OLUWASANMI M. AKINLEYE, MBA, BSc, CSM, SA https://www.linkedin.com/in/oluwasanmi-akinleye-285798a6/

202-***-**** adhumf@r.postjobfree.com Open to Relocation

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Versatile and experienced Scrum Master/Agile Coach with a knack for problem-solving and a proven track record of delivering high-quality large-scale software and web development projects, on time and within budget. I am result oriented with excellent communication, interpersonal and team management skills with superb leadership skills as a servant leader. An expert in establishing collaboration amongst self-organized and cross-functional teams, managing risk while maintaining focus on strategic goals.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Hands-on experience of agile frameworks such as; Scrum, Kanban, SAFe® 5.0, Lean, and eXtreme Programming.

Working knowledge with development teams to implement the CALMR concept of DevOps and 4 dimensions of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline Continuous Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and Release on Demand.

Excellent understanding of agile principles and practices such as XP (CI, Test First; TDD, ATDD, Refactoring, Pair Programming, Collective Code Ownership, etc.,

Experience coaching agile mindset shift and behaviors across multiple scrum teams including Senior Leadership.

Experience in collaborating with stakeholder to manage their expectations and engaging them to address project issues.

Experience working with agile collaborating tools like Jira, Confluence, Rally and VersionOne.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Sandy Spring Bank, Olney, MD

January 2020 to current

Facilitates the scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews/Demo and Retrospectives.

Responsible for establishing disciplined, effective agile teams which embrace and exhibit the agile mindset and culture by instructing the team or teams in agile principles and practices.

Constantly developing collaborative working relationships with multiple levels of functional managers, and steering committees with a focus on scaling agile within the organization.

Partners with the Scrum Teams and Product Owners to maintain and refine the program backlog using WSJF.

Helps leadership understand associated continuous integration, continuous delivery (CICD) implications and the structure required to sufficiently support the software development.

Responsible for guiding teams on the first principle of Agile Coaching in working software delivery.

Coaches teams and business on how to adopt the Agile Manifesto, Principles and SAFe Principles.

Works in conjunction with Scrum Teams and other stakeholders to deliver Data Lake projects.

Coaches scrum teams and clients on how to effectively groom user stories; ensure they are well defined, well written and properly formatted (The Who, What, Why) and as per Definition of Ready.

Coaches the teams on the best practices of DevOps and Release on Demand (Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Release on Demand, thereby automating the Continuous Delivery pipeline and decoupling Deployments from Releases, enabling Dark Launches and Canary Releases.

Coaches teams and business on how adopt the Five Core Competencies of Lean Enterprises (Lean Portfolio Management, Business Solutions and lean Systems Engineering, DevOps and Release on Demand, Team and Technical Agility and Lean Agile Leadership), resulting in better agility and value creation for the business.

Assists the Product Owner in populating the product backlog using DEEP concept base business value.

Works with Product Owner to create the product roadmap and schedule releases per business value.

Collaborates with Product Owner and team to decompose Features into stories, size the stories with Fibonacci, determine the capacity and load the iterations based on the capacity.

Fosters strong spirit of communication and collaboration between teams to align program goals, deliver final products, and ensure leadership transparency to impediments and progress.

Facilitates sprint loading, release planning and collaboration between development and product teams to ensure team is consistently on a continuous improvement plan.

Effectively leverages and combines different industry standard scaling concepts to specific business problems in a manner that best supports scaled agile values and principles, as well as the companies Vision and Values.

Helps drive the Lean User Experience (UX) innovation cycle and 3-Tier Architecture: Database, User Interface and Wireframe.

Works within deadlines with UX teams on rapid iteration cycles in pursuit UX perfection.

Protects team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of major initiatives.

Effectively leverages and combines different industry standard scaling concepts to specific business problems in a manner that best supports scaled agile values and principles, as well as the companies Vision and Values.

Objectively informs/assists leadership in a non-biased manner to consider highly complex and long-term implications of transformation to self-governing teams; uses a systems view in facilitating impediment removal at the team/program/value stream level.

Works with multiple teams to adopt agile methodology and took them from AMM level 0-3.

Attends Scrum of Scrums (SoS) with other Scrum Masters and RTEs in front of the Program Board to coordinate and resolve dependencies between teams.

Utilizes facilitation techniques such as Liberating Structures to assist multiple approaches to brainstorming and innovation as a means of empowering team members to own their development process and drive change organically from within the team.

Assists RTE to conduct Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop PI System Demo: to show business value, Quantitative Measurement: Program Predictability Measure, Retrospective and Problem-solving Workshop: Agree on the Problem, Apply Root Cause Analysis (5 whys, identify the biggest root cause with Pareto analysis, restate the biggest root cause, brainstorm, and develop improvement of user stories in the program backlog).

Assists the RTE to ensure Organizational Readiness, Content Readiness, Facility Readiness, in preparation for Program Increment (PI) planning.

Works with RTE to facilitate PI planning; using Business Context, Roadmap, Vision and 10 top features to produce synthesized PI Objectives and Program Board that highlights new feature delivery dates, feature dependencies among teams, and with other ARTs and relevant milestones.

Implements the Shu-Ha-Ri technique with the teams so that they understand the Agile mindset and work towards satisfying the customers.

Scrum Master

Transfast Remittance, San Francisco, CA

November 2017 to December 2019

Led two scrum teams to develop a website and mobile application where customer can order prescription medicine and get delivery.

