Scrum Master Program Specialist
Resume:
Idowu Akinseye
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Resourceful and dynamic PSM with great expertise and experience working with diverse teams co-located, distributed, and offshore. Experience with a proven track record of delivering high- quality software, on time and within budget. A keen servant leader who inspires teams to inspect, adapt, and become high performing, self-organized while delivering high quality solutions within a short cycle time; a thorough understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including but not limited to the various concepts such as requirements gathering. Expert in establishing collaboration among cross-functional teams, managing risk, and maintaining focus on strategic goals. Outstanding leadership ability, communication skills and overall business acumen. Possess a detail-oriented nature with interpersonal conflict resolving skills. ROLES & CORE COMPETENCIES:
• IT Governance in
Scrum • Continuous Improvement • JIRA Admin
• Agile Methodologies • Coaching/Mentoring • Pair programming
• Effective Change • Conflict Resolution • Scrum Master TECHNOLOGY & SKILLS
• JIRA, Kanban, Scrum, Rally, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams
• Agile Ceremonies, Backlog refinement
• EDUCATION / CERTIFICATION:
Associate Degree in Education.
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
SPECIAL EXPERTISE:
• Knowledge of various agile frameworks: Scrum, XP, Kanban and SAFe.
• Experience in Google Suite, Visual studios, JIRA, Rally and TFS.
• Relationship Management experience with business and technology partners.
• Highly motivated with excellent verbal, written, interpersonal communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of technology delivery and business process.
• Ability to determine and report priorities/metrics to senior management.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Flexible, able to think out of the box, apply the appropriate process/methodology or solution to a given problem.
• Expertise in facilitating discussion for decision-making and conflict resolution.
• Experience in driving change using the Change Assessment, Change Planning, Managing and Reinforcing Change.
• Experienced working with co-located and geographical distributed team (Onshore- Offshore).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mary T Inc
Minnesota
March 2020- Present
Scrum Master
• Collaborate with product owner, development team, and other essential roles to identify risks and resolve ambiguities.
• Ensure offshore team members are in sync with all scrum team ceremonies.
• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies (Daily Standups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Refinement) required by the team.
• Create trusting and safe environment where team members felt included and valued, and where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged.
• Help team track and resolve impediments by finding the right personnel to resolve them, escalate when necessary and protect team from external interferences.
• Work closely with product owners in backlog refinement using different prioritization methods to meet user needs.
• Enforce the practice of having stories in “Ready” state before sprint planning.
• Managed impediment backlog and motivated team members to identify necessary action.
• Initiated product backlog and developed user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives meetings.
• Managed impediment backlog and motivated team members to identify necessary action.
• Initiated product backlog developed user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Managed burndown charts and motivated team members working towards sprint goals
• Maintained storyboards, organized charts within JIRA and influenced best practices to team.
• Held retrospective meetings to guide cross functional teams improving future sprints for success
• Mediated conflicts, fostering team and coached individuals improving team dynamics
• Prioritized product backlog for grooming and sprint planning while product owner was absent
• Worked with stakeholders and product owner developing release plans
• Coordinate with other agile teams to resolve cross-team issues and dependencies
• Communicate status, risks, barriers to relevant stakeholders and leadership.
• Constantly found creative ways to run retrospectives to get valuable feedback from scrum teams to ensure continuous improvement.
Assistant Program Specialist/ Scrum Master
Ascension Health, Indianapolis, IN
Feb 2018- March 2020
Scrum Master
• Conduct Iteration planning with End-Users, Subject Matter Experts, and Developers for requirements gathering of a business project and user stories to create Spring Backlog.
• Pilot day-to-day product development activities across requirements, design, development, deployment.
• Manage product roadmaps, vision, and timelines for product lifecycle including business and product requirements, process workflow, functional specifications, use cases, test cases.
• Work cross-functionally with internal and external stakeholders to understand the business problem and translate it into prioritized user stories.
• Collaborates with Product Owners and End-Users to conduct root-cause analysis on metrics movements that affect the operational performance of the system.
• Prioritizing development backlog, planning releases, driving requirements/user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Monitor projects through the SDLC process using the Agile/SCRUM methodology.
• Create Business Requirement Documents, User Requirement, Functional and Non- Functional Requirement Specifications, process flow diagram, use cases.
• Provided process improvement recommendations and supported the implementation of application enhancement and change request.
• Help team track and resolve impediments by finding the right personnel to resolve them, escalate when necessary and protect team from external interferences.
• Participate in Scrum of Scrum to ensure cross-team collaboration, coordination of release plans, report overall project status, and upcoming risks/dependencies.
• Motivate the team to work towards continuous improvement and deliver shippable product that deliver business value in every sprint.
• Improve transparency by publishing agile metrics with velocity chart, sprint burndown, scrum board, and release burndown charts.
• Drive significant organization change across agile team to support agile development.
• Promote cross function within the team to ensure task completion and delivery of sprint Facilitated sprint and release planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives.
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