Scrum Master Project Manager

Omowumi Adekunle

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CAREER PROFILE

• Demonstrated Business & Product Development Expertise in an Agile Environment: 10+ years of experience in facilitating stakeholder’s engagement and teams’ collaboration in the development and deployment of project, software, and business solutions.

• Certified SAFe Scrum Master seeking to leverage Scrum and Agile skills, and business analysis skills to ensure organizational success through improving team performance and raise efficiency in product delivery; Coaching Agile teams to self-manage and become high performing.

• Expertise in designing and developing team alignment strategies, team management, strategic planning, and leadership skills.

CERTIFICATES

• Professional Certified Scrum Master (PSM1)

• Certified SAFe 5.1 Scrum Master (SSM)

• Certified Authorization Professional

• Agile Certified Practitioner

AREA OF EXPERTISE

• Knowledge of various Agile frameworks: Scrum, XP, Kanban Principles, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework),

• Tools and Technical Skills: Rally, Jira, Mural, SDLC, MS Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Azure, Data Integration, TDD, ATDD, SQL

• Experienced in Agile techniques: Customer Centricity, Continuous Learning, Agility, Community of Practice (CoP)

• Business Skills: Business Analysis, Project coordination, Risk Analyst, Meeting Facilitation, Servant Leadership, Project Management

• Leadership skills: Excellent oral and written communication skills, strategic planning, team mentoring, effective decision-making, excellent time management PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EdgeCast, Salt Lake City, Utah March 2021 - Present Senior Scrum Master

• Facilitates Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, Sprint Demos & Backlog Refinement for 2 cross-functional agile teams.

• Facilitates communication within and across team by leveraging the scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect.

• Uses Jira to monitor and track product development progress through different Sprint.

• Ensures the effectiveness of product development and delivery by constantly evaluating team performance and carrying process improvement sessions during retrospective events.

• Together with the scrum team, defines, builds, tests, and deploys products while facilitating the continuous improvement, cadence, and synchronization in the entire processes.

• Coaches the scrum team to adopt effective communication strategies and interpersonal skills, contributing to improve team performance.

• Support leadership in understanding agile artifact, process, and outputs. Blue Cross of Idaho, Idaho May 2018 – February 2021 Agile Scrum Master

• Organized and facilitated scrum team events and related meetings across the organization.

• Assisted the product owners in backlog prioritization, backlog grooming, release planning.

• Facilitated backlog grooming to achieve enough ready stories for the next sprint and reduce time of sprint planning.

• Utilized JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, excel, and PowerPoint to manage and share relevant communication with team members and stakeholders.

• Monitored progress using the sprint report, velocity, burn up and burn down charts.

• Coached the scrum team and stakeholders where necessary to agile practices as outlined by the Scrum Framework.

• Managed the Scrum Event calendar to ensure all event meetings are held and stay within the time box.

• Contributed to agile process improvement by participating and supporting the Agile Center of Excellence in running quarterly assessments.

Compliance, NJ December 2016 – April 2018

Scrum Master

• Supported organization management to understand effective deliver of products using agile practices.

• Facilitated Scrum Events including Iteration Planning, Daily Standups, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospectives, Iteration Demos, Story Grooming, and Release Planning.

• Facilitated communication within the agile team and between the agile team, product owner and stakeholders by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect

• Use Rally to monitor and track project progress iteratively, assign stories to iterations, tag defects to stories and split stories to tasks.

• Responsible for resolving impediments for the scrum team and act as a safeguard for the team.

• Defined and deployed new product development processes while facilitating the continuous improvement of existing processes.

• Coach the scrum team to main adopt effective communication and interpersonal skills to improve team performance.

First Bank of Nigeria, Lagos Nigeria January 2014 – October 2016 Project Manager

• Worked with senior Manager and transition teams to implement training and integrated legacy systems with new systems and processes

• Effectively communicated project scope, schedule, and budget with both customers and contractors.

• Saved 20% in costs by establishing and cultivating vendor relations to resolve site issues.

• Schedule and project performance while supervising tasks from initiation through completion.

• Checked project compliance and reviewed contractor scope, materials, and pricing take-off for competitive bidding.

• Evaluated product and process disadvantages and suggested solutions, including changes to processes, products or quality standards where warranted. Brain gate Model School Nigeria, Lagos Nigeria April 2009 – December 2013 Head Of Departments

• Oversaw and fulfilled a guidance program designed to allow students to voice concerns without fear of punishment or judgment.

• Analyzed student performance in class and identify sources of problems.

• Helped students develop a plan for their academic career that corresponds with their skills and interests.

• Hosted crisis intervention and prevention programs.

• Facilitated communication between parents, Teachers, administrators and students about behavior and academic problems.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry

Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

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