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Bolarinwa Stephen

San Antonio,TX

Summary

Certified and Professional Scrum Master with over five years of experience and proven track record of working in an agile corporate culture.

Supported Scrum teams in agile environments BY successfully working with cross-functional teams.

Solid interpersonal Skills – able to establish strong working relationships. Five years of experience in scrum framework: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity, and user, stories. Ability to set clear performance standards, and hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged and on task. Highly organized with the ability to multitask.

Coaches and empowers teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally. Posses vast knowledge of Lean and Scrum application (agile methodologies) to Project Management deliverables. Good knowledge of the Importance of high team productivity to ROI.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Accenture
San Antonio, TX
02.2018 - Current
  • Facilitates Scrum events and manage Teams activities
  • Works with development team to correct bugs and tracks defect to closure
  • Clears project impediments that could slow down team's progress
  • Teaches teams agile practices that enable teams to achieve short cycle time and improve product quality
  • Facilitates processes in code testing environments such as System Integration Testing (SIT).
  • Excellent interpersonal relationship and outstanding problem-solving skills
  • Trains and enables transition to Agile by empowering teams to develop Agile mindset
  • Collaborates with other Scrum Masters and participates in Scrum of scrums
  • Builds Incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
  • Applies cadence, synchronizes with cross-domain planning
  • Reviews agile framework training materials and adopts framework appropriately in scrum teams
  • Makes necessary changes to increase productivity of scrum teams
  • Oversees and manages EPMO compliance, risk management frameworks, including experience to identify and mitigate risks
  • Collaborates with other Scrum Masters and stakeholders across enterprise
  • Ensures product owners know how to arrange product backlog to maximize value
  • Supports product owners to understand agile practices and principles
  • Supports teams to onboard new team members: Orientation, Support tools and processes,
  • Mentoring, and Feedback mechanism
  • Understands productivity management – capacity planning, task management, backlog refinement, burndown metrics, and team velocity.
  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
  • Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
  • Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
  • Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
  • Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
  • Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
  • Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
  • Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
  • Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
  • Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
  • Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
  • Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
  • Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
  • Collaborated with project owners and team members to set ambitious but achievable goals.
  • Managed and motivated project teams to promote collaboration and keep members on-task and productive.
  • Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling parties to meet and discuss project progress.
  • Maintained project schedules by managing timelines and making proactive adjustments.
  • Analyzed projects to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment and software.
  • Investigated and corrected or escalated project problems.
  • Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
  • Identified innovative and automated approaches to routine tasks, making suggestions that were widely received.
  • Managed implementation.

Quality Engineering Analyst

CONDUENT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
01.2016 - 02.2018
  • Gathered, documented, and managed business requirements and business process flows
  • Worked with other business analysts and clients in creating and executing test scripts to ensure system functionality meets requirements
  • Worked with creative & IT teams to review and confirm design for development activities
  • Executed test cases to validate business needs requirements by using Agile methodology
  • Facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) by working with testers, developers, and product owners to discover and remediate defects
  • Conducted user acceptance testing kick-off meeting to review test plan for scope validation, confirmation of stakeholders and testers as well as communication of schedule and logistics
  • Managed and communicated defects to relevant development teams
  • Provided post-launch support for urgent defects while facilitating the application transition to maintenance stage of digital life cycle
  • Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features.
  • Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members.
  • Completed automation of functional and regression testing.
  • Fixed identified issues to increase productivity and boost workflows.
  • Read and interpreted blueprints, technical drawings, schematics and computer-generated reports.
  • Reviewed and checked technical drawings by architectural technicians, CAD technicians and drafters.
  • Conducted research to test and analyze feasibility, design, operation and performance of equipment, components and systems.
  • Prepared cost estimates, schedules and project specifications for proposals.
  • Participated in formal internal design reviews of proposed products and components, providing input on potential technical improvements.
  • Prepared remedial action plans for problematic processes and assets.
  • Developed work plans for various personnel roles, designing to suit required competencies and technical goals of ongoing efforts.
  • Drafted and captured technical schematics for use in project planning and execution.
  • Coordinated sampling and analysis tasks for ongoing production efforts to verify quality of finished products.
  • Completed projects by effectively applying engineering, technical and maintenance procedures.
  • Conducted tests of components and systems to evaluate performance and identify concerns.
  • Exceeded goals through effective task prioritization and great work ethic
  • Resolved conflicts and negotiated mutually beneficial agreements between parties
  • Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed
  • Increased customer satisfaction by resolving issues

Education

Bachelor of Science - Banking and Finance

UNIVERSITY oF ADO EKITI
Nigeria
03.2003

BBA - Information Systems

The University of Texas At San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
08.2024

Skills

  • Communication and Project Facilitation, Problem Solving and Data Analysis (Backlog Management & Agile Best Practices)
  • Extraordinary Communication skill
  • Mentoring and Coaching Teams (Velocity, Estimation, Cycle time vs Lead time & Cadence)
  • Planning, Collaboration and Conflict Resolution
  • Sprint Planning and Strategic Development Enforcing Scrum Practices and Values
  • Removing Impediments, Servant leadership mindset & Cross-functional Operations
  • Tools: JIRA, Kanban, VersionOne and Confluence Experience SAFe 5 DevOps, Lean and ICAgile, ServiceNow, ThousandEyes, CloudWatch, AWS-Cognito Tools, Google Analytics
  • Software Process Management
  • Scrum Processes & Agility Improvements

Certification

Certified Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) Certified SAFe 5 Practitioner (SP) Certified SAFe 5.1 DevOps Practitioner (SDP) ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) Certified Team Kanban Practitioner

Timeline

Scrum Master

Accenture
02.2018 - Current

Quality Engineering Analyst

CONDUENT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
01.2016 - 02.2018

Bachelor of Science - Banking and Finance

UNIVERSITY oF ADO EKITI

BBA - Information Systems

The University of Texas At San Antonio

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