CAREER OBJECTIVE

Experienced Scrum master with a keen ability to understand and build complex systems. I focus relentlessly on removing impediments from teams and delivering customer-centric products and features. Top-notch experience coaching teams in person and remotely. I have a track record of tangibly improving employee retention and satisfaction while delivering product features on time and under budget that are loved by customers

EXPERIENCE

SCRUM MASTER

JP Morgan (Clarios LLC) REMOTE. Dec 2019- Present

Organized and improved agile practices and values, increasing productivity and overall team satisfaction by an average of 90%.

Led and coordinated the daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives and backlog refinements resulting in on-time delivery rate of 97%.

Helped the team to develop, capture, and analyze metrics to facilitate team improvements resulting in the automation of manual reports that saved 35 hours monthly.

Assisted product owners and project managers in preparing and refining the backlog for Program Increment (large scale planning) as well as sprint planning.

Continually refined and evolved agile processes for predictable and rapid software delivery resulting in hitting 99% of project deadlines.

Implemented agile methodologies using a Scrum framework throughout the organization from executives to software to marketing across 65 employees.

Led all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily scrums with the development team resulting in product features that reached over a million users.

Served as the main point of contact to drive effective communication throughout all project phases reducing costs through streamlined communication.

Worked closely with product management and technical stakeholders to clarify the schedule, status, and details of each project.

Utilize Jira to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down chat and sprint/release progress to the team and stakeholders

Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and release train launches. Ensure the team builds a plan they can commit to

Appreciating Stakeholder for managing and contributing to project from different angles - Process.

SCRUM MASTER

FIC America Corp, IL Sept 2017 - Dec 2019

Defined project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value of 6 year-long projects

Assisted in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments and leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work increasing the average time to deliver new features by 15%

Supported the product owner in managing customer expectations for project deliverables and managed internal stakeholder communications resulting in a 21% increase in customer engagement with new features

Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the sprint planning.

Utilized Jira to track and visualize workflow for our release and sprint planning.

Coached scrum teams on how to scale agile to enterprise level; team to program and portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.

Worked with development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.

Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.

Ensures the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product.

Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owners' priorities.

Removed impediments and protected team members from interruptions and distractions to maximize productivity.

Worked closely with Product Owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features to ensure that development team efforts on sprint backlogs are of maximum value to stakeholders.

Leveraged Burndown and team velocity charts to improve backlog estimates and product plans resulted in improvement estimations.

Applied creative techniques in scrum ceremonies to coach development teams transitioning to scrum in understanding and practicing agility resulted in increased team performance and overall product quality.

Maintained Project documentation and reported project progress to management weekly through status reports.

Ensure the development teams are practicing the Agile principles.

PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER

Crown Services, Schaumburg IL March 2016 – Sept 2017

Defined and managed a well-defined project management process and championed ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Agile Project Management

Promoted empowerment of the team and encouraged a sustainable pace with high-levels of quality for the team which improved employee retention by 7%

Tracking project progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads with the help of MS Project.

Planning, organizing and directing projects to optimize processes, systems and to enable business objectives.

Developing methods and tools for requirement definition, process and workflow design and data modeling.

Developing best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management, ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics.

Develop project plans and budgets, works with users to understand complex problems and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines.

Create and deliver presentations to senior level management on project goals and plans, including progress reports and score card.

Managed changes and ensure effective communication among project team member.

Organized and maintained project team SharePoint site, ensuring required documentation are posted for team member access.

BUSINESS ANALYST

Pentair, Chicago, IL / Oct 2015– Feb 2016

Define data requirements and gather and validate information, applying judgment and statistical tests.

Collaborate with senior managers and decision makers to identify and solve a variety of problems and to clarify management objectives.

Perform validation and testing of models to ensure adequacy and reformulate models as necessary.

Analyze impact on, and risk to, essential business functions or information systems to identify acceptable recovery time periods and resource requirements.

SNR. PROJECT COORDINATOR

Super Target, Chicago IL, Jan 2015 – Oct 2015

Tracking project progress, managing the budget and analyzing workloads with the help of MS project

Planning, organizing and directing projects to optimize processes, systems and to enable business objectives

Developing best practices, techniques and tools for project planning, execution, project management, communication and key performance metrics

Create and deliver presentation to senior level management on project goals and plans

Monitoring project risks to identify potential problems and in turn identify solutions to solve same in advance

Facilitating project planning and scheduling across individual projects

SNR. ATTORNEY

Francbeth Solicitors, Lagos Nigeria / Oct 2009 - Dec 2014

Migrated and analyzed service, license, sales and other vendor agreement types as part of overhaul of financial services firm’s contract management database

Cataloged, reviewed and analyzed hardware, software and other professional services agreements as part of major upgrade to cloud-based technology company’s contract management processes and systems

Reviewed and analyzed various agreements as part of risk assessment and due diligence for potential spin off of a key division of financial institutions

Reviewed and painstakingly analyzed complex commercial agreements pertaining to myriads corporate deals and transition using Relativity e-Discovery and other proprietary software between multinational telecom, technology and financial companies

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Represent clients in court or before government agencies.

Analyze the probable outcome of cases using legal precedents (empirical approach)

Present evidence to defend clients or prosecute defendants in criminal or civil litigation.

Corporate and commercial law practice ranging from, intellectual property, corporate restructuring by way of mergers and acquisitions,

Contracts drafting and review to meet clients' expectations

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EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

LLB (equates JD)

NIGERIAN LAW SCHOOL

Bachelors of Law, BL

WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY DETROIT MI.

Graduate credits completed in Law of Corporation and Law of Taxation

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master 1

Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master

ICAgile Certified Professional - AGILE COACHING. ICP-ACC

SKILLS

Servant Leadership

Coaching/Mentoring

Leader, Great Listener

Ask powerful questions

Conflict Resolution

Scrum Values & Principles

Backlog Grooming

Risk Management and Compliance

Process Improvement

Stakeholder Engagement

Conflict Resolution

Decision-making

Stakeholder Engagement

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Team Empowerment

Product management

Project Management

Project planning

Knowledge of Jira, Rally and basic idea of Azure DevOps

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OLUSEYE OGUNLARU

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