Scrum Master Project Manager
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TOYOSI BANJO
PROFILE Results-driven, goal-oriented professional with extensive Project Management/Scrum Master experience and a solid track record of success in delivering quality projects on time and within budget. Able to establish and maintain productive relationships across all organizational levels. Extensive knowledge working with both Waterfall and Agile Methodologies. Continuously coaching teams to improve while developing high-quality software in a predictable, fast, and Agile way. EXPERIENCE SCRUM MASTER
LOWES – MOORESVILLE, NC
March 2020-Present
• Guides the scrum team(s) and organization to follow generally accepted Agile/Scrum practices and daily activities to actively promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.
• Responsible for facilitating the scrum process on scrum teams with cross- functional impacts that involve moderately complex project, non-project, or maintenance work.
• Drives Scrum adoption across all levels in the organization. Facilitates and is accountable for owning the Scrum Agile ceremonies for the scrum team(s).
• Train the team in Agile Development with project management tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Coached scrum team(s) to deliver capabilities using agile practices while also following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes as appropriate to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met.
• Identifies skills and competencies of scrum team members and adjusts accordingly to promote development and highly effective teams.
• Partners with Product Owner(s) to ensure continuous refinement of backlog, which may include stories from multiple projects. Completion of some work may depend on non-agile work teams.
• Partners with Product owners, Program or Project Managers to communicate delivery of work product from the scrum team and escalates key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness.
• Manage and coordinate logistics for Agile events (e.g., backlog prioritization, sprint planning, daily scrum, and retrospectives).
• Proactively addresses systemic impediments to team agility and guides the team(s) on methods to escalate when needed to prevent challenges from becoming blockers.
• Uses empirical data to help the team(s) assess their Scrum Maturity, optimize scrum team velocity to organizational KPIs, and identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance. SCRUM MASTER
NATIONWIDE – COLUMBUS, OH
Aug 2017-March 2020
• Responsible for facilitating the scrum process on scrum teams with cross- functional impacts that involve moderately complex project, non-project, or maintenance work.
• Optimized productivity by removing bottlenecks that may obstruct the pursuit of the program goals and by preserving flexibility and ability to rapidly respond to change.
• Utilized feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and partners with others to coach the program to continuously improve.
• Organize bi-weekly retrospective meetings to identify team wins, challenges, recommendations, and action plans.
• Helped the organization in the transition process from the traditional Waterfall to Agile and created a couple of Agile/Scrum workshops to train the team members that were new to the Methodology.
• Facilitate discussions on DevOps and it benefits as part of Agile adoption.
• Maintained team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner, and to senior stakeholders.
• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
• Managed work items, workflow and tracked velocity, ensured resource utilization, delivery, and productivity, using Jira and the physical board for transparency. PROJECT MANAGER
BESTBUY – MINNEAPOLIS MN
Aug 2015- Jul 2017
• Using Scrum methodologies, ensured the software development team had the resources to meet deadlines and escalated roadblocks to management when necessary.
• Implemented rigorous monitoring of new features to ensure they met KPIs after the projects were closed and identified solutions to improve a sidebar feature performance by 20%.
• Worked closely with the product management team to scope customer requested features and determine which features would provide the highest return on investment.
• Aligned goals with executives on scheduling, budgeting, resource management, and style of progress.
• Design user scenarios, epics, stories, and detailed wireframes under the product development process.
• Defined project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value of projects.
• Conceptualize, and create the acceptance tests and review product behavior prior to story completion.
EDUCATION 2021
SAFe Scrum Master - SSM
2010
BSc Public Health
SKILLS & INTERESTS
• Scrum, Kanban
• Scaled Agile Framework
• Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, MS Project
• Servant Leadership
• Requirement Gathering
• Conflict Resolution
• Story Estimation
• Strong Communication Skills
• Risk Mitigation Planning
• Stakeholder Management
• Document Management
• Software Development Life Cycle Principles
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