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Banjo Ayeni

Lawrenceville,GA

Summary

PROFILE SUMMARY Experienced professional known to be a very articulate communicator with ability to create solutions to business problems using innovative ideas. An all-round effective leader skilled in supporting teams, managing stakeholders and client’s expectations in product development and planning leveraging varying experiences with several Agile development teams. A skilled Scrum Master with 6 years experience in driving the implementation and adoption of Agile best practices across various organizations. I have successfully mentored and coached teams transitioning from waterfall to Agile methodology, involved in strategic planning and business process improvement, building self-organizing teams, bridging communication gaps between developers, leadership, and other stakeholders, facilitating discussions and conflict resolutions, removing challenges and roadblocks. I am experienced in helping teams unlock their full potential to provide value to end-users, customers, and other stakeholders through the development of quality products and demystifying complex business problems.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications

Work History

Scrum Master

QUADOT CAPITAL
01.2022 - Current
  • Monitored projects progress continuously and relating information and reports to functional and program managers as needed
  • Created a working collaboration system with product owners, team members and other scrum masters within the organization to define solutions and drive progress
  • Coaching the Product Owner towards understanding and documenting clear requirements from clients on android & IOS supported money remittance application driven solution consequently saving an estimated $350k in potential cost of bug fixes and refactoring
  • Coached 2 teams on several fintech and real estate lending web-based applications on the need to understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
  • Supported the Release Train Engineer in quarterly release cycle through facilitating release feature selection meetings and organizing and monitoring eligible release candidates
  • Identifying and consistently removed roadblocks to teams
  • Reflecting in higher productivity and more frequent product delivery
  • Ultimately increasing team’s velocity and capacity utilization from previous projects
  • Helped the team transition from a demotivated state to an energized and committed team by leveraging one- one engagement.

Scrum Master

SUNTRUST BANK NOW TRUIST ATLANTA
, GA
06.2016 - 12.2021
  • Facilitated scrum ceremonies (Daily stand-up, retrospective, backlog refinement, sprint review, and planning sessions)
  • Continuously improved efficiency of agile teams by protecting the development team from outside distractions, identifying, and removing impediments impacting the progress of sprint or iterations
  • Successfully mentored and guided two cross-functional teams through the transition from waterfall to agile
  • Ensured sprint plans include a healthy balance and prioritization between support work, technical debt, and new project feature innovation thus optimizing the effectiveness of the software delivery process
  • Protected the team from over-commitment and disruption during sprints
  • Introduced Agile best practices such as time-boxing, continuous integration, code/design reviews, and pair programming to the team, thus improving the product quality by 20%
  • Facilitated periodic meetings between teams to create a shared understanding of the requirements and cross-team dependencies, yielding a reduction in overhead cost by 30%
  • Facilitated meetings with procurement thus fast-tracking the development of a PPP module which sped up the acquisition and payment cycle by 40%
  • Facilitated estimating user stories using planning poker cards (Fibonacci).

Senior Relationship Banker

SUNTRUST BANK NOW TRUIST ATLANTA GA
09.2011 - 05.2016
  • Managed the branch and Vaults Schedules on a timely basis and the dual control procedures
  • Led how teller handles the buying and selling of the vault and balances the vault daily as the custodian
  • Audit teller drawers and maintain monthly branch efficiency logs and compliance procedures
  • Trained and mentored new tellers, oversees teller daily duties
  • Kept line of communication opened to staff regarding pertinent changes in operational policy and procedures
  • Managed performance appraisals and disciplinary notices

Education

Bachelor’s Degree -

University of Lagos

Skills

SKILLS & TOOLSundefined

Certification

PSM 1/ Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Timeline

Scrum Master

QUADOT CAPITAL
01.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

SUNTRUST BANK NOW TRUIST ATLANTA
06.2016 - 12.2021

Senior Relationship Banker

SUNTRUST BANK NOW TRUIST ATLANTA GA
09.2011 - 05.2016

Bachelor’s Degree -

University of Lagos

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