Scrum Master Graphic Designer

BABAJIDE JAIYESIMI

**********@*****.*** · https://www.linkedin.com/in/babajide-jaiyesimi-99905aa1/ +447********* Highly energized, focused, and creative individual with the desire to do daily personal retrospectives to ensure constant growth to be the best I can be. I use my communication/people skills, and high energy to unblock any impediments that are in my team's way to success. Experienced coaching teams to adopt agility and continuously improve their processes whilst building and delivering innovative products or functionalities to improve customers’ experience. In-depth understanding of interdependencies between process, technology, and people needs. Strong business acumen and analytical capabilities, adaptability, critical thinking and communication, influencing, and interpersonal skills. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of scrum practices, removing impediments, and fostering self-organization. I have applied various agile methods and supporting practices such as Lean, Kanban, XP, Story mapping, and design thinking to help teams in creating innovative solutions that delight the customers. I foster the culture of continuous improvements by ensuring teams focus on advancing their processes, tools, technical practices, and team dynamics to deliver the highest value product increment in each iteration. A natural leader with an agile mindset who is not afraid to take well-assessed risks or get her hands dirty to go the extra mile / do what is needed to enable the team to achieve success in all scale projects on time and on the budget

EXPERIENCE

SEPTEMBER 2018 – PRESENT

SCRUM MASTER, NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY, NBS

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

- Facilitated the process and helped each team to create personalized boards in jira to enable metrics tracking, project reporting, and better visibility. This helped improve the inspection and adaptation process for the team. I.e., Daily stands, sprint planning, etc.

- Continuously educating the team is not just doing agile for hype’s sake but being agile in mindset and approach.

- Supported the continuous management of the delivery of projects across the full lifecycle, to required cost, timescale, and quality parameters.

- Empowers the dev team to make decisions by themselves using facilitation techniques to achieve this.

- Assertively ensured agile/scrum concepts and principles adhere when rules are about to be broken or anti-patterns are discovered.

- Works efficiently with senior management and stakeholders to implement the necessary organizational changes required.

- Engages with fellow scrum masters to identify opportunities for improvement across delivery processes.

- Supports the product owner with relevant metrics to help articulate progress shared with both internal and external stakeholders which enabled predictability.

- Encourages early flagging of impediments or proactively identifies them at early stages before they cause an obstruction or jeopardize the scrum from accomplishing their sprint goal.

- Coach teams in agile way of working and on technical practices needed for more agility

- Coaching leaders and stakeholders on how to support and how to engage with teams

- Helps establish lasting technical solutions that provide a solid foundation for continued value delivery

- Provide workshops on technical practices and principles

- Coach the organization on a strategic level, ensuring teams, programs or portfolios delivery continues the value of the highest quality.

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- Supporting drop-in sessions and Communities of Practice which included preparation for and facilitating sessions to improve process improvements at the organizational level.

- Supporting the development and delivery of content for bite-sized ongoing learning – such as user story writing, story mapping, estimation techniques, and how to limit WIP. JANUARY 2015 – SEPTEMBER 2018

SCRUM MASTER, DIRECT LINE GROUP

- Led from the front and at times stayed in the background, supporting, and enabling the roles in a scrum team and others who require support.

- Used some agile games to improve communication within the team i.e. engaging them by talking about something the other person cares about; genuinely interested in what their views are .etc.

- Helped to steer conversation during PI planning for the teams’ making the Teams’ PI Objectives visible as a guide whilst playing for the five sprints and ensuring to make transparent any risks escalating them to the program level.

- Drove relentless improvement via Inspect and Adapt workshops; to assess the agility level of the team and their process.

- Worked selflessly to always put the team first, ensuring their good rhythm wasn’t interrupted nor sustainable pace affected.

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

- Responsible for coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization, as well as with Agile coaches, Program Managers, Product Owners, and others.

- Continually drove improvement and contribute to business processes and culture to rapidly deliver results.

- Encouraged teams to collaborate, take ownership, be transparent and continually strive for improvement.

- Identified gaps and opportunities in team and enterprise value stream and makes recommendations to improve

- Mentored one of the teams in their Kanban maturity and how well to optimize flow, better use of WIP limits, keep a sustainable pace, shorten cycle time and increase throughput.

- Encouraged the team to incorporate some XP such as TDD, BDD, Peer Review, etc.

- Rendered supporting hands to new business analysts and product owners by sharing useful techniques on how to write better user stories with the use of INVEST techniques and focusing on one story per one functionality approach.

- Encouraged the team to keep the scrum board up to date as we proceed to make work visible and transparent.

DECEMBER 2013 – JANUARY 2015

UI/UX DESIGNER, DIRECT LINE GROUP

- Gathered and evaluated user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers.

- Illustrated the design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.

- Designed graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets

- Built page navigation buttons and search fields.

- Developed UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function

- Created original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables) 3

- Prepared and presented rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders.

- Identified and troubleshoot UX problems and conducted layout adjustments based on user feedback.

NOVEMBER 2011 – DECEMBER 2013

LEAD DESIGNER, WPP

- Guided creative teams in the creation of creative assets for digital, print, social, and video projects.

- Helped to guide the brand and marketing designers through mentorship and feedback.

- Innovated new approaches to graphic design problems and created frameworks or optimizations for common speedbumps.

- Developed cohesive design plans, concepts, and prototypes in collaboration with stakeholders.

- Troubleshoot issues during project implementation. NOVEMBER 2008 – NOVEMBER 2011

GRAPHIC DESIGNER, FASHIONS FINEST AFRICA

- Met with clients or account managers to clarify the business objectives and requirements.

- Estimated the time required to complete a job and provided quotes for clients

- Developed design briefs that suit the client's purpose

- Produced new ideas and concepts and develop the interactive design.

- Presented the finalized ideas and concepts to clients or account managers EDUCATION

BSC PHYSIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

SKILLS

• Efficient Facilitation Prowess

• User Interface Design

• Change Agent and Process Improver

• Sprint Management

• Conflict Resolution and Impediment Remover

• Servant Leadership

• Effective Facilitation Reporting Team’s Status

• Stakeholder management

• Knowledge of project management, process

improvement, and process mapping

• Dependable, and flexible with a track record

of successfully stepping up to absorb

additional responsibilities.

• Can Coach, Teach, and Mentor

• Experience in delivering training programs or

coaching seminars

TOOLS

• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe XD, Cinema 4D, Jira, Miro, MS Teams, MS Tools, and Confluence. Familiar with React, Angular, and GitHub used by my teams. CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master – Scrum Org Professional Kanban Practitioner – Scrum Org SAFe Advance Scrum Master – Scaled Agile Inc. Google User Experience Design Design Thinking: LinkedIn Adobe CC (Udemy)

Social Media Marketing (UNIDO & HP LIFE) Identifying Your Target Audience (UNIDO)

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