Scrum Master Product Owner

SANGOFADEJI OLU

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

L: ATLANTA, GA/REMOTE E: *********.*@*******.*** P: 678-***-****

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHT

CERTIFICATIONS

Scrum Alliance – Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Alliance – Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scaled Agile – SAFe 5.0 Agilist

Scaled Agile – Leading SAFe

CLEARANCE- Secret

TOOLS: Jira, Jira Align, Mural, AHA, Confluence, Azure DevOps (ADO), Rally, Outlook.

RELATED SKILLS: Agile Methodologies, Coaching/Mentoring, Program Increment,

Facilitation, Emotional Intelligence, Servant Leadership, Scrum, Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution, Agile Techniques, Capacity Planning, Leadership, Kanban.

SUMMARY

An innovative, proactive and Seasoned Scrum Master with combined leadership and Information Technology expertise. Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills with great emotional intelligence and attention to details. Strong abilities in serving a cross functional team in a self-organized manner using the Agile practice guidelines.

EXPERIENCE

Harvey Nash (DDINS) - Remote February 2023- August 2024

Senior Scrum Master

•Provided servant leadership, facilitation, conflict resolution, continual improvement, and increasing transparency to the team.

•Removed impediments/blockers as well as guiding the team on how to resolve impediments independently to keep teams highly productive.

•Guided new and existing team through the ‘Forming, Storming, Norming and Performance’ stages to reach a high-performance status.

•Communicates team progress to Product Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and other stakeholders.

•Continuously taking ownership of issues and facilitated resolutions.

•Built 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.

•Prevented over-commitment during sprint planning.

•Worked with product owner to ensure a well-managed backlog and ensure work status is updated as appropriate

•Encouraged agile behaviors, norms, ceremonies, reinforce practices and supports overall team performance and efficiency

•Facilitated all scrum ceremonies is a timely manner

•Guided my team on how to get the most out of self-organization and collaboration to meet team goals and product deliverables.

Nike Inc – Portland, OR August 2022- December 2022

Senior Scrum Master

•Worked with the Digital Transformation project.

•Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog refined.

•Assisted in a LeSS framework and helped team maintain a single product backlog.

•Assist the team with implementing effective Agile disciplinary practices.

•Accurately gathering relevant metrics that provides organizational visibility and help the team see how they are doing.

•Promoted Scrum as scale (LeSS framework) by ensuring my teams focused on the goal of the sprint and delivered value according.

•Work with my squads to embed and reinforce Agile practices and behaviors.

•Help team to focus on delivery of high-quality stories and maintain a sustainable cadence.

•Facilitates all team scrum ceremonies.

•Work with other scrum master’s to continuously improve the Agile framework and practices within the organization.

•Identifies internal/external team dependencies, impediments/barriers, risk and then guide the teams to resolution in a timely fashion.

•Protect the team from external distractions and help focus on the sprint goal. • Making visible sprint backlog workflow using Agile methodology tools • Encourages continuous improvement among team members.

•Facilitating Internal and external communication

•Operating as the team’s servant leader, tending to their needs, and ensuring they understand and practice Agile.

•Closely monitors velocity and works with the development managers to make sure all developers are being productive and are set up to succeed each sprint.

Boston Consulting Group – Atlanta April 2022- August 2022

Senior Scrum Master (Manager)

Enable my organization’s new way of working.

•Modelling behaviors to support my organization’s transformation to a new way of working.

•Actively creating and maintaining the culture within my Squad based on the organization and Agile leadership behaviors.

•Work with Kanban squads to handle production support stories from end users. • Work with my squads to embed and reinforce Agile practices and behaviors.

•Work with my senior leadership to facilitate and lead Agile ways of working within the squads.

•Responsible for facilitating and leading the running of an Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand ups, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies across multiple Squads.

•Providing thought leadership and constructive feedback as a SME to my team members to help drive Agile maturity, knowledge, and effectively communication.

•Partner with my Product Owner to manage and prioritize work through the backlog and manage other scrum artifacts.

•Reviewing and managing backlog items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate.

•Ensuring work is appropriately balanced across team members and that all work is captured within the backlog.

•Driving my team members to anticipate and resolve potential blockers.

•Ensuring my Squads and Tribes are interacting with dependent stakeholders effectively

•Identify continuous improvement opportunities and best practices to progress the work of my squad.

•Engaging and partnering with my Agile Coaches to help identify and deliver against training needs to support Agile practices.

•Observing and engaging with individual members of my team to identify opportunities to improve Agile performance and effectiveness

Delta Dental – Roanoke VA January 2021- April 2022

Scrum Master

•Function as the Scrum Master for two assigned teams, Fostering and modeling a collaborative team environment driven to build great software.

•Ensure strong working relationships between the team and others outside of the team. Protect teams from outside interruptions and distractions.

•Facilitate Agile rituals across assigned teams including planning, refinement, demos, reviews, retrospectives, and daily standups. Facilitate at both the sprint and release level. Participate in SAFe ceremonies such as Big Room Planning Sessions

•Aid the product owner, ensuring that the product backlog is consistently well refined, organized and maintained.

•Triaged and managed tickets assigned to team, daily status and ensured tickets were moving through the workflow.

•Worked with my Release train engineer to help implement SAFe framework.

•Encourage the adoption of Agile best practices and facilitate team performance improvements. Assist in the resolution of conflicts.

•Lead daily status update for tickets and maintained communication with concerned parties.

•Support Scrum Team execution by enabling global activities, reporting team progress, identifying/mitigating risks, facilitating cross team communications, removing impediments, and monitoring overall team health.

•Build a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, and judgement.

•Developed and used historical data to help team learn and improve their processes and practice Assist with the entry and management of stories, objectives and story point estimations in Jira and Confluence.

EDUCATION

Kennesaw State University

Masters Information Technology- 2016

Babcock University

Bachelor’s in computer information systems- 2012

United State AirForce Military Training/Tech School

Logistics-2024

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