OLUSIKE OJO
Charlotte,NC
Summary
I am an experienced, disciplined, dedicated, collaborative, and highly motivated project manager and Scrum master with over 10 years of progressive real-world experience in the implementation of both waterfall and scrum practices, implementations, and facilitating project delivery from planning to execution and delivery with various onshore and offshore teams in multiple projects within the private sector. Experienced in multiple complex projects and ability and flexibility to adapt the approach to fit team and product environment. A strong track process improvement,business and technical skills to achieve on-time project delivery. I am seeking a new opportunity that will allow me to work with a cross-functional team dealing with complex projects.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAFe Scrum Master
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits
Dallas, TX
12.2022 - Current
- Coached the teams to be self-organizing and ensured the adherence of all the Scrum concepts and processes.
- Coordinates story and release dependencies and ensure they are properly managed.
- Lead the Data Fabric team in migrating pipelines from old databricks environment to the new databricks environment
- Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Agile-Scrum and ensure team adopt agile way of working.
- Leads Scrum of Scrum events with other Scrum masters to discuss dependencies, end to end testing and timelines.
- Proficient in using Azure DevOps and Jira to manage deliverables.
- Frequent, proactive collaboration with executive leadership to provide project milestone status, risk analysis and mitigation, new discoveries that may impact strategic direction.
- Successfully migrated projects from Waterfall to Agile-Scrum and ensure team adopt agile way of working.
- Analyzed the Product Backlog along with PO, performed ambiguity reviews and communicated the inconsistencies to the Configuration Team.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress with, and to all affected teams and management
- Ensured that the User Stories meet the INVEST principal (Independent, Negotiable, valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable)
- Created and maintained Sprint Burn-down Chart, Sprint Burn-up Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart to keep the track of the team's progress and the team's velocity for better estimation of the sprint life cycle.
- Communicated the status of the Product Backlog Item to product Owner and external stakeholders on a regular basis.
- Effectively involved in conducting Planning poker technique for estimating the User storiesethods that could benefit Scrum team
Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
Senior Agility Lead
Breakthru Beverage Group
Richmond, CA
06.2021 - 12.2022
- Coaching teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies
- Collaborates with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress
- Establish, support, and facilitate team-level cadence and ceremonies such as project planning, daily stand-up, retrospectives, etc
- Helped the team in migration from Tableau to Power Bi
- Coordinates release dependencies and ensure they are properly managed.
- Worked with experienced owners, Execution Managers, and Scrum Masters to Keep track of important project milestones and alter plans and/or resources as necessary to satisfy the demands of all stakeholders.
- Created a project team, allocates roles, determines the resources that are needed, and creates a timeline to ensure that the project is finished on time.
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team
- Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
Agile Coach/Scrum Master
United Healthcare Group
Richardson, TX
02.2018 - 05.2021
- Responsible for the planning and facilitation of standard meetings to include backlog preparation, iteration planning, retrospectives, iteration reviews, hackathons, and daily stand-ups
- Manage multiple scrum teams, leading them from a waterfall methodology to be fully AGILE within the United health ETO team
- Work with key stakeholders to develop a clear understanding of a business need, define the project goals and charter, and ensure alignment with strategic objectives
- Foster more open communication between executive stakeholders, engineering, and marketing, resulting in improved speed of the feature development life cycle by 22% year over year
- Assists with implementation of the area of focus within Business Analysis, following strict Project Management Life Cycle / Software Development Life
- Cycle (PMLC/SDLC) processes and guidelines
- Lead/Participates in Program Increment planning sessions, roadmap and manage raid log
- Provides relevant metrics to gauge team progress with a continual focus on improvement
- Identify organizational roadblocks that limit team productivity and quality, and provide feedback to management, so we can improve, innovate, and move forward
- Lead team members to ensure product vision and goals are met and communicate product workflow to keep colleagues informed every step of the way
- Ensure sprints are properly scoped and estimated; be responsible for making sure the team delivers what it committed to in each sprint; accountability
- Responsible for individual and team performance measurement; measuring productivity and utilization over time including velocity, burndown, etc.; use Jira to its fullest to provide dashboarding, status, and reporting around these critical
- KPIs
- Leads Teams and Organizations through uncertainty by creating environments that cultivate continuous feedback and Retrospection
- Ensures stakeholder involvement is facilitated and that stakeholders are updated as needed
- Advocates for Agile Progress throughout the Teams and Organization
- Coach Stakeholders on continuous Feedback and Empiricism
- Protects the team from outside interference and helps to remove impediments
- Promotes collaboration, and self-organization, and helps the team and its individuals develop, perform, and achieve synergy.
