Scrum Master Project Management
Resume:
VERONICA ADEPEJU
PROJECT/PROGRAM/ DELIVERY MANAGER SCRUM MASTER
CONTACT
**********@*****.***
LINKS
http://www.linkedin.com/in/v-bukola-adepeju
SKILLS
Project Management
Agile Methodology
Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, SAFe Framework
JIRA/Confluence
MS Azure DevOps
Microsoft Office Suite
SDLC, BDD, TDD, DevOps, Continuous Delivery & Integration
Cloud Concepts, AWS, Azure
Conflict Resolution & Management
Critical thinking, Problem solving &
Situational Leadership
SOX compliance Audit
Risk Management
IT Audit
Testing
Requirements gathering,
Analysis & User Story writing
Trouble Shooting
Analytical skills
User Story writing
Coaching and Mentoring
Vendor Management
Quality Assurance
Emotional Intelligence
Banking
Fintech
SharePoint
Service Now
MS SQL
Tableau
Power BI
Education and certifications
Bachelor of Science. Urban Estate Management
University of Westminster, U.K
Project Management with MS Project
Rutgers Business School
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Scrum Alliance
Professional Scrum Master (PSMI) Scrum.Org
SAFe Agilist Certification
Scaled Agile Inc
ISACA
Certified Information Systems Auditor CISA
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Experienced professional with over ten years of valuable experience. Increased productivity by up to 60%. Reduced the emergence of bugs and technical debt by strongly advocating for improvement initiatives. Equipped to make critical decisions and oversee complex projects. Transitioned teams and enterprises as an Agile coach.
Adept in all aspects of applications and operational auditing, project management including planning, budget management, and coordinating all working parts of a project. Excellent communication and people skills with an emphasis on Emotional Intelligence, servant, and situational leadership.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Scrum Master at Timeless Impact Jun 2024-Date
I source for inspirational and motivational speaking engagements and organizational training opportunities for my client.
Plan and facilitate work intakes, builds and maintains client relationships.
Create business proposals, source for vendors, assess contract bids, able to influence and negotiate contracts and manage budgets.
Plan, prepare for, track, monitor and coordinate activities and logistics for events and workshops.
Responsible for timely and accurate billing as applicable to clients’ contracts and follow-ups.
Manage customer expectations to ensure excellence and deliver exceptional experience.
Project Manager at Moneycorp
Jan 2024 -Date
Technical Scrum Master/Delivery Manager at Moneycorp
October 2022 – Jan 2024
Migrated on-premises data center to Azure cloud. Decommissioned legacy applications. Led integration projects. Planned and performed operational and applications auditing. Created and communicated Share Point and Confluence learning. Introduced user story estimations which improved delivery forecast, consistency and frequency. Coordinated IT Audit and SOX compliance engagements through planning, fieldwork, reporting, follow up.
●Create budget forecast, manage budget, time and resources.
●Create project plans and roadmaps.
●Monitor ongoing tasks, run queries to validate technical documents, escalate issues to meet scheduled delivery across the organization's engineering portfolio.
●Work with PO to prioritize the product backlog and monitor tasks in sprints through SDLC and post-production.
●Initiate and mentor diverse ways of working which resulted in smoother processes, consistency and increase in releases.
●Initiate ideas to promote physiological safety and learning culture.
● Identify, communicate, and mitigate risks.
●Provide and implement recommendations on improvements of processes and workflows.
●Participate in Information Security projects, such as modern technology implementations and enhancements to existing tools.
●Collaborate with engineers for auditing and reporting to management.
●Avail flow metrics, measured and analyzed to identify bottlenecks for acceleration and improvement opportunities.
●Facilitate all scrum ceremonies, team advocate, Agile coach, and Jira admin.
●Used Kanban for one of our front door teams that worked on tickets. Transitioned teams from kanban to scrum.
●Conducts agile team assessments and provide improvement guides and mentorships.
●Create project management templates.
●Work with other PMs to build a strategy around data storage and organization.
●Documentation and reporting.
●I actively participated in application designs, workflows and marketing strategies.
