Fey Oluranti
Little Elm,TX
Summary
Adaptable Senior Project Management Consultant with 10+ years of managing complex projects and programs to deliver exceptional service to clients. Well-versed in financial management and consulting to meet strategic goals and objectives. Detail-oriented with excellent project building and leadership skills to carry out complex contractual and administrative tasks under tight deadlines with confidence and enthusiasm.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
1
1
Language
Work History
Project Management Consultant/Scrum Master
MI-GSO | PCUBED / Chevron
2021.07 - Current
- Monitored 2 project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
- Provided detailed project weekly status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
- Helping team embrace SAFE Core Values and adopt principles.
- Took proactive approach to assessing and correcting problems at all stages.
- Facilitate Team Vision, Roadmap, Release and other Agile ceremonies (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Backlog Refinement)
- Facilitates DoD (Definition of Done) negotiations enabling higher product quality and continuous Integration/continuous development (CI/CD)
- Proactively and reactively remove impediments and ensure root causes are addressed
- Review and capture cross team dependencies
- Managing risks and highlight major impediments to RTE
- Managing assigned projects in ADO boards with linking of Epics, Objectives, Features, Stories and Tasks
- Develop, create & Manage dashboard in ADO for projects
- Participate in weekly project status meeting with managers and team leads across program
- Created centralized document repository to improve information sharing among team members while maintaining version control.
- Facilitate organization in writing user stories and assist team members in Agile estimation techniques
- Liaised with team members to resolve issues that impacted project delivery.
Agile Scrum Master
Fidelity TalentSource
2020.04 - 2021.07
- Supported Kanban Team working on Migrating multiple APIs to cloud and working on support stories.
- Supported Scrum team working on developing one Digital Observation Dashboard for stakeholders.
- Supported two teams (Offshore and Nearshore) in different time zones.
- Encouraged Agile behaviors, reinforcing practices, norms, ceremonies, and supporting overall Squad performance and efficiency.
- Identified team improvement opportunities and looking externally for best practices to support continuous improvement.
- Lead and coordinated logistics for Agile ceremonies and practices, e.g., backlog maintenance, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Ensure all work is tracked in backlog and accurately balanced across team members.
- Maintained and updated Squad's process metrics and artifacts to ensure accurate and clear communications to partners.
- Drove collaborative and supportive team culture through team building and engagement practices.
- Advised and oversaw Squad/Team performance against agile values, practices and processes.
- Worked with squad leader (or product owner) and support work of Squad/Team by maintaining healthy backlog.
- Facilitated agile ceremonies like Stand ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning and Retrospectives
- Monitored team performance through squad’s dashboard and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help team work better and smarter.
IT Scrum Master Sr.
TEKsystems
2019.04 - 2020.05
- Supported scrum Team working on developing/updating Apps and processes of account closure with pending transactions.
- Supported Kanban team working on Enabling and disabling APIs based on validity/useability and migrating same to cloud.
- Organized and facilitated scrum ceremonies and backlog refinement under minimum supervision.
- Provided leadership, direction, and coaching to team encouraging adoption of Agile practices.
- Worked in close collaboration with PO improve on hard stop codes implementation for organization.
- Worked with stakeholders to prioritize the user stories
- Engaged with the executives to get a better understanding of the software
- Work closely with the RTE to develop on the PI planning meeting and set the PI objectives
- Work with the RTE to close the Iteration sprints and start new ones
- Worked with teams and PO improve on procedures to implement the FDIC maximum withdrawals for clients
- Facilitate Pre-PI planning sessions for my teams and worked on the time allocation for the teams
- Help and worked with the RTE to facilitate the Scrum of Scrums meetings
- Jira for reporting and Requirement Management
- Also utilize Jira for daily scrum, Sprint Planning, product backlog refinement, sprint review and retrospective meetings
- Worked with teams on knowledge transfer sessions (KT)
- Provided all support to the scrum teams using a servant leadership approach
- Worked with external vendors and teams to help eliminate my team’s dependences
- Encouraged and facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration
- Tracked data from the sprint process and report regularly, to facilitate understanding of where we were and what could be improved
- Leveraging information radiators, tracking progress and providing transparency to all stakeholders
- Guiding teams to adopt and buy into the organization’s shared vision
- Facilitated Lean coffee calls and set up happy hours for team building.
