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Kole Odesanya

Freeport,TX

Summary

Dynamic Agile Coach with a proven track record of driving organizational transformation, building high-performing teams, and implementing customer-centric changes. I am a seasoned agile coach known for strategic vision, empathetic leadership, and a hands-on approach. I specialize in building high-performing teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and cultivating collaborative environments that promote innovation. Additionally, I excel in driving organizational change to deliver exceptional results. As a SAFe Program Consultant, I bring experience in SAFe implementation and coaching lean-agile best practices.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Enterprise Agile Coach

Walmart
Dallas, TX
10.2021 - Current
  • Implemented metrics and dashboards to track progress, leading to a reduction in project delays and a 40% increase in on-time delivery.
  • Coached executives, senior leaders, and teams, leading to improvement in collaboration, a 30% increase in productivity within a quarter, and enhancement in delivery predictability.
  • Facilitated strategic planning sessions, leading to 100% alignment between business objectives and agile delivery approaches, ensuring better integration between IT and business stakeholders.
  • Conducted agile maturity assessments of the team and organization, and coached the team to continuously improve efficiency and optimize user story writing for productivity.
  • Identified and supported Scrum Masters to remove impediments that interfered with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal, resulting in meeting sprint goals in 99% of sprints.

Snr Agile Coach

IBM
Sacramento, CA
02.2018 - 09.2021
  • Successfully led quarterly agile introduction courses for an average of 50 employees or contractors prior to placement on a Scrum Team and coached them on the ceremonies, Artifacts, Team roles, rules of Scrum, and agile Manifesto, which helped foster collaboration and improve on value delivery.
  • Enabled a continuous learning environment, identified ways to strengthen the team's understanding of Agile concepts and principles, and also ensured decisions were data-driven.
  • Cultivated robust relationships with other IT platforms and businesses in developing product vision, roadmap, and innovative strategies to meet established organizational objectives.
  • Guided team in meeting 95% of PI commitment through coaching on benefit and organizing Pre-PI socialization ceremony.
  • Provided agile coaching to an agile release train of 8 teams that successfully migrated over 400 historical and incremental data tables from on-prem. To cloud.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Ajayi Crowther University
Oyo, Nigeria
05-2009

Skills

  • Sprint Planning and Problem Solving
  • Value stream mapping
  • Program Management
  • Agile transfomation
  • User stories
  • Active listening
  • Executive Agile Practice Coaching & Communication
  • Jira ,Confluence ,Sharepoint & Azure DevOps
  • Empathetic Leadership

Affiliations

  • music and marathons

Accomplishments

  • national youth service commission
  • Phi Beta Kappa Society

Certification

  • Certified SAFe 6.0 Agilist
  • PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
  • SAFe Program Consultant (SPC 6.0)
  • Professional Agile Leadership

Languages

English
Professional

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Enterprise Agile Coach

Walmart
10.2021 - Current

Snr Agile Coach

IBM
02.2018 - 09.2021

Bachelor of Science - Economics

Ajayi Crowther University

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