OLAWUNMI OLABOYE
Greenbelt,Maryland
Summary
Value -Driven Scrum Master with background communicating effectively with and leading high-performance teams. Considered expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Scrum Master
HORIZON TECHNOLOGIES
04.2021 - Current
- Facilitating Scrum events – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity and progress to the team.
- Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize
- Help break down epics and stories into valuable iterations with clear acceptance criteria and deliverables
- Collaborating with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
- Planning Agile best practices and encouraging team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Coaching teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
Scrum Master
Sandy Spring Bank
03.2020 - 03.2021
- Guided the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to satisfaction customers.
- Facilitated daily scrum meetings,backlog refinement,sprint planning and sprint retrospective.
- Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coached the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
- Supported Product Owners with grooming and maintaining product backlogs,making sure user stories are sprint ready.
- Built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on healing and problem-solving.
- Coached Scrum teams on how to create clear and concise User Stories with well-defined criteria.
- Tracked key metrics through Burn-Down,Burn-Up,Team Velocity and stakeholders.
- Identified and removed team impediments/escalating as necessary to management.
SCRUM MASTER
Ross Inc
02.2019 - 03.2020
- Promoted Agile values, principles, Scrum guidelines within the organization and with the Scrum team.
- Exhibit servant leadership to guide and motivate the team to work together and be cross-functional.
- Ensured development teams are practicing the core agile principles of collaboration,prioritization,team accountability and visibility.
- Facilitated user story estimation workshops using Planning Poker technique.
- Ensured outcome of retrospectives was implemented towards continuous team improvement.
Project Manager
EDU COMMUNICATIONS
11.2016 - 02.2019
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Managed projects from procurement to commission.
- Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
- Orchestrated projects within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems and working closely with senior leaders.
- Modified and directed project plans to meet organizational needs.
- Eliminated discrepancies in progress by reviewing performance, spend and timeline.
- Reduced expenditures by effectively negotiating vendor and service contracts to drive savings.
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - MICROBIOLOGY
LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY
LAGOSSkills
- Agile Principles
- Team Engagement
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Agile Work Processes
- JIRA, Confluence
- Agile Estimation
- Conflict Resolution
- MS Windows,Access,Outlook
Timeline
Senior Scrum Master
HORIZON TECHNOLOGIES
04.2021 - Current
Scrum Master
Sandy Spring Bank
03.2020 - 03.2021
SCRUM MASTER
Ross Inc
02.2019 - 03.2020
Project Manager
EDU COMMUNICATIONS
11.2016 - 02.2019
MBA - Human Resources Management
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - MICROBIOLOGY
LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY
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