Scrum Master Product Owner

OLUWASEUN E. OGUNSANWO, CSM.

Certified Scrum Master, LLB, B.L, ACIS, ACIarb, MSM

Email: ****.************@*****.*** Tel: 813-***-****. PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

A proactive and focused, Agile Scrum Master, Administrator, and Chartered Arbitrator with a robust and growing experience in Agile practices, principles and values and a dexterity for identifying and solving complex problems. I am also adept at implementing Scrum Frameworks and experienced in transitioning teams new to Agile. I have multiple years of experience in the Legal, E-commerce, Retail and Health care domains. A proven dedicated, conscientious, dependable and high-performance individual with ability to communicate with different stakeholders across an organisation. I am also a good team player with excellent communications and analytical skills. I have an inspiring “can-do” attitude, a thorough approach to work, a keen eye for details as well as good organizational skills. KEY SKILLS

Technical Skills:

Analytical: Complex problem-solving skills, Conflict Resolution Skills, Scrum Skills, Risk analysis, Stakeholder Analysis, Root cause Analysis, Documentation Skills.

Methodologies: Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban and SAFe Frameworks).

IT Tools and Applications: MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, CORE COMPETENCIES

Organisational skills: organises own work and that of others to meet deadlines, peak periods and unexpected situations prioritising and organising beyond the day to day.

Communication skills (written – Business writing & verbal): conveys information in an effective and well- organised manner. Active listener who is able to gain co-operation of others. Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate across all stakeholder levels.

Teamwork & leadership skills: Excellent team leader and team player who makes effective contributions to the team by encouraging, training and supporting others.

Client service skills: accountable for delivering high level and proactive service to clients particularly where required to deal effectively with inherent clients. Excellent client facing and telephone skills.

Innovation, Strategic capacity skills: forward looking and proactive approach to issues. Take personal responsibility to improving processes.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Scrum Master Dovina Technologies (July 2018 – Date) Working as a scrum master across several projects for a Tech-Company. I managed several stakeholders to ensure delivery of project outcomes to specified timelines and budgets. I delivered outstanding values and consistently promoted high performances and returns from team members. Main Responsibilities:

Facilitation of Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Demos).

Identifying and removing blockers for the team to enhance productivity and ensure timelines are met.

Shielding team from external noise to ensure capacity to deliver committed goals is unaffected.

Monitoring and managing dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues were resolved

Tracking and communicating team velocity, sprint / release progress and resource availability.

Utilized Jira and Confluence for uploading and managing backlog items, requirements, defects, reporting and for future needs tickets.

Using JIRA to maintain product backlog and sprint backlog and to create and track user stories, Sprint planning, tracking and managing sprints.

Creating Scrum and Kanban boards, status reports and burn down charts.

Partnering with other scrum masters on our programs team, to ensure our ways of working were consistent across teams

Scrum Master Global Signatures (May 2016 to June 2018) Main Responsibilities:

Proficiently organized and facilitated daily scrum, sprint reviews, retrospectives, sprint, and release planning.

Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant and prioritized, ensuring acceptance criteria are agreed upon and stories are ready for sizing.

Effectively track team’s progress, including burn down, velocity and release forecasting.

Identified and removed team impediments beyond their capabilities to enhance productivity and efficiency.

Provided proactive coaching to the team and recommended continuous improvement of processes and tools to optimize team productivity, quality and time-to-market.

Created long and short-term plans, which included setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines.

Monitored and managed dependencies on other teams and external projects to ensure potential issues were resolved.

Served as a point of contact for teams when multiple units were assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remained in synergy.

Performed quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected.

Communicated with the executives to keep the project aligned with their goals. Chief State Counsel The Lagos State Government, (Ministry of Justice), Lagos, Nigeria (2010-2016) Ensured maximal efficiency and effectiveness towards assigned tasks by creating congenial atmosphere between the Legislature and Executive arm of the State Government. Monitored and evaluated Legislative proceedings and bills passed into law and advice appropriately. Also, ensured that the Lagos State Government incurred minimal or no liability in judgments arising from Civil Litigation matters. Encouraged the settlement of cases in respect of matters that can be settled out of court. Obtained judgments in favour of the State Government at various levels. Main Responsibilities:

Litigated on behalf of Lagos State Government in respect of civil matters; ranging from land related issues and enforcement of fundamental human right cases amongst others. Land matters handled were mostly related to compulsory acquisition of landed properties, Revocation of Certificate of Occupancy in Lagos State and so on.

Appearances at the State or Federal High Court and Court of Appeal in civil suits

Evaluated findings and developed strategies and arguments in preparation for the cases.

Prepared witnesses for written depositions, scheduled interviews, answered and or resolved questions of concerns to them.

Prepared Court briefs and filing of legal processes such as Notice of Preliminary Objections, Interlocutory applications, Briefs of Arguments, Motions and other court related processes.

Attended to petitions and appeals forwarded to the Governor from the legislature and general public.

Reviewed Contracts on behalf of the Lagos State Government.

Monitored and evaluated legislative proceedings at National and State levels, also I attended stakeholders and executive briefings at the State House of Assembly.

Engaged in Alternative dispute resolution by Settling disputes via engagement, mediation and arbitration.

Studied statutes, case laws, regulations and ordinances of quasi-judicial bodies to determine the likely result of the cases.

References: Available on request

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