Scrum Master Specialist Project

Snr Scrum Master Agile Specialist Project Management Expert Business Analyst

Segun is a versatile and experienced Scrum Master/Agile Coach with a knack for problem-solving and a proven track record of delivering high-quality large-scale software and web development projects, on time and within budget. I am result oriented with excellent communication, interpersonal and team management skills with superb leadership skills as a servant leader. An expert in establishing collaboration amongst self-organized and cross-functional teams, managing risk while maintaining focus on strategic goals.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Hands-on experience of agile frameworks such as; Scrum, Kanban, SAFe®️ 5.0, Lean, and eXtreme Programming.

• Working knowledge with development teams to implement the CALMR concept of DevOps and 4 dimensions of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline Continuous Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration

(CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and Release on Demand.

• Excellent understanding of agile principles and practices such as XP (CI, Test First; TDD, ATDD, Refactoring, Pair Programming, Collective Code Ownership, etc.,

• Experience coaching agile mindset shift and behaviors across multiple scrum teams including Senior Leadership.

• Experience in collaborating with stakeholder to manage their expectations and engaging them to address project issues.

• Experience working with agile collaborating tools like Jira, Confluence, Rally and VersionOne. Work Experience

Senior Scrum Master

March 2015 to Present

I am a member of the Project Management Office supporting and sitting within the data and analytics organization. This data and analytics organization is responsible for producing new products to the providers who are partnering with our client. The organization established what they are calling "PODS" to help support the various products they are creating for their various clients. I am responsible for ensuring that various builds were upgraded to production on schedule by coordinated all major and minor releases, while also identifying dependable and establishing milestones for each release by, collaborating with engineering leads and team members. I have increased team cohesion by facilitating sprint planning, sprint demos, and weekly stand-ups with engineers and product owners as well as making use of JIRA to track sprints/product backlogs, Epics, and Issues.

• Implemented Agile Scrum and Safe methodology throughout the organization to improve communication between departments; to provide more transparency across the departments and to obtain great business value in short turn around.

• Led two UX development teams on the implementation of Oracle ERP System in the organization.

• Worked with development team to create audience data and insight to provide informed rationale for content strategies and products.

• Worked with development teams to implement the CALMR concept of DevOps and 4 dimensions of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline Continuous Exploration (CE), Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Deployment (CD) and Release on Demand.

• Worked with the UX designers’ team for the development effort during the Sprint in order to create a Done increment.

• Lead two development teams on digital transformation and E-Commerce data integration projects of our business partner in the health sector where we combined their business processes into one system using SAP ERP.

• Worked with UX designers on design thinking concepts and technology driven in digital product innovation, user experience management and digital transformation.

• Lead team of loan officers (marketing team) on consumer loan marketing and product innovations

• Lead team of Product owners on organization’s project team intake process (Intake Team)

• Successfully migrated the company from waterfall to Agile. Coached several departments within the firm on Scrum events and its values.

• Responsible for establishing disciplined, effective agile teams which embrace and exhibit the agile mindset and culture by instructing the team or teams in agile principles and practices.

• Constantly developing collaborative working relationships with multiple levels of functional managers, and steering committees with a focus on scaling agile within the organization.

• Facilitate project teams to resolve impediments, create culture of openness and collaboration

• Partners with the Scrum Teams and Product Owners to maintain and refine the program backlog using WSJF.

• Employs Design thinking concept in an innovative and collaborative approach to problem-solving that puts the user first to create customer-centered products and services.

• Collaborates with scrum team in the use of personas in the creation of customer-type/end-user of the product/services.

• Determines the team capacity (velocity) from historical data. Created Work Break down structure (user stories) and corresponding activities (tasks).

• Helps leadership understand associated continuous integration, continuous delivery (CICD) implications and the structure required to sufficiently support the software development.

• Responsible for guiding teams on the first principle of Agile Coaching in working software delivery.

• Coaches teams and business on how to adopt the Agile Manifesto, Principles and SAFe Principles.

• Works in conjunction with Scrum Teams and other stakeholders to deliver Data integration & Data Lake projects.

• Coaches scrum teams and clients on how to effectively groom user stories; ensure they are well defined, well written and properly formatted (The Who, What, Why) and as per Definition of Ready.

• Coaches the teams on the best practices of DevOps and Release on Demand (Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Release on Demand, thereby automating the Continuous Delivery pipeline and decoupling Deployments from Releases, enabling Dark Launches and Canary Releases.

• Coaches teams and business on how adopt the Five Core Competencies of Lean Enterprises (Lean Portfolio Management, Business Solutions and lean Systems Engineering, DevOps and Release on Demand, Team and Technical Agility and Lean Agile Leadership), resulting in better agility and value creation for the business.

• Assists the Product Owner in populating the product backlog using DEEP (Detailed Appropriately, Emergent, Estimated, and Prioritized) concept base business value.

• Works with Product Owner to create the product roadmap and schedule releases per business value.

• Collaborates with Product Owner and team to decompose Features into stories, size the stories with Fibonacci, determine the capacity and load the iterations based on the capacity.

