Scrum Master Project Manager

Oluwaseun Alo

Richmond, Texas ***** 832-***-**** *************@*****.*** LinkedIn Profile

SENIOR SCRUM MASTER

A passionate and proactive Agilist with over twelve years of relevant experience in different organizations. Has expertise in waterfall methodology and agile frameworks, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean, and Scrum at Scale, and has adopted some of the agile frameworks to complete multiple projects that met stakeholders’ expectations successfully. Actively promote business and team agility as an RTE, Program Manager, Agile Project Manager, and Scrum Master across diverse teams. Executes expansive projects in Strategic Process Improvement and Business Process Optimization. The process improvement project helped streamline and improve core business processes, while the business optimization project accelerated the delivery timeline and reduced organizational waste, resulting in revenue increase.

KEY SKILLS

Coaching & Training & Mentoring Vendor and Stakeholder Management

Program & Project & Product Management Presentations Negotiations Facilitation, & Communication

Requirement Gathering/Elicitation and Analysis Servant Leadership Change Management

Scrum Events Facilitation Problem and Conflict Resolution Risk Analysis & Management

TOOLS

Agile Tools: Azure DevOps Jira Rally

Microsoft: PowerPoint Visio Excel Word Teams SharePoint Outlook Yammer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PepsiCo, Texas May 2022 - Present

Senior Scrum Master (Strategy and Transformation)

Lead Agile education, coaching, and facilitating SAFe and Scrum ceremonies, including PI and Sprint planning.

Manage multiple cross-functional agile teams in SAFe and Scrum environments and manage stakeholder expectations in meeting its business objectives.

Initiate and oversee multiple process-improvement steps.

Lead teams towards higher maturity levels in process improvements and adherence to the Agile principles and values.

Track and report ART’s Agile Metrics and KPIs to Enterprise Data Organization Leadership.

Design Training plans for various teams at different Agile maturity levels.

Coordinate Scrum Masters in Scrum of Scrums.

Co-coordinate Agile community of practice within the PepsiCo Data & Analytics Team.

Coordinate the implementation of Planogram designs and updates using retail data for front-end retail associates.

Facilitate Scrum of Scrums meeting within the EDO team of Scrum Masters.

Facilitate PI planning of the SAFe project for the global data house for the organization’s Commercial data.

Manage resources for project delivery within the EDO team for project assignment.

Zhill Systems, Texas January 2018 - May 2022

Scrum Master

Facilitated the removal of impediments and resolved team dependencies.

Assisted the teams before and during the PI Planning to understand PI goals and roadmaps.

Responsible for facilitating a cross-functional agile collaborative team in iterative technology development, including managing stakeholder expectations regarding target scope, schedules, and budget.

Ensured inter and intra-team risks, impediments, and blockers are identified, removed, resolved, and communicated.

Coached the team to higher maturity levels by continually improving their process and ensuring they adhered to the Scrum framework.

Facilitated the core Agile ceremonies within the team environment: Sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, sprint retrospective, backlog grooming, and others determined by the team.

Supported and educated product owners, especially concerning grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Responsible for overseeing all tasks assigned to the Scrum team, performed promptly with minimal technical debt while maintaining the highest performance quality.

Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, emphasizing productive conflict resolution and problem-solving.

Guided and coached the team in the organization to follow Agile/Scrum practices. Helped teams estimate iteration deliverables and increase velocity. Assisted product owner in defining the product roadmap and release planning. Collaborated with the Product Owner and provided demo information at the end of each sprint to stakeholders. Established online/e-commerce platforms, payment integration, and payment gateways.

Wingtech Services LTD March 2016 - November 2017

Scrum Master

Served as a Scrum Master/Project Manager on the ETO (Enterprise Technical Operations) teams (3) focused on supporting production environments for all applications.

Used SAFe / Waterfall methodology in carrying out project planning and execution.

Management of the Scrum schedules, including assignment of resources, planning of deliverables, and setting of milestones. Reported Sprint status regularly to management, project teams, and customers through internal and external status reports. Facilitated all aspects of the Scrum framework, including sprint planning sessions, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.

Maintain the Scrum team capacity plan, Scrum board, sprint backlog, velocity charts, and burn-down charts.

Identify and help remove impediments to enable the success of the Sprint team.

Proactively handled project risks and issues, providing appropriate solutions and escalating as necessary.

Supported and partnered with the Product Owners and Customer Solutions representatives.

KFC September 2012 - March 2016

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Served as a Scrum Master / Project manager for 2 teams across cross-functional scrum teams.

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

Identified, documented, and published risks and issues related to the overall program and defined resolution paths where required using Jira and escalated during PI planning, Scrum of Scrum, and daily stand-up.

Provided regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.

Facilitated the Agile release train team’s refinement of features to be considered in the next PI planning cycle to meet the Feature Definition of Ready.

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s Degree University of Ilorin, Nigeria

SAFe RTE (6.0), Scaled Agile

SAFe Scrum Master (5.1), Scaled Agile

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Inc.

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Scrum Inc.

Agile Project and Delivery Manager (ICP-APM), IC Agile

Certified Implementation Specialist (ServiceNow HRSD), ServiceNow

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