Adeyemi Adetokunbo

Scrum Master

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania 267-***-**** adutgt@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/adeyemi-adetokunbo

Professional Summary

An accomplished and experienced Scrum Master with over 6 years of experience in delivering optimal results and business values in high-growth environments and establishing key relationships with business segments.

I am a result-driven enthusiast that is well-grounded in all aspects of driving the adoption of agile values, principles, and practices. I am skilled in leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver results that are sustainable. I direct and lead development teams from project initiation through the delivery of final products. I am my team process improvement person with the ability to coach my team to adopt the scrum values which have ultimately led to increase in value deliveries. I have a demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead, and coach Scrum teams across multiple locations, with a veritable track record of managing complex projects.

Certifications

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI ACP)

Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

SAFe Scrum Master 5.0, SSM Certification, (Scaled Agile Inc.)

Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO)

Skills

JIRA/Confluence

Kanban Agile Methodologies

Business Agility

DevOps

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Backlog Refinement

Decision Making

Servant Leadership

Process Improvement

Interpersonal Skills

Servant Leadership

Backlog Management

IT Strategy & Planning

Sprint Retrospective

Facilitator

Conflict Resolution

Team Empowerment

Emotional Intelligence

Stakeholder Engagement

Burndown & Burnup Charts

Work History

Agility Lead/Scrum Master, 12/2022 to Current

JPMorgan Chase – Columbus, Ohio

I support my team on the best way to embrace Agile mindset, principles, and best practices.

I work closely with my product owner to groom backlog to maximize value for the business.

Help to identify and manage risk by ensuring that risks are ROAM.

I help shield my team from external interferences and distractions.

I represent my team at the scrum of scrum with my tech lead and ensure that dependencies are called out.

Send chasers to ensure that I cause for the removal of impediments.

Using metrics to understand over and under commitment and ensure that my team understands estimation properly to deliver value to business.

I help my team to understand product roadmap and initiatives and ensure that these are aligned with our organization’s OKRs.

Scrum Master, 08/2020 to 11/2022

American Family Insurance – Minneapolis, MN

I facilitate weekly backlog grooming sessions with my team, ensuring work items are properly estimated and ready-for-work as per the product owners’ priorities.

I coach my teams on the best agile practices, principle, and values to ensure customers satisfaction.

I support my teams with JIRA queries, create fix versions, release JIRA to facilitate deployment.

Demonstrate success in acting as liaison between the product owner, stakeholders, scrum teams, listening to the team feedback, facilitating scrum ceremonies, estimating & planning, conflict resolution, managing project milestones, removing impediments, and keeping scrum team members focused.

I do capacity planning for my teams and collaborate with the product owner to clean up and prioritize the teams’ EPIC for the upcoming sprint.

Works across agile teams to pull work from the product backlog into each sprint and to plan the sprint.

Coordinates with other Agile Team Leaders on integration and interdependency of requirements.

Removes barriers and risks for the agile team as they are identified.

I help my team resolve impediments by understanding the root cause and finding resources to remove the identified impediments.

Build a trusting and safe environment where team members share problems without fear of blame, retributions, or being judged.

I am a servant leader to my team; I help to protect my team from internal and external distractions by having regular conversations with managers and stakeholders.

Scrum Master, 10/2016 to 07/2020

General Mills – Golden Valley, MN

Facilitated the adoption, implementation of Agile Scrum/SAFe practices, principles, values and rules across scrum teams and the organization.

Led and facilitated critical team level scrum ceremonies such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily standups, sprint review, sprint retrospective and ensured that attendees understood the purpose and kept to the time box.

Led 2 weeks' time boxed sprints supporting several simultaneous releases; served 2 scrum teams made up of 9 members including Data engineers, front/back-end developers, UX, Database admins, BA, Testers, and QA.

Coached the agile teams on successful story decomposition, writing good user stories and acceptance criteria which improved on transparency, understanding and estimations.

Incorporated Kanban principles within the agile methodologies by using Kanban board to manage defects and technical debts, which resulted in the reduction of cycle time by 22% and increased the team's throughput and response time.

Participated and prepared enterprise level meetings including PI planning, system demos, inspect and adapt workshops, project roadmaps, release planning and management meetings.

Used Jira to track and monitor scrum metrics and KPIs daily for any potential risk or problems and helped the team find solutions to problems or impediments; Used Confluence to maintain project documents such as project plans, Sprint reports and status reports.

Worked with the release train engineer and other scrum masters during Scrum of scrums to coordinate and resolve dependencies with other scrum teams.

Business Analyst, 09/2014 to 08/2016

SunTrust Bank – New York

Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.

Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes.

Executed analysis of risks and identified risk mitigation strategies.

Conducted interviews with key business users to collect information on business processes and user requirements.

Project Coordinator, 02/2009 to 12/2012

Federal Roads Maintenance Agency – Abuja, Nigeria

Responsible for managing multiple vendors and suppliers, including contract management, and bid processes.

Committed to strict confidentiality by properly handling relevant voting records.

Performed risk analysis on current assets.

Creating reports on project progress to the project manager.

Overseeing budget and project spending.

Tracked project milestones, schedule, and deliverables.

Facilitated project planning and scheduling across individual projects.

Administrative tasks such as taking calls and managing payrolls.

Education

Graduate Certificate: IT Project Management

Seneca College - Toronto, Canada

Master of Science: Accounting

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN

Bachelor of Science: Accounting

Obafemi Awolowo University- Nigeria

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