Sr. Scrum Master
Apex Systems
2018.12 - 2019.03
- Supported a scrum team working on further development of the company website to include related items during online shopping to improve customer experience
- Oversee existing agile processes and work to mature their delivery
- Facilitate a collaborative Scrum event such as Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint retrospective & Backlog Refinement Meetings
- Facilitate and prepare for external end-of-sprint demonstrations
- Ensured teams had clarity of each user story, acceptance criteria agreed upon, stories ready for sizing and work getting delivered as committed
- Monitor and report status of the project to the management
- Responsible for ensuring the team lived Scaled Agile framework values and principle and follow the processes and practices that the team agreed they would use
- Obtained resources for the team and protecting it from problems
- Ensured there was a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team
- Proactively identify, resolve & escalate impediments/Risks/Issues when appropriate
- Guide the scrum team to find solutions that are effective and meet the needs of the business and success of the project
- Shield the team from external disruptions during the sprint to allow team members concentrate on production of a workable product
- Ensure the Scrum team understands the goals, scope and product domain
- Helping the team understand the Scrum theory, practices, rules and values
- Prepare and publish status report weekly throughout the lifecycle of the project
- Work with business units to ensure Scrum team has what is needed to progress through Sprints
- Supports the product owner in writing user-stories that meet the INVEST criteria
- Prioritized/Refined the product backlog
- Tracks and report various metrics like the Burndown Chart and Team Velocity to monitor progress.
Scrum Master
JPMorgan Chase
2015.11 - 2018.09
- Created comprehensive user stories with clear acceptance criteria to guide development efforts.
- Optimized resource allocation by identifying and addressing bottlenecks in project workflows, leading to reduced time-to-market for product releases.
- Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
- Facilitates and time-boxed all Scrum ceremonies & activities such as Sprint planning, daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meeting
- Ensured there was a good relationship between the team and product owner as well as others outside the team
- Facilitates team decisions that ensure common goals such as the Definition of Ready & Done, teams’ norms
- Tracks and report various metrics like the Burndown Chart and Team Velocity to help the team successfully deliver working software and enables transparency and relentless improvement
- Proactively helps the team identify and resolve impediments and shields team from external interruptions during the Sprint
- Works with individual team to discover their needs, plan and deliver, while ensuring alignment with the organizational strategy
- Ensure cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers, and QA occurred early and often, and removed barriers and blockers for the team
- Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions
- Drives continuous improvement to create high performing teams using various inspect & adapt techniques
- This includes adoption of Agile technical practices, innovation and experimentation that improves execution skills, cross-training, communication and concurrently building group skills, better predictability of delivery, improving productivity, time to market, velocity, backlog health and quality
- Conducted Physical and Virtual Retrospective meetings using techniques like silent writing, happiness histogram etc
- Every sprint to improve the upcoming sprints and team's productivity
- Providing all the required support to the team using a servant leadership style
- Report sprints progress, release notes, metrics like Burndown, Burnup, and velocity to the upper management and the team and maintain dashboards in JIRA
- Tracked stories using JIRA software and maintained all project related documents and decisions in Confluence
- Work with business units to ensure Scrum team has what is needed to progress through Sprints.
Business Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
2011.10 - 2015.10
- Identified, analyzed and communicated key performance metrics (KPI's) and trends that are critical to managing the operational performance and risk of the mortgage group
- 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
- Participated in and supported capacity planning and the development of long-term strategic goals for systems and software in conjunction with end-users and department managers
- Lead daily aspects of all assigned projects including, process definition, goal documentation, issue management, user acceptance testing, vendor management, and project deliverables
- Process mapped operations that identified redundancies, manual processes and backlogs that improved efficiency of departments and service levels
- Conducted detailed analysis of operational data, processes, and policies that impact department's ability to meet business requirements
- Conducted detailed analysis of mortgage programs and process to include workflow design review, time and motion study, benchmarking, and process improvements.
