Olamide Maryann Ayoola
Katy,TX
Summary
Data-driven, results-focused, Senior Technical Program Manager with over 8 years of proven success in driving cross-functional collaboration and leading technical teams to execute major technology initiatives. Adept at transforming data findings into actionable recommendations and composing reports and executive-level presentations. Known for coaching teams to success and keenly identifying and addressing team deficiencies. Self-directed initiator who takes ownership of work, driving productivity, change, and outcomes with precision. Eagerly seeking an engaging role to leverage extensive experience in Agile methodologies and project management.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Program Manager
Albertsons
Pleasanton, CA
09.2023 - Current
- Developed project plans, identified risks, set objectives and monitored progress toward completion.
- Coordinated with internal stakeholders to ensure the successful implementation of the program initiatives.
- Communicated regularly with external partners to ensure alignment of strategies and goals.
- Leading and running multiple business programs, ensuring they align with organizational goals and are performed optimally.
- Applying strong project management skills to plan, implement, and monitor programs.
- Collaborating seamlessly with teams across various departments and levels within the organization.
- Develop strong working relationships to ensure successful program delivery.
- Managed program budgets and timelines, ensuring projects stayed on track and within allocated resources.
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Albertsons Market
Pleasanton, CA
03.2023 - Current
- Led multifaceted initiatives at Albertsons, driving decommissioning and development projects while nurturing stakeholder relationships. Achieved a 10% reduction in project completion time and a remarkable 34% increase in overall project success rates across eight cross-functional projects.
- Improved customer satisfaction by 27% through streamlined processes, enhanced collaboration, and close collaboration with initiative owners.
- Spearheaded initiatives involving commissioning advanced refunds engine development in Salesforce, fostering better team efficiency, collaboration, and timely delivery of solutions.
- Established continuous improvement practices, assessing and optimizing agile delivery by increasing process efficiency and effectiveness by implementing key metrics for evaluation and driving process enhancements.
- Documented agile practices and created playbooks to standardize processes by improving consistency and clarity in project execution through thorough documentation and dissemination of best practices.
- Designed and implemented change management processes aligned with organizational objectives for effective progress tracking and risk mitigation.
Senior Scrum Master
Amway
Ada, MI
02.2022 - 02.2023
- Implement a monthly release schedule that increased the number of work items released by 30%.
- Lead and coach Product Owners to improve story writing, feature discovery, and requirements gathering process which led to an increase in customer satisfaction and a decrease in time-to-delivery by 20%
- Coach teams on Scrum practices, which resulted in improved estimating by 70%
- Working with teams to update the Agile Tracking Systems (ATS) to provide transparency on Product and Sprint backlogs, thereby streamlining communication and reducing support requests by 12%
- Identify and remove blockers that interfered with the ability of the team to deliver Sprint goals, which in turn resulted in the delivery of Sprint goals by 98%
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Tech Data
Clearwater, FL
06.2021 - 02.2022
- Rigorously reviewed and managed backlogs and in-progress items ensuring on-time feature delivery rate of 94%
- Proactively tackled any impediments, by assisting the team in implementing the SAFe framework and working with other teams who may or may not be using this framework
- Managed all SOW deliverables and reporting project costs and forecasts on a regularly scheduled basis to project leadership and made recommendations to improve project effectiveness;
- Managed internal and external project resources considering quality/acceptance of SOW deliverables internally and externally;
- Supported each product owner to refine and prioritize their backlog and Epics in alignment with business goals while fostering ever-improving intra- and inter-team dynamics and using agile metrics and Agile Project Management Tools judiciously
- Prepared and maintained Sprint and release documents/metrics such as Burn-down and Velocity charts while promoting quality practices to assist the teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the Definition of Done (DoD)
- Created and maintained project plans, and product roadmap, drafted and track KPIs
- Prepare compliance, management, and other associated standing and present necessary progress & reports weekly
- Coached scrum team through the complete software development life cycle (SDLC) using the Scaled Agile Methodology and Scrum, XP, Kanban, Crystal, or FDD approaches.
Project Manager/Implementation Consultant
CTG
Buffalo, NY
02.2018 - 05.2021
- Prepared requests for proposals and conducted all necessary meetings to facilitate the selection of project services and products.
- Achieved 3 employee recognition awards for exceeding expectations regarding quality and project execution.
- Oversaw 5 successful consecutive release cycles, increasing content by 25%, decreasing bugs 30%, and assuring 100% functionality with each cycle.
- Led technology transformation initiatives, assembled and coordinated project team members, assigning individual responsibilities with deep functional knowledge of healthcare financial processes including Medicaid, Medicare, and Claims
- Secured vaccination & testing plan for employees returning to office, successfully transitioned all departments from a dispersed model, managed their distribution and 20+ storage depots to a centralized model to deliver vaccines directly to providers which reduced inventory costs, distribution contract savings, and decreased vaccine wastage
- Plan and coordinate delivery and dependencies across multiple covid task force teams
- Protected the development team from outside distractions by removing impediments, or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog to ensures that the teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) are prepared for Program Increment (PI) planning events & commitments coming out of those events
- Lead teams implementing Epic EMR, SAP, Workday HCM, Workday Supplier Accounts and Workday Financial Management projects
Education
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration And Management
DePaul University
Chicago, ILSkills
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Financial Leadership
- Proposal Development
- Program Management
- Strategic Thinking
- Analytical Skills
- Communication
- Collaborative
- Process Improvement
- Influencing Skills
Certification
- Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM)
- Certified SAFe 5.1 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM)
- ITIL V4 Foundations – Axelos
- PMP (pending)
Highlighted Expertise
- Experience working with technical software teams
- Project Management expertise in the customer service, retail domain
- Rigorously leading backlog tracking, Scrum and Kanban-based metrics, task definition, and story splitting.
- Knowledgeable facilitation, training, teaching, coaching, and mentoring techniques, servant leadership, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency
- Hands-on practice designing & implementing project plans, identifying needs, and defining major tasks and milestones, based on scope, resources, budget, and personnel.
- Product management and business strategy practice
- Exceptional, effective written & verbal communication and time management skills with problem solving & reasoning mindset and focus on process improvement & mentorship
- Analytic, technical, critical thinking, problem-solving and business reporting skill with strong understanding of team dynamics
- Proven experience in making sound analytical decisions, solving problems, motivating individuals, and serving as an effective change agent
- Practice in agile methodologies (Scrum, Lean, Kanban, LeSS, Scrum@Scale, XP, TDD, CI) for software development and application in product development/program delivery environments
- Advanced working knowledge of change management and collaboration tools; Jira, JQL queries, Confluence, Trello, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Figma, Power BI
- Expertise in creating and delivering visual metrics to inform and guide the team's decision-making
- Possess great leadership & team building skills to motivate scrum teams to perform at their best
- Outstanding interpersonal skills, with an admirable ability to work collaboratively with diverse personality types
Tools
- Azure DevOps
- Figma, Miro
- Gitlab
- Google Suite
- Jira | Confluence
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Office Suite (Project, Power BI, SharePoint, Teams)
- Salesforce Service Cloud | Tableau
- ServiceNow
- Terraform
- Workday Financials
Timeline
Program Manager
Albertsons
09.2023 - Current
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Albertsons Market
03.2023 - Current
Senior Scrum Master
Amway
02.2022 - 02.2023
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Tech Data
06.2021 - 02.2022
Project Manager/Implementation Consultant
CTG
02.2018 - 05.2021
Some College (No Degree) - Business Administration And Management
DePaul University
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