Temitope Olonisakin

Bringing expertise in Agile project management and team leadership, skilled in facilitating cross-functional collaboration and improving delivery efficiency. Experienced in driving continuous improvement and aligning product deliverables with business outcomes. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement abilities to enhance team performance and project success.

Senior Scrum Master at Sentara Health (2025-07 – Present)

• Lead Agile delivery across multiple Scrum teams, facilitating PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives, improving sprint predictability and on-time delivery.
• Remove cross-team impediments by coordinating with engineering, UX/UI, Product, DevOps, and enterprise stakeholders, accelerating feature delivery and reducing blockers.
• Partner with UX/UI teams to ensure user-centered design readiness, aligning design deliverables with sprint timelines and improving usability and workflow efficiency.
• Coach and enable Product Owners in backlog refinement, prioritization, and roadmap alignment, ensuring clear, actionable user stories tied to business and clinical outcomes.
• Support engineering teams in improving Agile maturity, CI/CD adoption, and sprint execution, increasing team velocity, quality, and delivery consistency.
• Facilitate cross-ART dependency management, improving coordination, reducing delivery risk, and strengthening enterprise release alignment.
• Provide executive-level reporting using Agile metrics (velocity, cycle time, PI predictability, risks), improving leadership visibility and decision-making.
• Drive continuous improvement through retrospectives and data-driven coaching, increasing delivery efficiency and team accountability.

Principal Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead at Tista Science & Technology (2019-11 – 2025-07)

Guide Business Owners and Product Managers in increasing innovation, productivity, and agile maturity through active engagement, close feedback loops, and transparency by facilitating bi-weekly Analytics Group review and planning sessions.

• Establish a healthy backlog while empowering software development and cross-functional teams to transition towards Agile and Scrum practices.
• Lead 5 Scrum Masters, 5 Teams, and Product Owners on the Advanced Provider Screening (APS) Release Train.
• Lead the only team to complete all user stories and features in Q2. Saved company $3M in expenses and costs over a 3-month period by increasing teams' productivity by 36%.
• Facilitated creating and launching 4 new initiatives totaling over $32M in revenue.

Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master at Catalyte (2014-07 – 2019-11)

Transformed a short-staffed waterfall team to an agile-minded, high-performing, cross-functional one by sequentially combining a variety of Agile methodologies.

• Oversaw the team's data migration from Tableau to PowerBi while coaching the Scrum Master and working closely with the senior leadership to achieve this goal.
• Empowered teams to deliver projects three months early, after it initially lacked skills and capacity, saving operational and labor costs.
• Identified and escalated issues, risks, and blockers to appropriate persons to ensure continuous transition and uninterrupted workflow.

Agile Coach / Program Manager at Signature Consulting Group (2012-02 – 2014-07)

Formulated and successfully implemented an agile structure in alignment with the company's CTO's vision to transform from the current waterfall to a self-organized agile team.

• Organized, built, and coached nine teams in 3 interdependent and highly effective teams across geographical locations and time zones and in close collaboration with Product Owners, organized and optimized Daily Stand-Ups, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospectives, and Backlog Refinement while elevating the quality of service.
• Achieved an 85% success rate with creating and converting to Agile methods/frameworks.
• Saved 800K and gained $2M in revenue through 7 additional projects by expediting the completion of 5 projects by two months each, consequently increasing the company's capacity while minimizing labor and operating costs.

Senior Consultant / Work Order Manager at Lockheed Martin IS & GS (2004-09 – 2012-02)

Exhibited decisive leadership in implementing the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program for Medicare, which aims to improve Medicare beneficiaries' effectiveness, efficiency, economy, and quality of services.

• Consulted on strategic initiatives, enhancing project efficiency through critical analysis and data-driven decisions supporting the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
• Worked closely with division directors, Government Task Leads, and cross-functional teams to streamline processes, fostering a collaborative environment and improving team alignment.
• Focused on delivering measurable results by optimizing workflows and implementing practical solutions.
• Pioneered innovative strategies to address complex challenges, driving continuous improvement and business growth.

Master of Business Administration in MBA – University of Salford

Master of Applied Information Technology in Applied Information Technology – University of Lagos