Scrum Master

AYO OLANIPEKUN

*** **** ******* ******, *** Vegas NV. 89145

*************@*****.*** 702-***-****

CAREER OBJECTIVE

Value-driven Professional Scrum Master through Scrum.org with 5years of experience in coaching and leading Scrum teams and providing incremental delivery of value. I have experience and passion for excellence in Scrum Mastery and removal of impediments.

Strong facilitation skills in leading the daily scrum, planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives.

Proven ability to build constructive relationships and drive towards alignment and clarity with a variety of stakeholders, such as executives, managers, and subject matter experts.

Excellent organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills.

Ability to manage and execute on multiple projects simultaneously.

Experience with Agile project management tools (Jira, Confluence) and remote tools (Zoom, Teams).

Excellent organizational skills and the ability to work under pressure to balance competing priorities in meeting business deadlines.

Deep familiarity and understanding of Agile practices.

SKILLS

Scrum Values & Principles •Coaching/Mentoring• Conflict Resolution• Team Empowerment• Backlog Refinement/Grooming• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)• SDLC• User Story • Sprint Planning •Sprint Review •Sprint Retrospective • Scrum Metrics • Kanban

Highly Proficient in: Word ●Excel ●PowerPoint ●Outlook ●SQL ●JIRA ●Zoom ●Miro ●Confluence ●Microsoft Teams ●SharePoint ●WebEx ●Skype

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CIGNA

Scrum Master

December 2021 – Present

Responsible for ensuring that our agile delivery teams adhered to agile ceremonies and follow agile frameworks (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban)

Assisted with internal and external communication which improved transparency and removed impediments and mitigated risks.

Managed dependencies that can have a negative impact on the delivery capability of teams while driving cross team planning, collaboration, and coordination that led to an increase in high quality value delivered to our customers from 50% to 85%.

Understood the Accountability and Responsibility of all members of my teams and ensured capacity was not exceeded.

Retrieved and modified data utilizing SQL programming language.

Responsible for ensuring that the application is functioning effectively. Also continued with the scrum team to add more features to make it more user friendly and valuable.

Prepared and presented status reports and metrics to stakeholders.

Collaborated with multiple agile teams involving business, infrastructure, database, developers, testers and resolve bottlenecks ensuring smooth delivery.

Team Managed the application system on with reference to Medicaid/Medicare claims assessment.

Observed team dynamics, recognized strengths and weaknesses of individual team member's contributions, and coached the team to drive improvements in productivity.

MGM Resorts

Scrum Master (Contract)

September 2019 – November 2021

Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity leading to increase in product development by 16%.

Responsible for monitoring the scrum processes and scrum meetings.

Responsible for increase in team efficiency by 50% and collaborated for changes that ensured quality and timeliness.

Supported the Product Owner and IT leadership especially on the significance of grooming the product backlog which erased blockers.

Facilitated discussion, decision-making, and conflict resolution.

Used the Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) tool to prepare, communicate, and share team metrics and delivery results

Coached the writing of value-driven user stories, features, and epics, and maintains a well-refined backlog.

IBM

IT Support

July 2017-September 2019

Responsible for the maintenance, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems and servers.

Installation of hardware/software and participated in research and development to continuously improve and keep up with the IT business needs of their organization.

Responsible for checking IT room temperature, server status and backup status if fully completed.

Responsible for making important notifications on User Account permissions.

Distinguished user requests from underlying issues and troubleshooted accordingly

Assisted with data entry.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATE

Certifications: Professional Scrum Master, Scrum.org

Certified Scrum master, Scrum Alliance

Scaled Agile Framework Scrum Master, Scaledagile.com

Education: Bachelor of Science, Microbiology

University of Ibadan

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