Kunle Okewole Lawal

Summary:

Experience at Driving the Adoption of Agile Values, Principles and Practices. adept at leveraging SAFe Agile Practices with Business Initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable. Seeking a position as a SAFe Scrum Master, bringing 7years of experience.

Education:

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria 2000 - 2005

B. Tech Fine Art/Graphics.

Interactive College of Technology, Houston Tx 2020 - 2021

Diploma In Information Technology

Certification:

Project Management Professional (PMP)

Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

Certified SAFe Agile (SSM SAFe 5)

COMPTIA A+

Microsoft Office 365

Core Competencies:

Agile Values & Principles

Backlog Refinement

Scrum Ceremonies

Burn down & Bur/n up charts

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Dynamics 365

Scrum/Extreme Programming (XP)/Kanban

Team Empowerment

Conflict Resolution

Emotional Intelligence

Iteration/Sprint Planning

JIRA expertise

Stakeholder Engagement.

Team Performance

Relative Sizing

DevOps

Azure DevOps

Story Pointing

Waterfall Methodology

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Risk Management

Technical Expertise

Agile Tools:

Jira, Rally, Version One, Redmine, TFS

Software:

Dynamics 365, MS Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, SharePoint, Visio, MS Project, PPM, Remedy, SAP.

Databases:

SQL Server, AS400, CACS, FileNet, SharePoint

Professional Experience

CitiBank Sept 2018 – Present

SAFe Scrum Master

Helping Organization to Implement Agile/Scrum transformation with a Team developing a New Mobile Application System.

Integrated Financial Application Data Aggregator API, which gives access to the data in real-time and support initiatives such as Open Banking, Financial Data Aggregation, Bank Account Verification and Transaction Data Enrichment.

Using Dynamics 365 as a Business Application Platform to Automate and Integrate Sales and Marketing Capabilities that efficiently Connect, Prioritize, and Covert leads into Paying Customers.

Using Azure DevOps Culture to Promote Collaboration between Development and Operation Teams to Deploy Code to Production Faster in an Automated and Repeatable manner.

Facilitating Team Breakout Sessions during Program Increment (PI) planning to gain Alignment with other teams.

Organizing and facilitate Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-Up, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospective, Product Backlog Refinement and ensuring there’s full team engagement.

Monitoring the Pulse and Morale of the Team, influencing the Team Spirit and creating excitement around the Deliverable.

Performing the role of a Servant Leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on good Agile practices.

Supported Product Owners with Grooming and Maintaining Product Backlogs, making sure User Stories are Sprint ready.

Facilitating and Coordinating User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple Scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

Building a Trusting and Safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or being judged.

Maintaining Metrics that provide Visibility to Stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.

Guided and coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on Self-Organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.

Tracking Key Metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders.

Facilitating Risk and Problem-Solving Workshops to mitigate Risks and solve Root Cause Analysis to Problems using the Five Whys Approach and the Fish Bone Diagram.

Identifying and Removing Team Impediments and Escalating as necessary to management.

DIAGEO Jan. 2016 – Aug 2018

Scrum Master

Implementing Agile Transformation for a Team working on a GPS Location Tracker with Facial Recognition API.

Integrated the Geolocation API in other to specifically return a location and accuracy radius based on the information of Cell Towers and Wi-Fi nodes that can be detected by the mobile Client.

Integrated the Eye Recognize Face Detection API to Capture Face Detection with Biometric Features. This API provides coordinates for all faces detected and associated facial features such as eyes, nose, mouth, skin tone, and hair color.

Act as Scrum Master on Scrum Team while simultaneously teaching and reinforcing the Agile and SAFe best practices among the Scrum Team.

Facilitate Team Swarms and other approaches at overcoming Obstacles and to gain Alignment with other Teams.

Coaching and Developing Team members as needed on Agile and Scrum Practices.

Using Azure DevOps to Increase the Organizations Speed to Deliver Applications and Services.

Facilitated Daily Stand Ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Demos, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Refinement and other meetings as needed.

Facilitating Discussions and Conflict Resolution while Empowering teams to Self-Organize.

Building Team Cohesion through Collaboration, Openness, Respect, and Transparency.

Providing all support to the team using a Servant leadership style whenever possible and leading by example.

Identifying and removing Roadblocks and Impediments to teams' working progress.

Guiding the Scrum team in establishing normalized Estimating, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Deployment, Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Acceptance Testing and Performance Testing.

Supporting Innovation and Planning Sessions for Continuous Learning Culture where we focus on Creating New Ideas, Peer Learning, and best Solutions.

Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate Team Velocity, Burn Down Charts and Sprint/Release Progress to the team.

Coaching Scrum teams on how to Create Clear and Concise User Stories with well-defined Acceptance Criteria.

Assisting with Internal and External Communication, Improving Transparency, and Radiating Information.

CSAT Solutions. Feb 2014 – Jan 2016

Business Analyst I

Performing Requirements Elicitation Using Interviews and Workshop Facilitation.

Documenting Functional and Technical requirements in line with the Business Requirements, Using Structured Techniques.

Partnering with Cross Functional Teams to Create, Edit, Revise, and Design Policies and Procedure Documentation Required by IT Quality Assurance.

Creating User Guides, FAQs, Quick Start Guides, and Training materials as appropriate.

Maintaining related Documentation and provided Implementation training as well as on-going Support.

Managing Artifacts in line with SDLC guidelines.

Managing the Process of change Preparation and Documentation for the Agile Team throughout the Project.

Participating in Backlog Grooming Sessions aimed at Tasking, Assigning and Story Pointing Stories.

Conducting Retrospectives as part in line with Agile best Practices of Re-Integrating lessons learned into the Development Process.

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