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Omotoyosi Agori

Chicago,IL

Summary

With 4+ years as a Scrum Master, I’m a continuous learner, critical thinker with growth mind-
set who has over 4 years’ experience in leading, coaching, supporting and mentoring teams.
An influencer in coaching proven new and improved ways of accomplishing projects and tasks
to ensure that stakeholders/clients are satisfied.
Manage and facilitate all scrum ceremonies/events (Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint
review, Sprint Retrospective and Product Backlog refinement).
Efficient in the usage of vital Agile collaborative tools/software including: Atlassian suite, Jira,
Confluence, Mural, Miro, Lucidchart, Mindmap, Ideaboardz, Invisionapp, Scrum poker,
Dictation software, MS Teams, Zoom among others.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Scrum Master

Amazon
Chicago, IL
01.2021 - Current


  • Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
  • Poker card estimation and sprint report generation
  • Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
  • Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
  • Assisted in defining and deploying the forward order processes and facilitated the continuous
    improvement of the existing process.
  • Design and build client-facing landing page (Confluence).
  • Facilitate JIRA training and setup for other iteration managers

Srum Master

Seaseis Consulting
Raleigh, NC
06.2019 - 12.2020
  • Guides and coaches the Scrum Team on how to use Agile practices and principles to deliver high quality products and services to our clients.
  • Resolve team impediments with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization.
  • Provide targeted communication to all stakeholders to ensure clear understanding of dependencies, deliverables and issues.
  • Assisted in effort estimation forecasting and people management.
  • Acts as a leader who coaches and supports Agile teams assigned to mainly Business as Usual (BAU) work and to a lesser degree, important department initiatives and applicable portions of corporate projects and initiatives.
  • Prepare and present status reports to stakeholders.

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Fidelity Investments
Raleigh, NC
01.2018 - 06.2019
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Advanced my team from waterfall to agile transition which brought about increase in sales by $10million during the third quarter of 2018.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
  • Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
  • Fostered relationships with vendors to promote positive working relationships
  • Reduced expenditures by effectively negotiating vendor and service contracts to drive savings.

Junior Project Manager

United Bank Of Africa, UBA
Lagos, Nigeria
01.2016 - 12.2017
  • Contributed to estimating and presenting project costs before project kick-off to set expectations, promote accountability and maintain sustainable profit margins.
  • Provided excellent quality assurance to customers to promote best value possible for customer budget.
  • Develop regular reporting of project progress.
  • Work with group leadership to implement a standardized approach to manage project changes to a scope or objectives.
  • Daily contact with business executives and clients by telephone calls, email and face-to-face interaction;

Education

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

University of Ibadan
Nigeria
07.2015

High School Diploma -

Eucharistic Heart Model School
Nigeria
07.2010

Skills

  • Scrum Master
  • Project Management
  • Agile Implementation
  • Scrum Ceremonies
  • Program level Scaled Agile
    ceremonies
  • Kanban, XP
  • Lean Principles
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Inter-Team dependencies
  • Waterfall to Agile
  • JIRA, Rally, TFS

Certification

  • Professional Scrum master (PSM1)

Reference

Available upon request.

Timeline

Scrum Master

Amazon
01.2021 - Current

Srum Master

Seaseis Consulting
06.2019 - 12.2020

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Fidelity Investments
01.2018 - 06.2019

Junior Project Manager

United Bank Of Africa, UBA
01.2016 - 12.2017

Bachelor of Science - Microbiology

University of Ibadan

High School Diploma -

Eucharistic Heart Model School

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