ABAYOMI AJAYI

Location: Peachtree City, GA. *****

PROFFESIONAL SUMMARY

A Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Agile Project Manager with over 19 years of professional experience in finance/banking and IT domains.

An experienced Change Agent, Servant Leader, Risk Manager, Value Enabler, Facilitator, Coach and Trainer.

Successfully completed Software Development, Network, Process Improvement, Financial Asset Management, Data Analytics and Call Center Projects.

Highly proficient with waterfall, Lean, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SDLC, PDCA, SAFe, and DevOps.

Successfully led multiple agile teams (Scrum and Kanban) distributed across four different time zones and countries.

A professional of diverse background with excellent understanding of C-level suite and Stakeholder management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Zhill Systems. Tx, USA

A Texas based IT consulting firm offering agile and digital enablement, outsourcing, security and cloud solutions

Senior Scrum Master April 2019 – Present

Currently serving two teams working on a FinTech payment solution for a financial organization.

Schedules and facilitates quarterly planning, backlog refinement and the scrum events such as sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospectives.

Proactively removes risks/impediments and ensures continuous flow of value delivery.

Develops release plan and ensure releases are successful.

Participates and facilitates Scrum of Scrums for inspection, visibility, communications, and impediments removal.

Administers Jira at the team level to track, manage and collaborate on work done.

Assists the team to understand story mapping, story sizing, definition of ready and definition of done.

KCMB Bank. Nig.

A licensed unit microfinance bank offering terminal loans, deposits and e-banking solutions

Chief Scrum Master: April 2011 – March 2019

Provided servant leadership to the entire bank’s staff as the Chief Servant Leader and Managing Director.

Initiated the bank’s agile and digital transformation that positively impacted the bank’s brand, processes, culture, tools, policies and revenue.

Continuously developed techniques to increase value delivery and profitability.

Drove stakeholder and client engagement through relationship management, communications and value delivery.

Collaborated with the board and bank’s staff through hackathons and CoP to identify new opportunities.

Developed Bank's business strategies in alignment with technology trend, best practice and regulatory standards.

Provided direction and clarity in the bank’s vision, mission and core values.

Coached, mentored and motivated several teams in scrum, lean, agile values, and principles.

Assisted all agile teams in prioritization, roadmaps and removal of complex risks.

Coached the team to be focus by minimizing multi-tasking, managing WIP and shielding them from interference.

Collaborated with legal, business and engineering teams to translate risk and legal regulations into requirements.

First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Nig

A nationally licensed commercial bank with total assets of over US$4.4B and over US$473B revenue in 2019.

Senior Product Owner: Nov 2010 – Apr 2011

Championed/facilitated quarterly planning, backlog refinements, release planning and sprint review meetings.

Led the scrum teams that developed the bank’s “call-me” and “mail-me” features as part of marketing products.

Led the contact center scrum team driving financial inclusion, deposit optimization and problem resolution.

Managed high-net-worth clients through regular communication and request fulfillment.

Identified solution MVP and supported the team to timely deliver it for quick feedbacks from the stakeholders.

Maintained a healthy backlog following the INVEST and DEEP guidelines.

Elicited requirements and translated them into epics, features and user stories.

Drove alignment with strategic objective and program vision using communications, roadmaps and sprint goals.

Scheduled and facilitated design thinking, ideation, brainstorming, story mapping and research sessions.

Promptly removed impediments and followed up with dependencies to help the teams with continuous flow of works.

Defined sprint goals and assisted in definition of done (DoD) and acceptance criteria.

Motivated the teams, promoted collaborations and team building activities.

JKK Investments. Nig

An ICT organization offering solutions in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS

Agile Project Manager: Jan 2010 – Oct 2010

Managed two distributed and co-located agile teams that comprised of 14 team members.

Scheduled and facilitated all agile meetings including refinement and deployment/release sessions.

Gathered metrics, analyzed them and radiated them across different stakeholders.

Worked in a Kanban Team supporting the enterprise Infosec and digital transformation domain.

Managed the implementation, testing, deployment and maintenance of firewalls for 12 major organizations.

Managed the manual and automated response to IDS alerts.

Participated in financial planning and tracking of all IT projects.

Diamond Bank (now Access Bank). Nig

An international bank with presence and affiliations in North America, Africa and Europe and total assets of US$18B

Scrum Master: Mar 2004 – Sep 2009

Led the scrum team that managed the branch’s financial assets (deposit and liability) through data analytics, forecast and advisory.

Scheduled and facilitated the sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective events.

Removed impediments daily, documented them and escalated where necessary.

Provided training and coaching support on becoming agile and increasing agility.

Administered Jira for work management, collaboration, documentation, and metrics gathering.

Coached the team to estimate user stories using planning poker.

Assisted the Product Owner with prioritization, maintaining a healthy backlog and setting spring goal.

EDUCATION

M.Sc. (Masters of Science) in Soil Science, University of Ilorin, Nigeria 2013

Bachelor of Agricultural Science (B.Sc.) University of Ilorin, Nigeria 1996

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Scrum Master Scrum Inc

Product Owner Scrum Inc

Agile Project & Delivery Manager ICAgile

Cyber501x: Cybersecurity Fundamentals RIT-edX

TOOLS & SKILLS

Communication: Written and Verbal

Coaching, Mentoring and Facilitation

Agile work management tools: Jira, Confluence, Mural, Miro and Azure DevOps

Program – Project - Product Management,

Risk and change Management

Finance: Budgeting, financial tracking, audit, profit and loss

Analysis: Trend, Regression, SWOT, and GAP.

Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Yammer, Visio, and Teams

Testing: UAT, SIT, Regression and Vulnerability Tests

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Drove multiple banking product through continuous product improvement, best practice and customers feedback analysis to become the bank's 4th highest profit generating product in Q3: 2007.

Grew Branch's deposits by 78% between Q3: 2007 through Q1: 2008 through the addition of digital check deposit and P2P features to the core banking solution.

Successfully implemented a risk mitigation framework and process to protect company assets.

Successfully managed 102 stakeholders comprising of regulatory bodies, vendors, customers, internal and external stakeholders in 2019 Financial year.

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