Rukayat Adigun

OBJECTIVE:
As an individual that is always motivated and positive, I am a great team player and work
excellently well with others, combining excellent interpersonal skills with good analytical and
technical skills. I have established the foundation required to be of support with the confidence
and professionalism to promote accuracy and attention to details, while remaining open and
sensitive to issues that arise when working with different people and groups to achieve positive
results and organization goals. 

EDUCATION
BSc Microbiology
Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria

CERTIFICATIONS
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) - Scrum Alliance

SKILLS
 Certified Scrum Master with great experience facilitating multiple scrum teams.
 Committed to conducting in-depth evaluations, designing procedures, and simplifying
work
 Knowledge of Scaled Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and other Agile development frameworks.
 Support the Product Owner in maintaining the Product Backlog to keep work items in priority
order.
 Coach waterfall teams through the transition to become a mature agile team.
 Experience working in fast paced environment with tight deadlines.
 Establish a means of effective communication and Agile engagement practices for distributed
teams.
 Positive team player with excellent verbal, written, analytical, servant leadership, problem
solving, interpersonal and communications skills.
 Strong ability to motivate, direct, and develop personnel and identifying those with the best
strengths for the job.
 Other skills: Business Analytics with Excel, SQL, Tableau, Jira, Confluence, Central Agile
(Rally), MS Office, MS Project
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Smart Solutions Technology Inc – Rosedale, MD

Scrum Master
July 2018 – Present
 Facilitate Development Teams discussion, decision making and conflict resolution
through training, education, and influence.
 Participate in Scrum of Scrums to align and collaborate across agile teams
 Collaborate with Release Train Engineer and other Agile teams to resolve cross-team
issues and dependencies
 Communicate status, risks, barriers to relevant stakeholders and leadership
 Coach agile teams to self-organize and cross function to boost productivity
 Collaborated with members of the Product, Business and Engineering Teams to develop
and maintain Product Backlogs
 Coach a continuous improvement mindset, recommend adjustments to established
delivery practices, and advocate transparency and creativity.
 Collaborate with the Agile team and stakeholders to elicit feedback for iteration review.
 Support and Coach product owner to prioritize Product Backlog.
 Removed team impediments daily to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and
deliverables.
 Ensure all meeting outcome are defined, understood and achieved for iteration meetings
(Daily Scrum, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review and Iteration Retrospective).
 Build and foster a safe environment where issues/concerns can be raised and addressed.
 Facilitates decision making based on Agile values and principles.
 Partner with Product Owner to ensure Product Backlog are continuously prioritized in
line with business priority.
 Facilitates the iteration planning based on prioritized stories, team capacity and historical
velocity trends.
 Facilitate Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Retrospective
meetings
 Empower the scrum team by providing continuous improvement opportunities to
efficiently solve problems and provide critical thinking skills.
 Collaborate with Agile team to ensure PI planning readiness and other program level
events.

Nestle Nigerian PLC – Ikeja, Lagos State

Business Analyst
May 2014 – November 2017
 Identify project scope using context diagrams, use case diagrams, and feature roadmap.
 Improve efficiency, achieved timely deliveries within budget and managed project plans
and resources.
 Performed earned value analysis and compared it with planned value to track schedule
and cost of the project.
 Implemented innovative methods and techniques, reduce lead time, and achieved cost
savings.
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 Developed training materials based on organizational surveys.

 Used images (MS Visio) for block diagramming, charts and graphs, and web
diagramming.
 Escalate issues to the management and seek timely resolution
 Developed innovative features (node graphs and timelines) based on current and future
data elements (PERT analysis)
 Develop and deliver functional and technical project artifacts including use cases, user
stories, requirement definition, process definition, user interface design, test strategy, and
test cases.
 Effective at evaluating system performance, finding indicators, and discovering how
changes in operations will improve results and meet goals.

Daar-ul-Hikmah School－Osun State, Nigeria

High School Teacher
September 2009 to March 2011

 Taught a level of science that was appropriate to the maturity and interests of the
students.
 Provided instruction on core subtopics especially in the areas of Biology and basic
Chemistry.
 Prepared and developed lesson plans and instructional programs to special individual and
group needs.
 Planned and implemented lab-based science lessons based on school standards.
 Maintained proper housekeeping in the science laboratory.
 Carried out regular assessment of student performance, assessed and reported on subject
strengths and areas for development at different stages.
 Collaborated with colleagues in providing a well-rounded education for students.