Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Professional Summary
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES
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KEMISOLA ODESANYA

Whitby,ON

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Agile Project Lead

Rio Tinto
Montreal, Quebec
05.2024 - Current
  • Led Agile delivery of Project Bravo, a global initiative on data classification, legal hold workflows, and AWS–SharePoint pipelines.
  • Supported Agile community of practice by improving templates and workflows to enhance audit traceability.
  • Ensured compliance and continuous improvement of Agile events through regular facilitation and audit-aligned practices
  • Facilitated sprint planning, retrospectives, and release demos to ensure open communication and stakeholder transparency.
  • Partnered with Product Owners to align team actions with product roadmap and OKRs.

Senior Scrum Master

TMX
Toronto, Ontario
05.2022 - 12.2023
  • Guided Agile delivery of CapForm modernization, including a dividend calculator/estimator feature.
  • Facilitated backlog refinement, sprint planning, and collaboration across 2 scrum teams.
  • Coached stakeholders and Product Owners on collaborative backlog refinement, resulting in a 25% improvement in story readiness for sprints.
  • Resolved cross-team conflicts, promoted decision-making autonomy, and maintained continuous delivery flow.
  • Supported launch of a new payment portal reducing transaction costs and enhancing user experience.
  • Coached teams and leadership on Agile maturity.
  • Introduced structured risk/impediment logs to track dependencies and inform release planning

Scrum Master

PayPal
Toronto, Ontario
12.2018 - 05.2022
  • Oversaw Scrum execution for product teams, using velocity and burn charts to boost delivery forecasting accuracy by 35%.
  • Supported teams responsible for the initiation, execution, and delivery of an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) features including analytics to detect duplicate identities and large balances.
  • Enabled collaborative PI planning and dependency mapping across teams handling both front- and back-end development streams.
  • Oversaw Scrum execution for product development teams, using velocity metrics and burn charts to boost delivery forecasting accuracy by 35%.
  • Applied burndown charts, velocity metrics, and forecasting models to clear impediments and improve predictability.

Scrum Master

Direct Energy
Montreal, QC
06.2018 - 12.2018
  • Spearheaded Agile adoption across mobile app teams, resulting in a 40% boost in delivery agility.
  • Advocated for customer-first delivery practices, ensuring over 90% of delivered features aligned with business needs.
  • Reduced internal conflict occurrences through proactive coaching and effective problem solving and conflict resolution strategies creating a psychologically safe team environment.
  • Guided product owners in MoSCoW prioritization methods, increasing backlog grooming effectiveness and reducing missed dependencies.

Junior Scrum Master

Wema Bank Plc
LAGOSS, NGR
01.2017 - 12.2017
  • Supported Agile teams in a banking environment, improving backlog accuracy and delivery cadence.
  • Introduced Kanban for helpdesk teams, driving 15% efficiency gains and improved workflow management.
  • Successfully led a Scrum team for three months, ensuring 100% sprint continuity and team performance during a critical transition period.
  • Supported three Scrum teams and Product Owners, improving backlog accuracy and delivery timelines

Project Coordinator & Communication Analyst

Beat Communications(Formerly Beats FM)
LAGOSS, NGR
02.2015 - 01.2016
  • Coordinated logistics and execution of internal campaigns and external initiatives, supporting cross-functional teams in planning and delivery.
  • Managed schedules, prepared status updates, and aligned communication deliverables with project timelines.
  • Facilitated collaboration between technical and development teams, ensuring improvement in cross-departmental workflows on the go.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - English Language

University of Education
Ghana

Certified Scrum Master -

Scrum Alliance

SAFe® 6 Agilist (SA) -

Scaled Agile, Inc.

ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) -

ICAgile

Skills

  • Agile Coaching & Facilitation: Stand-ups, planning, retrospectives, demos, mid-cycle reviews
  • Metrics & Reporting: Throughput, cycle time, burn-down charts, OKRs, DevOps trends
  • Risk & Dependency Management: Cross-team coordination, impediment resolution
  • Project/Program Support: Roadmap alignment, backlog decomposition, estimation workshops

Professional Summary

Scrum Master & Agile Project Leader with 7+ years of experience in regulated industries (banking, finance, mining, energy). Proven track record facilitating Agile events, driving compliance, resolving impediments, and embedding metrics (OKRs, throughput, cycle time) to align team delivery with product goals. Skilled at cross-team dependency management, coaching, and continuous improvement in enterprise environments.

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

  • Agile Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Kanban, Miro, Mural
  • Reporting & Analysis: Power BI, Tableau, Burn-up/Burn-down Charts
  • Others: ServiceNow, SharePoint, Office 365, Slack, Lucidchart, CI/CD Pipelines, OKTA

SKILLS

  • Agile Frameworks & Methodologies:Scrum,Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®), Agile Delivery,Coaching.
  • Management & Optimization:StakeholderManagement, Risk Management& Mitigation,Regulatory Compliance.
  • Leadership: Effective Decision-Making, ConflictResolution, Continuous Improvement & Innovation.
  • Planning & Execution:PI Planning & Facilitation,Roadmap & Release Management, Sprint Planning,Project Management, Backlog Management.

Timeline

Agile Project Lead

Rio Tinto
05.2024 - Current

Senior Scrum Master

TMX
05.2022 - 12.2023

Scrum Master

PayPal
12.2018 - 05.2022

Scrum Master

Direct Energy
06.2018 - 12.2018

Junior Scrum Master

Wema Bank Plc
01.2017 - 12.2017

Project Coordinator & Communication Analyst

Beat Communications(Formerly Beats FM)
02.2015 - 01.2016

Bachelor of Arts - English Language

University of Education

Certified Scrum Master -

Scrum Alliance

SAFe® 6 Agilist (SA) -

Scaled Agile, Inc.

ICAgile Certified Professional – Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC) -

ICAgile

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