Scrum Master Project Manager

Yinka Adediran, PMP, PSM*, SSM

432-***-****, ***********@*****.***

Professional Summary:

Innovative Project Manager/ Scrum Master with extensive experience leading complex enterprise initiatives

About 10 years’ experience in Project Management including IT Infrastructure, application development, Cloud technology & Quality assurance

Good knowledge of Agile, SAFe & Waterfall methodologies, ITIL, Change & Incident Management (ITSM).

Education & Professional Development:

Certified SAFe 6 Scrum Master (SSM) – 2025. - M.Sc. Technology Management - 2016

Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) – 2021. - Master of Business Administration MBA-2008

Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

Project Management Professional (PMP) - 2020

Professional Experience

Corebridge Financial, Houston Tx June 2022 – Current

Project Manager /Scrum Master

Collaborate with technical teams to understand technical requirements, constraints, and dependencies

Ensure technical solutions align with overall project goals and business objectives.

Proactively address issues and roadblocks that may impact project timelines or deliverables

Maintain comprehensive project documentation, including product roadmaps, status reports, and risk logs.

Prepare and present reports to senior management and ensure accurate documentation of project deliverables and outcomes.

Track delivery, maturity, performance, and review metrics with teams to identify improvement areas

Conduct workshops, team building exercises, ideation sessions for creative and out-of-the-box solutions

Tracked separation of IT infrastructure of Corebridge Financial from that of parent company AIG

Supported migration of call center applications, server, & data to external service provider

Managed internal and external communication with Technology Support units & vendors on call center migration project improving transparency and communicates information throughout the organization.

Support two agile teams, helping in improving project delivery process using agile framework & best practices and tailoring such to the peculiarities of each team

Serves the Product owner on the product roadmap, providing techniques to effectively build and manage product backlog ensuring user stories are sprint ready and develop a release strategy that maximizes value.

Facilitate PI planning sessions involving stakeholders and agile teams, to generate PI Plan and guide teams through PI planning activities sequencing work for product increment

Support RTE in coordinating scrum of scrum meetings and collaborate with other scrum masters on PI Plan in managing goals alignment, dependencies, risks & impediments.

Facilitates agile meetings (Iteration Planning, Daily syncs, Backlog Refinement, Iteration Reviews & Retrospectives) at set cadence, where members collaborate and communicate as a self-organized team

Nationwide Mutual Insurance, Columbus, OH Mar 2020 – May 2022

Project Manager

Defined project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders. Manage the process of gathering & review of requirements with stakeholders

Planned and scheduled project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools

Communicated project expectations and progress to sponsor, steering committee, team members and other stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion

Managed the development and delivery of a detailed solution and provided an estimation of the changes

Collaborated with and supervised the QA team to define testing methodologies (functional, integration, regression, etc.) and ensure thorough coverage

Ensured that integration testing is thoroughly executed across systems, databases & third-party applications.

Worked closely with developers to ensure testing plans align with development timelines and expectations.

Acted as the key liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders across departments.

Created and managed launch checklists to ensure smooth project deployment and go-live activities.

Proactively identified risks related to testing, integration, or deployment and work to mitigate them.

Created reports documenting testing outcomes, API performance, integration issues, and project progress.

Analyzed requirements and determine technical feasibility of Automation Testing and implementation of

requirements during Scripting and validation.

Analyzed the requirements and prepared test data by coordinate with multiple teams

Managed Project Budget and P&L analysis for product development and resource utilization

Assisted with backlog prioritization to address legacy identity systems & manual access control processes.

Supported incremental delivery of IAM capabilities like automating user provisioning, onboarding new applications to SSO

Wells Fargo Bank Raleigh, NC Feb 2018 – Feb 2020

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Defined project scope and schedule while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings

Prepared and distributed progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects; budget tracking and reporting

Facilitated collaboration between infrastructure team, Product Owners, Security architect & engineering design partners to ensure compliance with enterprise security policies and access control governance

Supported team development while holding them accountable, removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity for project work, and mentoring team members

Maintained the Scrum team capacity plan, Scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts and burn down charts

Supported Product owners to groom and maintain product backlogs, ensuring user stories are sprint ready.

Managed and facilitated team ceremonies including quarterly product planning, backlog grooming, estimating and sizing efforts, release planning, sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives

Supported solution architects/technology leads in managing customer expectations for project deliverables, managing stakeholder communications, and helping to implement an effective system of project governance

Promoted empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution, and encourage a sustainable pace with high levels of quality for the team

Facilitated continuous improvement programs by regularly using retrospectives to draw up improvement plans, monitoring and coaching team to adopt new initiatives towards improvements

Managed application release cycles, sprints, project backlogs and other project artifacts like project plan,

project charter, issue log, risk register, project roadmaps etc.

Monitored timely mitigation and resolution of project risks and issues ensuring target quality goals are met

Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to stakeholders.

Electronic Transaction Consultants (ETC), Richardson, Tx.

Associate Project Manager Aug 2016 - Jan 2018

Created Project Plan, including work breakdown structure, task dependence, resources & Project milestone

Managed vendor engagements, timelines and budgets avoiding cost overruns

Supported data gathering and analytics for various areas of engineering and project management, including project cost, schedule, quality, and efficiency performance.

Updating and Reviewing Project Plan with project team members

Collaboration with the Project Manager to define the objectives, scope, and the deliverables of the project.

Maintained project team SharePoint site, documentation, version control, and access for team members.

Organized meeting, creating agenda, and taking minutes as needed.

Facilitated communication/information exchange between members of the project team and suppliers.

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, Nigeria

Business Analyst /Relationship Manager Mar 2010 –May 2016

Deployed data driven insights using Power BI to track/improve product performance and decision making

Supervised four distributed sales team, in market analysis, product launch and marketing/sales activities whilst managing KPIs of profitability and business growth

Collaborated with Business units to gather needs/requirements & translated them to functional specifications

Managed diverse portfolio of corporate clients across retail and commercial sectors

Facilitated several projects in product launch, IT deployment and infrastructure building

Market analysis, customer profiling, preparation and monitoring of loans/credit for pre-approved clients

Coaching and mentoring of team members and periodic training on policies/strategies of the organization

SKILLS:

Leadership skills, Excellent written & verbal communication skill, Team Management, Organizational Skills, Analytical skills, Critical Thinking, System Analysis, Time management, Vendor management, Client Relationship Management, Interpersonal skills, Process improvement, Quality Assurance,

Proficient in: ●MS Project ●MS Word ●Excel ●PowerPoint ●Outlook ●JIRA ●Azure Devops

●SharePoint ●ServiceNow ● Confluence ●Trello ●Miro

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