Modupe Onasanya
Houston,TX
Summary
Experienced Scrum Master with proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Scrum Master
Reliant Global Technology
03.2021 - 01.2024
- Facilitated agile processes (Standup, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Monitoring Metrics)
- Led team in delivery of features that meets business needs on-time and within budget
- Coached team and individuals to build and maintain high performance
- Managed the budget and forecasting
- Created and maintained plan in MS Project Server
- Performed plan & forecast analysis to identify critical path and resource issues
- Partnered with the product owner and team to create a communication plan that includes both internal and external project communication, meetings, and documentation/reporting requirements
- Partnered with functional resource managers to ensure work efforts are effectively resourced
- Followed the release management process to schedule and manage code releases
- Monitored progress of deliverables, quality, proactively identifying risks, issues and escalation as needed with appropriate leadership
- Interfaced with stakeholders to manage expectations
- Managed project documentation following standards (i.e
- Team Working Agreement, Agile Release Report, Status Reports, meeting minutes, risks, issues, decisions)
- Assured compliance with the delivery processes and standards.
Business Analyst/Scrum Master
Watlow Electric
07.2018 - 02.2021
- Collaborated with business stakeholders to understand key business objectives and ideas to help define and transform them into a scoped and sized business change
- Created requirement management strategy which describes the process for elicitation, documentation standards and formats, tools, meeting cadence, backlog grooming process
- Created functional and non-functional requirements documents in the form of Wireframes, Epics, User Stories,, Business rule and Acceptance Criteria, Test Cases
- Created, Prioritized and maintained Project Backlog over the course of the Sprint
- Guided effective agile teams with a sustainable and productive cadence
- Used best practices, understand and facilitate the software development process
- Upheld, defended, coached, and mentored agile values and principles as expressed in the Agile Manifesto
- Mastered up to three scrum teams concurrently with a focus on improving effectiveness and performance
- Organized and facilitated staffing, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos, and other Scrum-related meetings
- Tracked and reported the team's velocity and sprint/release progress to all stakeholders
- Identified problems, impediments, dependencies, and other team dysfunctions, and then facilitated quick resolution
- Partnered and influenced the broad corporate environment effectively using strong verbal and written communication
- Resolved conflict through arbitration, negotiation, reasoned discussion, or escalation
- Nurtured self-organizing, high-performing teams through servant leadership and mentoring
- Encouraged, supported, and guided continuous improvement of the team, its products, and processes
- Ensured the team operates and evolves within organizational guidelines and standards of practice
- Maintained the respect of the team, external stakeholders, and management.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Ilorin
Ilorin, Nigeria05.2011
Skills
- Agile methodology
- QA testing
- Understands Analyzing, Documenting and Providing resolution
- Great communication skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Knowledge of Jira
- Knowledge of Excel
- Sprint Planning
- Customer Interaction
- Workflow Analysis
- Meeting Facilitation
- Requirements Gathering
- Project Management
- Public Speaking
- Technical Understanding
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Stakeholder Management
- Active Listening
- Team Facilitation
- Time Management
- Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Process Optimization
- Scrum Framework Expertise
- Task Prioritization
- Backlog Grooming
- User Story Creation
- Retrospective Analysis
- Change Management
- Agile Coaching
- Problem Solving
- Documentation and Reporting
- Performance Monitoring
- Project Tracking
- Resource Planning
Personal Information
Title: Scrum Master
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Scrum Master
Reliant Global Technology
03.2021 - 01.2024
Business Analyst/Scrum Master
Watlow Electric
07.2018 - 02.2021
Bachelor of Science - Management Information Systems
University of Ilorin