John .M. Adebayo, Scrum Master, Safe 6, I.T Project Manager Email & Phone Number

Nigeria

Lagos State, Nigeria

• Leads cross-functional teams on projects to deliver business objectives and track progress based on project agreements and specifications.• Functions as the Agile Coach and Scrum Master for the engineering group, driving agile culture in the group.• Oversees engineering portfolio, analyzes portfolio performance; recommends actions to ensure alignment of project delivery to business objectives.• Facilitates, Pre-PI Planning, PI-Planning, Iteration planning and other scrum sessions.• Ensures adherence to agile and project management best practices; effectively drives and monitors compliance to engineering and program management process; recommends and executes preventive and corrective measures.• Managed 10+ concurrent cross-functional projects with 95% adherence to schedules, reducing cost overruns by 40% and improving project delivery efficiency by 45%.• Increased project efficiency by 30% through active team and stakeholder engagement. Implemented a recognition system resulting in a 25% productivity boost.• Secured essential resources and negotiated project plan amendments, saving 35% in project costs.• Participated in feature design discussions offering insights from an Agile perspective when necessary.• Enforced scrum values such as transparency, respect, commitment, courage, focus, openness, and inspection.** Agile Implementation and Coaching** Project initiation, planning, monitoring and control (agile and traditional)** Program management: strategy, planning, execution, reporting** Requirement gathering, analysis and documentation** Process Improvement** Individual and Team leadership/management** Vendor management

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United States

● Successfully reduced the team’s technical debt by 22% saving the company $6K/sprint, $156K/year.● Built an acquisition road map that worked closely with Developers and POs to clearly define the Definition of Ready (DOR) & Definition of Done (DOD) for the team’s scale at large.● Mentored Infrastructure projects defined by rigid configuration-driven by dependencies between tasks.● Responsible for working with Agile Coaches to develop and deliver a comprehensive Scrum training program.● Responsible for delivering 1:1 coaching sessions to resolve conflict within the team and Agile related guidance.● Co-Facilitated/co-trained Agile for Teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners courses for 10+ participants, conducted the Kanban Workshop for 10+ participants, conducted the Agile/Scrum sessions for 30+ participants, trained 50+ users on Jira. ● SME and Coach for the office and configuration of accounts; working through technical and workflow impediments.● Strong technical leadership and relationship building to create, reinforce, motivate and guide the office or remotely.● Coordinated with engineers/clients to optimize site & software performance and manage defects/change requests.● Worked with teams to invest in continuous release infrastructure (Automation, CICD pipeline, PreApproved Prod releases)● Worked with teams to develop a new way of tracking improvement areas during retrospectives and facilitated the team in implementing these Kaizens on an organizational level.● Ensured teams adhere to Scrum processes in support of the product owner and development team. ● Documented Use Case Requirements, Requirements gathering, Gap Analysis, and full SDLC development.● Drove project deliveries and managed projects for distributed teams across geographical location and time zones.● Set up 3 Scrum teams, Mentor Scrum Masters, Ensure full dedication in Scrum ceremonies, Product Backlog grooming, MVP concept and Backlog prioritization.

Hamburg, Germany

- Successfully facilitated the technical development of an in-house software for a group of millionaires with a combined network of $2.6M.- Coached Product Owners and Technical leads in JIRA management, story mapping, SMART OKRs, and other Lean Agile tools.- Built and Coached an infrastructure to educational portfolio execution as an operation project in a newly acquired enterprise..- Assisted the team in the early identification of impediments & faster resolutions.- Usage of Agile tools like JIRA & Confluence to track team progress and delivery performance.

Lagos, Nigeria

- Equipped multiple cross-functional Scrum Teams of 9 devops,developers,and full stack engineers within an organization that never witnessed a team transfer from “Following the rules” to “Self- organizing and shaping the rules” to Scrum maturity. -Mentor and Coach the Product Owner to clearly define project scope and objectives. - Successfully guided the Scrum teams to increase sprint velocity by 30%. - Conducted agile training, mentoring and coaching with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, teams and 1-on-1. - Implement Agile Community of Practice initiatives for continuous improvement and alignment. - Provided guidance on the formation of long-lasting cross-functional self-organizing teams -Assisted the team in the early identification of impediments & faster resolutions. - Participating in SOS (Scrum of Scrum) for Inspect and Adapt by working alongside scrum teams. - Using Agile tools like JIRA & Confluence to track team progress and delivery performance. -Facilitating crucial team conversations aiding in conflict resolution and empowering delivery teams. -Tracking key metrics via burn-down, burn-up, & team velocity and radiating progress to our stakeholders -Responsible for facilitating scrum events for multiple cross functional teams (sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and retrospective) at regular cadence and ensuring full engagement until the team reached a point where it was self-organizing, managing and able to conduct ceremonies autonomously

Lagos State, Nigeria

- Partnered with Tier I and Tier II help desk peers based in the US, India, and Brazil to resolve complex problems that required escalation. Provided detailed descriptions of issues in trouble ticket system and followed up diligently to ensure swift resolutions.- Diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve a range of software, hardware and connectivity issues. Excel in asking probing questions and researching, analyzing and rectifying problems.- Disassembled computer systems to troubleshoot and resolve hardware issues.- Delivered local and remote Tier 1 IT support for hardware and software to company personnel.- Configured new employee workstations consisting of hardware, software and peripheral devices.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Content Creator and web developer for school journalist group Bleech Reports.

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