Professional Summary

Lead Certified Scrum Master with 11 years of experience and Certified Product Owner, Agile methods, and Scrums processes with a solid foundation and working experience in Retail, E-commerce, and IT sectors. Possess solid leadership skills in managing, mentoring, and leading cross functional teams to achieve high-reaching individual and organizational goals and objectives. Ability to successfully apply quantitative, analytical skills to evaluate data and recommend action plans. A proactive, analytical and self-organized Scrum Master with strong technical background, comprehensive years of experience in Business Analysis, and Client management. Articulate communicator, with great emotional intelligence and proven track record of establishing solid relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to enhance organizational effectiveness

Areas of Expertise include:

●Scrum

●Agile methodologies

●Product Backlog

●Agile methodologies

●Automation & DevOps

●Communication

●Microsoft office

●Problem solving

●Service Now

●Conflict resolution

●Capacity planning

●Risk Assessment

●Stakeholder Management

●Servant leader

●Slack/Microsoft Teams

●Leadership

●Facilitation

●Continuous improvement

●Investigative/problem solving skills

●Team coordination

●Leadership

●SAFe Methodology

●Training

●Jira.

●Agile techniques

●Scrum ceremonies

●Project Management

●Capacity planning

●Strategic Planning

●Problem solving

●ATDD, TDD

●Emotional intelligence

●AWS Cloud

●DevOps

●Migration

●Ansible

●IAM

●VPC

●EC2

●Security

●Terraform

●AWS CloudFormation

●Jenkins

●Migration Journey

Walmart Inc January 2020- Current

ATLANTA, GA

Scrum Master

Key Accomplishments: Facilitate daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrums

teams. Worked with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Tracked, escalated, and removed impediments. Resolved a complex technical issue by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters, Product Owners and Technical Leads within Walmart

●Facilitates, coaches, and empowers self-organizing two onshore and offshore Scrum teams through DONE.

●Provide support to the team in resolving conflicts, manage dependencies and ensure transparency in the team's work.

●Provide coaching to guide the team in applying agile/scrum principles.

●Facilitate scrum ceremonies, tracking teams’ daily activities and coaching them through agile-scrum methodology in delivering quality.

●Ensure team's user stories are properly writing and meet story writing techniques, backlogs are groomed ready for sprint planning, engage in development reviews and sprint retrospectives.

●Works to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translates into the product backlog

●Support the Product Owners in grooming the product backlog.

●Ensuring User Stories are properly delivered according to a Definition of Done

●Develops work-flow charts and diagrams to ensure production team compliance with client deadlines.

●Facilitate in release planning and scheduling by providing Scrum team statistics, identifying project dependencies, and forecasting velocity

●Actively participated in sprint planning activities, daily stand ups, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives conflict resolution meetings. Also tasked with tracking and redefining various metrics (burn-down charts, backlog health, cycle time, and velocity reports, optimize projects delivery.

●Experience in conducting daily SCRUM (one to two teams)

●Support the team in removing impediments, aligning dependencies to ensure teams remain focused on delivering high-quality software.

●Adding or removing stories based on burn-down of the current sprint (discuss w/ BSA and TPO or Lead BSA)

●Strives to create a high-performing team to ensure continuous deployment to meet product goals

●Share team's progress with management using metrics from agile tools used by the organization Able to show in depth knowledge of confluence, Jira, Slack

●Coaches’ teams in Agile practices and provides necessary training to create a positive mindset to Agile methodologies.

●Tracks and effectively communicates team velocity and sprint/release progress to all affected teams and management.

●Empowered and motivated project teams to be highly productive, promote collaboration and continuous improvement to our work process

●Facilitated team and cross-team Retrospectives to build good working relationships among the 7 agile teams across 3 states.

●Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, and increasing transparency.

●Managed Jira and confluence for the scrum teams for backlog/documentation and reporting

●Working with a team of web apps and mobile apps developer in a cross functional environment

●Prepare teams for PI events and participate in PI events with the view of aligning with other teams on dependencies and product goals and objectives

●Handle code deployment process in all environments and CI&CD Pipeline

●Attend Scrum of Scrum to coordinate dependencies for my team

●Experience working in a DevOps environment and managing development teams

●Uses Lean-Kanban as necessary in a case of changing priorities in a sprint

●Business domains like healthcare, financial, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing.

●Provides extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality, productivity and drive delivery and improvement utilizing feedback and metrics

Express Scripts September2017 – January2020

St. Louis, MO

Scrum Master/AWS Solution Architect

Key Accomplishments: Led 2 Scrum teams, working with cross-functional and self-organize teams to achieve sprint goals. Coached development team members on Agile principles, values and providing general guidance on the methodology.

