SUMMARY PROFILE:

• He is an experienced Agile Coach/Scrum Master offering over 8 years of top - tier consulting and IT experience.
• Strong ability to lead teams,coach/mentor team members.
• Expert and working knowledge of Agile frameworks including Scrum, Kanban, Lean Methodology, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
• Able to manage small/large enterprise product teams.

PROFICIENCIES/TOOLS:

• Agile Coaching/Org. Transformation
• Inception Facilitation
• Story Writing/Mapping
• Product Lifecycle Development
• Trello/Pivotal Tracker
• Sharepoint
• Mingle
• VersionOne
• MS Visio
• Atlassian Suite (Jira,Hipchat,Confluence)
• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston

Agile Coach/ Iteration Manager

Responsibilites:

• He helped establish Agile practices and processes for these teams and was actively involved in setting up the Scrum and Kanban frameworks, best practices for the team including coaching/delivery on Agile fundamentals.
• In the first phase Bami was a front - line coach for the BI teams and led the teams to understand and follow key Agile and Lean principles and practices with workshops and trainings, and successfully moved the teams from having a project mindset to a product mindseet.
• Bami then worked with the teams to help them in their agile adoption through one-on-one coaching,learning sessions/workshops and transformation activities.
• During the second phase of the engagement, he had the added responsibility of leading/managing the program as a Lead Coach, in addition to the above mentioned responsibilities.
• The entire engagement followed the CLMM assessment, which was the key measure of success. Tech Stack included AWS Redshift, Informatica and Tablea

Confidential, New York

Iteration Manager/Agile Coach

Responsibilites:

• Bami served as an Iteration Manager for a tech debt reduction Tiger team, helping the team define software delivery practices and ceremonies, fostering effective communication within and across teams and stakeholders, managing team expectations and deliverables, removing impediments and solving conflicts, promoting team bonding and efficient feedback culture to make sure the team is constantly improving in performance and continuous delivery.
• The team created a Kanban board with WIP limits to track stories currently being worked on.
• Bami also worked on a "common stack" initiative to simplify the development and operating environments for this same client.

Confidential, Boston

Scrum Master

Responsibilites:

• Guided the product team on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to achieve business goals, while continuously assessing the Scrum Maturity of the team and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Removed impediments,built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame or retribution with an emphasis of healing and problem solving.
• Facilitated Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
• Supported and educated the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog.
• Provided support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible, and leading by example.
• Generated report(s) using JIRA to management team.
• Tracked team metrics for improved predictability.

Confidential

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

Responsibilites:

• Enable teams to improve productivity, throughput and predictability through a transformation to agile methods.
• Introduced an Agile COP, led and facilitated bi-monthly agile focus groups to successfully drive the agile transformation agenda.
• Guide, coach and educate executives, product owners, infrastructure and development teams through agile processes including story development, iterations, retrospectives, product backlog management, and decision making.
• Observe team dynamics to identify coaching opportunities based on individual member contribution.
• Train, mentor and coach teams to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.
• Assess agile delivery maturity across projects in the IT Enterprise; make agile transition recommendation on case basis.
• Introduced technical agile practices to multiple teams while pursuing agile adoption.
• Partner with DevOps to improve collaboration and automate process of software and infrastructure delivery and the identification of risks and dependencies, the removal of obstacles, and the resolution of conflicts.

Confidential

Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Responsibilites:

• Assess Delivery maturity across projects in the IT Enterprise; make agile transition recommendation on case basis.
• Coach and mentor multiple scrum teams across organization on scrum principles and values.
• Observe team dynamics to identify coaching opportunities based on individual member contribution.
• Keep project team accountable to Scrum process by ensuring visibility of project metrics: Sprint burndowns, defect trends, velocity trends.
• Facilitate scrum ceremonies: Sprint planning; Backlog grooming, Reviews and Retrospectives.
• Assist project team understand and evaluate commitments through proper understanding of "done".
• Assist development team and product owner understand priorities, story dependencies and associated risks.
• Protect team from distractions by identifying and removing impediments and facilitating impediment resolutions.
• Encourage de-centralized decision-making within teams; escalate when consensus decisions cannot be reached.

Confidential

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilites:

• Worked with business leaders and acted as a liaison between IT and business units.
• Acted as a business relationship manager responsible for the collection, analysis, review, documentation and communication of business needs and requirements to the IT organization.
• Led the gathering of business needs as well as the design of solutions through direct interaction with business unit leaders.
• Involved in analysis of specifications of current system and performed gap analysis.
• Wrote SQL queries to validate data.
• Developed test scripts and performed Regression Testing as and when the bugs got fixed and checked whether application is free from bugs.
• Participated in developing and improving business processes at all times, assisting with the development of metrics, both within the technology and business organizations.
• Ensured that the design and integration of proposed system, software and hardware solutions led to the development and growth of the business through effective use of technology.

Confidential

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilites:

• Gathered requirements from key stakeholders, customers, and subject matter experts to define the scope and requirements of Wealth Management portals middle office needs
• Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled and deliverables are produced within specified budget, quality and time
• Used agile systems and strategies to provide quick and feasible solutions, based on agile system, to the organization and worked on user-stories
• Developed system requirements specifications encompassing Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Designed the user roles and security access framework for the web portal.
• Developed plans for verification and validation of requirements at all levels so that developed software successfully fulfilled user expectations and business needs
• Drafted test strategies and test plans to verify accuracy of the functionality and performance of the software.
• Assisted in documenting User Manual and facilitate UAT and provide follow up to resolve any issues

Confidential

IT Business Analyst

Responsibilites:

• Gathered requirements from key stakeholders, and subject matter experts to define the scope and requirements of Account and Finance department need.
• Worked closely with the development team to verify that business needs are fulfilled and deliverables are produced within specified budget, quality and time
• Created test scenarios and developed test plans to be used in testing the FACT accounts application in order to verify that client requirements are incorporated in to the system design.
• Assisted in analyzing testing results throughout the project.
• Created SQL queries to carry out data cleansing during development stage.
• Developed system requirements specifications encompassing Functional and Non - Functional requirements
• Designed the user roles and security access framework for FACT software.