Scrum Master Project Manager

OLANIYI OGUNGBITE

Email: *******.*.*********@*****.*** Cell: 713-***-**** Location: USA 77077

www.linkedin.com/in/ogungbite-agile-professional visa status: Green Card Holder

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

Certified SAFe Agilist with over 13 years of experience in IT, Marketing, Production, and E-commerce. Skilled in roles such as Agile Coach, Scrum Master, and Agile Project Manager. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in software delivery, change management, and process improvement. Proficient in Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, and LeSS. Expertise in facilitating Scrum processes, enhancing team efficiency, and fostering continuous improvement. Experienced with tools like azure, JIRA, Confluence, CRM, ERP systems, and SharePoint. Demonstrates servant leadership, promoting collaboration and transparency to achieve project goals. Strong in salesforce, D365, DevOps, continuous integration, and deployment practices. Committed to delivering high performance, value, and quality to meet business objectives.

SKILLS and Competence:

Agile Methodologies: Proficient in implementing and advocating for Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe, Scrum@Scale, Crystal, and Lean, to foster an environment of continuous improvement and innovation.

Release Management: Skilled in leading/managing, and coordinating releases, ensuring best practices are followed and all approvals were gotten.

Agile Leadership: Driving Agile transformations and coaching teams to improve maturity and value delivery.

Risk Management: Skilled in identifying and reporting risks, and developing and executing mitigation strategies to ensure timely project delivery.

Metrics Management: Proficient in maintaining and analyzing performance metrics like burn-down charts, velocity, CFD, cycle time and lead time, to ensure transparency and alignment.

Scrum Ceremonies Facilitation: Experienced in organizing and facilitating Scrum ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives, and demos, ensuring effective internal and external communication and coordination.

Communication: Excellent in providing comprehensive status updates and valuable insights during stakeholder briefings, leading to better informed decision-making and strategic alignment.

Project Management: Competent in planning and executing projects, prioritizing workloads, and allocating resources to meet project goals and timelines effectively.

Technical Skills: Proficient in utilizing tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS Teams, ADO, Trello, Miro, Servicenow, and SharePoint for project management, defect tracking, and reporting, as well as in DevOps, continuous integration, and deployment practices.

Change Agent: Effective in coaching teams through new and unfamiliar situations to achieve better outcomes.

Agile Engineering Practices: CI/CD, TDD, BDD, FDD, Agile Games, User Stories, ATDD, Refactoring, Code Review, Unit Testing, and UAT.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science (BSc): Plant Science and Biotechnology, Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba-Akoko

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

Project Management Professional PMI

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master(SASM) ScaledAgile

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Alliance

Certified Professional in Agile Project and Delivery Management (ICP-APM) ICAgile

ITIL4 Foundation PeopleCert

ServiceNow Certified Implementation Speacialist – Customer Service Management ServiceNow

Achievements

Successfully led a company-wide Agile transformation program, training over 100 employees and integrating Agile principles into core business processes, resulting in a 40% improvement in delivery efficiency.

Achieved a 30% improvement in team performance by implementing Agile methodologies.

Reduced sprint cycle times by 30% through improved processes and team coordination.

Enhanced client satisfaction by 25% through tailored project delivery and engagement.

Designed and executed Agile training programs, increasing team proficiency by 40%.

Championed a cross-departmental Agile adoption, fostering collaboration and alignment, which improved project success rates by 35%.

Decreased project delays by 35% through proactive risk identification and mitigation strategies.

Delivered high-value product features, improving prioritization and stakeholder satisfaction by 35%.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Visani America LLC, Houston, Texas

Senior Scrum Master: November 2024 – Present

Counsel Scrum teams on agile principles and values, fostering self-organization and continuous learning, resulting in a 20% increase in team autonomy and delivery efficiency.

Design and develop process evaluation tools to assess Scrum framework adoption, identifying improvement areas and reducing process bottlenecks by 15%.

Mentor and support team members, product owners, and stakeholders in Agile methodologies to enhance collaboration and efficiency.

Develop actionable insights from agile metrics, such as velocity and burndown charts, to monitor team progress and inform stakeholder decisions, improving sprint predictability by 25%.

Collaborate with teams and stakeholders to identify roadblocks, offer guidance, and drive effective solutions.

Oversee iteration planning, backlog grooming, and roadmap alignment to ensure seamless delivery.

Develop stakeholder communication strategies to gather feedback and incorporate it into process improvements, enhancing stakeholder satisfaction by 20%.

Guide teams in adhering to Agile best practices while aligning with the organization’s software development (SDLC) lifecycle requirements.

Operate with minimal supervision, ensuring the teams remain self-organizing and focused on delivering value in a sustainable pace.

Implement knowledge-sharing systems, including Confluence wikis, to document processes, reducing onboarding time by 30%.

L&Q Group, (Remote)

Scrum Master/Agile Coach: September 2022 – October 2024

Instructed teams on agile values, principles, and practices, enabling stakeholders and product owners to adopt an agile mindset, resulting in a 30% increase in cross-departmental agile adoption.

Designed industry-leading process evaluation tools to assess Scrum principle application, streamlining workflows and improving delivery quality by 20%.

Interpreted agile metrics, including cycle time and velocity, to generate reports and actionable insights, reducing sprint cycle times by 30%.

