Tolu Aribike
Software Development Manager
San Francisco,CA
Summary
CAREER SUMMARY: Skilled Scrum Master ready to bring 9+ years of experience and take on challenging IT environment. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer and project needs. Successful at motivating teams to meet demanding timelines and expert in prioritizing tasks and optimizing workflows.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Software Development Manager
Unum Group
Atlanta, GA
04.2023 - Current
- Leads team of frontend, backend and Test engineers in development of products and resolution of product defects.
- Serves as team Scrum Master.
- Ensures team has well-defined backlog of valuable work.
- Helps product owner and team members to prioritize initiatives and sprint releases.
- Removes obstacles and roadblocks that impact performance of team.
- Works with business partners and team to translate business strategy or roadmap into backlog items.
- Ensures that team(s) apply best software engineering practices including, but not limited to: test driven development, peer reviews, continuous integration and deployment practices, unit and regression test automation, comprehensive approach to addressing NFR, adherence to standards, comprehensive ‘definition of done,’ team retrospectives, etc.
- Uses metrics and tools to understand team performance and efficiency; takes actions to improve efficiency of team.
- Identifies and addresses skills gaps in team that may impact its ability to meet business needs.
- Identifies and promotes pairing/cross training opportunities to enrich expertise of team and limit constraints or deficits of specific skills across organization.
- Develops self-organizing team (cross-functioning, partners with business, collaborative, works quickly and unencumbered, be empowered and autonomous, be able to focus on self-improvement) and supports management activities that make self-organization successful.
- Conducts regular reviews of each team member’s plan and ensures team members are progressing and addressing skill development needs.
- Works with colleagues to review operation and effectiveness of resourcing programs within organization and contributes ideas for changes and improvements as appropriate.
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of broad range of emerging technology trends and identifies opportunities where technology might be deployed to deliver business improvements and competitive advantage.
- Reduce technical debt by actively identifying areas requiring refactoring or architectural improvements during sprint planning sessions
Software Development Manager
Cipher Health
Atlanta, GA
12.2022 - 03.2023
- Led cross-functional teams of engineers, quality assurance engineers and UI/UX designers in development of products and resolution of product defects.
- Led organization-wide technology strategy development.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of broad range of emerging technology trends and identifies opportunities where technology might be deployed to deliver business improvements and competitive advantage.
- Review code to check compliance with company coding guidelines.
- Lead sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives.
- Document technical workflows and knowledge to educate newly hired employees.
- Managed vendor relationships effectively, negotiating favorable contracts for essential third-party services and tools crucial to project success
- Established clear performance metrics for development team, monitoring progress toward objectives regularly and adjusting strategies as needed to achieve desired outcomes
- Strengthened team cohesion by promoting collaborative working environment, fostering open communication channels among team members
- Spearheaded adoption of DevOps practices within organization, streamlining workflows and improving overall efficiency in software delivery cycles
- Recruited top talent for key positions within department, building high-performing team capable of tackling complex projects with confidence and efficiency
- Worked with developers to identify and remove software bugs
Software Delivery Manager
Spreetail
Atlanta, GA
02.2021 - 12.2021
- Collaborated with team to define and explore business challenges, creating technical roadmaps based on findings
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Coached DevOps teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Performed risk management assessments on projects
- Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule
- Confirmed operational teams achieved prescribed Business Value Realizations, suggesting alterations to remedy unmet goals
Delivery Manager
REEF
Atlanta, GA
11.2020 - 02.2021
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
- Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
- Ramped up new teams and accelerated existing teams. Researched and suggested tool stack needed to implement DevOps.
- Helps product owner to make product backlogs in good shape and make them ready for next sprint.
- Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
- Gathered requirements, defined scopes, allocated resources and established schedules meeting or exceeding project demands.
- Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases
- Developed clear specifications for project plans using customer requirements
Scrum Master
Digisoft Consult
Atlanta, GA
03.2018 - 03.2020
- Worked with cross-functional IT teams and product owner to deliver business solutions and to provide expert guidance in cloud computing, dedicated and shared servers.
- Mentored team to meet commitments with high level of quality.
- Identified and resolved issues identified during sprints to ensure success.
- Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality.
- Responsible for helping developers(Java team, C# team) adopt Agile based tools to support scrum teams throughout SDLC.
- Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, and prioritize resolution of defects as evidenced by on-time delivery of major initiatives.
- Identifying project risks and taking steps to eradicate adverse effects.
- Tracked process improvement initiatives identified in Retrospectives and other forums, and championing Scrum process improvements.
- Track and produce Key metrics such as burn down and burn up charts.
- Assist Product Owner with backlog refinement/grooming and effectively managing product backlog.
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.
- Evaluating process of what was done wrong, right and what needs to be done differently.
- Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Led sprint reviews, daily scrums and planning meetings to realize full team engagement.
Scrum Master
Render Health
Atlanta, GA
11.2015 - 02.2018
- Guide providers (healthcare companies) successfully through clinical development program.
- Facilitating Scrum Ceremonies (daily Scrum, grooming, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and sprint planning).
- Responsible for providing metrics, project estimations and timelines to client.
- Responsible for escalating impediments to Sr. Management.
- Protected team from internal and external distractions.
- Partnered with Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining product backlog.
- Tracked and reported status and metrics throughout project.
- Supports configuration of management team with software release information.
- Provided training sessions from group level to individual level.
- Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase effectiveness of Scrum framework
- Managed dependencies between other Scrum teams (Scrum of Scrums), third parties, and other non-Agile waterfall teams.
- Environmental transformation to Agile standard.
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
- Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and off-shore
- Created comprehensive user stories with clear acceptance criteria to guide development efforts
- Managed product backlog effectively, prioritizing high-value items for faster completion
Skills
Agile Tools: JIRA, Version One, Rally, Confluence, BDD, TDD, ATDD, XP, Kanban, Lean Cence, User Stories, Agile ceremonies, Agile games,
Operating Systems: UNIX, MS Vista Version, MS Vista Ent Apple OSX, Google VersionLanguages: Java, Python
Microsoft Tools: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPointAmazon Web Services
Project Management
Risk identification
Customer interaction
Web development technologies
Documentation Management
Development Team Trainings
Quality Assurance
Waterfall Methodology
Azure DevOps
Software Testing
Certification
Certified Scrum Master
Timeline
Software Development Manager
Unum Group
04.2023 - Current
Software Development Manager
Cipher Health
12.2022 - 03.2023
Software Delivery Manager
Spreetail
02.2021 - 12.2021
Delivery Manager
REEF
11.2020 - 02.2021
Scrum Master
Digisoft Consult
03.2018 - 03.2020
Scrum Master
Render Health
11.2015 - 02.2018