●Assisted in the implementation and training on best practices and evaluate courses of action an contingency plans

●Removed impediments/blockers as well as guiding the team on how to resolve impediments independently to keep teams highly productive.

●Ensured the Scrum Framework is implemented effectively and provides coaching and training at the team level to maximize its benefits.

●Developed, monitored, and enforced established Agile management processes including daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives.

●Communicates team progress to Product Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders

●Collaborate with Product Owner to understand iteration backlog priority of different stories

●Conducted story point estimations and kept all stakeholders informed on the stories considered for sprint to be delivered by the end of three-week sprints

●Schedule/facilitate sprint planning meetings prior to the beginning of each sprint. Work with Product Owners and delivery teams to groom stories in advance of each sprint

●Improved Scrum team velocity by incorporating Capacity planning into Sprint planning sessions.

●Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings and Monthly Reviews meetings. Conducted sprint retrospective and followed up on action items for continuous improvement

●Adding or removing stories based on burn down of the current sprint

●Ensures that the process is followed, including issuing invitations to daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint planning and sprint retrospectives

●Guided my team on how to get the most out of self-organization to meet team goals and product deliverables

●Encouraged agile behaviors, norms, ceremonies, reinforce practices and supports overall team performance and efficiency.

●Strong presentation, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, including coaching and mentorship experience

●A good learner with a passion for agile thinking and techniques

●Helped teams build and develop trust, safety, and effective communication

●Guided new and existing team through the ‘Forming, Storming, Norming and Performance’ stages to reach a high-performance status

●Protected development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintained focus on product backlog and project timeline

●Leading on designs/development aspects of migration journey - assess, mobilize, and migrate phase including leveraging CART, ADS, Migration Evaluator, DMS, Cloud Endure etc.

●Developed and Designed DevOps pipelines to manage the resources across multiple subscriptions in AWS

●Managed and tracked project using Version One, Tableau, Jira, and AWS DevOps. Configuration of Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using Code Pipeline and Code Deployments for automation

●Resolved Merge Conflicts, configured triggers and queued new builds within the release pipeline.

●Designed for high availability and business continuity using self- healing-based architectures, fail-over routing policies, multi-AZ deployment of EC2 instances, ELB health checks, Auto Scaling, and other disaster recovery models Requirements, ensuring that the project scope is aligned to meet the business purpose.

●Knowledge of networking, IAM, API, and security assessment tools/methodologies

●Carried out Security patches for Vulnerabilities found based on criticality and advised organization on security best practices.

●Implement security best practices, policies, and standards to design highly secure cloud architectures for internal and external cloud solutions.

●Configured security groups and locked down the various authorized subnet and IP addresses in AWS

Jumia Online Shopping April 2012 – December 2016

Lagos Nigeria

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

●Amazon Fulfillment Associates Website Designing and Website developer (WordPress)

●Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies; Daily Stand Up, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review Meetings Retrospective.

●Able to provide solutions using techniques that encourage team ownership and innovation

●Successfully involved in transitioning the Organizational Structure and Business Processes from traditional Waterfall to Agile.

●Over 8 years of extensive experience in complete Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) including System Requirements Collection, Architecture, Design, Coding, Development, Testing. Maintenance and Enhancement in variety of technological platforms.

●Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline.

●Expedite backlog refinement meeting with product owner &scrum development team to update on the product backlog.

●Writing User Stories and Product Backlog Items and help the Product Owner prioritize the Product Backlog

●Use key Scrum metrics (burndown, velocity) to help deliver committed work.

●Experience in building web-based applications

●Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.

●Leading, tasking and developing other less experienced project management staff.

●Agile development frameworks (i.e. SCRUM) and sprint planning and road-mapping.

●workflow and insights into the status of pricing approval requests

●Digital marketing, SEo, Marketing, Technology delivery Ms excel, Excel, PowerPoint, Ms

●Word, Mapping, KPIS, Story, Personas,

●Maintained our social media presence across all digital channels

●Utilized business intelligence tools to include OLAP (Online Analytical processing), data

warehousing, reporting, querying tools and excel.3

●Experienced with Amazon Seller Central. 2. Quality Check and Inventory Management. 3.

●Updated Stock on major marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, etc.

Education and Certifications

Negotiating Mystery

Harvard Business School (Boston, MA) 2019

Database Administrator

N-Star Tech (Atlanta, GA)

B.A Economics

Lead City University • Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria - Graduated: 2014

BTF-Tech

Digital Marketing (2005)

Associate in Computer Systems

University Olabisi Onabanjo (AGO-IWOYE) 2004

Certified Google Analytics

Professional Scrum Master

Leading SAFe Certified

Certified Product Owner

DevOps

ASW Solution Architect

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