Scrum Master Delivery

MICHAEL OLUFEMI OMOSEHIN

Tel: 443-****-***

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

Baltimore, Maryland

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Multi-certified Scrum leader with a track record of implementing Agile methodologies and Scrum ceremonies to facilitate on-time product delivery. I have a history of success driving key initiatives from planning through implementation, achieving positive and measurable organizational impact. Combine analytical knowledge, leadership abilities and relationship building skills to engage stakeholders at all levels and enable data driven decision-making.

SKILLS

5+ years’ experience as Scrum Master.

Excellent knowledge of scrum techniques and artifacts such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement.

Proficiency with various tracking tools such JIRA, RALLY $ AZURE etc.

Great knowledge of other Agile framework such as KABAN, LEAN, SCRUM etc.

Experience working with stakeholders for backlog items prioritization, grooming, understanding of EPICS/STORIES/TASKS.

Excellent communication and servant leadership mindset, with the ability to manage and galvanize teams, excellent problem-solving skills, and conflict resolution ability.

Training teams and supporting product owners to remove impediments, enhance velocity, and help teams adopt Agile methodology.

Ability to facilitate scrum events and meetings.

EDUCATION

B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering

Masters Project Management

CERTIFICATION

Certified SAFe Scrum Master

Project Management Professional (PMP)

WORKING EXPERIENCE

SAFe SCRUM MASTER

Fidelity Investments

Washington

2020 to Date

Responsibilities

Coordinate sprints, retrospective meetings, and daily stand-ups

Coach team members in Agile frameworks

Facilitate internal and external communication and effective collaboration

Work with product owners to handle backlogs and new requests

Resolve conflicts and remove obstacles that occur

Help teams implement changes effectively

Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint

Guide development teams to higher scrum maturity

Help build a productive environment where team members ‘own’ the product and enjoy working on it

Provides leadership to multiple teams and facilitate planning, team learning in the form of sprint reviews/retrospectives, and adaptation of the process to ensure quality of team/solutions

Advocate and coach Agile methodology, ensuring that the team is always following the framework fostering an environment of continuous improvement/learning and driving substantial improvement at the team, and organization levels

Guides team members in achieving maturity in Agile principles with a track record of increasing velocity as team(s) mature

Champion the empirical approach (transparency, adaptation, inspection) for complex work by continually educating all scrum team members and stakeholders on the team

SCRUM MASTER

Centene Healthcare

Seattle, Washington

2016-2020

Responsibilities

Responsible for facilitating all team ceremonies (planning, refinement, retrospectives) and keeping teams focused on achieving their goals and objectives.

Coach team on agile principles and practices. Ensures Scrum framework is adhered to.

Facilitate team breakout during Program Increment (PI) planning to gain alignment with other teams.

Attend scrum of scrums to share team progress, escalate issues and cross domain challenges

Fluent with team operational metrics. Responsible for measuring meaningful metrics.

Showcase and interpret team's data and results to escalate issues and remove team impediments.

Provides sprint reporting to team and stakeholders, including metrics such as Velocity, Say/Do, Story Completion Rate, Burn Up or Burn Down.

Responsible for working with the team to assess delivery risk and implement countermeasures to reduce negative impacts to business value delivery.

Leading teams through creation and accountability to a Team Working Agreement, updated periodically.

Drives alignment on scope and work schedule within the team and across dependent teams as needed.

Serves as a neutral arbitrator between roles, individuals, and teams during conflict. Anchors on Agile principles and values and coaches’ conflict toward resolution resulting in shared purpose and positive outcomes.

Responsible for facilitating cross-functional team and multi-team ceremonies.

Performs basic Agile training and brings new ideas to the team. Expected to engage the support of organizational agile coaching where needed.

SCRUM MASTER

IBM

2015-2016

New York.

Responsibilities

Works closely with the stakeholders to ensure high velocity and high quality of delivery, while identifying and helping to resolve impediments that emerge throughout the software development cycle

Champion scrum team and stakeholder collaboration as a key success factor. Work with the scrum team and stakeholders to continually grow and mature relationships in and outside of projects.

Serves, leads, coaches, and supports multiple simultaneous Agile teams on high-complexity initiatives consisting of internal, external, and business/technical resources in delivery of IT and business products and solutions

Organizes, facilitates and appropriately timeboxes scrum ceremonies and agile practices such as sprint planning, daily standup, backlog refinement, sprint review, and sprint retrospective alongside the stakeholders, ensuring the scrum team(s) adhere to the Agile values of courage, focus, commitment, respect, and openness in delivering solutions

Supports the stakeholders and scrum teams through maintaining data in the appropriate Agile toolset to provide transparency creating visibility to ‘what’ and ‘how’ teams are performing through valuable team metrics

Champions strong team environments with high morale and team cohesion where the team members constructively challenge each other, have a sense of ownership, and advocate for the right long-term decision-making

Preparing and distributing insightful project status reports to all project stakeholders to enable understanding of project timelines, current activities, and any barriers to a successful project completion.

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