Business Analyst Agile Coach
Resume:
Certified Scrum Master SAFe *.*
Name:Olumide Awoyemi
Email: ado7jg@r.postjobfree.com
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Tel: +1-317-***-****
Summary & Key competencies:
• Senior Scrum Master with 8 years of experience in Agile and Software Delivery Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Agile frameworks; Scrum, SAFe, Lean, XP, and Kanban.
• Able to start teams from the Scratch and nurture them to maturity
• Expert in using Agile project management tools including Jira, Confluence and Miro.
• Agile Mindset: Embody Agile core values of openness, courage, respect, focus, and commitment. Infusing Agile principles, practices and methodologies to achieve team success.
• Project Management: Ability to initiate, plan, execute, and guide the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria within a specified time.
• Influence: Ability to influence leaders at all levels and without traditional hierarchy.
• Servant Leadership: Foster safe environment where teams thrive and empowered to take risks through collaboration
• Communication: Possess ability to communicate thoughts, concepts and practices effectively at all levels, adjusting as needed to a target audience.
• Collaboration: Expertise working with others in a cross-functional multi-team environment
• Mentoring & Coaching: Ability to coach and mentor teams on agile practices, mind-set, procedures and adopting new before behaviors.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
EMPLOYER :CENMIC MANAGEMENT, IRVING, TEXAS.
Job title: SENIOR SCRUM MASTER (08/2016 – Present) Responsibilities:
• Organize Agile-coaching sessions for the Agile teams and the management to foster scaled agile environment, facilitating communication between agile teams and stakeholders and promote the understanding and acceleration of agile practices and values.
• Facilitate productive Agile Ceremonies including Daily standups, Iteration planning, Backlog refinement, Review, and Retrospective) to ensure teams focused on goals of delivery value.
• Identify risks, impediments and coach teams on the removal of impediments, and promoting team’s transparency by escalating impediments to appropriate stakeholders.
• Guide team in self-organization, self-managing; encourage and motivate team to focus on becoming high-performing teams.
• Provide the leadership and guidance needed to multiple Agile teams, that implemented projects that worth over $180million and the delivery of more 30 applications.
• Continuously support, create a safe environment for agile teams to take risks, encourage teams to think outside the box.
• Metrics driven. Use data and metrics to identify areas of improvement that has led to relentless improvement and teams attaining high performing status.
• Understand the business model and develop agile software practices that best serve the need for a faster release cycle with a high degree of quality and predictability.
• Provide supports to Product Owner to deliver high value product backlog and agile teams to write well-defined, compelling user stories and with acceptance criteria. Certified Scrum Master SAFe 5.0
• Encourage and institute built-in-quality best practices to help teams to work through quality and reduction of technical debts by bringing focus to Code Review, ATDD, BDD, CI/CD, XP, Paired Programming and Pair Work etc.
EMPLOYER :LEVOSOFTS TECHNOLOGIES, HOUSTON, TEXAS.
Job title: SCRUM MASTER: (03/2013 - 06/ 2016)
Responsibilities:
• Encouraged Agile mindset and behaviors; coached, inspired and mentored teams on Agile principles, values and practices while role modeling true servant leadership behaviors to the teams.
• Independently led the application of Agile practices for multiple teams on adoption of different agile framework including; Scrum, SAFe and Kanban and Practices including visualizing work, limiting work in progress, managing workflow, and planning
• Provided guidance for and facilitate product agile ceremonies; daily stand ups, Iteration planning, backlog refinement, reviews and retrospective meetings.
• Collaborated and worked with technical and non -technical teams and to help transition teams from Waterfall to Agile environment.
• Partnered with product owners (in backlog prioritization, refinement as well as tracking and reporting metrics, providing visibility to the team and stakeholders.
• Identified opportunities to improve team-level Agile performance; focus teams on customer value, quality and continuous improvement activities. Remove team-level impediments and resolve conflicts; anticipate challenges, identify risks, and recommend mitigations and solutions.
• Facilitate open communication among team members and stakeholders to promote positive team dynamics to ensure members collaborate and work effectively.
• Partner with Circle Leadership on PI planning activities, organizing and leading PI ceremonies. EMPLOYER : LEVOSOFTS TECHNOLOGIES HOUSTON, TEXAS. Job title: PROJECT MANAGER (8/2011 - 01/2013)
Responsibilities:
• Established a Project Management Office (PMO), and directed and coordinated the utilization of resources across divisions of the project to reach targets.
