Samuel Olukayode-Omolade

A dynamic, hands-on, Scrum master with progressive experience leveraging agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver effective solutions. Excellent at training, coaching, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices. Adept at determining and managing tasks, issues, risks, and action items.

Skilled in scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes. Ability to manage multiply projects at once while working within strict deadlines and maintaining professionalism. Proficient use of different tools to carry out my daily task such as Atlassian tool suite (JIRA, ADO, Confluence, Power BI, etc).

Skilled in providing effective leadership in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments, with outstanding oral and written presentation and communication skills. Instrumental in monitoring progress and performance and facilitating teams for improvements. Deft at ensuring the proper use of collaborative processes and removing impediments for the scrum team.

Excel at tracking project processes, deliverables, and financials. Talent for preparing and presenting status reports to stakeholders. Articulate communicator with a credible history of cultivating and maintaining positive collaborations with clients, key stakeholders, and senior management to realize organizational goals.

Throughout my progressive professional career in leveraging agile methodology values, principles, and practices to plan, manage, and deliver effective solutions, I have established a reputation as a transformational leader who is driven by challenge, undeterred by obstacles, and committed to furthering standards of excellence. My expertise encompasses all aspects of business development and project delivery. Further, my ability to build consensus among executive teams and stakeholders to promote transparency and influence positive change has been repeatedly proven.

Please consider the following highlights of my qualifications:

• Instrumental in scheduling and facilitating scrum events, meetings, and decision-making processes. 
• Proven success in training, mentoring, and supporting scrum teams to follow agile values, principles, and practices.
• Articulate communicator with a credible history of cultivating and maintaining positive collaborations with clients, key stakeholders, and senior management to realize organizational goals.
• Delivered a polished product on time with in the predetermined budget 
• Assisted in the release of a product that received positive media and industry reviews.

I would welcome the opportunity to use my experience to help transfer from a project management office into an efficient development team that adheres to agile principles. I genuinely thank you for your time and consideration in considering me for the Scrum Master opening. I look forward to hearing from you soon and to learning more about the initiatives that your company wants to undertake.

ETAS Ltd - York, UK April 2021 - Present

 Agile SAFe Scrum Master 

Drove relentless improvement throughout the project with ongoing feedback, retrospectives, and team building activities. Led 3 cross functional teams in developing and deploying multiple features for Automobile application system and a cloud- based reporting platform Using AWS. Prepared and delivered reports, metrics, and updates to stakeholders and project managers to keep transparency on project progress and risk.

Collaborated closely with Product Owner to ensure that the team has a clear vision and understanding and are delivering creative valuable solutions to meet business objectives by using Scaled Agile Framework and SAFe Principles.

Key Accomplishments:

• Delivered a product that received positive media and industry reviews in the Automotive industry.
• Delivered 2 polished product on time within the predetermined budget. 
• Define and communicate the vision and goals to stakeholders including clients, business, the development team.
• Created and maintained a high-level, strategic visual product roadmap that outlines the vision and direction for the product offering over time. 
• Acted as the primary liaison between stakeholders and teams, ensuring that there is buy-in from stakeholders on all major decisions and strategy, and clear instructions and deliverables for the developers.
• Ensured the team understands and constantly ensures continuous improvement both in process and people using KPI's and Lean methodologies. 
• Using skill matrix to ensure the gaps in the knowledge within and outside the team and use technical talks, training, and workshops to ensure the gaps are mitigated.
• Arranged workshop training for giving and receiving feedback to enable between communications between the team members. Give Coaching sessions for any team member to identify any issues either personally/professionally that might cause impediments to them and help them to resolve their issues.