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ADEWALE ADELEKE
Pennsville,NJ
Summary
Experienced and accomplished Scrum Master and servant leader capable of delivering medium to large scale projects on time and on budget by effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading, and coaching various Scrum teams and environments. An adaptable, performance-driven & innovative servant leader with keen ability and proficiency in managing Scrum and agile projects which meet stakeholders’ expectations and demanding time restraint
Overview
10
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master/Vigilant, OH.
Scrum Master
01.2022 - Current
Job overview
- Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches
- Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule
- Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize
- Utilizing Gitlab to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.
- Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times.
- Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches.
Chase BankNew York, NY
Scrum Master / Project Manager
06.2018 - 02.2023
Job overview
- Ensured the development teams are practicing the core Agile principles of collaborations, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
- Assisted with Fixed income trading portfolio
- Created and maintained fields, views, reports, dashboards, rules, workflows and other salesforce.com objects and functions
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand up, retrospective meeting, sprint planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint review
- Work with the UI/UX designer to have a better understanding of mock-up and write user stories
- Introduced Agile in a hybrid environment combining waterfall
- Coaching product owner: helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
- Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize
- Providing all support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, leading by example
- Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches
- Identifying and removing roadblocks to teams working progress
- Promoting an empowering and self-organizing team by shielding the team as necessary to establish a trusting and safe environment for raising problems, defining solutions, and committing to milestone deliveries
- Collaborate with QA team to ensure testing efforts align with system deliveries and business processes
- Monitoring the pulse and moral of the teams, influencing the team spirit and creating excitement around the deliverable
- Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team
- Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices
Scrum Master / VerizonChicago, IL
05.2016 - 05.2018
Job overview
- Facilitated daily scrum meetings, Backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint review, and sprint retrospective
- Experienced working with front office equities
- Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices
- Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs, making sure user stories are sprint ready
- Actively coordinated engineering, design/UX, and marketing stakeholders
- Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities
- Facilitated and coordinated User Story Interdependency meetings across multiple scrum teams for the purpose of reviewing and aligning teams work to meet delivery schedule
- Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving
- Maintain metrics that provide visibility to stakeholders on team-level progress and quality
- Agile/Scrum transformation with team developing mobile application
- Guided and Coached both the Scrum Team and the Development team on self-organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks
- Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders
- Identified and removed team impediments/escalating as necessary to management
- Facilitated crucial conversations with teams when conflict resolution opportunities arise and empower the delivery teams to self-govern and self-organize
- Assisted with multi-site Scale Agile Framework (SAFe) quick start and Release train launches
- Tracking key metrics through Burn down, team velocity, backlog health and defect summary reports and radiating progress to the team and stakeholders
Kidzania, MO
Project Manager
06.2013 - 02.2016
Job overview
- Develops and refines project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources
- Responsible for understanding all user expectations, processes, and inputs/outputs necessary to develop a specific functionality/outcome
- Leads the execution of the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve the project goals
- Manages changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes;
- Ensures a common understanding by setting expectations in accordance with the project plan, in order to align the stakeholders and team members
- Created full scale project plans, including WBS, task estimate, resources planning, project milestones and associated documents
- Monitoring project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying solutions to address them in advance
- Created and developed Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Change Controls, tracked progress of error resolution, assisted in research, performed system analysis, created data mappings, and presented to all levels of leadership within the organization
- Managed end to end development process for quarterly application upgrade, provided smooth internal process.
Education
Central State University
Bachelor of Science
Eastern Gateway Community College
Associate of Applied Science from Business Administration
Skills
- SKILLS AND TOOLS USED
- Agile Values & Principles
- Backlog Refinement
- Project Documentation
- Strategic & Operations Planning
- Software Development (SDLC)
- Scrum Processes
- Agile Best Practices
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Conflict Resolution
- Servant Leadership
- User acceptance testing
- Business Process Improvement
- Deadline Driven
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Change Management
- Risk Assessment & Management
- SDLC/Agile/Scrum frameworks, Values & Principles
- Coaching/Mentoring
- Team Empowerment
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence)
- Microsoft office Suites (PowerPoint, project, excel, teams)
Certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
SAFe 6.0 Agilist .
Timeline
Scrum Master
Scrum Master/Vigilant
01.2022 - Current
Scrum Master / Project Manager
Chase Bank
06.2018 - 02.2023
Scrum Master / Verizon
05.2016 - 05.2018
Project Manager
Kidzania
06.2013 - 02.2016
Central State University
Bachelor of Science
Eastern Gateway Community College
Associate of Applied Science from Business Administration
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
SAFe 6.0 Agilist .
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