MIDE SHOKUNBI

Maryland, Columbia MD, ***** • ads7ik@r.postjobfree.com • 667-***-****

Qualifications Summary

An innovative and analytical professional, experienced scrum master with proven capabilities managing stakeholders’ expectation, customer centricity, gap analysis, workflow improvement, and performance metrics.

Ability to organize and lead Scrum ceremonies, communicate with development teams, and manage scope and incremental deliveries that support business goals and customers value. Integrate innovative technical solutions to address complex client needs and related business problems, ensuring superior outcomes. Established communicator capable of strengthening relationships with internal and external stakeholders to deliver systems, build trust, and achieve project deliverables. Robust acumen to oversee multiple tasks, perform within a fast-paced environment, work effectively under pressure, and meet tight deadlines.

Agile Mindset • Scrum Framework • Business & Data Analysis • Data Cleansing & Validation

Risk Detection & Mitigation • Process Improvement • Project Management

Strategic Planning & Analysis • Configuration Management • Complex Problem Solving • Team Leadership

Professional Experience

Scrum Master GLONERG CONSULTING, MARYLAND, MD Dec 2020 to Present

Facilitate all scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, iteration/sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

Play a vital role in removing organizational, resource, and technical impediments that affect Scrum team.

Serve as a servant-leader with Scrum team and assist in building a cohesive and organized team. Lead Teams to ensure accuracy of operational activities related to existing business processes and new implementation projects by overseeing highly skilled validation team performing data validation.

Guide Team to develop and implement MDG solutions in compliance with business requirements from design, build, configurations, and testing to production.

Collaborate with cross domain teams to Synchronize with business for pre-cutover activities encompassing data cleansing, mapping, validation, and data entry.

Regularly prioritize, refine, and size using good acceptance criteria product backlog by collaborating with product owner and Scrum team.

Foster professional relationships with co-workers and customers to strengthen business links.

Scrum Master TD BANK, MARYLAND, MD Dec 2017 to Nov 2020

Coached teams on the adoption of agile principles and values that make Scrum development / delivery possible.

Provided overall guidance for team to adhere to Agile principles and practices.

Worked with stakeholders and team members to continuously improve value delivery.

Led Teams to drive quicker delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics to identify areas of opportunity.

Facilitated team transparency by escalating impediments and shares progress by the team to the appropriate channels.

Actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope, and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work.

Supported the Product Owner with grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Guided team in self-organization; encourages and motivates team to focus on sprint goals.

Implemented strong judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining accurate results.

Scrum Master T-MOBILE, MARYLAND, MD Jun 2016 to Nov 2017

Lead the Scrum team for Enterprise Solutions on eCommerce project.

Facilitated all sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily scrums with the development team.

Support the Product Owner with documentation of Acceptance Criteria and user stories.

Educated and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and stakeholders.

Facilitated agile ceremonies such as daily stand, and iteration planning.

Organized and improved agile practices and value which increases the productivity and overall team satisfaction.

Removed impediments to delivery success through the proactive management of internal and external dependencies.

Coordinated with various teams and resolved any incidents, requests, and issues related to MDM proactively and timely.

Adopted data conversion approach, determined data objects for conversion, and designed data definitions, data mappings, data requirements, functional and technical design documents, and structure for application.

Business Analyst Crossrail Limited, UK Dec 2013 to Jun 2016

Achieved target goal of 99% accuracy by overseeing data extraction from a legacy system, data consolidation, data consistency, cleansing, and data load.

Arranged status meetings, piloted discussions, provided thought leadership to team members, promoted cross-training, navigated various functional areas, and drove with various subject matter experts while meeting deliverable requirements.

Eliminated various time-consuming processes by suggesting valuable improvements and working around existing Data Conversion Team processes.

Demonstrated functional and technical expertise, guidance, presentations, and instructions on master data templates.

Functioned with test lead to coordinate, plan, and execute assembly, system, integration, and user acceptance testing.

Governed a data team to perform front and backend validation, including Payroll, Benefits, PA, and Org Mgt.

Junior Business Analyst Crossrail Limited, UK Jun 2007 to Nov 2013

Calculated team metrics and help the team use the metrics to guide improvements.

Reviewed project requirements, identified dependencies with other departments and service providers to ensure team-maintained focus on quality and continuous delivery.

Served as the primary project scheduler and administrator responsible for multiple IT/Program project schedules.

Worked closely with the Business Analyst to gathered business requirements and liaised with business users to priorities delivery of business requirements.

Organized and facilitated cross functional meetings, focused on delivering new or upgrading existing services.

Organized and determined responsibilities and provided administrative support to one more project team

Education

B.A Hons Linguistic, Lagos State University, Lagos

PRINCE2 Foundation

Certified SAFe Scrum Master, (SSM 5.0)

Certified Scrum Fundamentals, (CSF)

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I)

Tools & Methodologies

Tools: Relational database systems such as Rally, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, MIRO, Microsoft Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Quality Center, QTP, Clear Quest, Azure DevOps, Oracle DB, and Microsoft Project Methodologies: ADM, PMP, ASAP, AGILE & SDLC

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