Project Manager Scrum Master

BENEDICTA OLOTU

********@*****.*** / 404-***-****

Duluth, GA 30097

SUMMARY

Experienced business agility and certified Agile servant leader, solution driven practitioner with over 9 years proven digital transformation experience in cross-functional planning, deploying and releasing on-demand values and quality products. Extensive knowledge of Agile approaches including XP, Scrum, SAFe, Lean, Kaizen and Kanban. Previous experience with Agile tools and practices including User Stories, Continuous Integration, timeboxing CE, CI, CD and Continuous Testing. Proven knowledge in overall Return On Investment, acquisition and client retention focused on the digitization of End to End automation, product delivery, digital transformation strategy & program roadmap. Well-versed in supporting business decision making, flow of values, constant feedback and improved customer experience across all digital channels. Encouraging continuous exploration to mimic customer's voice through condition of acceptance. CORE COMPETENCE AND TOOLS

Agile Scrum, SAFe, UI

UX, SDLC, Six Sigma DevOPs

Business Agility

Design Thinking

Enablers, CALMR

Inspect & Adapt,

Planning &Budgeting

Lean Agile Leadership

Metrics & KPis,

Kanban, Pre & Post PI

Planning, XP Extreme Programming, Value stream,

MS Project, MS Visio,

MS SQL, Advanced

Excel, PowerPoint,

SharePoint, WebEx,

Salesforce Marketing Cloud,

JIRA, Confluence

EXPERIENCE

Agile Scrum Master / Cenmic Management LLC - Atlanta, GA 04/2021 - Current Develop strategies that help teams collaboratively design and adopt agile team agreements and drive relentless improvements.

Mentor/coach team on the Agile Scrum methodology to be self-organizing to improve the Scrum team's trust, standards of work, development, and prioritizing guidance in an evolving environment. Review Agile team structure to help guide, determine and recommend changes and approaches to the team as needed to reach high performance.

Facilitates team breakout sessions at PI Planning and work with RTE to monitor PI progress. Guide and coach the product Owner & the team in validated learning to adhere to Scrum rules and practices. Support the team to make work visible through burn-up charts and information radiators. Identify & document lessons learned and improvement recommendations in application in future iterations. Facilitate the Agile team in managing and defining conflict using the lose-win, win-win, loss-loss, and win-loss techniques.

Identify impediments impacting the Scrum team's ability to deliver on Sprint goals, mitigating against barriers impacting the cross functional team.

Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, daily stand ups DSUs, retrospectives, refinement, Inspect & Adapt and problem-solving workshops

BO

Scrum Master/Project Manager / Ontario Construction - CA 08/2015 - 08/2019 Collaborating with engineers, architects etc.to determine the specifications of the project. Actively involved in the building, maintaining, and prioritizing the team backlog and capacity allocation. Negotiating contracts with external vendors to reach profitable agreements. Worked with Product Management to foster alignment and drive innovation in Continuous Delivery Pipeline Worked with the Product management in planning the (PI) Program Increment for the ART team Built a trusting and safe environment as a result problems could be raised without fear of blame improving employee retention by 32%

Participated in PI events, identified feature dependencies & ensured potential issues are resolved. Scrum Master / Guaranty Trust Bank 04/2012 - 03/2015 Developed a more data-driven project management culture by building KPI dashboards for executives around feature development and product life-cycles which helped to track/evaluate progress by 7%. Worked cross-functional with executive leadership and marketing teams to understand customer pain-points and translate those pain-points into actionable user stories and improved positive customer feedback by 17% in one month.

Planned and conducted Agile meetings across sprint planning, story grooming, daily stand ups, test plans, and test case reviews for the intern class of 5 developers. Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.

Increased team efficiency by 15% by inspiring motivation, spins and changes for quality and timeliness. Marketer/Team Lead / Guaranty Trust Bank 02/2007 - 03/2012 Advised on development of new service and product offerings to increase shares in emerging markets. Increased revenue by designing and enacting marketing strategies within budget parameters, as well as studying key consumer and market data.

Facilitated growth and increased brand awareness by working with sales team to build and maintain key business relationships.

Monitored team progress and enforced deadlines.

Developed and monitored weekly staff schedules.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Delta State University 2006

Bachelor of Science: Environmental Biology

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Leading Scrum Principles, Practices and values, Retrospective, Conflict resolver, Business Process analysis, Business Requirement Elicitation, Process Mapping, BPMN, Workshop facilitation, Root Cause Analysis, Business

Process Modelling, Use cases, User story, Value Stream Mapping, activity/process diagrams, flow charts, configuration management, Kaizen, Customer Journey, Data Analysis, Scoping Document Design, Continuous Integration, Improvement and Data Migration. UAT testing using (BDD), Traceability Matrix, Office 365, Key Strengths:

Strong analytical, problem solving, and quick learning skills blended with appetite for learning and implementing new technologies.

Extensive knowledge in organizing around value, managing queue, SDLC, STLC processes, agile mindset, Waterfall deployment, and implementation.

Experience in engaging with wide range of internal/external stakeholders and third-party clients or vendors. Great interpersonal skills, data migration, reporting, dashboards and making recommendations. CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master, scrumalliance.org

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Project Management Certification

Certification in Health, Safety and Environment

Six Sigma Yellow &Green Belt Certified

SAFe Scrum Master Certified

Advanced SAFe Scrum Master Certified

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