Olu Omidiji

Key Accomplishments:

• Coached team members to collaboratively estimate stories using planning poker and affinity mapping techniques and facilitated backlog refinement in a way that ensured clear specification of what, how, and where for each story acceptance criteria.
• Implemented the empirical processes of Scrum and Lean to identify and eliminate waste, fostered a sense of ownership and accountability among team members, while emphasizing the mantra that we’re only as strong as our weakest link.
• Facilitated cross-team collaboration and dependency management with other Scrum Masters and also shared valuable lessons from our team retrospective with other scrum masters during the Community of Practice, to protect their teams from making the same mistakes.
• I fostered strong partnerships with internal teams and stakeholders, enabling efficient resolution of impediments and facilitating collaborative prioritization in addressing team dependencies.
• Provided hands-on training to business leaders, emphasizing the importance of their role in the adoption and sustainability of Agile practices.
• Inspect the efficiency of team processes and also fostered a culture of respect and psychological safety, encouraging everyone involved to actively participate and share their perspectives.

Key Accomplishments:

• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments, and hurdles to productivity.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
• Prioritized roadblocks and dependencies during backlog refinement, proactively assessing their impact and interpreting it to stakeholders for immediate resolution or work-around.
• Provided hands-on training to business leaders, emphasizing the importance of their role in the adoption and sustainability of Agile practices.

Key Accomplishments:

• Tracked tickets across Kanban boards in Jira and reported any delays and blockers to the Release Train Engineer.
• Conducted Scrum Ceremonies for geographically distributed teams, ensuring that they stayed focused on the definition of product readiness.
• Created and maintained strategic metrics for tracking organizational performance, identified potential risks, and collaborated with stakeholders using design thinking to develop solutions.
• Managed data sourcing working sessions with business leaders, data owners, and subject matter experts while also handling ad-hoc requests for business case development and product portfolio management.
• Created charts and graphs to interpret technical data for business leaders.
• Served as liaison between development team and executives to customize product features and transition to Nuvolo asset management tool.
• Documented business and non-functional requirements using a range of techniques, including user stories, use cases, story maps, data modeling, screen mockups, and report mockups.
• Developed user engagement analytics strategy, giving business leaders insight to application usage.
• Conducted SWOT and risk analysis to identify bottlenecks and define business problems, recommended solutions that saved the organization over $4.3 million in 19 months.
• Collaborated with development and product managers to implement software implementation plans.

Key Accomplishment:

• Analyzed business partners’ operations to identify new applications and communicated their impact on the business.
• Interpreted trends and patterns in complex data sets, presenting information to business leaders in a compelling manner.
• Monitored SLA’s identified risks and issues and escalated to the Problem Manager.
• Consolidated feedback from multiple stakeholders and provided product direction for the development team.
• Collaborated with business units to prevent duplicative efforts and build efficiencies.
• Collaborated with business units to prevent duplicative efforts and build efficiencies.
• Supported the problem management process owner to plan consistent end-to-end problem management processes.
• Supported the problem management process owner to plan consistent end-to-end problem management processes.

• Modified test plans to accommodate changing requirements and maintained documentation of test results for debugging and modification purposes.
• Conducted tests in various environments, including Multi-tenant, Clustering, failover server, repository server, SharePoint online, and Active Directory.
• Contributed to cross-functional improvement initiatives that improved process performance, resulting in higher quality and accuracy.
• Troubleshot issues during set-up and live sessions, ensuring integrity, and reporting metrics.
• Independently wrote and executed complex SQL queries to validate data.
• Developed test automation strategies for applications and created maintained and executed automation scripts.
• As a Subject Matter Expert (SME), created knowledge articles, trained team members and newly hired Quality Assurance Analysts (QAAs).