• Proactively managed project teams and ensured IT projects were completed on time and met project deadlines
• Ensured compliance with budget and other project requirements, and
• Documented instructions for end-users and assist with the testing of the final product.
• Communicated with stakeholders during all phases of the project, and closed projects efficiently.
• Liaised with stakeholders such as project personnel, vendors, and end-users regarding project requirements.
• Managed all the phases of projects outlining, defining, and initiating the project.
• Implemented document control policies and documentation templates.
• Monitored project progress and implementing changes where necessary.
• Ensured compliance with objectives, organizational policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensured project complies with best practices, SOPs, PMO policies, and other policies. EMPLOYER: BLUEPEARL CORPORATE SOLUTIONS SHANGHAI, CHINA Job Title: PROJECT MANAGER (8/2008 - 5/2011)
Responsibilities:
• Defined and initiated projects, responsible for managing schedule, and performance of component projects, while working to ensure the ultimate success and acceptance of projects
• Managed all phases of the project to ensure on-time completion and delivery
• Produced project status reports, managing project teams and resolving the day-to-day issues.
• Coordinated project team members; assigning individual responsibilities and created environment for growth and development.
• Prepared requests for proposals and conducting all necessary meetings to facilitate selection of project services and products.
Certified Scrum Master SAFe 5.0
• Planned and oversaw the preparation and dissemination of project communications
• Presented program/project status to the executive committee on weekly project status calls.
• Led project teams to meet project milestones (including resources from Dev, QA, Architecture, Design, Infrastructure/Operations).
• Managed project timeline, investor group expectations and project requirements to technology operations group for the audit database.
EMPLOYER :CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA ONDO STATE, NIGERIA Job title: IT BUSINESS ANALYST (1/2006 - 6/2008)
Responsibilities:
• Constantly sought ways to improve monitoring, discover issues, and deliver better value to the employer
• Helped in designing, documenting, and maintaining system processes
• Reported on common sources of technical issues or questions and make recommendations to product and IT teams
• Identified systems and business risks and provided mitigations
• Defined configuration specifications, business analysis requirements and performed quality assurance.
• Define reporting and alerting requirements
• Own and develop relationships with various stakeholders, partners, working with them to optimize and enhance integration
• Verified application results by conducting system audits of technologies implemented.
• Preserved assets by implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.
• Directs technological research by studying organization goals, strategies, practices, and user projects.
• Acted as an information source and communicator between business branches; communicate key insights and findings to all stakeholders.
• Utilizing IT data for business insights and analyzed business needs to understand strategic business needs and plans for growth.
• Sourced for technological solutions to business requirements and recommended technology strategies, policies, and procedures by evaluating organization outcomes; identifying problems; evaluating trends; anticipating requirements.
• Ran and managed A/B tests and analyzing data to make informed business decisions EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS
B.SC :INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (2001-2005), Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria. CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER SAFE 5.0, Scaled Agile Incorporation, USA. SIX SIGMA GREEN BELT, Six Sigma Global Institute, USA. PROJECT MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATION, Six Sigma Global Institute, USA. SIX SIGMA BLACK BELT, Six Sigma Global Institute, USA (On-going) SKILLS:
• Organized, detail oriented and efficient.
• Possesses excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Adept in JIRA, Confluence and MIRO.
• Effectively manages time while juggling various tasks, and navigating multiple computer systems.
• Able to work under pressure, and in an ever-changing environment.
• Well versed in defusing conflict and problem resolution.
• Demonstrates leadership by way of delegating tasks, proactively seeking solutions, mentoring/empowering team members, cultivating healthy working relationships and embracing diversity.
• Takes initiative by setting personal goals and removing impediments, in efforts to ensure the company's quality and goals are met, and exceeded.
Certified Scrum Master SAFe 5.0
REFERENCES AVAILABLE FROM:
Names Company Relationship Role Contacts
Mr.
Michael
Areola
Cenmic
Management
Mentor /
Agile Coach
Management
and direct
Senior Agile
coach
ado7jg@r.postjobfree.com
Tel: 832-***-****
Mr. Kay
Bewaji
Levosofts
technologies
Supervisor Senior Scrum
master
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