DOLAPO LOWE
SCRUM MASTER
Augusta,GA
Summary
A mission-focused Certified Scrum Master with extensive experience in coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. A bilingual professional with more than 8 years of experience delegating tasks and managing projects.
Passionate about driving the adoption of agile values, principles, and practices by motivating, organizing, and leading global scrum teams on complex projects. Specialize in leveraging a blend of agile methods with business initiatives to deliver quantifiable results that are sustainable.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
Bank of America
Augusta, GA
11.2020 - 09.2022
- Coordinated workshops for employees to better understand company mission, streamlining daily activities and aligning worker and company priorities.
- Trained and mentored new and existing personnel hired to fulfill various roles.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process
- Manage functions pertaining to promoting continuous improvement and help team increase productivity and foster innovation
- Manage multiple internal and outside scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication
- Collaborate with QA team to ensure testing efforts align with system deliveries and business processes.
- Keep objective perspective on issues and troubleshoots by applying agile principles.
- Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help team increase their velocity by 50% within 1st year of Agile adoption.
- Developed new training programs such as online modules, interactive software, language labs and online programs and provided ongoing training to staff.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity
Scrum Master/Project Manager Team Leader
Kimberly Clark Corporation
Beech Island, SC
10.2018 - 10.2020
- Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down, Burn-Up, Team Velocity and radiating progress to teams and stakeholders
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Coached over 10 teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload
- Developed and refined project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources
- Ensured development teams are practicing core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.
Scrum Master
Plant Vogtle- Scrum Master
Waynesboro, GA
11.2015 - 10.2018
- 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.
- Supported logistics and data requirements for conducting quarterly performance reviews
- Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Reined in project costs while meeting key milestones
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Modified and directed project plans to meet organizational needs
- Oversaw high profile projects for planning, designing, and scheduling phases.
- Fostered relationships with vendors to promote positive working relationships.
- Drove team success through shared vision and recognition of quality performance
- Identified, reviewed, and applied policies and procedures.
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Mtn Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
Lagos, Lagos
11.2012 - 10.2015
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore.
- Collaborated with project leaders to comply with accounting needs for project maintenance requirements
- Oversaw on boarding and mentorship, planned, and executed 200+ meetings and developed project documentation
- Transitioned projects from estimation and pre-construction phase to well-defined project execution plan
- Counseled departmental leaders to determine issues and deliver solutions to individualized problems and concerns
- Organized and maintained project team SharePoint site, ensuring required documentation are posted for team member access
- Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress, and technical problems
- Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays
- Obtained needed resources by strategically negotiating with stakeholders and outside suppliers.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Public Administration
Babcock University
Nigeria06.2011
Skills
- Atlassian JIRA
- Scrum/Kanban
- Scrum and Agile proficiency
- Coaching and mentoring initiatives
- Software Development (SDLC)
- Conflict Resolution
- Release Planning
- Sprint Planning
- Product Development
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Multitasking Abilities
- Excellent Communication
- Agile scrum environments
- Coaching and mentoring initiatives
- One-on-one coaching
Accomplishments
- CompTIA project+
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)
- Health Safety and Environment in work place
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Quote
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney
Timeline
Scrum Master
Bank of America
11.2020 - 09.2022
Scrum Master/Project Manager Team Leader
Kimberly Clark Corporation
10.2018 - 10.2020
Scrum Master
Plant Vogtle- Scrum Master
11.2015 - 10.2018
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Mtn Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
11.2012 - 10.2015
Bachelor of Science - Public Administration
Babcock University
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