OMOWUNMI SHOWUNMI

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An enthusiastic, delivery focused certified Scrum master and certified Agile PM practitioner with extensive experience in Agile practices specifically in IT Project Management, Agile and Scrum related projects and digital transformational projects. I have hands on Agile experience with a proven track record of coaching and developing diverse, high performing and self- organizing teams to deliver relevant solutions. Experienced in working with and supporting local and off-shore cross- functional teams and helping the teams and the entire organization adopt excellent understanding and execution of Scrum methodologies and Agile best practices.

An extremely adept communicator and collaborator, building and managing valuable relationships with stakeholders at all levels. As a Scrum master, I believe my clear understanding of organizational goals, excellent communication skills, my highly developed emotional intelligence and social mastery, my strong ability to motivate the team and customer centricity are some of my strongest attributes.

I leverage my excellent coaching skills, to expertly guide teams towards staying committed and focused, communicating openly and clearly with each other, building trust and respect within the teams and the whole organization. I enjoy the challenge of bringing down barriers, navigating the usual organizational politics and encouraging different types of people to work together harmoniously to deliver the product goal and generate value for the customer the organization. Accomplished true servant leader committed to continuous team improvement, accomplished at introducing and facilitating the adoption of Scrum values, implementing strategic teamwork solutions resulting in team maturity translating into excellent metrics.

Looking for a new challenge in an organization that is proactively looking to mature their Agile delivery capability. AGILE SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

Certified Professional Scrum Master

Proficient Scrum ceremonies facilitator – sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review,

retrospective

Experienced with Jira, Miro, Confluence, Azure

DevOps

Experience in organizational Agile

transformation

Strong stakeholder relationship management

Excellent coach building team members

psychological safety

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Certified Agile PM Practitioner

Agile Project Management processes and

methodologies

Certified Emotional Intelligence Practitioner

Effective teacher and mentor

Strong negotiator

Experience monitoring team metrics – velocity,

burndown

Skilled 1-2-1 and group workshop facilitator at

all levels of teams and management

Product Backlog refinement and estimation

Good knowledge of Kanban, Scrumban

EDUCATION

Professional Scrum Master I Certification 2022

Scrum.org

Professional Scrum Product Owner Certification 2022 Scrum.org

CAREER HISTORY

SCRUM MASTER Aerotek, Rockville, MD August 2017- Present

Organizing and facilitating Scrum Ceremonies, including: daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint retrospective and sprint reviews to promote the scrum pillars. Encouraged frequent inspect & adapt.

Facilitating detailed refinement workshops for the product backlog to enhance sprint planning for the next sprint/iteration.

Facilitate frequent Agile knowledge-share workshops for teaching and mentoring and also aiding the team to be more self- organizing and mature by increasing agile knowledge.

Leading multiple teams to become strategically aligned, high performing. Advocating an Agile mindset, empirical and customer centric

Transformed existing organizational traditional Waterfall processes and mindsets to be adapted to working in an Agile way

Maintaining the team's Scrum boards, sprint backlog, velocity charts, burndown charts, and product backlog. Analyzing Agile metrics to provide insight into productivity and identify and manage any bottle-necks

Coaching and collaborating with the Product Owner to prioritize the product backlog, and encourage the use of the MoSCoW technique

Supporting the Product Owner and the team with user story writing (BDD), coaching them to follow the INVEST criteria and ensuring their user stories meet the definition of ready

Improving the teams’ workflow by identifying and removing impediments and managing dependencies that may prevent the teams’ progress, Identifying and communicating potential risks to the completion of the Iterations, including resources, costs, and external dependencies proactively escalating as required

Ensuring the team continually improve their delivery process by supporting them to implement action points from retrospectives

Improving team health, engagement, and collaboration by facilitating regular team building sessions and introducing pair programming

Extensively using Atlassian’s JIRA and Confluence for user story maintenance, documentation, and metrics; Implementing and making use of various collaboration tools (Teams, WebEx, Zoom) to aid team communication Project Coordinator, Glaxo Smith Kline (Digital Transformation) March 2014- January 2016 Rockville, MD

Key Responsibilities

Applied successful project management techniques to enable delivery of key projects over tenure.

Identified capacity and capability needs for successful project planning.

Outlined strategic plans for risk avoidance and mitigation to keep projects aligned with objectives.

Interpreted critical path and actual versus planned activities to identify adverse trends and take corrective action.

Managed expenditure according to project budgets and prepared financial reports.

Built collaborative working relationships with project teams.

Utilized in-depth knowledge and understanding of client contracts to manage project delivery.

Created robust implementation plans for cross-functional programs involving multi-disciplinary teams.

Reviewed performance against targets, appropriately identifying and managing risks and opportunities. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Physical Tech Science Jan 2013- Feb 2014 Bethesda, MD

TOOLS

Miro Confluence Jira Idea Board Slack MS Project

OTHER INTERESTS

Family, literature, nutrition & wellness, personal development, socio-emotional mastery Excellent references available upon request

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