Ademola Adejimi, CSM

Phone 269-***-****

adm1cf@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER AGILE COACH AGILE PROJECT MANAGER

Experienced scrum master with a proven track record of delivering high-quality on-time. A servant leader, scrum master, and agile project manager with great experience always willing to serve the needs of teams in many areas to achieve maximum and best output to the client. Creating an onboarding project team. integrating them into the organization and providing a clear vision of the product. Facilitates communication and information exchange between external groups and the project team. Coach, mentor, and facilitate the team members to adopt a truly Agile mindset, including driving ownership, self-management, and empowerment of teams.

Effectively monitor and communicate project status to key stakeholders (including leadership)

Holds product teams accountable to critical path key milestone activities aligned to roadmaps, including tracking status of interdependencies for projects.

CORE COMPETENCIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Servant Leadership and Management. Coached and served multiple cross-functional teams both on-shore and off-shore with over 30+ employees in the Agile and Digital transformation journey by working side by side with leadership to navigate transformation challenges from inception to execution.

Continuous Improvement and Development. Actively strives for continuous improvement and identifying process changes to remove major impediments. This led to 60% less bugs within two sprints there by increasing value provided to customers.

Relationship Building and Collaboration. Proven history in establishing personal rapport, empathy, and relationships. Demonstrated ability to adapt to different cultures and build cohesive teams of talents to build client-focused solutions and deliver best in class service.

SKILLS AND TOOLS

• Agile Values & Principles • Team Coaching

• Scrum/Kanban • Conflict Resolution

• Team Mentoring • JIRA

• Stakeholder Engagement • Azure DevOps

• Risk Management • Waterfall to Agile transformation • Scope & Resource Management • IT Project Management

• Confluence • Middleware Administrator

• Water to Agile Transformation • Risk Management Framework

• CompTIA Network+ • CompTIA Security+

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNITED STATE ARMY RESERVE

Soldier in small wheel mechanic, March 2019-current

Perform repairs on diesel and engine fuel system, air induction, exhaust system, cooling system and hydraulic systems.

Troubleshot electrical faults on trailers and trucks.

Perform powertrain components replacement on transmission and transfer case, propeller shaft assembles, brake systems, steering and suspension systems, and fifth wheel assembles.

Maintain good accountably of myself and team member under me.

RANGE BANK January 2015-Present

Kalamazoo MI

Agile Scrum Master

Leading the team’s agile adoption and successfully transitioning the distributed team from waterfall to Agile Scrum framework/mindset. Monitoring scrum processes and scrum events by motivating the team, pushing for change that will guarantee quality work, ensuring the team understands how the process works and how it should be applied. Effectively coordinating and managing the new design, architecture, features, Empowering the team to be self-organized, work with the team in developing of software and application for the customers to manage their funds.

Lead and coordinate the work of an Agile development team and oversees the software development lifecycle plans. Facilitates scrum activities, such as sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint reviews and retrospectives. Collaborates with clients, end-users, or Product Owners to understand business requirements while building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame retribution or being judged.

Work closely with the Product owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.

Educate and reinforce Scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.

Lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of the final product.

Protect scrum team from external distractions, impediments, or team conflicts and maintain focus on product backlog project timeline.

Netcom Africa May 2013-January 2015

Lagos Nigeria

Scrum Master

With over 200,000 customers, the project involved creating an additional tool for Drivetime customers to manage their accounts to ensure they succeed in the repayment of loans, created additional service desk, transitioning the fulfiller teams into ServiceNow ticketing systems.

Facilitated quality software completion on time, within scope, and within budget. Guide the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and Values and help drive them towards continuous Agile improvement by leveraging techniques such as Maturity assessments.

Support and educate the product owner, especially with the respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Tracked key metrics such as burndown chart, velocity, also managed product backlog and task breakdown.

Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning. Provide support to the team using servant leadership style whenever possible leading by example.

Managed project scope to ensure delivery was compliant with scope commitment.

EDUCATION

B.S.C. Information system and Cyber Security

Columbia Southern University (Alabama, US) 1/2021 – Current

B.S.C Civic Engineering and information technology

Resccut college

Certifications: Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance

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