EMMANUEL ODEBUNMI

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adxjth@r.postjobfree.com

Executive Summary

A Servant leader, Agile Coach and highly experienced ScrumMaster with over ten years of experience with an excellent background leading Scrum teams of various sizes using the pillars of empirical process control to manage and deliver high-dollar Information Technology projects. Committed to coaching, mentoring, and development of a very skilled workforce in the scrum framework. Highlights of Expertise:

Training, Coaching, and

mentoring

Leadership and Customer

focused

Agile Methodologies

(SAFe, Scrum, Scrumban,

Kanban, Scrum at Scale,

Spotify, Test Driven

Development (TDD),

Behavioral Driven

Development (BDD),

Extreme Programming

(XP))

Jira and Confluence

System Development Life

Cycle (SDLC)

Release Planning

Continuous improvements

Project Management

Facilitation

Lean-Agile

Continuous Integration and

Continuous Development

(CI/CD)

Agile Project Management

Excellent

interpersonal/communicatio

n skills

Roadmapping

Business Analysis

Scaled Agile Framework

Technical Summary

Operating Systems Windows, Linux, Mac operating systems Reporting tools JIRA, Confluence

Business Modeling Tools MS Visio

Reporting Tool MS Excel, Outlook, MS Power point, MS Access Project Management MS Project, MS Office

Continued...

Professional Background

ROPLAB IT SOLUTIONS Providence, RI

Sr. ScrumMaster (Consultant) May 2016 – Present

● Responsible for implementing the Scrum framework within the organization while coordinating efforts with SMEs on the build out of a high-volume, high-availability cloud-based system presently valued at

$7.5 million dollars.

● Task with organizing and facilitating project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings.

● Work closely with the development team to identify roadblocks/impediments while communicating and assisting the product owner in resolving them.

● Tracks and communicates team velocity and progress to product owner while ensuring the team adheres to core agile principles of collaboration, self-management, commitment, focus, respect accountability and visibility.

● Manage risk by proactively driving cross-functional leads to identify and unblock issues, track, and resolve cross-team dependencies.

● Timely and accurate internal and external communication with Product Owner on development issues while providing guidance for resolution and transparency.

● Champions continuous improvements in processes and development techniques with teams by implementing action items from retrospectives and implementing concrete solutions to make the teams more efficient and improve delivery success.

● Coach on increasing team productivity by analyzing metrics such as burndown chart, velocity reliability, cycle time); Lead continuous improvement efforts.

● Assists the product owner with product backlog maintenance, prioritization, and refinement.

● Share and learn best practices with Scrum Master peers to increase the effectiveness of the application of agile practices.

● Works with team and business to remove impediments/blockers that hinders the team from achieving their goals and that exceeds the team’s self-managing capabilities.

● Establish a trusting and collaborative team environment, ensure that the scrum team remains in the rhythm of continuously delivering customer and business value. American Tower Westborough, MA

ScrumMaster January 2014 – April 2016

● Facilitated daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint review and retrospective meetings ensuring correct use of scrum practices while working with the team to remove impediments.

● Coached the scrum team and executive leadership on the scrum framework, which allowed for best-in-class solutions that met the business goals.

● Built strong relationships with business divisions and departments; represent, champion and further the goals and opportunities of teams in support of assigned initiatives.

● Proactively helped the team to forecast the number of deliverables that are possible in an iteration based on SMEs recommendation and the team’s willingness to execute above and beyond management’s expectations.

● Leveraged collaborative project planning tool JIRA and other applications to project manage from conceptualization to final product delivery.

● Contributed to building a culture where continuous improvement of the development process is a focus with a common goal to deliver outstanding software as fast as possible. Thomson Reuters Boston, MA

Business Analyst Project Manager March 2012 – December 2013

● Served as a Business Analyst and Project Manager, working closely with leadership and Business intelligence team to analyze current data trends and predict future trends through statistical modeling.

● Occupied the role of a Project Manager when required to ensure timely and accurate creation of BRD, FRD; WBS, project plans and other commonly used documents while facilitating and ensuring progress is being made.

● Tracked the fulfillment of all functional requirements to the technical solutions by the development team in a RTM document for clarity, transparency and accuracy.

● Created test cases to validate the development work being done, ensuring that it meets all functional and technical requirements as described in the Business requirements document.

● Served as a Liaison between the customer and the development team, bridging the knowledge gap and translating technical language into more understandable business terms and concept. Thomson Reuters Boston, MA

Tax Accountant January 2010 to March 2012

● Participated in monthly account reconciliations, preparation of financial statements and creation of budgets and forecasts for management.

● Collected, organized and prepared tax forms for clients during tax return season, communicated as a SME on tax related questions, liabilities and laws to ensure timely and accurate delivery of information to our clients.

● Evaluated client's financial and legal circumstances to determine tax liabilities while offering Representation in dealings with the IRS or other tax collection agencies.

● Prepared consolidated internal and external financial statements by analyzing information from the general ledger system and department heads of our corporate clients.

● Performed corporate month end closing activities such as preparing journal entries for areas such as prepaid, accruals and departmental re-classes.

● Maintained and balanced an automated consolidation system. Education and Credentials

Rhode Island College Rhode Island, MA

MPA. Master’s in professional accountancy March 2016 – December 2019 Rhode Island College Rhode Island, MA

BSc. Accounting with minor in Finance March 2013 – December 2015 Massasoit Community College Brockton, MA

Associate in Accounting March 2010 – December 2012 Lagos State Polytechnic Lagos, Nigeria

HND Computer Science September 2006 – December

2008

Certifications

● Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master (SSM)

● Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

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