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Oladoyin Olatoun

Phone: +1-281-***-**** Email: adxghq@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

A devoted Servant leader, Coach, and Mentor with over 7 years of experience in guiding and facilitating the implementation of Agile values and principles in the execution of project delivery. Highly skilled in identifying the right framework for organization and team project delivery, ranging from various frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Nexus, Lean-Agile, and SAFe. Highly skilled in developing and implementing complex technical solutions, streamlining business processes, and increasing performance metrics. Adept in analyzing current environments, identifying and integrating viable improvements, and ensuring team adoption to minimize production impact. Experienced in handling all aspects of project management from gathering and analyzing requirements, to developing project scope and plans, and establishing criteria for project milestones and final deliverables.

Skills

Scrum framework

Lean methodology

Waterfall

Kanban

Extreme Programming

Project Management

SAFe methodology

Coaching/Mentoring

Stakeholder Engagement

SDLC

Team Empowerment

Release Planning

Continuous Testing (TDD,

BDD)

Conflict Resolution

Excellent Communication

Continuous Improvement

Servant Leadership

Strategic Planning

Time Management

Work history

Scrum Master

Project: Address Cleanup / Serviceability Enhancement / Cognizant Frontier Communications TX Jan. 2022 – Present

• Coach team to adopt Scrum and understand the purpose of all events towards delivering team objectives based on timelines and milestones.

• Facilitate Scrum events such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, and PBI refinement. While making sure the purpose and value of each event are maximized.

• Set up a new scrum team, train and coach with the implementation of the Scrum framework.

• Create a Jira project board to track sprints and a confluence board (Wiki Page) for documentation for established team ways of working, applications, and project implementation process. Oladoyin Olatoun

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• Create project plans and roadmaps on Jira to track team progress toward delivering program increment (PI) objectives every quarter.

• Create executive dashboards on Jira for easy understanding of team metrics for stakeholders, business owners, and team members themselves which helps to drive desires for improvement in every sprint.

• Support two scrum teams with various lines of business in Frontier and manage various blockers and impediments to our sprint goal toward the delivery of organizational objectives.

• Support product owner with the writing of various issue types that meets INVEST criteria such as epics, stories, technical debts, and bugs, and ensure it is prioritized and actioned every sprint based on priority and value delivery.

• Keep track of the team’s progress towards the sprint goal and ensure sprint disruption or external interference is well managed to prevent hindrance to the sprint goal.

• Present team progress to PMO, stakeholders, business owners, and subject matter experts during bi-weekly sync.

• Raise team blockers and dependencies with other scrum teams for proper management without any delay for immediate action.

• Call out potential risks that could affect team delivery of their commitments during scrum of scrum meetings or various leadership sync for proper management.

• Facilitate team-engaging retrospective sessions to gain insight into various challenges encountered by team members during the sprint, itemize and ensure action of identified team improvement ideas.

• Contributes to the organization’s agile improvement by introducing SM sync where scrum master share improvement ideas already implemented with their various teams for the benefit of others in order to align with best practices in the organization. Agile Delivery Lead

Project: SAP

OSI Groups, Illinois Sept. 2019 – Dec. 2021

Key Contribution: Successfully implemented continuous improvement policies to govern all development processes, resulting in a 25% increase in code quality and an 80% increase in throughput.

Coached development teams through agile transitions to develop and ensure a full understanding of the Agile/Scrum framework and why it benefits all parties.

Worked with senior leadership on understanding and embracing the aspects of agile software development that help them achieve their goals without creating churn on development teams.

Led the adoption of tools, artifacts, and ceremonies to promote a better investment in team productivity, communication, and autonomy.

Understand the SDLC process to streamline activities, especially around DevOps, testing, and performance.

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Oversaw employees and processes responsible for deployment and support of all Internet Solutions, API integration, and incremental replacement of Legacy platforms and software.

Conducted daily stand-ups and organized development groups around Agile Sprints to ensure they keep up with and respond to customer demands/issues.

Ensure alignment to the cross-departmental roadmaps, create a collective plan to manage dependencies

Understand fundamentals of software development processes and procedures in an agile development environment

Engage directly with stakeholders to define mission value and prioritize work and build intellectual capital in Agile techniques

Help to guide and manage the ART and the teams through the delivery of software and services, embracing and casting the Agile mindset across client spaces Project Manager/Scrum Master

Project: Integrate Robotic System

Nemera Buffalo Grove Sept 2017 – August. 2019

• Coaching: Worked with teams to institute, practice, and adopt Scrum and Agile techniques. Identify and introduce opportunities for the team to improve through coaching and questioning, increasing their delivery rate.

• Training: Collaborated to develop Agile training materials, newsletters, and support communities as they relate to Agile practices.

• Supported both co-located and offshore teams on their project delivery with the Removal of impediments or blockers and maintained development team focus.

• Reviewed sprint metrics with the team for discussion and identified improvement ideas that will help the team to do better in upcoming sprints.

• Planned and managed various team bonding activities such as lunch and learning, summer get- togethers, team games, Fun Friday, and Team happy hour in order to build trust and motivate team members.

• Reported team progress and velocity to stakeholders by analyzing burn-up/down charts, and releasing burn-down charts.

• Collaborated with the scrum team to define criteria for Automated Testing, Integration, and continuous delivery.

• Met quality standards by ensuring TDD (test-driven development) was adopted during sprints.

• Empowered the team to make process improvements captured in sprint retrospective meetings.

• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

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

• Collaborated with project owners and team members to set ambitious but achievable goals.

• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and offshore. Oladoyin Olatoun

Phone: +1-281-***-**** Email: adxghq@r.postjobfree.com

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Project Manager

Project: ATM

Sun Trust Bank, NY Jan. 2016 – Aug. 2017

• Coordinated presentations for customers and project members to detail project scope, progress, and results.

• Supervised multiple projects from project start through delivery by prioritizing needs and delegating assignments.

• Tracked hours and expenses to keep the project on task and within budgetary parameters.

• Built strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and devised strategies, initiatives, and events promoting products and services.

• Transitioned projects from the estimation and pre-construction phase to a well-defined project execution plan.

• Gathered requirements for ongoing projects and organized details for management use.

• Arranged events by overseeing logistics, budgets, venue selection, and activity planning.

• Kept projects on schedule by managing deadlines and adjusting workflows. Education & Certification

PSM I - Professional Scrum Master

SSM Certified SAFe 6.0

ICP-ACC- ICAgile Professional Coaching

MSc Management and Finance

Birmingham City University. United

Kingdom

BSc Economics Olabisi Onabanjo

University

Technical Skills

Agile Management Tool: Jira, Rally, Version one, Azure DevOps

Collaboration: SharePoint, Microsoft Suite, Confluence, Mural, Miro, Jam board, Team Whiteboard.

Meetings: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Skype, Zoom

Software: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

Project Management: Advanced knowledge of Waterfall/Agile, DMAIC, MS Office

Scrum Ceremonies- Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review & Sprint Retrospective

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