Scrum Master Senior

Henry Adefuye, PSM *, CSM

Phone: 929-***-****

Email: *********@*****.***

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-adefuye-csm-psm1-673a81222/

SUMMARY

Scrum Master with hands-on experience at guiding agile teams in delivering large & small scale projects on time, within budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, training and coaching. Experience at driving the adoption of agile values, principles and practices. Adept at leveraging agile practices with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable.Seeking a position as a Scrum Master, bringing 7+ years of experience. Actively Collaborating with UI/UX designers within the Software Development Life Cycle.

CORE COMPETENCIES

oAgile Values & Principles

oBacklog Refinement

oCoaching/Mentoring

oBurn down & Burn up charts

oConflict Resolution

oKnowledge of Scaled Agile Framework

oScrum/Extreme Programming (XP)/Kanban

oTeam Empowerment

oConflict Resolution

oEmotional Intelligence

oIteration/Sprint Planning

oJira expertise, Git hub, Jenkins

oStakeholder Engagement.

oTeam Performance

oRelative Sizing

oStory Pointing

oWaterfall Methodology

oSoftware Development (SDLC)

oRisk Management

EXPERIENCE

Citigroup. Snr Scrum Master. October 2022 – Date

SS&C Technologies Scrum Master. Feb 2022- October 2022

Facilitated daily scrum meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.

Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.

Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.

Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application.

Guided and Coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team

Citigroup Senior Scrum Master

New York, NY

July 2018 –February 2022

Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there’s full team engagement.

Coaching product owner; helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding.

Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.

Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example.

Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress.

Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries.

Guiding scrum teams in establishing normalized estimating.

Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable.

Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.

Providing direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices

Successfully helping Scrum team transition from waterfall into scrum framework.

Participating in the running of Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure the coordination and integration of output from the various teams by eliminating all impediments.

Assisting with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches.

Creating an impediment backlog to keep track of team’s impediment at the Scrum of Scrum.

Liberty Mutual Scrum Master

New York, NY

Sept. 2015 – July 2018

Facilitated daily scrum meetings, backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.

Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.

Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.

Maintained metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality.

Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application.

Guided and Coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks.

Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders.

Identified and removed team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.

Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize.

Coached Scrum teams on how to create clear and concise User Stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.

Utilized RALLY to track and visualize workflow for our release and iteration planning.

Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.

Chevron Scrum Master

Houston, TX Apr. 2013 – Sept 2015

Facilitated daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings with Scrum teams and stakeholders.

Ensured development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

Facilitated user story estimation workshops using Planning Poker technique.

Communicated team overall progress by tracking burn down/burn up metrics, velocity and productivity.

Utilized Kanban task board to visualize workflow (work in progress) thereby improving productivity.

Assisted the Product Owner to continually keep a sufficient set of features prioritized.

Identified and removed impediments to the team’s work.

Used Jira to track team progress and delivery performance.

Helped scrum teams and management remove identified impediments and minimize distractions to support the development team’s sprint goals.

Ensured outcome of retrospectives was-implemented towards continuous team improvement.

Epsilon Project Manager July. 2008 – April. 2013

Tracked project progress, managed the budget, and analyzed workloads with the help of MS Project.

Planned, organized and directed projects to optimize processes, systems and to enable business objectives.

Developed methods and tools for requirement definition, process and workflow design and data modeling.

Developed best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, project management ongoing milestone/deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics.

Developed project plans and budgets, works with users to understand complex problems and focuses on bringing issues to resolution, escalating as necessary to meet timelines.

Created and delivered presentations to senior level management on project goals and plans, including progress reports and score card.

Total Energies Project Coordinator Jan. 2006 – July. 2008

Reviewed all lease documents required for building and maintaining cell sites.

Managed and prioritize site acquisition SWC activities to meet leasing commitments

Identified, resolved and updated risks and issues log in conjunction with the project manager.

Supported in the preparation of project plans, resource profile and tracking product development life cycle.

Presented weekly/monthly progress report to senior project managers and head of infrastructures.

Managed site development finances by receiving and reviewing invoices for work done

Helped co-ordinate and work on SAP projects also receive and collating forecast data.

Worked with QA to ensure testing completely verifies the customer requirements and are directly traceable to the requirements

EDUCATION

Obafemi Awolowo University • Masters In Business Administration. In-view

Olabisi Onabanjo University • Bachelor’s in Management and Accounting 2008

CERTIFICATION

Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1) Scrum.Org. New York

Certified Scrum Master CSM Scrum Alliance. New York

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associates) Remote. New york

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Agile Tools: Jira, Rally, Version One, Red-mine, TFS

Software: MS Windows, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, SharePoint, Visio, MS Project, PPM, Remedy, SAP.

Databases: SQL Server, AS400, CACS, FileNet, SharePoint

Operating Systems: Windows Server, UNIX, Mac OS, Linux

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