Aliu M. Ajala

Oakland, CA 510-***-**** ads5el@r.postjobfree.com

CERTIFIED SCRUM MASTER

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AGILIST SERVICE DELIVERY

Strategic Agile Transformation Consultant, with over 5 years expertise in managing software development implementation projects, product development & accelerated adoption, to deliver business value, improve processes, maximize team potential, product quality and efficiency.

Career Objectives: A true Servant Leader/Problem Solver helping to improve teams, making sure the organization is benefiting from the team's improvement, facilitating the team/teams to their full potential.

KEY Accomplishments:

Facilitated the adoption of agile values and principles with GAT Airline across the enterprise and associates on the culture change required to shift from traditional to agile mindset.

Guided multiple work-streams simultaneously through transition from Waterfall to Agile development approach within 6 months.

Coached and mentored lean agile principles as a scrum master that resulted in a 30% increase in team's output in less than 8 weeks (4 Iterations).

Implemented organization standards successfully to establish lean principles and procedures tailored to Agile and DevOps models that saved time and increase production stability.

Work Experience

Cruise Auto February 2022 - Present

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

Leading Scrum team to Simplify cloud migration with secure, high-performance automation.

Foster positive relationships with Code Release Manager, Automation Expert, Quality Assurance, Software Developer/Tester to help manage impediments as seen by scrum teams.

Working with DevOps team to deliver values, increased productivity, profitability, market share.

Assist the DevOps team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition, process, and delivery Values.

Form strong relationships with the business stakeholders, partnering to resolve project related issues, provide project status updates and escalate issues and concerns appropriately.

Lead development initiatives through agile methodologies of Scrum and Kanban.

Serving as an Agile Coach and Mentor to teams on adoption and improving agile methods and practice and attend Scrum of Scrums, providing feedback to Agile Team. Facilitate ceremonies for various agile teams.

Uber August 2018 - February 2022

SCRUM MASTER

•Keep backlog up to date by working with Product Owners and Project Manager

•Ensure that the Scrum Teams are working effectively towards efficiencies and productivity to execute on business objectives being delivered with high quality standards

•Perform as Scrum Master for 1 or 2 scrum teams with a focus on guiding the teams toward improving the way they work and facilitating sprint planning, retrospective and demos.

•Remove all obstacles to project team efficiency; reach out to the larger organizational network for impediment removal.

GAT Airline November 2017 - August 2018

SCRUM MASTER

Responsible for definition, adoption, and optimization of an agile framework and practices.

Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective for multiple Scrum Teams and served as an IT Project management liaison for the project.

Built strong relationships with stakeholders, application users, and program owners while delighting customers.

Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to improve efficiency, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Coordinated of activities with Release Management to ensure successful delivery of software.

Tracked and communicated the team status and progress to the Business, Stakeholders, Vendors and Executive Sponsors via JIRA Dashboards.

Protected the development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts and maintain focus on the Product backlog.

Walmart August 2014 - September 2017

SCRUM MASTER

• Analyze the scope of projects, work cross-functionally with IT and other stakeholders, develop project plans with users, and provide time estimates

• Has awareness of other development teams’ overall roadmap plan, decreasing the possibility of duplicate work being done between teams

• Provide risk management and issue / problem resolution proactively

• Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work

• Improve processes to optimize performance and value over time

• Track and manage project execution in accordance with company's solution delivery and financial management practices

SKILLS

•Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Practitioner, Agile Frameworks - Scrum, Kanban, XP, Jira, User Stories, MS Office Suite

EDUCATION

Associate degree in business administration

Merritt college In progress

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