Scrum Master Product Owner

VICTOR OLUWOLE,

CSM, SPOC, SFC.

C E R T I F I E D S CRUM MASTER / S C RUM P RODUCT OWNER

SUMMARY

Certified Scrum Master with over 9 years of experience in improving processes and complex product deliveries by implementing a Scaled Agile environment. I am well- versed in leveraging cross-functional IT, Agile, and QA teams to complete project deliverables on time and within budget. I have analytical knowledge, leadership abilities, and relationship-building skills to engage stakeholders at all levels and enable data-driven decision-making. Proven track-record of supporting product owners to remove impediments and groom backlogs, enhance velocity and help teams adopt agile methodology. Excellent servant leader and a great communicator. I am also a certified scrum product owner.

EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Tungsten International New York, NY October 2019 – to date

• Facilitated scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, and daily stand-ups) for an engineering team of 42 developers.

• Managed ten team members on a $170K Java development project that enabled delivery of comprehensive services in the areas of performance, volume, limits, compliance, legal, stability, support, and production incidents.

• Collaborated with development team to track tickets across Kanban boards in Jira and reported delays and blockers to the Release Train Lead.

• Led the company implementation and adaptation of Jira, which reduced the time it took to create and manage tickets by an average of 2 days.

• Led 8 teams during LeSS framework who worked on the same backlog and coordinated Scrum of Scrum meetings to ensure dependencies were transparent within the LeSS framework.

• Optimized pipeline by 19% by helping discussions to discover solutions and transform business and technology requirements into high-quality user stories and acceptance criteria.

• Successfully transformed the team's waterfall mindset to agile by developing over 30 effective training materials for teams to understand agile delivery.

• Coached 15 junior-level scrum master's to lift maturity levels and regularly assessed the team's and organization's scrum maturity, achieving fully productive team sprints.

• Supervised a team in charge of implementing a firm-wide network storage backup architecture, which resulted in increased stability, a 40% decrease in windows backup, and an 83% increase in data received rate performance.

• Identified over 31 complex impediments and assisted 8 teams in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments.

CONTACT

+1 (516) 425 - 9263

**********@*****.***

Middletown, DE 19709

SKILLS

• Rally

• Clarity

• Jira

• Jira Align

• SQL

• Confluence

• Asana

• Trello

• Tableau

• AWS Cloud

• Microsoft Office Suite (Word,

Excel, Project, Visio, SharePoint,

Access)

• Adaptive Software Development

(ASD)

• Lean Software Development

(LSD)

• Feature Driven Development

(FDD)

• Crystal

• User Stories, ATDD, TDD

• Scrum of Scrums

• Software Development Life Cycle

(SDLC)

• Agile Frameworks (Scrum,

Kanban, Extreme Programming

XP)

• SAP Integration Suite

• Azure DevOps

• Kronos

• CORE

• Empowered development teams to increase their throughput by 10% by adopting the use of swarming around features and other high-collaboration approaches, such as Paired Programming.

• Facilitated product backlog review and prioritization meetings in partnership with product owners and took an opportunity to refine user stories and mentor product owners.

Scrum Master / Project Manager

Symantec Corporation New York, NY December 2017 - September 2019

• Updated project stakeholders about the team velocity and team daily and weekly status using a couple of burndown techniques and retrospective formats.

• Ensured user stories were 100% ordered, defined, and ready to be developed by the team.

• Facilitated Test-Driven Development (TDD) on many projects, increasing quality by 22% (benchmarked against historical data).

• Collaborated with two Agile Release Managers to provide a functional release per sprint.

• Communicated progress and roadblocks to stakeholders, including executive management, and made recommendations to remove roadblocks leading to on- time and on-budget delivery of projects.

• Instructed core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility and ensured consistency of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.

• Managed agile teams of 9 members each in a project with a cross-functional team that comprised of IT, QA, and business engineers to consistently complete complex, concurrent projects on time and under budget. Scrum Master / Project Manager

Celestica Corporation Portland, OR June 2014 – November 2017

• Collaborated with the engineering team and executives to implement product feature improvements that increased conversion rate by forty-three basis points.

• Empowered the team to increase productivity by encouraging cross functionality and self-organization among the developers.

• Tracked Release Progress, Key Performance Indicators (Metrics), velocity, capacity, and WIP.

• Mentored team on how to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle, realizing 20% reduction in escaped defects.

• Monitored the Sprint Burndown and conducted daily stand up, encouraging open communication in the team.

• Mentored twenty-nine teams on agile values, design thinking, customer value and product management.

• Worked with sixteen digital PMO managers to provide guidance, coaching, and direction towards optimizing Agile execution methodologies.

• Managed new product features and enhancements in terms of scope, quality, and schedule within sprint cycles.

• Collaborated with product owner to maintain a healthy product backlog by writing and refining users' stories according to the Definition of Ready and grooming the product backlog before the next sprint planning.

• Waterfall-to-Agile Migration

• Quality Control

• ServiceNow

• Acceptance Testing

• Product Backlog Grooming

• Technical Project Management

• Project Budgeting

• Process Improvement

• Contract Negotiations

• Relationship Development

• Risk Mitigation Planning

• Product Backlog Grooming

• Problem Solving

• Service Delivery Integration

• Quality Assurance

• Conflict Resolution/Mediation.

• Servant Leadership

EDUCATION AND

TRAINING

Master of Science

Project Management

University of Liverpool, UK

December 2011

Associate-degree – Mechanical

Engineering – July 1990.

CERTIFICATIONS

· Scrum Product Owner Certified

(SPOC) - January 2023

. Scrum Fundamentals Certified -

January 2023

. Certified Scrum Master – August

2022

· SAFe 6.0 - in progress

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