Babs Ola

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/babs-ola-mba-psm-smac-84351521b/

U.S CITIZEN

PSM SMAC STMAC

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

7+ years of experience as a scrum master/project manager using independent company and PMI standards. Offer outstanding skills in Project and Process Management, Resource Loading (recruiting/staffing), Budget Management, Project Scope Development (budgets, timelines and delivery dates), Customer Relationship Improvement, Continuous Design Improvements, Conducting status Meetings and Project Reviews. I have a keen ability to understand and build complex systems, specializing in leading high-performing and multi-disciplinary teams from product development through successful product launches. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects, applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

• 7+ years’ experience with technical tools such as Jira, Slack, confluence, Rally Dev, Microsoft office 365, Azure DevOps, Adobe Acrobat, Road Munk/Product Board, GSuite, Zoom

• 7+ years’ experience using Scrum methodologies, agile implementations, and process improvement frameworks, mentoring, coaching, and supporting other scrum masters.

• 7+ years’ experience leading teams across broad technical, business disciples, moving between agile waterfall, SDLC and PDLC approaches depending on project specifics and client goals, and mitigating risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data

KEY STRENGTH

• Agile & SAFe • Time management

• Microsoft Office • People Management

• Systems Development Methodology • Meeting coordination

• Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, ADO • Conflict management

• Product Development Life Cycle – PDLC • Communication and key player

• Software Development Life Cycle - SDLC • Problem solving – risks and impediments

• Subject Matter Expert - Waterfall Methodology

EDUCATION

Keller School of Management Alpharetta, GA

Network Communication & Management

DeVry University Duluth, GA

Bachelor’s Business in Administration

Concentration in Project Management

CERTIFICATIONS

• Cisco CCNA

• CompTIA Security+

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

• Professional Scrum Master – PSM

• Scrum Master Accredited Certification - SMAC

• Scrum Team Member Accredited Certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mutual Holding Inc. Atlanta, GA

Scrum Master/Project Manager October 2018 – Present

• Mentored and coached Scrum teams on Backlog refinement including the best practices for defining the MVP, different estimation techniques including relative sizing, and Definition of Done

• Organized and improved agile practices and values, increasing productivity and overall team satisfaction by an average of 35%.

• Led and coordinated the daily stand-ups, sprint plannings, sprint demos, sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinements resulting in an on-time delivery rate of 95%.

• Providing streamlining and managing program documentation and recourses – MPS, Support Service Delivery PM Lead with data validation and reporting, managing the flow, progress, and issues reporting using Jira and SharePoint

• Assists the team with removing impediments by understanding the control and release processes

• Facilitates Sprint Planning/review, Sprint retrospective, Stand-Ups, Backlog grooming session’s meetings and ither Scrum ceremonies as necessary

• Maintaining consistent focus on team members, multi-functional & technical teams, cross collaboration teams, engaging actively with stake holders, and vendors

• Oversee Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists

• Provides recommendations and support for configuration of Agile Sprint management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and templates

• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality while contributing the IEL change control process

• Works with the scrum team and the product owner to negotiate minimum viable product for delivery, making sure User Stories are prioritized and reached Definition of Ready before adding them into a respective Sprint.

• Drives the requirements gathering, analysis and design, procurement of equipment and service, testing and implementation of all activities throughout each project

Orbit Consulting LLC Duluth, GA

Scrum Master/Project Manager July 2015– October 2018

• Helping train teams on the Agile methodology and overseeing the development of agile teams to ensure effective outcomes for the organization

• Accountable for my team's effectiveness and serve the team by removing roadblocks to the flow of value.

• Help team understand the empirical nature of Scrum framework and how to use that data driven approach when building products

• Coordinating sprints, planning, daily standups, review, and retrospective meetings,

• Serving as a facilitator of the Scrum Teams, resolving impediments, and checking the agile scrum principles and values over the processes

• Coordinating people and projects with a strong focus on deliverables

• Creating self-organizing teams that are flexible and fully productive during sprints

• Created, maintained and updated Risks register, by identifying all risks, access their impacts on the project (high/ medium/low) established mitigation/contingency plans with risk owners during the lifecycle of the project.

• Managed execution risk and dependencies across impacted teams

• Worked with the Product and Program owners to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information

• End to end (from ideation to implementation) accountability for continuous backlog management associated to one or more Wealth Planning and Advice Technology workstreams

• Participated in facilitating change management on work breakdown structure (WBS), project timeline and deliverables through the change control board (CCB)

• Coordinated and ran Project Meetings (bi-weekly) RAG status reports in Project Manager's absence - engage team members, follow up on blockers, note action items

• Maintained and updated squad process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and transparent communications to Product Owner and other stakeholders

Signal Holding LLC Buford, GA

Project Scheduler May 2013– June 2015

• Served as a Project/Program Scheduler with the responsibility for evaluating, planning, and developing forecasts of time and resources needed for design and engineering projects

• Provided critical review and analysis of project progress reports to identify any problems or concerns that may affect the timely completion of a project’s planning

• Provided expert technical advice on requirements for scheduling the planning, design, and construction of new buildings or the rehabilitation of existing structures

• Enabled team members to realize their mission and deliver on their KPIs

• Provided thought leadership and constructive feedback as a SME to team members to help drive Agile maturity, knowledge, and effective communication

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

• Excellent Agile project management skills

• Patient positioning Competency

• Excellent writing and communication skills

• Team Builder & Statistical Analysis

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills

• Analyzing project artifacts and offering

quality recommendations

• Managing Agile projects, quality assurance,

cost and performance

• Strong academic knowledge in Agile project

management/Scrum, business operations,

logistics marketing and human resource

management

• Managing Agile projects, quality assurance, cost and performance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, JIRA, Confluence, Rally Dev, Windows and Mac OS

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