• Fosters strong spirit of communication and collaboration between teams to align program goals, deliver final products, and ensure leadership transparency to impediments and progress.

• Facilitates sprint loading, release planning and collaboration between development and product teams to ensure team is consistently on a continuous improvement plan.

• Effectively leverages and combines different industry standard scaling concepts to specific business problems in a manner that best supports scaled agile values and principles, as well as the companies Vision and Values.

• Helps drive the Lean User Experience (UX) innovation cycle and 3-Tier Architecture: Database, User Interface and Wireframe.

• Works within deadlines with UX teams on rapid iteration cycles in pursuit UX perfection.

• Attends Scrum of Scrums (SoS) with other Scrum Masters and RTEs in front of the Program Board to coordinate and resolve dependencies between teams.

• Utilizes facilitation techniques such as Liberating Structures to assist multiple approaches to brainstorming and innovation as a means of empowering team members to own their development process and drive change organically from within the team.

• Assists RTE to conduct Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop PI System Demo: to show business value, Quantitative Measurement: Program Predictability Measure, Retrospective and Problem-solving Workshop: Agree on the Problem, Apply Root Cause Analysis (5 whys, identify the biggest root cause with Pareto analysis, restate the biggest root cause, brainstorm, and develop improvement of user stories in the program backlog).

• Assists the RTE to ensure Organizational Readiness, Content Readiness, Facility Readiness, in preparation for Program Increment (PI) planning.

• Works with RTE to facilitate PI planning; using Business Context, Roadmap, Vision and 10 top features to produce synthesized PI Objectives and Program Board that highlights new feature delivery dates, feature dependencies among teams, and with other ARTs and relevant milestones.

• Implements the Shu-Ha-Ri technique with the teams so that they understand the Agile mindset and work towards satisfying the customers.

Quality Assurance Analyst

September 2014 to February 2015

• Worked closely with the Senior Management, Business & Release Management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and ensure quality software release.

• Manually go through the various systems, programs, web courses, CMS sites, and applications as an end user to help find and report errors, defects, and inconsistencies.

• Compared coded programs as an end-user against the end-user specifications to confirm it was implemented as described and that the big picture was met.

• Verify that software changes submitted by developers function error-free and as documented.

• Write reports on your findings after completing the software testing.

• Helped reproduce problems reported by customers. Branch Manager

• Assigned and reviewed the work of subordinate personnel in the performance of various administrative tasks in conformance to established recruitment standards and requirements.

• Efficiently and accurately completing all forms and administrative steps required to manage the portfolio and contribute to the smooth operation of ACCION Mfb.

• Liaised with community organizations, business associations, and individual entrepreneurs.

• Coordinated the activities of the credit committee for loan applications of Account Officers.

• Ensured that all documentation and requirements are complete prior to loan approvals.

• Chair the credit committee for loan applications pertaining to his/her supervised Account Officers within his/her authority level.

• Supervised staff members in the performance of financial & personnel functions. Senior Credit Analyst III

• Managed portfolio of counterparty credit risks associated with lending, trading, and investing activities, with the primary objective of assessing and managing risk within acceptable parameters.Visiting the customer and engaging at MD (Managing Director), FD (Financial Director) or FM (Financial Manager) level, and where necessary present applications to Credit committees consisting of Exco members.

• Followed up and address non-adherence to terms and conditions of sanction by counterparties; to consider the inherent risk therein and to make recommendations as to action to be taken to regularize or mitigate such increased risk.

• Coordinated research in respect of industry and market risk in relation to counterparty exposures on the underlying portfolio.

• Articulated credit appetite based on risk appetite for sector and give guidance structure of deals and documents (legal and collateral) required.

• Completed effective financial analysis of counter party credit risks.

• Undertook quantitative and qualitative financial analysis to develop a comprehensive understanding of counter party risks for new or increased facilities. Education

Skills

• Customer Journey Mapping, Team Building, Client Relation Management, Trusted Advisor, Analytical/ Critical/Strategic Thinking, Conflict Resolution, Decision Maker, Evaluation, Excellent Communication, Flexibility, Interpersonal Relations, Leadership, Problem Solving, Creativity and Innovation, Customer Service, Process Improvement, Scrum, Agile, Task Meetings/Retrospectives, Iteration/ Sprint Planning Meetings, Budget/Estimation, Client Service Prioritization, Presentation Design, Framework, Development, Data Gathering, Scope Management, Cost Management, Stakeholder Management, Microsoft Suite Expert (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Visio and Project), RPA, SAP, Oracle, Waterfall, Agile, Java, JavaScript, JIRA, AS9100 and ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems

(10+ years)

• Business Requirements

• Microsoft SQL Server

• SDLC

• SQL

• Requirements Gathering

• Change Management

• Quality Assurance

• User Interface (UI)

• Business Analysis

• Leadership

• Project management

• Data management

• Problem management

• Knowledge management

Certifications and Licenses

Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

Present

Scrum Alliance

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