Scrum Master Event Planner

OLAITAN REBECCA OPALADE

Dallas, TX ***** 972-***-****

************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/olaitan-opalade

PROFILE SUMMARY

Seasoned, Empathetic, and goal-oriented Scrum Master with 6+ years of experience working within a SAFe environment and being involved in coordinating team towards preparing and participating in PI planning Liaising with other scrum masters both in and out of Scrum meetings. Running breakout sessions to ensure features are broken, and risks, issues, and dependencies are identified. Extensive experience in lean agile implementation including but not limited to Streamlining software development processes to eliminate redundancy. Good mastery of project applications through multiple release cycles. Strong requirements gathering, scope development, and inventory coordination abilities. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies. Extensive Agile coaching experience recommending various frameworks necessary for specific teams and projects. Have a track record of ensuring rapid and timely delivery of business values (96% success rate on all projects). I have the social skills that are needed to build a team from a forming stage to a high-performing stage.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize and analyze large amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy

Solid understanding of mathematical foundations behind Machine Learning algorithms, and comfortable with discussing them in detail

A basic understanding of the legal implications of moving data across international boundaries, or comfortable working with a legal consult would be advantageous

Ability to communicate and discuss software components in simple, general terms with business partners and in great detail with software development engineers

Strong understanding and background in probability theory, random process, statistics, and optimization techniques

Ability to work on data mining, and data science projects with application engineering, quality engineers, and product management

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

SDLC

SCRUM

Waterfall

Kanban

SAFe

Extreme Programming (XP)

LESS

Lean

Confluence

Box

Mural

Mirror

JIRA/Jira align

Rally

Azure DevOps

ML SQL Server

SSRS

SSIS

Customer Relations

Attention to detail

MS Teams

Skype

Zoom

Webex

MS Office Suite

MS Project

MS Excel

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS SharePoint

Slack

WIKI

BDD

Pair Programming

Risk Mitigation

Goal Oriented

Backlog grooming

Burndown charts

DOD

Relative Estimation

Acceptance Criteria

Planning Poker

Story Sizing

CRM

Capacity

Velocity

INVEST

TDD

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

TITAN BANK 11/2018 – Till Date

Reduced team’s technical debts by 5%, and defect leakage to production by 15%.

Lead 2 agile teams through an agile transformation.

Mentoring, coaching & transforming teams towards Agility, and ensuring the team delivers with high quality and high productivity

Training teams to Facilitate Kanban boards and scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives& daily scrum)

Creation of the Definition of Ready (DoR) and ensuring DoR is followed throughout the project, conducting the revision session

Identification of the program risks and bifurcated them to ROAM approach

Ensuring the stories are sized according to sizing guidelines, maintaining a guideline for estimations, and publishing among the

Generating reports like Sprint Health Assessment, Sprint Burndown/Sprint Burnup, Sprint Cumulative Flow, Sprint Capacity by Team Members & Dependency Status Dashboard

Identifying and managing issues and jeopardizing with a clear grasp of the challenges/options until resolved.

Possesses excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high-pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines

Supports and partners with the Product Owners in managing and maintaining a healthy groomed backlog.

Continuously work with Scrum teams while looking for ways to improve software delivery (Continuous improvement).

Ensures that all team members adhere to Scrum properly throughout the SDLC processes so that code meets business requirements, company standards, and quality expectations

Creates a trusting and safe environment for the Scrum team where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem-solving.

Scrum Master Mar 2016 – Sept 2018

SIMMONS BANK, St. David, PA

Working with the Team and the Product Owner to define Team specific norms

Coached stakeholder engagement in various business units and the development teams

Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.

Scheduled and facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, managed Kanban storyboard, Sprint Demo & Sprint Retrospective meetings.

Supported the Product Owner to ensure the backlog has sufficient prioritized user stories at a ready status to stay ahead of the Team

Removed impediments to maximize team productivity

Advocating for knowledge transfer among team members to enhance cross-functionality

Continuous Improvement Analyst/Scrum Master Aug 2015 – Jan 2016

COPAAIR.COM, Richardson, TX

Develop process improvement procedures to improve operational efficiency

Led and coached the Scrum team responsible for developing software products and automated tools for financial services

Increased team velocity by 15% in the first 3 months of Agile adoption by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions

Enacted change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 15% and the quality of deliverables by 30%

Perform data gathering, root cause analysis, and performance trending to develop appropriate process control changes

Coordinate with Subject Matter Experts to develop process improvement reports for setting forth progress, adverse trends, and appropriate recommendations and conclusions

Inform respective teams on process improvement and re-engineering strategies

Worked closely with the project manager to create compressive action plans concerning resources, time frames, and the overall project process.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

B.S IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Lagos November 2014

Certified Scrum Master

Project Management Professional

SAFe Certified 5.1 Scrum Master (SSM)

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1)

ACTIVITIES

Program Coordinator for House of God, Wylie, TX

• A Christian Non-Profit group.

FREELANCE 2021 – Present

• Musical Voice Training

• Event planner and decorator.

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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