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Tolu Aribike

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,

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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

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