MUTIU AREMU

BLAINE, MN, *****

612-***-****

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CAREER OBJECTIVE

Self-motivated, experienced Scrum Master. Has worked in Agile environment as a Scrum Master for 5 plus years. A servant leader with extensive teamwork solution in fostering communication and collaboration. Helps organization increase return on investment. Adaptable in introducing and facilitating the adaption of scrum principles and practices, removing impediments and fostering self-organization. Result oriented and passionate about improving processes and reducing waste at the same time helping people and teams grow, to become high performing Team. I enjoy the challenge of resolving conflicts with my interpersonal skills.

SKILLS

Scrum Values & Principles •Backlog Grooming •Coaching/Mentoring • Conflict Resolution• Team Empowerment• Sprint Planning • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)• SDLC• User Story • Sprint Planning • Sprint Retro • Strategic & Operations Planning • Risk Management and Compliance • Process Improvement • Stakeholder Engagement • Critical Thinking • Problem Solving • Team facilitation • Gathering, analyzing and translating business requirements into functional specs • Evangelist of Agile/Scrum to the organization and stockholders. Familiarized with enterprise infrastructure.

EXPERIENCE

Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN

Scrum Master May 2020 - Present

Collaborate with and influencing all levels of the organization to empower and enable teams to execute Agile framework.

Ensure there is alignment between myself, Product and Tech Lead with the stakeholder to have a high-level overview on the product.

Work closely with product owner and Tech Lead in backlog management and continuous delivery of feature

Support Kanban Team, ensure visualization of workflow, guide Kanban Team to set up WIP limit

Track the project with Kanban workflow, progress and completion using Leadtime, cycle time, cumulative flow diagram to measure Team performance

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

Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product

Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.

Expertly promoting continuous improvement and help team increase productivity and foster innovation.

Organize and facilitating iteration/Release planning, daily stand scrum, reviews and retrospective meetings

Present and evaluate design solutions objectively and facilitate conflict resolution

Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.

Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.

Develop, analyze, prioritize, and organize requirement specifications, data mapping, diagrams, and flowcharts for developers and testers to follow

Work closely with the development team to ensure requirements and design are completely understood

Tracking key metrics through Burn down, team velocity, backlog health and defect summary reports and radiating progress to the team and stakeholders

Assisting and coaching product owners, helping them to understand their roles and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding.

Facilitating and coordinating user story interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

Sun Trust Bank (REMOTE)

Scrum Master Mar 2019 - Apr 2020

Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile best practices.

Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.

Actively coordinated engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders.

Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities

Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving

Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality

Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application.

Guided and Coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

Project Manager/Scrum Master Maple Grove, MN

Boston Scientific Jan 2017 - Feb 2019

Develops and refines project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources

Responsible for understanding all user expectations, processes, and inputs/outputs necessary to develop a specific functionality/outcome.

Leads the execution of the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.

Manages changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes;

Ensures a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the project plan, in order to align the stakeholders and team members

Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings with Scrum teams and stakeholders.

Ensured development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Facilitated user story estimation workshops using Planning Poker technique.

Communicated team overall progress by tracking burn down/burn up metrics, velocity and productivity.

Utilized Kanban task board to visualize workflow (work in progress) thereby improving productivity.

Assisted the Product Owner to continually keep a sufficient set of features prioritized.

Snr. Project Coordinator Wayzata, MN

TD Bank Jan 2014 - Dec 2016

Provides oversight for the development and maintenance of quality programs, systems, processes and procedures that ensure compliance with policies and that the

Performance and quality of services conform to established standards and agency guidelines.

Provides expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and agency guidelines to assure compliance.

Assisted the PM in Keeping Track of the Project Budget in an excel spreadsheet

Reported to managers the development of the project.

Tracked Project milestones, Schedule and Deliverables

Managed changes and ensure effective communication among project team member.

Organized and maintained project team SharePoint site, ensuring required documentation are posted for team member access

EDUCATION

LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY LAGOS, NIGERIA

Bachelors of Science

CERTIFICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL SCRUM MASTER 1

SSM (SAFe 5)

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