Victor Akinsiku

An accomplished, highly motivated Agile scrum master with vast knowledge of Agile best principles and values. Skilled in implementation of Scrum frameworks and tools like Jira, Confluence and Azure DevOps. Experienced in transitioning teams new to Agile and working with offshore and onsite team members. Vast Experience in Sprint Rituals like Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospectives. SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS • Certified Scrum Master with multiple years of diversified experience in Agile Software Development with dynamic, hands-on management of software development projects that meet demanding time restraints and exceed all expectations in a DevOps environment. • Collaborated closely with product owner on backlog refinement to keep product backlog relevant & prioritized, removing impediments, and ensuring acceptance criteria were agreed upon and stories were in a good state prior to the sprints. • Strong collaboration skills with stakeholders at different levels. • Helped teams to remove impediments that were beyond their self-organizing capabilities and shielded them from external distractions. • Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their average velocity ; Performed Scrum Master activities and agile coaching for the team. • Assessed scrum maturity of teams and organization and coached teams to higher levels of maturity at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable. • Facilitated various meetings for scrum teams.