IBIKUNLE SENJOBI, (PSM*)

469-***-**** adlrxz@r.postjobfree.com

INTRODUCTION

A Servant-Leader with a wealth of experience and passionate believer in Agile principles. I have seen it expound complex problems over and over again. I pride myself on my ability to re-orientate a team, making them cross-functional, self-organizing, and ultimately increasing their productivity. I am highly skilled in Coaching and Training, Conflict Resolution, and facilitation; I am organized, detailed, and undeniably input positive energy while keeping teams focused on delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

CERTIFICATION

Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

EXPERIENCE

PHOENIX TECHNOLOGY SERVICES. PLANO, TX 04/19 – Present

Scrum Master

Facilitating daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Performing the role of a servant leader for multiple Distributed Scrum Teams on agile good practices.

Supporting Product Owner with grooming and maintaining Product Backlogs, making sure user stories are Sprint ready.

Coaching product owner to understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding.

Providing direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices.

Working with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assisting with PI planning activities.

Facilitating and coordinating User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

Promoting and empowering self-organizing teams by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.

Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.

Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.

Track key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders.

Identifying and removing team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.

Monitoring the pulse and morale of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.

CITIBANK. IRVING, TX 01/16 --04/19

Scrum Master

Coached scrum teams on how to scale agile to enterprise level; team to program and portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.

Scrutinized and rolled-out enterprise services API specification and requirements for development team using Azure API management service

Worked with development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.

Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owners’ priorities.

Steered project flow from planning to incremental release; leveraged Confluence, SharePoint, and JIRA software.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure that development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.

Leveraged burn down and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.

Ensured all scrum rituals are in practiced.

CVE TECHNOLOGY, PLANO, TX 09/14 – 01/16

Scrum Master

Defined the project strategy and roadmap.

Facilitate project planning, resource estimation, kick-off, and sprint coordination.

Coached team and helped them achieved performance measure by faster development, collaboration, and quality delivery.

Assessed value, developed cases and prioritized stories, epic and themes to ensure work focused on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.

Ensure scrum adoption across all levels in the organization.

Identified strength of scrum team members and made adjustments to promote growth and highly effective teams.

Partnered with Program or Project Managers to communicate delivery of work product from the scrum team and escalated key risks.

Optimized scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, assessed Scrum Maturity, and identified growth opportunities to achieve higher team performance.

SEMPRA ENERGY. SAN DIEGO, CA 09/12 – 01/14

Project Coordinator

Provided oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes and procedures that ensure compliance with policies.

Performance and quality of services conformed to established standards and agency guidelines.

Provided expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and agency guidelines to assure compliance.

Assisted the PM in Keeping Track of the Project Budget in an excel spreadsheet

Reported to managers the development of the project.

Tracked Project milestones, Schedule and Deliverables.

Managed changes and ensure effective communication among project team member.

Organized and maintained project team SharePoint site, ensuring required documentation are posted for team member access.

Facilitated project planning and scheduling across individual projects.

Analyzed complex plans, issue and escalating where necessary.

DIAMOND BANK PLC. NIGERIA. 12/11 – 08/12

Basis Project Coordinator II

Documentation at various stages of the implementation (Risk logs, Issues logs).

Emailed notes and documents to all members of the BASIS Project Team.

Collaborated with application team on system implementation.

Participated in the daily calls and meetings to discuss implementation and optimization.

Demonstrated ability to monitor and report on implementation schedules.

Followed up with BASIS Team, Project Managers, and Departmental leads.

Trained Staff members on the new banking software (BASIS).

EDUCATION

•Bachelor of Education (Guidance and Counselling) – Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.

•Diploma (Industrial Relations) – Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria.

SKILLS

Backlog Grooming

Proficient in: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,TFS (Azure DevOps Server), JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint

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