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Rashid Lawal

San Antonio,TX

Summary

Experienced and certified Scrum Master professional adept at implementing and improving agile development practices to enhance productivity of product management teams. Highly skilled in training product owners on agile methodologies for maintaining feature road maps and backlog refinement. Proficient in facilitating sprint ceremonies to hold teams accountable and fulfill requirements so they can achieve and exceed targets.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Sr Scrum Master

Leadership Channel Consulting
San Antonio, Texas
05.2022 - Current
  • Working with multiple teams, providing guidance in adopting scrum practices and agile principles
  • Assisting Product Owners in preparing and refining the product backlog which led to an increase in sprint readiness from 35% to 75% within 12 months
  • Tracking relevant metrics through Burn-Down charts, Team Velocity, and radiating progress to the teams and stakeholders leading to an increase in value delivery from 40% to 80% within 12 months
  • Coaching team members on daily application of the Agile Manifesto’s 12 principles and providing guidance on correcting anti-patterns and resolving instances of impediments and dependencies
  • Organizing, facilitating and guiding scrum events including Sprint planning, Sprint review, Sprint retrospectives, and backlog refinement to enhance incremental delivery of value to customers
  • Assisting the team in preparing for ART activities, including PI planning, System demos, and releases, giving it alignment and helping it manage risk by providing program level cadence and synchronization
  • Utilizing JIRA for planning, tracking monitoring, reporting, and confluence for collaboration and documentation
  • Driving continuous improvement as a change agent process and driving productivity throughout the SDLC
  • Organized training sessions for product owners, and 12 development teams on agile fundamentals and best practices which led to a 10% in productivity
  • Supporting the team to improve collaboration, cross-functionality, and self-management which has resulted in greater visibility and faster attention to the changing needs of the team and better handling of ongoing support and maintenance.

Scrum Master

Allied Energy Nigeria Plc
02.2020 - 01.2022
  • Organized Product Development teams and trained the team members on the agile mindset, processes, and frameworks
  • Collaborated with Products managers to balance backlog and delivered valuable for customers
  • Developed and analyzed metrics to facilitate team improvements and productivity by 15%
  • Supported the team members to fully optimize the use of process management tools like GIRA, Confluence
  • Arranged documentation and took charge of process flow, maintenance, Scrum board in GIRA and Confluence
  • Improved agile/scrum practices and values by coaching team members, leading to 15% increase in productivity
  • Coached teams on scrum practices, which resulted in improved estimating by 70%
  • Facilitated all spring phases to ensure that the team has necessary requirements and targets are being achieved
  • Coordinated all sprint ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint demo, backlog refinement, etc
  • Trained product owners on agile methodologies and how to use it to increase productivity
  • Helped them create and maintain feature roadmaps, story and backlog refinement and maintenance.

Junior Scrum Master

Allied Energy South Africa PTY Ltd
01.2019 - 12.2020
  • Responsible for product delivery management
  • Renegotiated chip pricing with vendors, reducing material cost by 30%
  • Mentored a cross – functional team of 15 resources to deliver quality products which led to over $2M in revenue
  • Led the company implementation and adaptation of JIRA which reduced the time to create and manage tickets by an average of 3 days
  • Organized and improved agile practices and values which increased the productivity and overall team satisfaction by an average of 10%
  • Coached 10 college interns and launched a mentorship program for new staff in our Abuja (Nigeria) office
  • Delivered Agile projects that offer outstanding business value to the users
  • Supported the product owner in managing communications with stakeholders, managing customer’s expectations for deliverables, and implementing an effective project governance system
  • Led and coached 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%
  • Facilitated scrum ceremonies such as daily stand up, backlog grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc
  • Worked with engineering team and executives to implement product feature improvements that increased conversation rate by 20 basis points.

Project Coordinator

Camac South Africa (PTY) Ltd
05.2016 - 12.2018
  • Delivered the project’s schedule and scope while balancing this with timely and regular value deliveries and project status
  • Helped the team achieve a high level of performance and quality, holding teams accountable for their work
  • Delivered agile projects that offer outstanding business value to the users
  • Assumed the role of a coach, advising team members how to optimize their efficiency within the project team best
  • Met the project’s goals within the designated limitations of the project
  • Presented status reports of the project to the senior officials of the organization
  • Promoted empowerment of the team by ensuring that each team member is fully engaged in the project with meaningful contributions
  • Assisted in team development by removing roadblocks to their work, mentoring them and making a good utilization of organizational resources to improve capacity for project work.

Education

Master of Business Administration in Strategic Business Management -

De Montfort University
01.2003

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance & Marketing -

Thames Valley University
01.2001

Skills

  • Project Facilitation
  • Problem Solving and Data Analysis
  • Relentless Improvement
  • Verbal and Written Communication
  • Mentoring and Coaching Teams
  • Project Planning, Budgeting and Estimation
  • Sprint Planning and Strategic Development
  • Enforcing Scrum Practices and Values
  • Removing Impediments
  • Product development
  • Team Management
  • Customer service and Servant leadership
  • Team Metrics Analysis
  • Cross-functional Operations Management
  • Agile Community of Practice (COP)
  • Experience SAFe methodologies
  • Collaboration and Conflict Resolution
  • Time Management
  • SDLC
  • IT and Agile Skills: High proficiency with Data Entry, Windows Operating Systems, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Edge and Outlook), Azure DevOps, SAFe/Agile Scrum, and Kanban, GIRA, Confluence, Mural Board, Easy Retro, Idea board

Certification

  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM) – Scrum.org
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum alliance
  • Scrum Master (SM) – Scrum Institute.org
  • Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master (SSM) – Scaled Agile Inc.

Personal Information

Title: Scrum Master

Timeline

Sr Scrum Master

Leadership Channel Consulting
05.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

Allied Energy Nigeria Plc
02.2020 - 01.2022

Junior Scrum Master

Allied Energy South Africa PTY Ltd
01.2019 - 12.2020

Project Coordinator

Camac South Africa (PTY) Ltd
05.2016 - 12.2018

Master of Business Administration in Strategic Business Management -

De Montfort University

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance & Marketing -

Thames Valley University

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