Scrum Master Project Manager

Adekunle Ajayi

Irving, Texas, *****

Phone: 682-***-****

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

Accomplished, committed and creative Project Manager/Scrum Consultant with more than 10 years of success delivering IT projects ‘on-time and within budget through improved productivity, performance and cost control. Communicate effectively with all levels of management. Certified PMP and Scrum Master (PSM-l, 2). EDUCATION

University Of Texas, Arlington, Bachelor of Technology— Informatics August 2009 - May 2013

CERTIFICATIONS

● Certified (AGILE) Scrum Master

● Certified Scrum Product Owner- (CSPO)

● Certified Project Manager Professional (PMP)

● Service now SAP

● Certified ITIL foundation: Version 4

● Professional Scrum Master 1, 2

HARD SKILLS

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), MS Project, SQL server, SDLC, Visio, UNIX, Python, Oracle, Lean, JIRA $ JIRA Portfolio, SAFe, LeSS, Daad, nexus

• Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, XP)

• User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Automated Testing

• Expert in Meeting Facilitation

• Expert in Agile Planning

• Expert as Agile Coaching

• Expert as Servant Leadership

• Advanced in GitHub

• UserVoice

• Stretch

SOFT SKILLS

● Expert in Interpersonal Skill

● Expert in Communication skills

● Expert in Time Management

● Expert in Collaboration

● Advanced in Detail Orientation

● Budget Management

● Influence

● Negotiation

● Delegation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CITIBANK, IrvIng, TX — Senior Scrum master August 2022- January 2023

. Administered all Agile/Scrum processes including sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives, coached team members and clients on Agile process.

.Coached 20+ scrum teams to higher levels of maturity by improving their process and ensuring they adhere to the scrum framework.

.Facilitated discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution across 4 cross functional teams.

. Identified 10+ complex impediments and assisted 5+ teams in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitment.

• Remove obstacles and manage risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness.

• I have the ability to apply scrum estimation techniques to software development efforts, strong leadership and organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), time management, project planning, people and team building skills.

• As a Servant-leader I mentored, trained and led process improvements on Agile and Scaled Agile practices and ceremonies to ensure that business and engineering value is being created through predictable, continuous, high-quality releases.

Belcan, Indianapolis, IN — Project Manager/Agile Scrum Master August 2019 – JUNE 2022

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● Facilitated test-driven development on all projects increasing quality by 17% (benchmarked against historical data.)

● Enabled Agile team to increase its throughput by 15% through use of swarming around features and other high-collaboration approaches, such as paired programming

● Delivered more than 50 projects with budgets from $50,000 to $1 million on-time and on-budget for clients.

● Conducted business requirements analysis with external clients using stakeholder interviews and focus groups to define scope.

● Established stakeholder registry, performed gap analysis, and presented business case to sponsoring partners.

● Oversaw cloud-based solution development ($500k budget) and implementation and managed compliance roadmap activities.

Premier Acceptance, Indianapolis, IN —Agile Scrum Master May 2016 - June 2019

● Saved $800 000 through a companywide automation drive

● Employed Kanban to improve team velocity 35%

● Increased team implementation 55% with a new Lean idea system.

● Coordinated efforts of a 7-person team for 8 projects.

● Scrum Master for 15 products, completed an average of 10% under budget.

● Trained 4 other Scrum Masters for other departments.

● Enforced Kanban usage, cutting cycle time 25%

● Lead 2 Scrum teams working with cross functional teams to increase revenue from $1.5 million to $2.3 million in 2 years, slashing time to delivery 22%.

● Ensured User Stories were 100% ordered, defined and ready to be worked on by the team.

● Removed obstacles and managed risk to enable team efficiency and effectiveness. One Main Financial, Mt Sterling, KY —Software Lead Developer November 2013 - March 2016

● Worked as professional software lead developer in Agile environment.

● Facilitated logistics for 2 self-organizing product teams.

● Worked in a scrum team for 6 months.

● Worked with 3 cross functional teams to deliver 3 products.

● Led development, planning and execution for a $5 million e-marketing analytics project.

● Built consensus to provide a product to offer corporate and marketing managers with real-time actionable insight information.

● Leveraged skills of technical development and cross-functional team members to innovate technical offerings.

● Allocated and balanced resources between 10 on-site and 10 offshore developers, ensuring optimum utilization across competing projects.

● Defined requirements for new and existing system modifications, prepared status reports, presentations, and Project demonstrations for senior managers, partners, and stakeholders

● Initiated stop-gap system development for stalled SAP implementation saving the bank over $1 million in costs.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Process Improvement

Successfully led initiative to introduce Scrum to corporate IT department of over 100. Coached and mentored other team members in Scrum ceremonies and educated product owners in Agile. Customer satisfaction on Agile-led projects increased by 23% in the first six months, benchmarked against non- Agile projects.

Leadership/Innovation

Took initiative in developing concept and presenting business case for suite of marketing management and analytics projects that formed the basis of a broad multi-million-dollar project to enable just-in-time analytics, historical tracking and business process improvement opportunities leading to growth in what was

considered a mature business.

Risk Management

Initiated “emergency” project when a related, externally managed SAP implementation project stalled, saving the firm approximately $1 million in fees.

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