Temi Olonisakin
New Market,MD
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Scrum Master
Sentara Health
Norfolk, VA
07.2025 - Current
- Lead Agile delivery across multiple Scrum teams, facilitating PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives, improving sprint predictability and on-time delivery.
- Remove cross-team impediments by coordinating with engineering, UX/UI, Product, DevOps, and enterprise stakeholders, accelerating feature delivery and reducing blockers.
- Partner with UX/UI teams to ensure user-centered design readiness, aligning design deliverables with sprint timelines and improving usability and workflow efficiency.
- Coach and enable Product Owners in backlog refinement, prioritization, and roadmap alignment, ensuring clear, actionable user stories tied to business and clinical outcomes.
- Support engineering teams in improving Agile maturity, CI/CD adoption, and sprint execution, increasing team velocity, quality, and delivery consistency.
- Facilitate cross-ART dependency management, improving coordination, reducing delivery risk, and strengthening enterprise release alignment.
- Provide executive-level reporting using Agile metrics (velocity, cycle time, PI predictability, risks), improving leadership visibility and decision-making.
- Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and data-driven coaching, increasing delivery efficiency and team accountability.
Technical Project Manager / Agile Delivery Lead
Tista Science & Technology
Rockville, MD
11.2019 - 07.2025
- Led delivery of $55M+ portfolio supporting Medicare/APS systems, aligning 25+ cross-functional stakeholders.
- Led cross-functional teams consisting of developers, designers and QA engineers towards successful product launches.
Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Catalyte
Baltimore, MD
07.2019 - 07.2025
- Directed enterprise test strategy across APS systems.
- Facilitated test triage, managing 100+ defects per release and improving resolution time by 25%.
- Ensured CMS and HIPAA compliance, achieving 100% audit readiness across releases.
- Managed timelines, RAID logs, and reporting, delivering 95% of milestones on time.
- Produced executive communications and stakeholder updates for 40+ stakeholders, improving transparency and decisions.
- Built dashboards to track testing and delivery metrics, improving visibility and decision-making by 20%.
- Coordinated with vendors and partners involved in various stages of product development cycle.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to define and document business requirements, technical specifications, user stories, use cases, and test plans.
Senior Consultant / Work Order Manager
Windsor Mill, MD
09.2004 - 02.2012
- Exhibited decisive leadership in implementing the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program for Medicare, which aims to improve Medicare beneficiaries' effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and quality of services.
- Consulted on strategic initiatives, enhancing project efficiency through critical analysis and data-driven decisions supporting the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
- Worked closely with division directors, Government Task Leads, and cross-functional teams to streamline processes, fostering a collaborative environment and improving team alignment.
- Focused on delivering measurable results by optimizing workflows and implementing practical solutions.
- Pioneered innovative strategies to address complex challenges, driving continuous improvement and business growth.
Timeline
Principal Scrum Master
Sentara Health
07.2025 - Current
Technical Project Manager / Agile Delivery Lead
Tista Science & Technology
11.2019 - 07.2025
Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master
Catalyte
07.2019 - 07.2025
Senior Consultant / Work Order Manager
09.2004 - 02.2012