

Ensured full compliance with all policies, standards and procedures.

Worked closely with product management, development team, and various departments to ensure successful delivery of projects.

VELVET HILL LTD

Scrum Master Feb 2014 - Nov 2017

Responsibilities

Facilitated agile ceremonies, daily Scrum stand up, grooming and planning, and group communication to ensure successful outcomes.

Facilitated discussion, decision making, conflict resolution, and getting work to “done” without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work.

Worked with Product, Engineering, and Professional Services Teams to ensure continuous improvement, sustainable pace, best practices, and iterative delivery of customer- and business-centric value.

Minimized overhead and interruptions to the team.

Improved value delivery, predictability, and productivity of product teams through coaching and process improvement.

Tracked team process and success using metrics that promote stability, continuous improvement, understanding, team morale, and delivery of quality software.

Removed impediments that inhibit the team from self-organizing and delivering.

Defined and implemented tracking and reporting to make product delivery transparent to stakeholders.

Defined and implemented metrics to help software development teams measure success and identify problems.

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