Educate technical teams on the foundational concepts of Agile frameworks, ensuring a deep understanding and effective implementation, and design and deliver comprehensive Agile training programs that increase the team's proficiency and adherence to Agile principles by 40%.

Successfully lead multiple client delivery engagements, working directly with senior-level client management to understand their needs and deliver tailored solutions, achieving a 25% increase in client satisfaction scores.

Facilitate and lead all key scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, planning meetings, reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring they are productive and aligned with Agile principles, and streamline team communication, leading to a 25% increase in team productivity.

Guided the team in prioritizing tasks to balance stakeholder requests and business goals, which improved the team's ability to deliver high-value features by 35%.

Provide comprehensive status updates on team workloads during Scrum of Scrums meetings, ensuring transparency and alignment with organizational goals, and enhance stakeholder engagement and satisfaction by providing clear, concise, and actionable updates on project statuses and team progress, leading to a 20% increase in stakeholder satisfaction.

Maintained and updated squad performance metrics, ensuring transparency and alignment with organizational objectives.

Identify and report potential risks when project timelines are at risk, proactively developing and executing mitigation strategies to ensure timely delivery, which reduce project delays by 35% and improve overall project success rates.

Work closely with the product owners to define and prioritize the backlog, ensuring that the team focuses on delivering the highest value work, and improve product backlog management, leading to a 30% increase in the delivery of high-value features.

Supported consistent use of enabling tools (Jira, Confluence, Miro, MS Teams, ADO, Trello) to enhance team collaboration and performance.

Implemented rigorous quality assurance processes and documentation platforms to enhance knowledge sharing, resulting in a 40% reduction in post-release defects, improved transparency, and enhanced product reliability.

Jaguar Land Rover, United Kingdom (Contract)

Agile Coach: May 2022 – August 2022

I constituted multiple cross-functional teams around the product value stream.

Collaborated with other Coaches/Consultants in the transitioning to and implementation of a scaling framework in JLR.

Assisted development managers and project leads in making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.

Spearheaded the scaling of Agile frameworks, improving process alignment and execution across multiple cross-functional teams.

Participated in the organization and planning of development schedules to create cohesive plans with identifiable dependencies and milestones.

Drove effective communications across and within teams using information radiators such as metrics/dashboard.

Participated and co-facilitated in scaling activities such as ART Syncs, PI Planning, and Scrum of Scrums.

Collaborated with the RTE in aligning with the PI (Program Increment) vision and ART Syncs.

Zhill Systems, United States (Contract)

Client: Guarantee Trust Bank

Scrum Master: January 2019 – April 2022

Led agile teams in the development and delivery of card lending, payment, mobile banking, CRM and HR applications.

I facilitated scaled agile ceremonies, and optimized team delivery processes, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and continual service improvement.

I brought transparency to the escalation process and built an effective SLA around resolution processes, which resulted in a quicker resolution of blockers, thus improving delivery.

Championed agile methodologies across departments leading to a 30% increase in project delivery efficiency and enhanced cross-functional collaboration.

I improved development life cycle through the effective combination of agile best practices such as WIP limit & just-in-time, from Kanban & lean; pair programming, merciless refactoring, code review & code standards from extreme programming, amongst others.

I supported multiple agile teams running Scrum, Kanban & XP, LESS, SAFe and introduced best practices across frameworks in agile, which were able to decisively identify the teams' unique challenges and bring the needed solution, thus improving teams' deliveries.

Managed key supplier relationships, negotiating contracts that resulted in a 20% cost reduction while maintaining quality and timely delivery of services.

I built 3 agile teams from scratch, which turned out to be the reference points and model for other teams and became an anchor for the agile community of practice.

Created and maintained visual dashboards, roadmaps, and structured views in ADO, and Jira, enhancing transparency and tracking of project progress.

Championed a company-wide Agile transformation program, incorporating training for over 100 employees and integrating Agile principles into core business processes.

Utilized design thinking to revamp product development, leading ideation sessions that spurred a mobile app with features aligned to customer needs, achieving a 30% increase in adoption in three months.

Developed and maintained Agile artifacts, ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Elfeego IT Solutions, Abuja (Contract)

Scrum Master: January 2016 – December 2018

Drove the e-commerce website development covering database backend, authentication, user friendly frontend, database backend and payment gateway for credit and debit card payments.

Develop and maintain key Agile metrics (sprint health, velocity, sprint burn-ups) to optimize team performance and support strategic planning

Formulated and executed a strategic vision for Agile delivery, including the development of a 2-year roadmap that aligned with company goals and market trends.

Conducted different analysis on new initiatives such as needs vs wants, CBA, Risk analysis, CoD to aid prioritization.

Coached and mentored the team to follow agile, PDCA, SDLC in the product design, development, testing and release.

Supported in developing test cases and conducting user acceptance (UAT) and unit testing.

Developed and executed key agile artifacts, including requirement documents, epics, stories, features, technical enablers, technical debt, and release notes using JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint.

Supported the team to define done (DoD), and ensuring increments meets desired quality state.

Developed and maintained Agile artifacts, and supported agile engineering practices like TDD, CI/CD, AAT, UAT, code review and refactoring.

Naturevantage Health Resources Limited, Lagos Scrum Master: January 2014 – December 2015

360 Needs Group, Lagos Agile Project Manager: April 2011 – December 2013

Feb16grafix, Lagos Project Manager April 2009 – March 2011

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