Abimbola Akinnuoye
Scrum Master
Dorval,QC
Summary
Mission-focused Scrum Master with extensive experience coaching and mentoring highly skilled teams. Bilingual professional with over 8 years of experience in Agile and scrum framework. Experienced in End to End Project Delivery using Agile Methodologies
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Scrum Master
National Credit Recovery Inc
Montreal
01.2020 - Current
- Facilitated daily scrum, reviewed burndown chart, ensure team is on track and proactively identify and remove impediments that block the team’s ability to meet project objectives
- Participate in meetings with project team members to determine progress of work and identify additional follow ups, blockers, and potential escalations required
- Coordinated cross functional and cross-country teams (across US and Canada) and identify areas for process improvement across programs
- Facilitated program and project meetings, calls and events
- Ensured that project business and IT requirements are captured and documented
- Coached product owner: helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
- Assisted team to create the work breakdown structure and high-level timelines based on the estimates and resource availability
- Monitored the pulse and moral of the teams, influenced the team spirit and created excitement around the deliverable
- Utilized JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team
- Provided direction and coached the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices
- Worked with the Agile Release Train Engineer to drive the definition and refinement of the program and team backlogs, assist with PI planning activities
- Trained other members regarding Agile methodologies and Rally usage
Scrum Master
Affinity Global Inc
Montreal
06.2017 - 12.2019
- Performed the role of a servant leader for multiple Onshore and Offshore Scrum teams on agile good practices and supported them by proactively identifying and removing impediments and dependencies
- Assisted in Onboarding of new team members by administering and preparing training material
- Amended and updated project materials based on meeting deliverables
- Scheduled project meetings and ensure every stakeholder was informed by sending emails and creating reminders using Microsoft Outlook
- Conducted backlog grooming session with Team Lead, BA, Product Owner, and client to review stories definition, prioritize the product backlog, and create the sprint goal by identifying which stories will be worked on in the sprint
- Conducted sprint planning session with the team and client to set the sprint goal, assign tickets to the team and get the team’s commitment
- Facilitated sprint demo sessions for the team to walk the clients through the progress made
- Conducted sprint retrospective meeting to get feedback from team members on what went well and what went wrong, and prepare an action list from the team’s feedback
- Coached product owner: helping them understand their role and how to create a cohesive product vision that draws in the needs of multiple stakeholders to achieve buy-in and shared understanding
- Hands-on experience using JIRA with other project management tools such as Rally
Scrum Master
Rogers Wireless E chat
Montreal
07.2015 - 04.2017
- Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
- Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
- Shielded scrum team from external interference for optimal productivity and success of Agile process.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
Business Analyst
Rogers wireless
07.2014 - 06.2015
- (Rogers Live e-Chat Campaign)
- Vendor Management, ensuring all forecast and flow requirements are executed to defined targets/standards
- Conducted requirements gathering sessions with the Product Owner, Marketing/Strategy, UX team and the clients to help create user stories and define acceptance criteriaWorked conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize
- Provided information needed to make business decisions and make recommendations for continuous improvement
- Developed, administered, and enhanced tools and systems that managed Company information
- Analyzed business needs to determine technical requirements and identifies impacted areas/systems/processes and evaluates alternative solutions
- Designed, developed, documented, tested, or supported modifications of computer programs
Business Analyst
Pison Housing Company
Lagos
11.2013 - 07.2014
- Prepared detailed system requirements and assisted in functional design solutions for new products/functionality and enhancements to existing products/functionality
- Provided oversight and final review of design specification Assigned to highly complex projects, systems, or initiatives
- Provided input into forecasting and project-planning for scope/requirements documents and/or vendor contracts to minimize risk to on time, cost effective solution fulfilment
- Led a systematic process for capturing requirements
Education
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) -
Scrum Alliance
Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Finance
Covenant University
Nigeria 09.2004 - 07.2008
No Degree - Business Analysis And Process Management
Business Process Training
Toronto, ON 05.2001 -
No Degree - Project Management - Information Technology
IMM Graduate School of Marketing
South Africa 05.2001 -
Skills
Coaching/Mentoringundefined
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Scrum Master
National Credit Recovery Inc
01.2020 - Current
Scrum Master
Affinity Global Inc
06.2017 - 12.2019
Scrum Master
Rogers Wireless E chat
07.2015 - 04.2017
Business Analyst
Rogers wireless
07.2014 - 06.2015
Business Analyst
Pison Housing Company
11.2013 - 07.2014
Bachelor of Science - Accounting And Finance
Covenant University
09.2004 - 07.2008
No Degree - Business Analysis And Process Management
Business Process Training
05.2001 -
No Degree - Project Management - Information Technology
IMM Graduate School of Marketing
05.2001 -
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) -
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Master
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