Scrum Master Project Coordinator

Name: Nelson Aluko

Location: Dallas,TX

Email: ********@*****.***

Telephone Number: 469-***-****

Professional Summary

An enthusiastic, reliable, and certified scrum master with 5 years’ experience of building cohesion and alignment between scrum teams and stakeholders. Extensive experience of leading software development teams in a SAFe environment.

Working knowledge of collaborating with release train engineers, Agile coaches, and other Scrum masters to release features effectively and smoothly to customers. Track record of proactively removing impediments, identifying, monitoring, and communicating risks whilst still promoting self-management and organization.

Keen to help teams continuously improve in an open and transparent environment that fosters collaboration and team spirit.

EXPERTISE SOFT SKILLS

Listening

●Communication

●Conflict Resolution

●Impediment Remover

●Great Relationship Builder

●Leading Change

●Patient and Assertive

●Stakeholder Management

●Jira, Confluence & Microsoft packages

●Negotiation

●Coaching/ Mentoring & Training

●Mural

●Scrum, XP, Lean and Kanban

●Rally

●RAID Management

●Sprint reporting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master Jan 2020 - present

Verizon (Remote)

Building Agility in multiple scrum teams

Proactively removing impediments or anything that would pose a threat to the sprint goal or may affect the team’s sustainable pace

Guide the team to have a clear understanding of agile frameworks (SAFe, Kanban, Scrum, etc.)

Support the team during PI planning by ensuring the team is committed to the objectives and goals that are defined

Coached the product owner on the need and how to write clear and concise user stories that conforms with the INVEST criteria

Ensuring the team’s goals and objectives aligns with the business expectations

Negotiate dependencies with other teams during the PI planning to ensure alignment in business objectives and customer needs

Manage the Identification, tracking and resolution of program level risks, issues, and dependencies

Working with the team to identify knowledge gap and organize knowledge gap sessions or trainings

Finding techniques that helps the team deliver quality increment, recently coached the team on TDD and BDD

Using the sprint metrics to identify areas of improvement and driving conversations towards possible actions plans

Collaborate with Product Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment

Empowering and motivating the team to be creative and courageous in their approach to work

Providing suggestions on how to improve the quality of increments / deliverables through engineering practices (Peer review) and Lean (Waste reduction)

Scrum Master November 2017 – December 2019

Arvest bank (Remote)

Fostered a ‘No blame’ culture environment where people have the courage to be themselves without fear of being judged.

Encouraged the team to celebrate wins and continuously find opportunities for improvement

Created a productive environment where team members own the product and enjoy working on it.

Worked closely with the product owner to ensure the product backlog is valid, ordered and represents the interests of the customers / stakeholders.

Communicated progress with stakeholders and management while monitoring their interaction with the team to ensure they are helpful and not disruptive

Used the team’s historical data (velocity) to help determine the number of story points they can commit to in a sprint.

Removed impediments to development teams’ progress via proactive management of issues and risks.

Collaborated with other scrum masters to help drive culture and organizational change.

Aligned the business and the team together to encourage co-creation of increments

Coached Agile practices and scrum framework within team to ensure a shift in mindset and behaviour

Explored powerful root cause analysis techniques such as 5 Whys to get to the bottom issues.

Project Coordinator

Vodafone London, UK Jan 2017 – October 2017

Monitored project progress against agreed time, budget, quality and milestones and report into the program

Monitored and escalated RAID as soon as they are identified

Responsible for minute taking and actions tracking

Ensured the project was delivered using the approved project management methodology and processes

Maintained and monitored project documentation for consistencies across the project e.g., RAID log, exception reports and highlight reports

Supported the team’s decision on the use of 'WIP limit’ and team rules such as ‘no developer should be working on more than one story at a time’ in the bid to increase quality increments.

Facilitated backlog refinement sessions to ensure that the team has ready stories for the sprints.

Communicating blockers, impediments, and dependencies on the Scrum of Scrum calls.

Coaching the team on the adoption of Agile practices and theory

Supporting and managing releases whilst still encouraging self-management amongst the developers

EDUCATION

Osun State University Nigeria

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science January 2012 – September 2016

The Polytechnic of Ogun, Nigeria

Associate Degree in Accounting & Business Administration June 2010 – December 2011

Fas High School, Nigeria

High School Diploma September 2004 – May 2010

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)

SAFe 5.0

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