Project Coordinator
Bank of America
2011.03 - 2011.10
- Handles portfolio risk/issue management, including capturing the weekly updates, creating the weekly charts in Excel, creating PowerPoint slides for the Project Manager’s weekly leadership update, and updating the risk/issue SharePoint site
- Perform change requests; maintain portfolio level change request logs with status/disposition updates on a weekly basis
- Perform resource risk analysis; capture monthly updates from project managers and stakeholders, create a monthly report that reflects updates, changes and risks
- Work with the project managers and business planning team to establish CPRs and track their use and modifications from creation through year end
- Obtained, captured, reconciled, and reported on business planning actuals by project
- Determine the root cause for anomalies and work with the project managers to effectively and accurately manage updates and/or changes
- Assist the project manager in re-planning the future monthly expenditures based on previous months' activity and results, as well as the future projections
- Work with the project managers to forecast quarterly adjustment to budgets, track requests, changes, variances, and impact on variance vs
- Actuals
- Coordinates the project resources to ensure that projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Education
Bachelor of Science -
Lagos State University
Lagos, NigeriaSkills
- Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Power Point, Project
- Web Development Tools: ADO, JIRA, Jira Align, Rally, Confluence, SharePoint, Box, Mural, Miro
- Stakeholder Relations
- Detail Oriented
- Quality Assurance
- Conflict Management
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Project Management
- Project tracking
Certification
- PMI – Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Scrum Alliance - Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Scrum Alliance – Advance Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)
- Scaled Agile - Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master (SSM)
- Scaled Agile – Certified SAFe 5 Advance Scrum Master (SASM)
- Scaled Agile – Certified SAFe 6 Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- AHF – Certified AgilityHealth Facilitator (AHF)
- VMEdu – Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Methodologies
- Agile
- Scrum
- Waterfall
Key Strengths And Achievements
- Team Leadership: Strong leadership skills, including servant leadership, team building, and fostering a collaborative and supportive team culture.
- Process Improvement: Identified and implemented continuous improvement opportunities, driving efficiency and effectiveness within Agile teams. Maintained and updated process metrics and artifacts for clear communication, contributing to enhanced project transparency.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Effectively engaged with stakeholders at various levels, including executives, Product Owners, and external vendors, to prioritize user stories, align project objectives, and eliminate dependencies. This contributed to smoother project execution and alignment with organizational goals.
- Agile Transformation Leadership: Successfully led the Agile transformation within the organization, promoting Agile behaviors, ceremonies, and best practices. Ensured the adoption of Agile values, resulting in improved squad performance and efficiency.
- Metrics and Reporting: Consistently tracked and reported project metrics such as Burndown Charts, Velocity, and progress status to upper management and teams. Utilized tools like Jira and Confluence for efficient project management and documentation.
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Timeline
Project Management Consultant/Scrum Master
MI-GSO | PCUBED / Chevron
2021.07 - Current
Agile Scrum Master
Fidelity TalentSource
2020.04 - 2021.07
IT Scrum Master Sr.
TEKsystems
2019.04 - 2020.05
Sr. Scrum Master
Apex Systems
2018.12 - 2019.03
Scrum Master
JPMorgan Chase
2015.11 - 2018.09
Business Analyst
JPMorgan Chase
2011.10 - 2015.10
Project Coordinator
Bank of America
2011.03 - 2011.10
Bachelor of Science -
Lagos State University
- PMI – Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Scrum Alliance - Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Scrum Alliance – Advance Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)
- Scaled Agile - Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master (SSM)
- Scaled Agile – Certified SAFe 5 Advance Scrum Master (SASM)
- Scaled Agile – Certified SAFe 6 Release Train Engineer (RTE)
- AHF – Certified AgilityHealth Facilitator (AHF)
- VMEdu – Six Sigma Yellow Belt
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