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Adeola Dada

The Bronx

Summary

Value-driven Scrum Master with over 4 years of experience proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions. Skilled at leveraging Agile best practices to drive continuous learning and improvement, adept at removing impediments, keeping teams focused, and delivering quality value in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Highly articulate with excellent organizational, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, and extensive experience working with distributed and co-located cross-functional teams.

I have also been privilege has a Registered Nurse and License Practical Nursing to lead and coordinate care to achieve result using Agile methology.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Citizens Bank
12.2021 - Current
  • Improved team velocity by 35% and reduced backlog by 60%, track and communicate team metrics and status to team and stakeholders, focusing on outcome not output.
  • Establishing a cross-functional, collaborative, and supportive environment that led to an increase in high quality value delivered to our customers from 55% to 70%.
  • Coaching teams in Agile practices and providing necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Decreased blocker resolution time by 60% with effective problem resolution approach and transparency that led to increase in team's efficiency towards tasks and issues intake.
  • Coach and collaborating with Product Owner on writing User Stories and requirements, and developing product roadmaps, which ensures team has clarity, backlog is reviewed, prioritized and healthy.

Scrum Master

CVS Healthcare
06.2019 - 11.2021
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, refinement sessions, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Collaborating with Business Analysts, Strategic Project Managers, and Product Owners to create product roadmap to include all tracks of work.
  • Consistently working to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation, and implement risk reduction action.
  • Manage Jira tool administration to promote transparency and encouraging team to update tasks daily for more accurate reporting thus reducing cycle time by 23%.
  • Resolved staff conflicts and identified potential areas of improvement

Project Manager

Humana
2018 - 2019

Assisted Project Manager and worked closely with Operations Manager to assure efficiency and performance on projects.

  • Proactively engaged with engineering teams and operations to identify and resolve road blockers.
  • Liaised between departments to facilitate communication and keep appropriate parties updated on project developments.
  • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.

Project Coordinator

Humana
2016 - 2018
  • Kept projects on schedule by managing deadlines and adjusting workflows.
  • Proactively engaged with engineering teams and operations to identify and resolve road blockers.
  • Liaised between departments to facilitate communication and keep appropriate parties updated on project developments.
  • Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Bachelors in Nursing

Azure College of Nursing
Miami, FL
12.2020

Associate of Science - Nursing

Azure College
Miami, FL
10.2016

Associate of Science - License Practical Nursing

Rockland County BOCES
West Nyack, NY
07.2013

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

University of Lagos
Lagos Nigeria
06.2008

Skills

  • Agile Values & Principles
  • Project Management
  • Customer Requirements Analysis
  • Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban,SAFe
  • Team Empowerment
  • Risk Mitigation
  • Coaching/ Mentoring/ Facilitating
  • Sprint Events/Ceremonies
  • Workshops & Training Sessions
  • Strong Communication & Analytical Skills
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Problem-Solving Skills
  • SDLC

TOOLS

  • Confluence
  • JIRA
  • Google Suite
  • Zoom
  • Microsoft Teams/Microsoft Office
  • Mural
  • Slack

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance
  • SAFe 6 Product Owner / Product Manager
  • License Practical Nurse
  • Registered Nurse.

Interests

  • Women in Agile (CoP)
  • RedCross (Volunteer)
  • Reading Club

Timeline

Scrum Master

Citizens Bank
12.2021 - Current

Scrum Master

CVS Healthcare
06.2019 - 11.2021

Project Manager

Humana
2018 - 2019

Project Coordinator

Humana
2016 - 2018

Bachelor of Science - Bachelors in Nursing

Azure College of Nursing

Associate of Science - Nursing

Azure College

Associate of Science - License Practical Nursing

Rockland County BOCES

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

University of Lagos
Adeola Dada