Adebayo Dare

SUMMARY:

A dedicated ScrumMaster who listens, thrives on collaborating with diversely talented team members, and integrates their
divergent thoughts, opinions, and perspectives into meaningful action; energetic, competitive achiever who can manage
multiple priorities and perform in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, global thinking who is degreed in
management and adept at training and coaching team members and stakeholder , while building self-organize teams and
coaching the teams on agile principles and values in empirical.

SKILLS:

 Proficient with Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Skype, WebEx, Google Docs.
 Excellent knowledge of ServiceNow Best Practices and ongoing knowledge of latest ServiceNow features.
 Ability to manage tables, relationships and metadata in ServiceNow.
 Skilled in Change Control Board (CCB)/Organizational Change Management (OCM) Practices.
 Scrum as an asset; strong knowledge of all the concepts: tasks, backlog tracking, burn-down metrics, velocity,
and user stories.
 Skilled in effective time management, written and oral communication, and ability to multitask while being highly
organized.
 Strong knowledge of good software development practices.
 Applicable knowledge of the technologies used by the team.
 Ability to set clear performance standards, and hold team members accountable, while keeping team engaged
and on task.
 Assess Scrum Maturity of teams and the organization and ability to coach teams to higher levels of maturity, at a
pace that is sustainable and comfortable.
 Solid interpersonal skills; able to establish strong working relationships
 Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures
 Excellent team player and team builder with strong interpersonal skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Scrum Master Jan 2018 - Present

Lockheed Marti, Dallas Texas
 Implemented Agile Scrum methodology throughout the organization to improve communication between
departments; to provide more transparency across the departments and to obtain great business value in short
turn around
 Gathered requirements and wrote user stories
 Coached other product owners on requirements gathering and story writing process
 Facilitated Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective meetings
 Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables
 Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionally
 Resolved a complex infrastructure issues by creating and utilizing a professional network of Scrum Masters,
Product Owners and Technical Leads within Lockheed Martin
 Facilitate sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives and sprint planning also work with development team to help with
daily standup when needed
 Educate and reinforce scrum framework and agile methodology to team members and stakeholders
 Analyzed existing reports and defined business requirements and business process flows and conducted JAD
sessions with PM, SMEs; facilitated interviews with end users and hospital administrators to collect business
requirements
 Involved in the full HIPAA compliance lifecycle from GAP analysis, mapping, implementation, testing for
processing of products

Scrum Master February 2017 – December 2017

Anthem INC, Norfolk, VA
 Worked as an Agile transformation coach/consultant where Scrum, Kanban techniques were applied with some
SAFe principles.
 Organized and facilitated overall Release and Sprint plaining – including daily stand-ups, reviews/demos, and
retrospectives.
  Focused primarily on training the teams to write good user stories, prioritize the work based on business value
and handling of the tasks by the team. Placed substantial efforts on team members role training, time-boxing and
providing strong metrics for all players.
 Brought in Agile best practices such as continuous integration, code/design reviews, transparency, accountability,
Jira tracking, product visioning, self-management, empowerment and role training.
 As a Scrum Master for three separate teams (20+ people), identified process changes required to accelerate
development and remove major impediments. Facilitated Scrum of Scrum calls following Agile process.
 Protected team from over-commitment, managed backlog, prioritized resolution of defects/bugs.
 Responsible to remove impediments, as these projects relies on the data from multiple departments, hence
requiring constant, effective communication to unblock the team and make sure the team remains on task at
hand.
 Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution,
and transparency.
 Facilitated meetings to iron out blockers, conducted JAD sessions with the Product Owner and other stakeholders
on regular basis and helped the team to make better use of these time and estimate more effectively, thus
ensuring a healthy sprint progress.
 Kept the team focused on the sprints priorities, business values, and protecting team from over-committing.
 Communicated team status /progress via Release/Sprint Burndown charts, Story Acceptance rate and defects,
and make sure the stakeholders are aware of what is going on.
 Built the team’s Agile knowledge and empower the team to make process improvements captured in sprint
retrospective meetings.
 Used JIRA tool for Agile Scrum and Agile Kanban to track the team activities.
 Frequent follow up and friendly remainders to the team on updating JIRA tasks on a daily basis for more accurate
reporting.
 Worked with Product Owner during the Sprint review sessions to make sure all stories met the Definition of Done
and get the stories accepted within the sprint.
 Performed an active coaching role for organization

Scrum Master January 2015 – January 2016

Georgia-Pacific LLC, Pineland Texas
 Strong background working in a customer-facing environment and driving initiatives to improve customer
satisfaction.
 Assess program risks, anticipate challenges, and provide escalation management when necessary
 Investigating and solving customers' problems, which may be complex or long-standing problems that have been
passed on by a local support team
 Managed changes, agile, risk control and eliminated surprises, while developing new process and tools for
continually improvement
 Conducted backlog reviews, planning sessions, sprint planning, customer reviews and retrospectives for teams
during sprint cycle
 Led daily scums to communicate current day’s goals, previous day’s achievements, and any impediments or
concerns in an Agile Scrum environment
 Develop Data Analysis/report with Extensive database
 Using Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing to initiate Corrective Action Report (CAR) on operational non-compliance.
 Time and cost efficiency analysis; materials and process design evaluations.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration
Management Concentration, California State University, San Bernardino, CA, September 2013 – June 2016

Associate of Arts, University Studies

Business and Technology, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, September 2010 – May 2013

ASSOCIATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

 Scrum Master Certified (SMC)
 Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance (CSM)
 Certified SAFe for Scrum Master (SAFe 4.6) (SSM)
 Member of National Society of Leadership and Success
 Certificate of Leadership Training NSLS