SAFe Scrum Master
Pepsico Inc
Plano, TX
08.2014 - 01.2018
- Helped multiple teams embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt, and apply SAFe principles, and implement SAFe practices
- Supported the Product Owner by assisting with managing the backlog and guiding the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope
- Applied and maintained principles of test-driven development, pair programming, continuous integration & deployment, and refactoring
- Facilitated workshops geared at training teams on a proper epic and feature decomposition
- Provided representation during the Scrum of Scrum (SoS) meetings and pass information from that meeting back to the teams as appropriate
- Protected the Innovation and Planning (IP) iteration by keeping the teams focused on a dedicated investment of time on innovation and exploration
- Dedicated to continuous process improvement through feedback loops, coaching, retrospectives, and individual improvement
- Worked with other Scrum Masters to define, reinforce, and maintain a consistent practice across the organization
- Served as Scrum Master for multiple teams across the program as required On the Product side of Pepsico Inc
- Worked to identify blocked or stalled stories and assists the team in learning to resolve the issues or assists in getting resolution
- Increased the team's overall timely completion and sprint output by 15%, by utilizing the burnup/burndown chart of the sprint to monitor the team's input and processes, while coaching the team in adopting new sprint techniques such as reducing batch sizes and improving work in progress (WIP), which has led to an improvement in sprint velocity thereby improving sprint outcome.
Business Analyst
Skye Bank
Lagos
02.2012 - 07.2014
- Worked cross-functionally with executive leadership and marketing teams to understand customer pain-points and translate those pain points into actionable user stories
- Gather business requirement from report layout design and drafted business requirement document “BRD”
- Worked directly with other business analyst, product owners, system engineers, program managers, developers, testers, and customers to define features and technical user stories
- Developed a more data-driven project management culture by building KPI dashboards for executives around feature building KPI development and product life cycles
- Managed the product backlog and efficiently re-prioritized the backlog resulting in coming under budget by $75,000 on average for projects during my tenure
- Owned the planning and scheduling of two-week sprints and clearly articulated the product vision to engineering, resulting in hitting 98% of the product goals defined at the beginning of the year in 2013.
- Created KBA for my other BAs to follow in determine with systems or application to decompose
Education
Master of Arts - Diplomacy and Strategic Studies
University of Lagos
01.2016
Master of Business Administration, Management
St John's University
2012
LLB - Business Law
Obafemi Awolowo University
01.2010
Skills
- Process improvement, Agile
- Budgeting
- Risk Analysis
- Road Map monitoring
- Prioritizing Techniques
- Framework, Business Analysis
- Data Analytics, SDLC
- Negotiation, Risk Management
- Project Management Agile
- Development Proven Leadership
- Issue Resolution, Resource
- Management Team Conflict
- Resolution, Kanban Azure
- DevOps, Jira Microsoft Office
- Suites, Business Process
- Improvement UAT, Confluence
- Trello, Monday, Microsoft Project
- Rally, Excel,Ghantchatt,Teams
Certification
⬥Project Management Professional (PMP)
⬥Certified Scrum Master(CSM)
⬥Certified SAFe 6 Agilist
⬥SAFe Project Owner Project Manager 5.1 (POPM)
⬥Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)
⬥Professional Scrum Master (PSM2)
⬥SAFe Scrum Master 5.0 Certification (SSM
Timeline
SAFe Scrum Master
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits
12.2022 - Current
Senior Agility Lead
Breakthru Beverage Group
06.2021 - 12.2022
Agile Coach/Scrum Master
United Healthcare Group
02.2018 - 05.2021
SAFe Scrum Master
Pepsico Inc
08.2014 - 01.2018
Business Analyst
Skye Bank
02.2012 - 07.2014
Master of Arts - Diplomacy and Strategic Studies
University of Lagos
Master of Business Administration, Management
St John's University
LLB - Business Law
Obafemi Awolowo University
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