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Motunrayo Saliu

Agile Project Manager
Saint Paul,MN

Summary

A certified project manager with 5 years of expertise in organizing business operations, financial oversight and resource management to achieve smooth flow and project operations. Leads procurement of resources including equipment and supplies. Monitors projects by adhering to production schedule and budget, managing production team, identifying problems and providing targeted solutions. Adept in organizational and time management skills, verbal and written communication, and has demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Accomplished measurable goals while engaging with diverse populations and exhibiting cultural sensitivity, tolerance, and flexibility to change. A certified Scrum Master with proven Servant-Leader experience in Scrum and Agile principles and values.

Overview

9
years of professional experience
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

State of Minnesota, DHS

Project Manager/Scrum Master
2022.05 - Current (2 years & 4 months)

Job overview

  • Championed Agile mindsets to ensure the organization enforced industry best practices
  • Developed and maintained a detailed project plan including managing budgets, schedules, resources, and dependencies
  • Facilitated project team meetings, cross-functional communication and decision making, ensuring alignment with internal and external stakeholders
  • Ensured that project scope, requirements and approvals comply with current guidelines
  • Facilitated daily standups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
  • Created cross-functional Scrum teams based on system team delivered values
  • Coached Scrum Masters on transparency, inspection, and adaptation using Agile ceremonies
  • Collaborated with coaches, Scrum Masters, product owners, and other servant-leaders
  • Facilitated workshops, leveraging electronic tools to facilitate sessions virtually
  • Established and evaluated metrics and other objective measures across teams
  • Coordinated daily follow-ups with solo team members to ensure track project goal achievement
  • Completed team health checks and maturity assessments to identify improvement opportunities
  • Guided teams through Agile maturity roadmaps to understand Agile development stages.

Bright Care, MN

Scrum Master
2021.01 - 2022.04 (1 year & 3 months)

Job overview

  • Served 2 Scrum teams through the development of Carelink therapy, a diabetes therapy software for healthcare professionals that transformed raw data into personalized insights
  • Coordinated daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint reviews
  • Educated the product owner on user stories and healthy product backlogs
  • Protected the team from outside influence and distractions as the voice of the team
  • Collaborated with multiple cross-functional collocated and offshore teams
  • Implemented Agile techniques, such as TDD, BDD, CI/CD, and DevOps
  • Assessed team and organization Scrum maturity to improve total maturity while maintaining sustainable, goal-driven workflows.

Project Manager
2018.02 - 2020.12 (2 years & 10 months)

Job overview

  • Tracked project progress, budgets, and workloads
  • Organized processes and systems optimization to spur objective achievement
  • Developed requirements gathering methods and tools
  • Defined best practices, techniques, and tools for project planning, execution, ongoing milestones, deliverable tracking, communication, and key performance metrics
  • Collaborated with users to understand and resolve complex problems
  • Delivered senior-level presentations regarding project progress, scorecards, goals, and plans
  • Created and maintained quality programs, systems, and procedures to guide policy compliance
  • Assisted peer project managers with budgetary oversight
  • Liaised with customers, vendors, project managers, and teams to fulfill defined workstreams.

Zenith Bank Nigeria

Business Analyst
2015.01 - 2017.12 (2 years & 11 months)

Job overview

  • Collaborated with cross-functional business users to understand and investigate business requirements and problems
  • Analyzed existing data item gaps
  • Liaised regularly with the ongoing projects and operations teams
  • Captured business requirements
  • Tuned and administered databases, backup strategies, and security
  • Tested, corrected, and optimized systems to meet system objectives and produce client outputs.

Education

St Mary’s University of Winona

MBA from Project Management

University Overview

TECHNOLOGIES

Technologies: Microsoft Suites, Trello, Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint

University Overview

Project Management Professional; Certified Professional scrum Master SAFe training- In Pursuit

University Overview

Adekunle Ajasin University

BSc. from Economics
2007.05 - 2012.06 (5 years & 1 month)

University Overview

Skills

Project Management

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Timeline

Project Manager/Scrum Master
State of Minnesota, DHS
2022.05 - Current (2 years & 4 months)
Scrum Master
Bright Care
2021.01 - 2022.04 (1 year & 3 months)
Project Manager
2018.02 - 2020.12 (2 years & 10 months)
Business Analyst
Zenith Bank Nigeria
2015.01 - 2017.12 (2 years & 11 months)
Adekunle Ajasin University
BSc. from Economics
2007.05 - 2012.06 (5 years & 1 month)
St Mary’s University of Winona
MBA from Project Management
TECHNOLOGIES
Technologies: Microsoft Suites, Trello, Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint
Project Management Professional; Certified Professional scrum Master SAFe training- In Pursuit
Motunrayo SaliuAgile Project Manager