Scrum Master Product Owner

Kemi Owolabi

Georgia, United States **********@*****.*** 404-***-****

SUMMARY

Highly experienced Scrum Master working with a diverse group of talented individuals with over 6 years of experience. Demonstrated ability maintaining cross-functional teams. Certified Scrum Master with excellent communication and organizational skills. Leveraging servant leadership style approach in helping teams adopt Agile and strive for constant improvement in a fast-paced environment. Worked and gained in depth understanding of software development lifecycle and different development methodologies like Waterfall and Agile. Highly experienced in facilitating the ceremonies of scrum, identifying risks, dependencies and removing impediments to create a more Agile environment.

EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Velossent March 2019 - Present

. • Facilitated cross-functional team in Scrum Ceremonies Refinement/Backlog grooming, Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Demos/Review, Sprint Retrospective.

• Promoted Agile tracking systems to provide transparency and communication within the team, Product owner and Stakeholders.

• Improved the effectiveness of the teams, increased team velocity and encouraged new team members to adopt Scrum.

• Encouraged and Facilitated an environment for continuous learning of the Agile process through coaching and utilizing metrics to further improve the team abilities.

• Coached and mentored others to help them improve their scrum practices, which resulted in increased velocity and increased team satisfaction.

• Identified risks early, remove or escalated if needed to success on deliverables.

• Improved scrum practices and adaptation.

• Encouraged team work by lifting roadblocks to increase team velocity, and developing an agile roadmap.

• Proactively managed and mitigated risks and impediments across the Scrum team.

• Managed Scrum team and mentored and trained project team in Scrum process.

• Worked efficiently and effectively with Product owner to ensure we use the healthy and prioritized product backlog.

• Identified, resolved or escalated roadblocks, issues, conflicts within the team, protected and shielded team from unnecessary interruptions.

• Facilitated and coach scrum team showing true leadership by empowering team to be self-organization and self-management.

• Encourages team to explore healthy agile development practice

• Identified Sprint and project risks and offered mitigation strategies to track metrics of team progress and productivity.

• Worked with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders to influence and drive decision making and support organization project and or product teams.

• Encouraged Scrum Team to deliver product features, by building the desired product deliverables into the sprint backlog.

• Engaged with other Scrum Masters, BAs and Product Owner to increase Agile ices and focus on quality, predictable delivery, automation and continuous integration and delivery using technical excellence

Scrum Master

BB&T October 2016 - March 2019

• Facilitated the Scrum ceremonies including daily standups, iteration/Sprint Planning, Sprint Review/Demos, Sprint Retrospective and

Product Backlog Grooming meetings for my team.

• Proactively Served to remove impediments identified by team to progress on accomplishing sprint goals.

• Motivated team in adherence to Agile Principles and provided coaching to the Scrum Teams on how to implement the Scrum framework.

• Worked with Product Owner to get a prioritized and efficient product backlog practices.

• Provided assistance in user stories development, agile processes and backlog management, facilitating the work of the scrum team.

• Ensured cross Functional coordination and communication

• Identified Sprint and project risks and offered mitigation strategies to track metrics of team progress and productivity.

• Worked with Scrum Team, as well as internal and external stakeholders to influence and drive decision making and support organization project and or product teams.

• Encouraged Scrum Team to deliver product features, by building the desired product deliverables into the sprint backlog.

• Engaged with other Scrum Masters, BAs and Product Owner to increase Agile awareness in the organization.

• Protect the team from outside distractions or work and protect also protect them from conflicts and scope creep in order to meet sprint goals and deliverables

CERTIFICATIONS

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE) SSM

Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Bachelor of Science LASU 2009

SKILLS

Technical Skills: Scrum, Agile, SDLC, Project management tools Jira, Rally, Burndown Chart, Burndown Burnup, Microsoft Office Suite. Soft Skills: Good Communication and Excellent Interpersonal Skills, Coaching Mentoring And Influencing Positive Reinforcement To Achieve Desired Goals, Problem Solving And Strategic Planning

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