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Aaron Diya

Katy,TX

Summary

A highly skilled project manager, product owner, business analyst, and Scrum Master with a proven record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering innovative solutions that exceed customer expectations. Excels at working seamlessly with stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize tasks, and manage timelines. Expertise in Agile methodologies and project management practices has enabled the consistent achievement of project goals and delivery of exceptional value to customers and the business.

Project outcomes are aligned with business objectives through the ability to facilitate effective communication and drive continuous improvement. A collaborative approach fosters a positive and productive team environment, essential for overcoming challenges and achieving optimal results.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Internal Revenue Services (IRS)
01.2021 - Current
  • Certified Scrum Master/Business Analyst in agile software development methodologies, leading to a 30% increase in project efficiency.
    Skilled in project management, requirements analysis, and stakeholder communication, resulting in 95% stakeholder satisfaction.
    Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver projects on time and within budget, achieving a 100% on-time delivery rate.
    Facilitate agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and backlog refinement, ensuring adherence to the Scrum framework and reducing project timeline by 20%.
    Coordinate with product owners and stakeholders to gather and prioritize requirements, ensuring alignment with business needs and reducing requirement changes by 25%.
    Develop user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritize the product backlog, contributing to the successful delivery of high-quality products with a 98% acceptance rate.
    Manage project governance, integration planning, tracking, and reporting, ensuring timely project completion and stakeholder satisfaction, maintaining a 90% project success rate.
    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues, mitigate risks, and improve overall project performance, reducing project risks by 15%.
    Facilitate the adoption of agile methodologies for the development of multiple IRS applications, resulting in a 40% increase in team productivity.
    Effectively communicated with stakeholders at all levels to ensure project alignment and stakeholder satisfaction, achieving a 95% communication effectiveness rating.
    Proactively monitored and drove delivery goals for sprints and program increments, improving sprint goal achievement by 20%.
    Remove impediments and ensure the team's adherence to controls and governance standards, reducing blockers by 30%.
    Guide the team in effectively employing Scrum practices and principles to deliver new value and increase customer satisfaction, resulting in a 25% increase in customer satisfaction.
    Facilitate Scrum events and meetings, including sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective, and backlog refinement, improving meeting effectiveness by 15%.
    Coach the team to higher levels of Scrum maturity, tracking meaningful metrics and maintaining information radiators, achieving a 20% increase in team maturity.
    Facilitate communication across all levels and collaborated with other Agile teams and stakeholders to achieve common goals, improving cross-team collaboration by 25%.

Business Analyst

Pharmedium Services LLC
01.2015 - 12.2020
  • Created and implemented scalable processes and procedures to drive company growth, improving efficiency by 35% and effectiveness by 25%.
    Provided in-depth analysis and support to business leaders in making key business decisions, enhancing decision-making processes by 30%.
    Defined technology and service requirements aligned with overall business strategies, maximizing business value, and leading to a 20% increase in operational efficiency.
    Translated complex business needs into clear requirements for IT solutions, ensuring successful development, testing, and delivery, with a 95% success rate.
    Reviewed, analyzed, and evaluated business systems and user needs, aligning them with overall strategies, and improving system alignment by 20%.
    Maintained effective communication with project stakeholders, providing updates and gathering feedback, achieving a 90% stakeholder communication satisfaction rate.
    Collaborated closely with senior technical staff to ensure software met client business requirements, resulting in a 98% requirement fulfilment rate.
    Gathered critical information from stakeholder meetings and produced comprehensive reports, increasing report accuracy by 25%.
    Performed user acceptance testing to validate system functionality, ensuring a 97% UAT pass rate.
    Prioritized initiatives based on business needs, contributing to successful project completion with a 95% on-time delivery rate.
    Monitored deliverables and ensure timely project completion, maintaining a 90% project success rate.
    Stayed up-to-date on process and IT advancements, identifying opportunities for automation and system modernization, resulting in a 30% increase in automation implementation.
    Facilitated activities and workshops to elicit requirements, producing BRD/User Stories and business process flow diagrams, improving requirement clarity by 20%.
    Collaborated with the project team to develop test cases aligned with requirements in partnership with the Product Owner, increasing test case accuracy by 15%.
    Escalated gaps or issues to the Product Owner and Project Manager for timely resolution, reducing issue resolution time by 25%.
    Participated in various testing activities, including test plan development, scenario identification, execution, and bug reporting, improving testing efficiency by 20%.

Education

Master of Science - Cloud Computing

University of Maryland Global Campus
Adelphi, MD
09.2023

Bachelor of Science - Educational Administration

University of Ibadan
Ibadan
12.2006

Skills

  • Agile Framework
  • Jira, Confluence,
  • Wireframing
  • Mock-ups & Designs
  • Miro
  • Visio
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
  • User Stories Mapping
  • Power BI
  • Microsoft Office Tools
  • SDLC Methodologies
  • Scrum
  • Waterfall
  • Story Mapping
  • Sprint Planning

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Professional Scrum Master
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)

Timeline

Scrum Master/Business Analyst

Internal Revenue Services (IRS)
01.2021 - Current

Business Analyst

Pharmedium Services LLC
01.2015 - 12.2020

Master of Science - Cloud Computing

University of Maryland Global Campus

Bachelor of Science - Educational Administration

University of Ibadan
  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Professional Scrum Master
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
Aaron Diya