Gbenga Johnson Adegbayibi

Telephone: 708-***-****

E-mail: adpnw3@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/gbenga-adegbayibi-42b69734

Key Skills and Knowledge

Education:

MBA:

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria

Certification:

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Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Hard Skills:

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Software Development Life Cycle

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Backlog Refinement

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Jira and confluence

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Agile best practices

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Retrospectives

Soft Skills:

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Management Skills

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Coaching

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Customer centricity

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Leadership Skills

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Emotional intelligence

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Servant leadership

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Mentoring

Process/

Methodologies:

Agile Methodology

Waterfall Methodology

References

To be given upon request.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An accomplished, highly motivated Agile scrum master with vast knowledge of Agile best principles and values. Skilled in implementation of Scrum frameworks and tools like Jira, Confluence and Azure DevOps. Experienced in transitioning teams new to Agile and working with offshore and onsite team members.

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS

•Certified Scrum Master with 5 years of diversified experience in Agile Software Development with dynamic, hands-on management of software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations in a DevOps environment.

•Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant & prioritized, removing impediments, and ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were in state prior to the sprints.

•Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders at different level.

•Helped teams to remove impediments that were beyond their self-organizing capabilities and shielded them from external distractions.

•Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their average velocity over; Performed Scrum Master activities and agile coaching for the team.

•Assessed scrum maturity of teams and organization and coached teams to higher levels of maturity, at the pace that is sustainable and comfortable.

•Facilitated various meetings for scrum teams.

Professional Experience:

Dovina Technologies 2017 to date

Agile Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

•Identifify and remove organization and team blockers to enhance productivity and efficiency.

•Facilitate scrum ceremonies (daily stand-ups, demos, grooming, retrospectives, and planning)

•Shield teams from external interferences and helped ensuring that had capacity to deliver their committed goals.

•Enable the scrum team to meet sprint goals by understanding and removing any blockers.

•Monitor and manage dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues are resolved.

•Track and communicate team velocity, sprint/release progress, resource availability.

•Successfully use Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitate user stories workshop. Document User Stories and facilitate Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications.

•Utilize Jira and Confluence for uploading and managing backlog items, requirements, defects, reporting and for future needs tickets.

•Use JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints. Also create Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts.

•Partner with other scrum masters on our programs team, to ensure our ways of working were consistent across teams.

HEAD OF FINANCE

FRADRO INTERNATIONA LIMITED (2012-2016)

•Liaised with banks and procured credit trading facilities and sought other avenues of raising the company’s cashflow

•Co-ordinated the general accounting functions which included inter-company accounting, cash management, financial reporting, balance sheet management including inventory related items

•Analyzed business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments and obligations

•Ensured that the appropriate taxes were deducted and remitted to the relevant tax authorities

Processing of subsidy claims (SDN) and follow-up on the payment of same

•Developed, maintained and analyzed budgets, prepared periodic reports

•Surveyed operations to ascertain accounting needs and to recommend, develop and maintain solutions to business and financial problems

•Advised management on issues relating to resource utilization, tax strategies and the assumptions underlying budget forecasts

•Created strategies for new lines of business ventures that will drive revenue growth for the company

•Co-ordinated all accounts and finance functions of the company to ensure smooth operation of the company’s activities

REGIONAL FINANCIAL CONTROLLER

INTERCONTINENTAL BANK PLC (NIGERIA) (2002-2012)

•Monthly MPR report for all the sectors

•Monthly analysis of top 10 and bottom 10 Account Profitability Report for customers of the bank

•Quarterly detailed analysis of the performance of the sectors, Divisions and Regions/Groups.

•Worked with Strategy to come up with competitor report on deposits and loans at the end of every quarter.

•Account MIS tagging and redistribution up to account officer levels

•Assets and Liabilities reports showing deposit mix, cost of fund, loan to deposit ratio and new business development.

•Key variance analysis reports highlighting areas with no visible business development

•Profit & Loss reports for all the sectors within the bank

•Additional assets and liabilities volumes showing product by product breakdown with particular emphasis on areas of exception

•Special reports focusing on specific issues as a means of benchmarking competition

•Tracking of actual performance trends with budgeted targets

•Detailed variance analysis highlighting specific areas with substantial gaps between actual and budget.

•Provision of salient methodologies tailored at improving overall performance of the bank

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