Scrum Master Data Analyst

Freda Oyekan

Victory Ave Dallas, TX. ***** 763-***-**** *****.******@*****.***

www.linkedin.com/in/freda-oyekan-3756b721a

Benson Idahosa University Edo, Nigeria

B.A in English

Saint Mary’s University Minneapolis, MN

Masters in Human Resources Management

OBJECTIVES

Skilled Scrum Master with exceptional ability in bringing diverse minds together to achieve project goals. Has ability to manage multiple projects at once with collocated and distributed teams, excellent analytical in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflow

SKILLS

Git, Github, Gitlab

Kanban, Scrum, SAFE

Linux

Jira, Azure DevOps, Rally, Confluence

Agile Methodologies

Project Management

AWS, Microsoft Azure

Technical Certificatons & Trainings

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified Safe 5 Agilist

PMI-ACP

AWS Solution Architect Associate

WORK EXPERIENCE

Humana Aug 2022 – Present

Sr. Scrum Master

Holds teams accountable for delivery, continuous improvement, and staying true to values.

Make work visible and removes impediments encountered by the team, ensuring the team is as productive as possible.

Experienced in migrating teams through the end to end process from on-prem services into Cloud Capabilities.

Migrating over 1700 applications into the cloud.

Experienced in integrating BI Tools such as Power Bi with Service-Now for ease and automation

Facilitate and owns team ceremonies, such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

Supports PI Planning, System Demos and Inspect and Adapt sessions.

Facilitates coordination with external dependent teams.

Coaches the team on Agile mindset and fundamentals.

Collaborates with other Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches contributing to the improvement of Agile best practices within the organization, including through Communities of Practice.

Walmart Global Tech Sep 2021 – Aug 2022

Sr. Scrum Master

Facilitated scrum events (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, sprint retrospective) and other agile activities (backlog refinement, release planning, story writing workshop, project kickoff meeting).

Facilitated and assists with product backlog prioritization using the MOSCOW technique

Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle

Successfully guided the scrum team to increase sprint velocity by 30%

Experienced in working with a Mobile Application Software Development team

Experienced in working with a Robotics Development Engineering team

Championed the Quality Excellence process, ensuring over 150 teams are compliant and promote continued success in upholding QE.

Working closely with Quality Assurance Engineers on each team to drive compliance in (Requirement management, Test case Management, Test execution and Automation, Defect Management, Reporting and continual improvement) across board.

Compiling and Creating status reports to stakeholders on Risk and Audit from a Quality Excellence and Security Vulnerability standpoint.

Working closely with Infosec to drive for remediation of detected security vulnerabilities

Implemented Agile practices within the teams to improve business outcomes; provide more transparency and value while delivering potentially releasable product increment every 2 weeks.

Uncovered impediments and use impediments resolution processes to provide visibility and track impediments resolution at the multi-team level.

Facilitated the decomposition of roadmap item actions into epics, develops user stories using the INVEST criteria and creates tasks with team members using the SMART technique.

Facilitates Scrum of Scrums and engage with other scrum masters within the organization to promote transformation, knowledge sharing and discussion of identified organizational impediments.

Uber Sep 2020 – Aug 2021

Scrum Master

Experience in software development methodologies and proven ability to lead scrum teams in the execution of project tasks and providing monitoring including risks/issues management.

Ensured clarity of working agreements to keep teams constantly on track during the sprints, ensured team practices core agile principles of collaboration, prioritizing, team accountability and visibility to meet sprint/release goals.

Managed three project teams in an Agile environment, realizing success through application of SDLC methodologies

Worked with Developers, Product Owners and other value stream stakeholders to help develop software release/delivery strategy

Ramped up new teams and accelerate existing teams. Research and suggests tool stack needed to implement DevOps.

Applied the SAFe agile framework workflow

Facilitated iterations, and running scrum of scrums with RTE

Trained and support Agile development process aimed at ensuring delivery teams adopt and live the Agile principles

Pfizer April 2019 – Aug 2020

Scrum Master

Managed conflict resolution by focusing on scrum values of focus, openness, courage, honesty, and respect. This has increased team performance by 35%.

Managed numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration, which was based on Jira source. Educated and worked with team to build extensive test coverage for all new features which reduced the number of customer complaint by 50%.

Managed and resolved conflicts by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect.

Inspired Agile technical projects teams to high levels of performance and quality to provide exceptional business value.

Experienced in Continuous improvement and using DevOps skills like CICD / CP / TDD with proven ability in administrative support, management, coordination and executing tasks.

Maintained multiple Scrum/Kanban boards for different applications and vendors

Tracked key metrics through effective communication, work cumulative flow, burn down and burn up charts, velocity, defect summary report and making sure team progress radiates to product owners and stakeholders.

Bank of America Aug 2016 – May 2019

Scrum Master/ Agile Project Manager

Ensured that all processes required for CI/CD were documented and followed by the development team

Managed agile ceremonies and resource allocation reports to drive development burnout out down by 23%

Ensure the project objectives and requirements are clear and agreed upon by client stakeholders and team members

Built and utilized reporting systems to keep customers and management in loop with latest information.

Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.

Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.

Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on-task and achieve schedule targets.

Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for key stakeholders.

Barnes & Noble April 2014 – July 2016

Business / Data Analyst

Worked with Senior Management to understand business requirements, collaborate with Software engineering teams to enhance existing models, and effectively communicate model results and insights to key stakeholders.

Created Excel based Analysis and reports using VLOOKUP, Pivot tables and complex excel formulas per business needs

Implemented SQL Query performance on highly complex joins to populate the desired result

Maintained Access database for the purpose of extracting reports

Developed interactive Tableau dashboards for presentations purpose

Worked with reporting team to automate some of the business reports for the higher management review.

Worked with business teams in various areas of field sales to develop reports or address data needs to provide reporting solutions

Identify opportunities to insert automations in Tableau for Reporting

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