Scrum Software

Elwin B Elliott, PSM *

347-***-**** • ****************@*****.*** • linkedin.com/in/babatunde-elliott-b17a1833 SCRUM MASTER

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

An accomplished servant leader with extensive knowledge of agile principles, values, and practices. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of agile practices, removing team impediments and fostering self-organization. Also, adept at leveraging agile processes with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable. Currently seeking a position as a Scrum Master, bringing 6+ years of experience. HIGHLIGHTS

§ Coaching/Mentoring

§ Servant Leadership

§ Scrum Events Facilitation

§ Conflict Resolution

§ Emotional Intelligence

§ Stakeholder Management

§ Workflow Management

§ Scrum/Kanban

§ Agile Manifesto

§ Burn Down/Burn up charts

§ Team Velocity

§ Backlog Refinement

§ Iteration/Sprint Planning

§ Continuous Improvement

§ Software Development Life

Cycle (SDLC)

§ Process Optimization

§ Bug testing

§ Release Planning

§ SAFe

§ Waterfall

EXPERIENCE

Webspoons - Senior Scrum Master Jan 2020 - Present

• Facilitating team scrum events (daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review, retrospective) and making sure there’s full team engagement.

• Helping the product owner manage the product backlog by making sure that user stories are regularly groomed, prioritized by business value, and are sprint ready.

• Ensuring teams have clearly defined and enforced the Definition of Ready & Definition of Done.

• Identifying and removing impediments to teams' works progress.

• Making sure the team’s work is visible and progress is radiated to the team and key stakeholders using metrics like burn- down, burn-up, team velocity and defect summary reports.

• Shielding the team from interruptions and removes obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product.

• Tracking and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress

• Assisting teams with creating an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality, and speed.

• Participating in Scrum of Scrums to raise team impediments and coordinate dependencies with other teams within the Agile Release train.

• Attending PI Planning to help identify team dependencies, risks, and objectives for the upcoming Program Increment.

• Helping the organizations solve problems rather than providing solutions. Monitored the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable Webspoons - Scrum Master II June 2019 – Dec 2019

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

• Radiated information and ensured that the team's progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders and scrum teams.

• Facilitated discussions and conflict resolution while empowering the team to self-organize.

• Provided all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

• Prevented distractions by identifying and removing impediments.

• Support Product Owner with grooming and maintaining product backlogs.

• Mentored and coached Scrum teams on product backlog estimation and acceptance criteria definition.

• Helped teams to solve problems rather than providing solutions.

• Monitored the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.

• Improved transparency by sharing team progress through Burndown and Team velocity charts. Ocubicles Inc. - Scrum Master Dec 2018 – May 2019

• Facilitated scrum meetings (sprint release planning, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups).

• Collaborated with product owners on developing, updating, prioritizing, and grooming the product backlog.

• Conducted working sessions and planning meetings for User Stories elaboration and decomposition

• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team member to focus on the sprint goals and deliverables.

• Ensured timely updates by regularly communicating project status and progress to management and executives.

• Coach team on making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition

• Made sure stakeholders were engaged and expectations had been set regarding their involvement and participation.

• Worked with delivery teams to mitigate impediments and ease the entire development process.

• Ensured the development team is worked efficiently towards sprint goals.

• Ensured Scrum Team’s adherence to agile practice through one on one coaching and retrospectives

• Successfully guided two cross-functional development teams through the transition from waterfall to agile development. Gener8t Enterprise - Business Analyst/Scrum Master May 2016 – Oct 2018

• Serve as liaison between business and stakeholders in order to understand and document data needs.

• Analyzed IT project requirements and prepared requirements documentation.

• Contributed to various types of testing that include unit and UAT.

• Wrote training documents and user guides and facilitated training for staff.

• Delivered weekly key status updates to key stakeholders. Gener8t Enterprise - Quality Assurance Specialist June 2013 – Apr 2016

• Responsible for ensuring the software product deployed to production is of high quality with few defects.

• Developed test cases to test uses cases during requirement gathering.

• Conducted user acceptability testing (UAT) with business end-users.

• Designed and implement automated test solutions for new and existing products.

• Assisted with the design and execution of manual tests for new and existing products.

• Evaluated problems identified in production and assisted with resolution strategies. Print Regal Services - Printing Management Specialist Jan 2008 – Apr 2013

• Direct and coordinate production, processing, and distribution of all work originating in the Large Format department

• Develop and implement production tracking and quality control systems

• Coordinate and recommend procedures for facility and equipment maintenance or modification

• Analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solution and solve problems PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Agile Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

• Bachelor of Science Degree, Babcock University (2002-2007) TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Tools Jira, Rally, VersionOne, TFS, Rational

Software Applications AWS, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project Hyperion, Cognos, NetSuite, Caliber, Visio Database MS SQL Server, Postgress SQL, Oracle, Hadoop, Hbase, Cassandra, SharePoint

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