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Babatunde Olaniyi

Email: ********@*****.*** Cell: 781-***-**** Quincy, Massachusetts, 02169

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

A true Agilist with hands-on experience as a Scrum Master, Product Owner and Agile Project Manager with spanning over 10 years of work experience in IT and Consulting domains. Highly experienced in Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, Scrum@Scale frameworks utilizing same to successfully complete several projects such as Change Management, Process Automation, UI/UX design, Report and Analytics.

An experienced Value Enabler, Facilitator and Researcher with passion for continuous learning and continuous improvement. Highly proficient in influencing positive change through experimentation, negotiation, incremental and iterative development/delivery, stakeholder management, business analysis, risk and conflict management. These are skills-set that I readily have to support teams, projects, processes and products to sustain business agility.

As a self-starter who is adept at team and relationship building, I leverage on Agile values and principles to meet Stakeholders/Clients expectations.

SKILLS

Change and Risk Management

Conflict, Problems and Issue Management

Ideation and Experimentation

Servant leadership and Team Building

Coaching, Training and Facilitation

Product, Process and Project Management

Communication: Written, Verbal, Presentation

Testing: Performance and Usability

Analysis: Trend, GAP, SWOT, RCA

Research: Qualitative and Quantitative

Thinking: Creative, Design, System & Strategic

Stakeholder and C-Suite Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ZHILL SYSTEMS, TX

An IT consulting firm providing Tech Sales, Agile Transformation, Digital Enablement and Talent Placement.

Agile Scrum Master: Aug 2018 - Present

Project: Reporting and Analytics

Elicited requirements from different stakeholders and turned them into epics, features and user stories.

Vertically sliced work items into valuable and functional layers that meets minimum marketable feature (MMF).

Created acceptance criteria for every user stories, documented on Jira and explained them to the developers.

Developed product roadmaps in alignment with program vision and adapted them to meet current realities.

Collaborated with the Agile Program Manager/Release Train Engineer to develop the product/release roadmaps.

Created iteration/sprint goals based on stakeholder’s expectations and approved roadmap.

Groomed/refined the backlog to reflect value expectation and stakeholders priority.

Supported the product owner to prioritize the work items following WSJF, MoSCoW and Kano analysis as applicable.

Radiated information and promote effective communication within and across teams and the Leadership.

Analyzed and gathered user requirements using cases, mockup and elicitation meetings.

TARRIOTS CONSULTING, DE.

A global consulting and advisory firm providing a full spectrum of technology and supply chain services

Scrum Master: May 2016 – July 2018

Project: SDLC Project

Managed full SDLC, from ideation, to discovery, to execution, then to deployment

Developed and followed agile project management plan (Agile Ceremonies). Facilitated build requirements log (Product Backlog) with cost estimates and priority.

Monitored the project progress using metrics and radiated information to stake holders. Identified and mitigated team risk and impediments on a daily basis.

Collaborated with Senior Management, Business and Release management to understand the vision of the product, prioritize and develop software release planning.

Supported the Product Manager by providing insight on production workload and bottlenecks to inform prioritization and ensure that deadlines are met.

Created an effective reporting system to report issues, status and progress to the Leadership Action Team (LAT)

Participated/co-facilitated the agile events such as iteration planning, daily stand-up, demo and kaizen meetings.

Mentored the development teams to understand and practice the core Scrum Principles, Roles, Rules and Values.

DUNN EDWARDS NIG, LTD.

Provides high quality and bespoke services to the telecoms industry by acquisition, deployment and development of all resources to provide excellent services to its own customers.

Agile Project Coordinator/Scrum Master: Feb 2013 - April 2016

Project: Reverse Logistics& Distribution of Petroleum Products to base stations

Tool Adoption and Change Management

Supported the UI/UX initiatives covering ease of use, visual communication, interaction design and architecture of the web app.

Led the change management project covering new tool adoption and the complementing risk, training, new processes, communication, KPIs and operating procedures.

Elicited requirements from different stakeholders and interpreted them into functional and non-functional requirements.

Participated in all agile meetings including release planning and backlog refinement sessions.

Gathered and analyzed project metrics and utilized them to aid decision making, forecast and improvements.

Researched extensively about standards, norms and best practice and used same to influence decision making.

Utilized Figma to create mockups/wireframes as a prototype for demo and feedback.

IT Support Staff

PUZZLES GROUP Sep 2010 - Jan 2013

Offers services and solutions to client organizations in diverse sectors such as Information Technology, Engineering and construction, facility management and consulting services

Installing and Configuring Computer hardware and operating systems and application

Monitoring and Maintaining Computer systems and Networks

Troubleshooting systems and Network problems

Electrical Safety checks on Computer Equipment’s

Talking Staff/Client through a Series of actions, either face to face or over the Telephone

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science (BSc): Computer Science and Information Technology 2010

Bowen Univeristy Iwo Osun State Nig

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Registered Product Owner (RPO) Scrum Inc

Registered Scrum Master (RSM) Scrum Inc

Agile Project and Delivery Manager (ICP-APM) ICAgile

Scrum Foundation Certificate Scrum Alliance

TOOLS

Agile Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps (ADO), Confluence, Mural, Miro

Microsoft: Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Teams, Planner

Collaborative Tool: Cisco Webex, Google Meet, Zoom, MS Teams, Slack

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