Scrum Master Project Manager

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BRENTWOOD, CA 925-***-**** adw719@r.postjobfree.com

OLOWA BAMIDELE, PSM1

SKILLS • Agile Development

• Scrum

• Waterfall

Methodologies

• XP

• Kanban

• Oracle

• Jira Software

• Linux

• RDMS (Oracle, SQL)

• Quality assurance

• Project Management

• Project planning and

development

• Development team

trainings

• Risk identification

• Web development

technologies

• Customer interaction

• Risk mitigation planning

• Leadership

• Advanced Problem

Solving

• Performance

Evaluations

• Budgeting

• Amazon web service -

AWS

PROFESSIONAL

SUMMARY

An accomplished and business savvy professional with robust experience acquired over the years in delivering optimal results & business value in high-growth environments and establishing key relationships with business segments. A Dynamic, versatile, and detailed-oriented leader well versed in all aspects of driving the adoption of agile values, principles, and practices. Skilled in leveraging agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable. Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of the final product. Demonstrated ability to motivate, organize, lead and coach scrum teams across multiple locations, with a veritable track record of managing a complex project. Recommend improvements and assist in changes to best practices. Adept at tracking key metrics through Burn down, team velocity, backlog health and defect summary reports, and radiating progress to the team and stakeholders. Influence, educate, and coach team members, leaders, and business stakeholders on Agile values, principles, and practices related to process, technology, and/or product.

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WORK HISTORY LEAD SCRUM MASTER 06/2022 to Present

WELLS FARGO, San Francisco CA.

• Manage and develop Scaled Agile portfolios of the highest complexity

• Guide the teams to follow Agile and Scrum practices to promote prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint

• Optimize scrum team velocity to identify improvement opportunities to achieve higher levels of team performance

• Oversee systemic impediments to team agility and guide the teams on methods to escalate

• Deliver capabilities using agile practices while following the Software Development Lifecycle, business process mapping, and various release processes to ensure all risk, security, and development requirements are met

• Partner with discipline managers to convey their concerns to scrum teams about governance policies and adherence to corporate standards

• Collaborate with product owners, program or project managers to communicate delivery of work product from the teams and escalate key risks and issues impeding scrum team effectiveness

• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues and managers to resolve issues and achieve goals

• Interact with internal customers

• Receive direction from leaders and exercise independent judgment while developing the knowledge to understand function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements

• Train other Scrum Masters and serve as a mentor to less experienced staff SNR. SCRUM MASTER 05/2018 to 06/2022

LAND HOME FINANCIAL SERVICES INC, Concord, CA

• Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices.

• Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready.

• Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective.

• Guided and Coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks

• Actively coordinated engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders.

• Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities

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• Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule.

• Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving

• Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality

• Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application.

• Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders.

• Identified and removed team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.

• Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self- organize.

SCRUM MASTER 06/2015 to 04/2018

ARC DOCUMENT SOLUTION, Walnut Creek, CA

• Implemented Agile Scrum Methodology throughout the organization to improve communications between Engineering, Product Management, and Business.

• Worked with product owner to prioritize and groom user Stories in the Product Backlog in preparation of the sprint planning.

• Coached scrum teams on how to scale agile to enterprise level; team to program and portfolio levels using Scaled Agile Framework.

• Worked with development team to decompose the User Stories into tasks and assign hours to the tasks.

• Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinements for 2-week sprint cycles emphasizing on continual improvement.

• Ensures the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, toward the consistent delivery of working product.

• Facilitated weekly backlog grooming sessions with the team, ensuring work items are estimated and 'ready-for-work' per the product owners' priorities.

• Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop and maintain Product Backlogs

• Drove cross functional execution of a program from requirements to market delivery

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• Produced accurate and high-quality reports on a monthly, quarterly and bi-annual basis for internal and international clients

PROJECT MANAGER 06/2013 to 05/2015

CLAVAX Technologies LLC, SAN JOSE, CA

• Monitored project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance

• Managed end to end development process for quarterly application upgrade, provided smooth internal process

• Drove implementation of project deliverables in the project charter and project plan

• Tracked and managed project execution in accordance with the company's financial management practices

• Managed the entire project lifecycle through implementation

• Accountable for meeting agreed upon scope, cost, schedule and quality measures

• Maintained high quality delivery standards and ensured professionalism and ethical conduct at all times

PROJECT MANAGER 05/2012 to 05/2013

BLACH CONSTRUCTION, SAN JOSE, CA

• Manage customer relationships and expectations by developing a communication process to keep others up-to-date on project results

• Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation

• Develops and refines project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources

• Responsible for understanding all user expectations, processes, and inputs/outputs necessary to develop a specific functionality/outcome.

• Leads the execution of the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals.

• Manages changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes

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PROJECT COORDINATOR 05/2010 to 03/2012

BizzallOne, Dallas, TX

• Created project roadmaps for staff, defining specific milestones and timelines to encourage timely project completion.

• Analyzed project costs to confirm positive return on investment (ROI) for new proposals.

• Facilitated communication between departments to enhance project success.

• Created project tracking database to provide central repository for all progress and fault monitoring efforts.

EDUCATION AND

CERTIFICATION

Professional Scrum Master, Scrum.org

Ogun State University

Bachelor of Science, Major: Banking and Finance

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