Scrum Master Information Technology

Abdulbasit Junaid (Glasses)

Scrum Master (PSM*)

Agile Certified Scrum Master, 6 years of information technology experience alongside over 5 plus years experience coaching, and mentoring scrum teams and stakeholders in Agile software development practices. Proven servant leader and motivator inspiring teams to become high-performing, self-organized delivering high-quality valuables. Summary of Professional Skills and Background

● Result-driven servant leader, mentor multiple teams transition from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.

● Analytical, committed, influential, and innovative Scrum Master, with outstanding teams velocity.

● Excellent knowledge and experience in SAFe, SCRUM, KANBAN, and SCRUMBAN frameworks.

● Drive communication between developers, product teams, stakeholders, DevOps, API, AWS teams, etc.

● Proactive, excellent risk mitigator, solution, and very effective at tracking and dependencies.

● Coach and mentor product team on user stories refinement of business and enablers epics/features.

● SDLC coordination: planning, design, coding, testing, deployment, release, and maintenance.

● Team-growth-focused, continuously fostering an environment for high-performing cross-functional teams.

● Proficient in emotional intelligence, soft skills, and conflict resolutions to upkeep team morale.

Work History

05-2020 -

Current

Scrum Master

Field Nation

● Exhibiting lean-agile leadership by helping teams embrace SAFe core values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, and implement SAFe practices.

● Assist in overall program/project planning and ensure cross-team dependencies are well-understood and modeled in project plans and timelines.

● Using JIRA tool in collaboration with Agile frameworks to track team's progress while aligning the team's efforts to their goa and optimizing delivery.

Contact

Address

Newark, New Jersey, 07106

Phone

862-***-****

E-mail

junaidabdulbasitomotayo@g

mail.com

Methodologies

and Tools

● Methodologies: Waterfall,

Agile

● Agile Frameworks: Scrum,

Kanban, Scrumban, SAFe,

TDD

● Work Management Tools:

JIRA/Confluence, Rally,

Step up, MS Office, Visual

Studio, Remedy

● Communication Tools:

WebEx, MS Teams, Skype,

Google Meets, Zoom,

Slack

● Technical Tools: Linux,

Windows, Cisco, Git,

Terraform, Jenkins, AWS

● Databases: Oracle,

MariaDB, PostgreSQL,

MongoDB, and MS SQL

Skills

● Coaching Product Owners and other teams in role execution backlog management, facilitating meetings/ceremonies and conflict resolution.

● Identify, document, and publish risks and issues related to the overall program and define resolution paths where required.

● Possess excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work with diverse teams with diverse personalities, during high pressure scenarios, within extremely tight deadlines.

● Team award for consistent delivery excellence for 3 consecutive quarters, achieved through early identification and removal of blockers, consistent team coaching and training.

● Facilitate retrospective sessions using different approaches to ensure team participation and increase morale.

● Demonstrate ability to work closely with delivery teams to establish expectations and ensure tasks remain on track. 02-2019 -

05-2020

Scrum Master

Shiseido Cosmetics America, East Windsor NJ

● Organized and facilitated scrum team events: sprint planning daily stand-up, sprint review - demo, sprint retrospective backlog refinement, release planning etc.

● Collaborated with developers, product owners and stakeholders to break down epics to small slices that do no span iterations or programmed increments.

● Led and assist teams improve and sustain the teams ‘velocity and the delivery of backlog items ahead of stipulated deadline.

● Coached teams to stay focused on value delivery and not the process so they stay aligned to Agile principles.

● Encouraged teams to become self-organized, cross functiona and more focus on their tasks for a quicker turn around.

● Tracked risks and dependencies at program level for visibility while guiding towards proper removal of blockers to increase productivity and reduce defects.

Facilitation

Conflict Resolution

Organizational

Strong knowledge of Scrum

and Agile

Technical

Problem-Solving

Strong Communication

Time Management

Leadership

Coaching

Education

Bachelor of Science:

Criminal Justice

New Jersey City University

Diploma

West Side High School

CERTIFICATION

Professional Scrum Master 1

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