Sr Project Leader at Advanced Resources. Client - Edward Jones
August 2021 — October 2022
Served the API Office team to design and provide a single-entry point for defined API's that can enforce security, ensure scalability and high availability. Monitored processes to ensure security controls were completed, effective and documented with required evidence.
●I served the team by overseeing the engagement, monitoring delivery, administering project management, agile best practices, coaching, guidance and mentoring and on-boarding new members.
●Developed project scope, roadmaps, project plans.
●Forecasted and managed budgets prepared and communicated financial reports.
●Consulted with stakeholders and clients on business processes and engagements.
●Performed risk identification, mitigation, and audit engagements.
●Delegation of tasks and physical resource management.
●I collaborated with the team, management, partners/clients to remove impediments and develop workflow processes.
●Served cross-functional teams, coached, and mentored agile principles and practices.
Scrum Master II at TEKsystems. Client - Bank of America
April 2021 — August 2021
Worked on digital technology for business loans, cards, Vehicle lending, new acquisitions, maintenance, and platform migrations.
●I was able to bring multiple product owners together with inputs to prioritize a single backlog. This saved considerable time in planning sessions and increased team morale.
●Synchronized with other agile coaches and Scrum Masters to discuss and work on stakeholder feedback, engagements, processes, workshop contents.
●Coached and mentored, created assessments to assess team maturity levels, collaborated with teams towards desired goals. Initiated and implemented the Agile Community of Practice.
●Monitored project timelines, risks, created and communicated workflow and reports. Closely monitored sprints to ensure quality built into the development processes.
●Curated reports that demonstrated project progress per sprint using burn down charts and average story point velocity. Performed the as-is and to-be analysis, troubleshooting, created flow chart diagrams using Visio.
Scrum Master at Mondo. Client- Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia PA
July 2019 — February 2021
●Worked on production environment migration, site and system developments, innovations, and system sustenance. Worked closely with multiple product owners writing user stories and ordering the product backlog using Jira. Re-engineered development processes. Started out serving 5 teams and worked closely with the business on resource management, with the RTE on Pre-PI planning, PI planning, capacity planning, monitor external dependencies, velocity, road maps and workshops.
●Transitioned teams and projects from Waterfall to Agile.
●Scheduled and facilitated the scrum ceremonies. Enacted change and continuous improvement activities to increase the productivity of Scrum teams and the quality of deliverables by 40%.
●Coached the team on user story estimations, hence, increasing velocity, delivery consistency and frequency by about 60%.
●Lead the development of and monitor release timelines, sprint deliverables, associated high-level development tasks, external and cross-team dependencies, cost estimates based on the product road map and overall projects from inception to completion.
●Monitored and removed external, cross team dependencies and impediments.
Program Coordinator at Gateway Community Action Partnership
May 2014 – June 2019
I managed an initiative implemented at different Head Start and affiliated pre-schools.
Collaborated with management and staff of these schools,
Conducted auditing and observation activities to ensure compliance with agreements and regulations and the effectiveness of processes and the program on the children and the community.
I was the liaison and main point of contact for business between my organization and its affiliates. Hence maintained and built great relationships.
Identified and mitigated risks and issues, suggested remediations and removed impediments.
I planned and coordinated activities for the program. Researched, innovated, and implemented ideas to improve the program.
Maintain funding and increase publicity.
I interviewed and hired team members who reported directly to me. I ensured effectiveness and quality of work for the entire program.
Project Coordinator at Sunoco Refining & Marketing, Philadelphia PA
April 2010 — December 2012
Worked closely with a Sr. Project manager, overseeing projects through the project life cycles. Facilitated, the migration from Windows XP to Windows 7, also facilitated the relocation of devises within the building. Coordinated data & infrastructure cloud migrations (AWS). Analyzed bids and negotiated contracts.
●Worked with project planners and engineers to gather updates, created status reports to update upper management and stakeholders. Scheduled and facilitated project meetings and took minutes. Contributed to change management meetings.
●Troubleshot problems logged by end users and DevOps teams.
●Managed infrastructural inventory and sustenance, process changes to project scope and communicated feasibility and budget impacts to executive project leadership.
●Prioritized business and systems problems; analyzed legislation and conducted impact analysis. Tracked Time, Budget, and man hour.
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