OLUSOLA SHODIYA PSM-*

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Dynamic solution-focused Agile – Scrum project SUMMARY practitioner with over 12 years of progressive experience working on projects of various complexities within the Information Technology, and Energy Services Industry. An advocate of Agile values & principles with quality experience in Agile transformation and building Agile mindset. Accustomed to effectively coaching, communicating & collaboratively working with cross-functional Development Teams, Product Owner and Stakeholders in evolving and dynamic project environments. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Management Information Systems, BA – Metropolitan State University Management Information Systems, AA – Saint Paul College Professional Scrum Master – PSM 1

CORE KNOWLEDGE & SKILL AREAS

• Coaching organization,

teams, and individuals on

Agile best practices

• Change driven

development- Agile

• Plan driven development –

Waterfall

• Agile Transformation

• Kanban Framework

• Organizing Scrum

Ceremonies (Daily Scrum,

Sprint Planning, Review,

Retrospect, etc.)

• Facilitating & Conflict

Resolution

• Product Backlog

maintenance

• Metrics Tracking (Velocity)

• MS Office Suite, Project,

Visio, & SharePoint

• Salesforce, SAP, Business

Object, Oracle, JDE,

Nuance, Citrix & Apttus &

X Author

• Scaled Agile Framework

(SAFe)

• JIRA & Confluence

• Servant leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Extreme Networks - San Jose, CA (Remote Office)

Scrum Master/Agile Coach October 2017 to Present

• Coaches (observes, questions, and empowers team, Product Owners, and the organization on Agile best practices; i.e. identifies strengths and weakness of existing processes, people, tools, and techniques.

• Facilitates daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

• Performs the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.

• Provides strategic vision around the application of Agile methods within the organization.

• Facilitates crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.

• Ensures the definition of ‘Done & Ready’ are clearly expressed and understood in every story.

• Supports Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.

Brocade Communications - Plymouth, MN

Scrum Master November 2015 - October 2017

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

• Tracked 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.

• Created a live dashboard on an office display to communicate progress made towards Sprint goal.

• Monitored Sprint velocity and worked with the teams in improving velocity and overall efficiency.

• Worked with the support team on escalated issues, new business requirements, & change requests.

• Supported the Product team on upgrade & release planning. Thomson Reuters - Eagan, MN

Sr. Business Analyst/Sr. Service Operations March 2012 - October 2015 Project 1 – Europe, Middle East, & Africa (EMEA) Operations Monitoring Dash Board: Led an Agile software dev. team in integrating 12 key operational data across the geo-division. Further providing visibility enterprise wide.

Project 2 - Asset Management System Software: Managed an Agile team incrementally and iteratively in building and configuring of a solution for tracking and inventory of organizational assets. Project 3 – Contract Management Portal: Led a cross-functional team in building a portal for managing Contracts (rendered & received) tracking due dates. Project 4 –E-Learning- Module Course Management System Integration: Aligned with a cross-functional team in integrating with the Moodle platform, and configuring the system enterprise wide for Service organization training.

• Analyzed past and on-going project performance across various business units in relation to time & cost.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams on project status, constraints, and risk (analysis, & assessment).

• Ensured that project business and IT requirements are properly captured and documented.

• Collaborated with the project team to define the goal, scope and requirements of the project.

• Managed the scope, quality and project timeline according to the project plan.

• Organized and maintained project team SharePoint site, including ensuring required project documentation is posted, ensuring version control, and access for team members.

• Ensured project control procedures and policies within program of related projects are executed.

• Proactively facilitated communication/information exchange between members of the service team and stakeholders.

Thomson Reuters - Eagan, MN

Sr. Order Analyst February 2010 - February 2012

• Analyzed high volumes of orders for West products in a timely and accurate manner.

• Created and modified orders to ensure sales contracts were properly applied into production's databases and ERP system.

• Resolved order discrepancies from credit holds and delivery blocks.

• Worked closely with SAP conversion team to help migrate from CEBO to SAP and to ensure contracts are complete, accurate, and in line with business organization requirements.

• Performed ongoing account verification and validation to ensure that accounts are in proper account executive territory.

• Coordinated all project installations with Installation Manager and clients to meet project timelines.

• Provided solutions to customer/employee technical questions over the phone, by email, and fax.

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