Led two UX development teams on the implementation of Oracle ERP System in the organization.

Worked with UX designers on design thinking concepts and technology driven in digital product innovation, user experience management and digital transformation.

Worked with the UX designers’ team for the development effort during the Sprint in order to create a Done increment.

Helped the SAFe Agile transformation at both team and program level to support the successful

execution and delivery of strategic technology products.

Implemented SAFe agile environments and ensured the team plan for 12 weeks sprints and had their committed goals ready for the SAFe program board.

Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand up meetings, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives.

Coached teams and business on how to adopt the Agile Manifesto, Principles and SAFe Principles.

Worked with Product Owner to create the product roadmap and schedule releases per business value.

Worked with Product Owner and development team to decompose Epics to Features and User Stories.

Assisted Product Owner in backlog refinement in preparation for PI planning and Sprint planning.

Worked in conjunction with Scrum teams and other stakeholders to deliver Data Lake projects.

Led development teams on migration of systems to the AwS environment for business to meet business users’ expectations.

Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on sprint backlog and project timeline.

Articulated stakeholder’s metrics to the scrum teams and accurately reported progress, risks, successes, and failures.

Scrum Master

United Health Group, Baltimore, MD

January 2016 to November 2017

Supported the UX/UI designers that designed frontline & migration of the process of clinical documentation into EHR systems for doctors’ need with the three key features: Usability, Integration and Clinical Kernel

Worked closely with product management in UX ideation and innovation.

Participated in development and maintenance of the company design system to provide examples of core platform components and best practices.

Supported UX development teams on migration of customers data to cloud for contact centers’ use

Supported the UX designers grow their T shaped skills by picking up coding skills beyond design, html and css.

Worked with UI/UX and research teams that developed and maintains the health insurance platform.

Assisted Product Owner in backlog refinement in preparation for PI planning and Sprint planning.

Assisted with making appropriate commitments to deliver business value through user story selection, definition of tasks and estimation.

As a servant leader, contributed to the success of every Sprint by removing impediments while facilitating team openness, communication, and cooperation.

Reporting metrics adequately used to check the health status of the team.

Participated in development and maintenance of the company design system to provide examples of core platform components and best practices.

Reporting metrics adequately used to check the health status of the team.

Facilitated “Lunch and Learn” to discuss Agile related topics and evangelize agile practice in the Kindred Rehab Community of Practice (CoP).

Facilitated Sprint planning with the Product Owner and the team to pull in “ready” user stories into the sprint backlog based on team’s velocity. Task out the user stories and assign hours based on team’s capacity.

Scrum Master

Kokun Integrated Services

December 2013 till September 2015

Successfully migrated the company from waterfall to Agile. Coached several departments within the firm on Scrum events and its values.

Built relationships and partnered with key stakeholders while developing business requirements.

Organized and facilitated release planning, sprint planning, daily stand-up, demos, and retrospectives.

Worked with Product Owner to prioritize and groom User Stories, based on business values, using DEEP concept

Entered prioritized and groomed User Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the Sprint Planning.

Worked with the Product Owner and the cross-functional team to point User Stories, using Fibonacci sequence.

Worked with development team to decompose the user Stories unto tasks and assign hours to the tasks.

Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintained focus on sprint goal and project timeline.

Worked closely with stakeholders, business analysts and Product Owners to strategize on maximizing the company's ROI.

Articulated stakeholder’s metrics to the scrum teams and accurately reported progress, risks, successes, and failures.

Facilitated Sprint Review/Demo with the team and Product Owner, while using inspect and adapt on a product level, where the Product Owner accepts or rejects stories based on the acceptance criteria.

Facilitated Sprint Retrospective with the core team to conduct lessons learned on what went well, what could be improved upon and what did not go well. Used inspect and adapt on the team level for process improvement.

Branch Manager/Business Analyst

Ecobank

August 2004 - November 2013

{Ecobank is an affiliate of ECOBANK TRANSNATIONAL INC, a Pan-African Banking Conglomerate with banking operations in 36 African countries, United Kingdom and France}

Increased branch deposit position from $8.5 Million USD to 17 Million USD in 2013.

Increased branch credit creation portfolio from $6.5 Million USD to $9 Million USD in 2013.

Proposed, developed, managed, and implemented a client based specific product on the system in collaboration with IT department using data and customer preferences drawn from minutes of meeting while signing on the customer. This initiative increased the branch’s deposit by additional $3 Million USD in year 2012 & 2013.

Motivated team during regular meeting sessions staff within the branch in order to achieve branch set targets.

Managed the team that doubled the branch’s balance sheet position from $14 Million USD to $28 Million USD in 2013.

Negotiated the deal that earned the branch the sole correspondence bank with a major customer conglomerate that earned well over $100 Million USD turnover annually.

Managed and developed the Point of Sale Terminal (POS) deployment and WEB Collection strategy for major churches and piloted the implementation with the branch’s major customers before its replication in other churches across the nation by the bank.

Prepared key branch monthly profitability reports for presentation to Executive Management.

Part of the change management team (TOP 100 BRANCH MANAGERS) across the whole affiliates that were change agents in service delivery in Ecobank Group in Africa.

EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS

University of Calabar, Master of Business Administration

Obafemi Awolowo University, Bachelor of Science in Economics (Honors; Second Class)

Scrum Alliance, Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scaled Agile Inc., Certified SAFe® 5.0 Agilist (SA)

Associate Chartered Economist (ACE)

Retail Banking Academy, UK (AIRB I &II)

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