TIM ONEBAMOI
Phone: 346-***-****
Email: ***********@*****.***
AGILE SCRUM MASTER
Digital Transformation Incremental Development Continuous Improvement
Professional Summary:
Highly motivated and talented scrum master with years of combined leadership and technical experience. Skilled in developing and implementing IT solutions across multiple, cross functional domains. Show servant leadership by providing hands-on support to delivery teams while guiding them to completion. Experienced in Finance, Healthcare, Telecoms and Retail industry.
Dependable and committed coach, facilitator, mentor, and servant leader holding with career achievements in large-scale software deployments, web & mobile applications, digital transformation, cloud infrastructure, integration, data management and systems administration.
Excellent Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) background produced teams that have embraced scrum values of commitment, respect, focus, courage, and commitment, which has resulted in creating a trusting working environment and increased productivity.
Certifications:
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
SAFE 5.1 (In view)
Texas Dept. of Insurance General Lines Agent-Life. Accident. HMO, Health, Property & Casualty -2471711
Licensed Mortgage Lender-NMLS 1965782
Certified Youth Mental Health First Aid-The National Council for Behavioral Health.
Intuit Tax Level 1
Education:
MBA
B.Sc. Management
Associate Degree in Computer Science-In view
Technology Tools:
Agile Management: Jira Jira Align Confluence Version One Rally Azure DevOps
Project Management: MS Project Professional MS Project Server MS Visio
Cloud Services: Virtual Machines AWS Azure Machine Learning Workspace
Soft Skills:
Sprint Planning
Conflict Resolution
Sprint Retrospective
Metrics Reporting
SDLC
Test Automation
Team Empowerment
Emotional Intelligence
User Story Estimation
Continuous Improvement
Team Accountability
Project Transparency
Team Player
Business Management
Agile Transformation
Stakeholder Engagement
Agile Facilitation
Requirement Analysis Backlog Refinement
Coaching & Mentoring
Sprint Review
Servant Leadership
Collaborative Engagement
Risk Management
Professional Experience:
Snr Scrum Master: CloudFift Inc.
November2020 – Current
Responsibilities: (API/Integration & Infrastructure Team)
Coached and assisted the product owner on maintaining a healthy product backlog, writing user’s stories, and prioritizing and refining product backlog items with the team.
Worked with API team that connected old backend applications to mobile and web-based systems enhancing the overall users’ experience of bank website.
Mentored, coached, and led a 10-member team to automate a manual process, therefore enabling users to increase the process output by 65%, through enforcement of Agile values, framework, principles, processes, and practices thus improving performance, and maximizing time.
Proactively resolve conflicts and escalated to appropriate personnel if needed. Removed impediments, roadblocks and promote the team to remove impediments on their own, which shortened stagnation.
Built trusting relationships and collaborated within and across all internal teams
Coordinate with other Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers, and Stakeholders across value streams to understand progress, identify and resolve impediments, dependencies, and risk that may affect successful product delivery.
Facilitated all scrum events: Sprint planning, Daily stand-up meetings, Sprint review (demo), Sprint retrospective and ensured team members understood the purpose of each ceremony and adhered to the time-box of the events.
Help the team identify internal blockers and propose workflow improvements that improved project delivery.
Scrum Master: Regions Bank
January2018 – November 2020
Responsibilities: (Data& Mobile Application Team)
Worked with 2 scrum teams to create, develop, and enhance mobile application, enabling users to view and download sensitive information on the go.
Proactively sustained metrics like Burndown Burnup Charts, team velocity, % delivered vs committed to help deliver committed work, using JIRA and confluence to help track and maintain team progress and improve team performance.
Served in Product Owner capacity as needed, prioritizing backlog, story estimation, approving completed work based on Def of Done, ensuring work meets Def of Ready to be brought into sprint.
Coached and mentored teams in adopting Scrum, Kanban, and Lean practices and being self- organized.
Collaborated with teams to ensure a clear Definition of Ready (DOR) and Definition of Done (DOD) and updated as needed.
Perform Scrum Maturity assessment of the team and organization and coaching the team to continuously improve efficiency, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
Help technical teams identify external roadblocks and propose workflow improvements that reduced project delay by 35%
Create and provide on-boarding Jira training to the new employee with an in-depth understanding of internal Agile practices
Scrum Master: TJ African Mart
September 2015- November 2017
Responsibilities:(Digital Transformation Team; Web & Mobile)
Coordinated cross-functional teams of designers, developers, and testers in building a user-friendly platform and mobile payment application which increased customer satisfaction, retention, new customer base, and on- time payment for services leading to revenue increase.
Facilitated and coordinated all sprint ceremonies including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint retrospectives, sprint reviews/demos, grooming sessions, to realize full team engagement and collaboration. Ensured the implementation of resolutions identified in retrospective meetings.
Functioned as the “Cheerleader” for the team, helping to drive cohesion, build relationships and inject fun/humor. Coached team members on self-organization, autonomy, and the scrum framework.
Ensured the teams delivered tested, working functionality in each iteration, and working Features at the end of each Increment.
Reviewed and groomed product backlog with Product Owner, making sure Definition of Ready (DoR), Definition of Done (DoD), Acceptance Criteria, Epics, user stories, bugs defects were appropriately documented and prioritized for inclusion in upcoming Sprints.
Removed impediments roadblocks by identifying and escalating software license issue for team member to the appropriate personnel for quick resolution thus, ensuring team success.
Trained Scrum teams on the scrum techniques and artifacts (such as definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement)
Planned, established, and communicate project deliverables to meet deadlines and maintain project schedules
Project Coordinator: Pineda Insurance and Financial Services LLC
February 2010 - July 2015
Responsibilities:
Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
Maintained tactical control of project budgets and timelines to keep teams on task and achieve schedule targets.
Provided ongoing cost and estimate analysis reporting and managed cost allocation.
Reduced risk and coordinated project specifications to meet safety and federal compliance.
Implemented actions to mitigate risk by developing contingency and avoidance strategies.
Tracked blocking issues, work with managers and Engineering owner on mitigation plan
Tracked overall major Release progress to include multiple concurrent projects in development
Tracked and scheduled regular grooming and prioritization of product line backlogs.
Developed detailed program/project execution plan and manage all phases of the project including projects financials, progress status tracking and reporting, monitoring scope creep, testing and release to production