Timothy Peleyeju
Houston
Summary
Results-oriented Scrum Master specializing in Continuous Improvement and Stakeholder Management. Enhances team performance and delivery consistency through effective Agile/Scrum implementation. Leverages strong communication skills to support project success and provide actionable insights for process improvement.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Flexential
Charlotte
05.2023 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews, and Retrospectives) for multiple cross functional Agile teams.
- Coached teams on Agile/Scrum best practices to enhance sprint predictability and delivery consistency.
- Partnered with Product Owners to refine and prioritize backlogs, ensuring stories met the Definition of Ready (DoR).
- Led task breakdown sessions to improve estimation accuracy and sprint commitment reliability.
- Identified and removed impediments to protect sprint goals and maintain team velocity.
- Coordinated cross-team dependencies within Nexus/Scaled Agile environments to ensure aligned delivery timelines.
- Improved transparency by maintaining accurate Jira boards and dashboards for stakeholders and leadership visibility.
- Facilitated PI Planning sessions and supported release planning activities.
- Collaborated with QA and development teams to streamline handoffs and improve quality outcomes.
- Promoted culture of continuous improvement by facilitating actionable outcomes from retrospectives.
- Fostered a psychologically safe team environment that encouraged accountability, ownership, and collaboration.
Scrum Master
BNY Mellon
New York
02.2021 - 04.2023
- Facilitating team scrum events (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospective) and making sure there's a full team participation
- Works with product owner to handle backlogs and new requests/injects, Examines potential areas for service improvement and raise proposals with the client manager
- Fostered continuous learning environment to enable teams to inspect and adapt effectively
- Leverages Jira and Confluence to elicit and define business and technical requirements, track requirements, prioritize features, curate content, sequence deliverables into sprints, and report progress
- Leading Increment, sprint planning sessions and documenting resulting story board
- Documents and leads remediation/removal of blockers/impediments during sprints Working with product support and dev team to create documentation for successful releases
- Facilitates sprint demos to business, shareholders, and internal team audience
- Generating sprint summary report via Jira and sharing with internal team members to report progress
- Create mural board for PI Planning and facilitates breakout sessions while mitigating team risks and dependencies Ensure team has clearly defined and enforces Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD)
- Assigned tasks to each team member and assessed workloads to ensure timely completion.
- Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
- Coached and mentored team members, stakeholders, and leadership on Agile and Scrum principles to enhance understanding and implementation
- Coaching teams on agile good practices such as time-boxing, inspect and adapt, continuous integration, transparency, accountability, Jira tracking, team empowerment, and role training
- Shielded team from interruptions and removed obstacles impacting product delivery
- Tracking and communicating team velocity and sprint/release progress
- Assisting teams with creating an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality, and speed
- Analyzing and converting IT project requirements into user stories and prepared requirements documentation
- Ensuring the development team is worked efficiently towards sprint goals
- Made sure stakeholders were engaged and expectations had been set regarding their involvement and participation.
- Documented new features and strategies as well as user stories and criteria for acceptance.
- Developed detailed project plans and estimates based on identified risks and options.
- Enhanced efficiency of content flow between developers and transparency of content status through integration of automated workflow pipelines.
Scrum Master
Trinet
Dublin
09.2018 - 02.2021
- Conducted daily scrum meetings, managed backlog refinement, and organized sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Gathered user and business requirements through discussions, brainstorming sessions, and role-playing to clarify project objectives.
- Work closely with Product Owners, coordinating product backlog grooming Coach Team / PO on Scrum and Kanban frameworks to maximize functionality
- Build a trusting environment where the team is comfortable raising issues without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis on problem solving
- Set up Kanban boards and engaged with customers to define expectations around metrics like lead time and cycle time; utilized teams' JIRA board to manage workflow, assign stories, and support agile release team in implementing branching and merging strategies.
- Improve teams' velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions
- Participate in Scrum of Scrums and assist the teams with SAFe practices Ensure teams have clearly defined and enforced Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD)
- Identify and remove impediments to teams' work progress quickly within a short period of time and escalate only when all other options have been taken
- Teach problem-solving techniques and help the teams become better problem-solvers for themselves
- Make sure the teams' work is visible and progress is radiated to the team and key stakeholders using metrics like burn- down, burn-up, and team velocity and defect summary reports
- Shield the teams from interruptions and remove obstacles that may impact the delivery of the product
- Manage dependencies between the team and other scrum teams
- Help the product owner manage the product Assist teams with creating an environment that fosters transparency, learning, innovation, quality, and speed
- Facilitated organizational problem-solving sessions to enable teams to identify and implement their own solutions.
- Persuade and motivate delivery teams to utilize their general and specialized skills to complete projects on time and on budget.
- Identified potential project risks and helped developed mitigation plans to resolve potential issues.
- Developed technical infrastructure planning, data migration and integration services with third-party applications and platforms.
- Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches.
- Built and oversaw network infrastructure comprised of various virtual products.
- Assessed usefulness of pre-developed application packages and adapted to user environment.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Olabisi Onabanjo University
Bachelor Of Science08-2012
Skills
- Stakeholder Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Relative Sizing/Story Pointing
- Scrum/Kanban
- Agile Manifesto
- Burn down and Burn-up charts
- Team Velocity Tracking
- Complex Problem Solving
- Performance Monitoring
- Attention to Detail
- Backlog Refinement
- Scrum Events Facilitation
- Continuous Improvement
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Process Optimization
- Backlog Refinement
- Salesforce
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Coaching/Mentoring
- Servant Leadership
- Facilitator
- Conflict Resolution
- Emotional Intelligence
Certification
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) – Scrum Alliance
Database Platform
- Databases MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Hadoop, Windows Server, LINUX, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Mac OS, Low Code Platform Config, SaaS platforms
Technical Expertise
- AGILE PM TOOLS : Jira, Rally, VersionOne, MS Azure DevOps, Rational, Asana, Confluence, ServiceNow, : FreshDesk ITSM, Salesforce, Kofax Total Agility 7.5, Zoom, Slack, MS Azure DevOps (ADO), Trello : Miro, Mural. HP Quality Center ALM
- Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), SharePoint, Exalate, Hyperion, Cognos, NetSuite, Caliber, Visio, Salesforce
Timeline
Scrum Master/Agile Coach
Flexential
05.2023 - Current
Scrum Master
BNY Mellon
02.2021 - 04.2023
Scrum Master
Trinet
09.2018 - 02.2021
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Olabisi Onabanjo University