Scrum Master/ Project Manager
Resume:
TOLU
OLUBUMMO
(CSM, SAFe Agilist.)
********.********@*****.***
San Jose, CA
SKILLS
• Agile and SAFe proficiency
• Scrum Ceremonies
• Change Management
• Quality Management
• DevOps
• Project Management
• Process Optimization
• Continuous Process
Improvements
• Microsoft Office
• Jira and Confluence
• Conflict Resolution
• Servant Leadership
• Software Development Life
Cycle (SDLC)
• Version Control
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Skilled Agile practitioner ready to bring 7+ years of servant leadership in iterative software/project delivery. Hardworking, Fastidious, forward-thinking and adaptable to any dynamic company. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines. Excellent communication skills, consistent delivery, and the ability to adapt to complex projects to guide products through the full software lifecycle. Recognized for inspiring team members to excel and for encouraging creative work environments. Enthusiastic leader and team player eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organizational skills. Well-versed in building positive relationships with customers and other stakeholders. Strong partnership building to achieve robust requirements gathering and scope development. Skilled at overseeing complex, high-value technical projects with excellent planning competencies.
WORK HISTORY
Wipro Limited– Scrum Master
Mountain View, CA • 02/2022 - Present
• Manage and coach teams towards efficient self-organization and cross functionality while working towards delivering product goals.
• Serve as servant leader and coach to Scrum Teams.
• Worked with PO to maintain a healthy and well-groomed product backlog and well-defined user stories to be developed into increments of value during each iteration.
• Supported product backlog refinement, program increment planning, sprint level planning, tracking and building software release plan.
• Coach the team from reverting to waterfall practices by ensuring that the team adopts agile values
• Coached the team on using effective relative estimation techniques instrumental to establishing team’s velocity and capacity planning.
• Created agile training manuals, task estimation & end user materials for all modules to teach agile practices to the team EDUCATION
Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile-Ife, Nigeria. 07/2007
LLB: Law
Obafemi Awolowo University
Ile-Ife, Nigeria. 08/2012
LLM: Law
CERTIFICATIONS
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
• SAFe Scrum Master
• Removed impediments daily to enable the teams to achieve sprint goals and delivery of completed work products
(deliverables)
• Facilitated root cause analysis during Iteration Retrospectives and Inspect and Adapt events to uncover reoccurring interruptions blocking sprint goals.
• Coached Teams on DevOps practices and assisted in establishing an effective CICD pipeline to allow speed, automation and fast feedback loops throughout
development and release on demand delivery to
production.
• Utilized quantitative and qualitative analysis,
problem-solving techniques, and root cause analysis to provide solutions
• Helped team to deliver increments of value on time and on budget by effectively collaborating,
facilitating, leading and coaching multiple Scrum
teams.
• Leading scrums sprints, retrospective, planning meetings, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and coaching sessions to organize agile processes around products development and delivery.
ROU Technologies- Lead Scrum Master
Dallas, TX • 06/2020 - 02/2022
• SAFE Transformation of Waterfall to Agile Methodology by designing and delivering interactive training on backlog estimation, story writing, story mapping, team collaboration techniques, and multi-team retrospectives.
• Manage multiple Scrum Masters as Lead Scrum Master for several Product development Programs.
• Collaborate with and Provide support, information and resources as needed to Product Owners, Developers and Business SME to ensure that our alignment with the product goal and delivery of value is always on track.
• Oversee all agile processes and implementations for the company transformation from Waterfall to Agile reporting metrics, and aiding teams to adhere to agile processes – while managing multiple scrum teams.
• Coach teams to grow in their Agile journey by mentoring the Scrum Masters to build self-organized teams, helping the product owners to deliver value by teaching backlog management, and guiding the teams to conduct effective Scrum events.
• Assisted the team in preparation for ART activities, including PI Planning, System Demos, and the Inspect and Adapt.
• Coached Team on SAFe and Agile practices to improve understanding and effectiveness in understanding their role and to properly align with and consistently deliver on PI goals.
• Remotely coach scrum masters of the four offshore teams to increase team effectiveness in an agile environment.
• Detailed documentation of issues and risks to improve risk mitigation, issue resolution, and reduce turnaround time of impediments and blockers.
• Collaborated to develop and deliver a corporate-level lunchtime learning session on scaling by using Agile planning and build a strong scrum master community exchanging best practices.
• Guided teams to improve their Scrum practice by developing and delivering training and workshops, both alone and in collaboration with others. Topics include complete Scrum training, definition of done, working agreements, team dynamics, use of metrics to drive improvement, user story writing and handling unplanned work interruptions.
Banke IT Consulting – Scrum Master/ Project Manager Mansfield, TX • 10/2016 -06/2020
• Managed multiple Projects for the company’s network tower managing scope, time and cost effectively and delivering on time.
• Facilitated workshops on process change from waterfall to Agile methodology
• Facilitated scrum events and ensured there’s full engagement.
• Ensured teams adhered to Scrum processes in support of product owner and development team
• Leveraged Agile practices where possible in the
implementation of network projects to successfully address dependencies, delays and problems that were previously experienced.
• Managed project scope to ensure delivery aligned with customer requirements.
• Supported development team in forecasting achievable product increment.
• Tracked and managed product backlog, burn down metrics, velocity and task breakdown.
• Mitigated risks factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed change in a rapidly evolving business environment
Neon Synergy – Scrum Master
Arlington, TX • 04/2014 - 10/2016
• Transformation of Waterfall to Agile Methodology by designing and delivering interactive training: backlog estimation, large- effort estimation, story writing, story mapping, team collaboration techniques, and multi-team retrospectives.
• Responsible for utilizing aspects of SAFe, Kanban, Extreme Programming and Scrum’s best practices to conduct Workshops, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Entrusted with owning, advocating, and coaching existing and new teams on agile methodology and scrum practices for product owners, scrum teams & key business stakeholders.
• Organized and facilitated multi-team planning sessions resulting in scaled and coordinated project planning and delivery
• Coached teams to grow in their Agile journey by mentoring the Scrum Masters to build self-organized teams, helping the product owners to deliver value by teaching backlog management, and guiding the teams to conduct effective Scrum events.
• Management of sprint team data in Jira.
• Support the Product Manager and Product Owner in maintaining data in the appropriate Agile toolset to provide transparency to the roadmap and related priorities
• Proactively help the team identify and resolve impediments. Ability to facilitate impediment resolution in a timely, effective manner
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