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Yetunde L Orogun

Frisco,TX

Summary

An Experienced Project Manager/Scrum Master with extensive and dynamic skill driving forces towards problem solving, rooted in software development cycle (SDLC) and Agile Methodologies. Brings 7 years of valuable expertise, excellent communication skill coordinating projects and improvements to forward Company objectives. An innovative, dynamic and self organized servant-leader collaborating with Agile teams towards understanding Agile principles and Practices. Excellent work ethics, analytical skills and outstanding strategic skill for planning, meets deadlines and performs at high standard with limited supervision. A detail-oriented team player successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude and willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager/Scrum Master

CVScaremark (Remote)
03.2022 - Current
  • Track project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
  • Ensure the team is practicing the core agile principles of self-direction, collaboration, business prioritization, team accountability, and transparency, to guarantee the consistent delivery of a working products.
  • Confirm that release deliverables are clearly communicated to the team
  • Lead contact for day-day interactions with clients on large scale software implementation, system integrations, and other technology consulting projects.
  • Facilitate open communications between technical teams and senior board.
  • Built and developed a high performing team by helping team maximize performance and increase efficiency by driving increased productivity of development team and organization.
  • Develop internal and time facing project timelines, milestones, budget report, technical requirements and user documentation for project
  • Work in fast-paced, matrix environment, and adapt project methodology to project scope and complexity.
  • Foster an environment that encourages self organisation, collaboration, and transparency among team members, stakeholders and organisation.
  • Manage multi complex projects simultaneously to successful completion by partnering with stakeholders and leadership to capture the scope of project and documenting the requirement in word document in our Sharepoint site.
  • Schedule and facilitate meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
  • Protects development team from outside interference, facilitates discussion, decision making, conflict resolution and motivates work completion.
  • Promotes internal and external communication to improve transparency, help radiate information and remove roadblocks.
  • Track and Reports weekly on percent complete, budget burn, earned value, slippage, project effort and duration to complete inclusive.
  • Helps team to remove impediments that are beyond their organising skills and guide them on how to escalate challenges to prevent those challenges from becoming blockers.
  • Work with PO's, development team, SME, and solution architect to get a realistic project timeline for stakeholders and leadership.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
  • Maximum effort put in place to achieve project deadlines by coordinating with contractors to manage performance.
  • Report regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
  • Manage the project from procurement up to commission.
  • Collaborates with developers, other project team members to troubleshoot issues as required
  • Facilitate workshops to collect project requirements and user feedback.
  • Coordinate interdependencies across project teams
  • Timely address service issues and new requirements
  • Provides regular and timely Project status updates to team and leadership as needed to ensure Projects are meeting agreed-upon timeline.
  • Responsible for change/communication management and weekly updates reporting to stakeholders and PMO concerning project progress.
  • Arbitrate issues arising from project work
  • Gathering, analysing, and disseminating information to team in order to maintain project progress.

Scrum Master

Amerihome Mortgage (Remote)
04.2019 - 02.2022
  • Coached and mentored team members on the best and most effective way to use scrum processes to improve efficiency.
  • Identified and managed dependencies and risks across teams.
  • Arbitrates issues arising from project work.
  • Worked closely with the team to come up with good estimations and sizing of our backlogs items
  • Lead and facilitate Daily scrum ceremonies as well as grooming Features, stories, and tasks in Azure DevOps.
  • Worked with Product owner to ensure that the requirements are being gathered and priority is understood.
  • Used kanban framework to implement agile and DevOps software development, set work in progress (WIP) limits for full transparency and visualizing of work.
  • Ensured effectiveness of all ceremonies: prepare and engage cross-functional teams, prepare, and engage Product Leadership Team.
  • Facilitates sprints releasing planning with Product owners, Stakeholders and Team lead
  • Facilitated discovery and ensures removal of roadblocks and promotes them in a timely and assertive way.
  • Wrote, updated and maintained project documentation.
  • Ensured backlog is well refined by coordinating with the Product Owner.
  • Coaches individuals and team on mindset and behavior with emphasis on helping them understand "why" agile works, not just "how" it works.
  • Craft vision and strategy based on input from customers, stakeholders, and internal staff team that can be clearly communicated to all levels of organization.
  • Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
  • Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
  • Extremely high level of analytical ability to measure velocity, capacity, and value of teams contributions.
  • Analyze the maturity of the team and organization and mentor the team to higher levels of excellence, at a pace that is sustainable and appropriate for the team and organization
  • Ensure that retrospectives produce actionable tasks; follows through to ensure these recommendations are implemented successfully and in a timely manner
  • Assures there are no commitment changes during Sprint., Collaborates with Leadership Teams to ensure team success.

Scrum Master

BBVA Compass Bank
05.2016 - 01.2019
  • Assist cross-functional teams to communicate, track progress, eliminate impediments, to define solutions and drive progress while building maturity of Agile teams.
  • Effectively collaborated with the Product owner in defining product goals and Roadmap.
  • Tracked and communicated project progress using information radiators like team velocity and sprint/release, burn up charts and burn down charts.
  • Facilitates and supports all the scrum ceremonies {Sprint planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives.
  • Managed work and project responsibilities by assigning tasks to internal individuals and external teams.
  • Established and enforced project timelines and deadlines.
  • Handle multiple projects across project teams simultaneously.
  • Drive discovery sessions to gather requirements from clients, while simultaneously guiding them on best practices and recommendations.
  • Document the discovery as user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, value maps, and overarching project management plan.
  • Lead daily scrum ceremonies across 2 major SAFE teams for our UX improvement projects.
  • Ensured acceptance criteria was met while leading the team and each story to completion.
  • Understand product road map so as to properly manage product owner needs and implement solutions to meet those needs.
  • Assisted as needed, with removing impediments identified by team members also guided them to the right process or resource to clear these blockers.
  • Drive team bonding and ease team tension by using various techniques to promote team spirit, encourage communication and realize success throughout the life of each sprint.
  • Coach, facilitate, and maintain steady and beneficial Agile process methodologies for teams members, driving process, and transparency.
  • Communicate with business around the team's velocity and project health while supporting PMO in reporting on all teams' status.
  • Ensure acceptance criteria was met while leading the team and each story to completion.
  • Facilitated backlog grooming and drove sprint planning, daily stand ups meetings, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and other scrum ceremonies.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics

University of Ilorin
Kwara State, Nigeria
08.2015

Skills

  • Continuous improvement and integration
  • Scrum Values and Principles
  • Team facilitation
  • Project Planning
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Meeting Coordination
  • Expert in producing clear and concise project documentation
  • Communication and Collaboration skill
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Situational Leadership skill
  • Strong interpersonal skills including team building, coaching, and mentoring
  • Best Practices and Standards
  • Organized and focused

Additional Information

Technical Strengths

Agile Methodologies|SAFe|Planview PPM Pro|API| Jira| Confluence| Time management| SDLC| Story Prioritization and Tracking| Scrumban|AWS| Capacity planning| Burndown Chart| Ms Team| Ms Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Webex)|

Behavioral And Contextual Strenghts

Growth Mindset| Motivation| Team Building| Pro-active| Excellent Presentation skills| Cross-functional Collaboration| Facilitation| Impediments Removal| Excellent Communication

Certification

- CSM- Certified Scrum Master

-Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) - Organization From PMI

Timeline

Project Manager/Scrum Master

CVScaremark (Remote)
03.2022 - Current

Scrum Master

Amerihome Mortgage (Remote)
04.2019 - 02.2022

Scrum Master

BBVA Compass Bank
05.2016 - 01.2019

Bachelor of Arts - Linguistics

University of Ilorin

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