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Adebayo Ogunbadejo

Adebayo Ogunbadejo

Charlotte

Summary

Certified Product Owner and Agile Leader with 10+ years of experience driving digital transformation, legacy modernization, and platform integration efforts across financial services. Passionate about delivering customer-centric value by supporting the alignment enterprise vision and technical excellence. Adept at stakeholder management, creating business and customer value, while creating a fun collaborative experience across cross-functional teams. Proven track record supporting multi-team environments and delivering business-critical MVPs with speed and precision.

Experienced with product development, market analysis, and lifecycle management. Utilizes cross-functional collaboration to drive product success and adaptability to changing market needs. Strong understanding of strategic planning and execution to achieve business objectives.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Product Manager/Scrum Master

Wells Fargo
05.2023 - 05.2025
  • Spearheaded the development and execution of two complex digital business applications transformations that delivered significant customer value.
  • Released two separate minimum viable products (MVP), delivering an estimated 30 features and 250 user stories within 14 months.
  • Collaborated and maintained the Agile development roadmap that included prioritized features, estimated capacity, and planned releases per quarter.
  • Employed thoughtful design to draft and maintain features often incorporating acceptance criteria, definition-of-ready (DoR), business rules, Spikes, workflows to describe desired business value.
  • Lead strategic cross-functional time-boxed working sessions to resolve complex issues and achieve organizational goals.
  • Often drove scrum ceremonies such as feature/story refinement, customer feature reviews, and team of team meetings to drive delivery.
  • Identified reoccurring themes, created templates for efficiently managing backlog refinement sessions.
  • Supported program initiatives to keep track of data hygiene and ensure JIRA related items met definition of ready and definition of done.
  • Collaborated with UX design partners and core users to deliver best in class customer centric experiences. Updating FIGMA designs as users agreed to valuable changes.
  • Organized Confluence pages documenting application requirements, workflows, and business rules.
  • Made strategic decisions in digital strategy development, leveraging knowledge of business operations, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements.
  • Provided leadership on projects, mentored teams, and served as a peer mentor, promoting professional development and excellence in digital strategy execution.
  • Delivered an enterprise-wide compliance requirement that identified customer Beneficial Ownership. Defining requirements for development, leading user accepting testing sessions, collecting/validating data, coordinating program feature release to meet the enterprise deadline.

Product Owner

TIAA
07.2022 - 05.2023
  • Organized the product roadmap that built out TIAA’s new retirement services (RST) blue to green platform.
  • Acted as a liaison between business and dev teams, ensuring clarity in scope and alignment during PI planning.
  • Coached and trained multiple Development teams during daily standup, while tracking sprint backlogs progress, clearing impediments, and helping the PO and Dev team manage cross-team dependencies.
  • Guided business partners through feature mapping to ensure features met agreed readiness state (DOR).
  • Created data mapping guides for cross-team dependencies so backend dev teams and functional UI teams could deliver full end to end features. Refined user stories at the team level use 3 C’s method.
  • Supported resource planning with other Scrum Master, Delivery Coordinators and Leadership partners to ensure clear tracks for teams to sprint.
  • Participated in release planning events with business partners and technical teams.
  • Used SharePoint, Skype, and Outlook as communication tools across internal groups.
  • Leveraged Azure DevOps to track story dependencies and coordinate delivery across distributed teams.
  • Created and presented a defect management process for tech debt control.
  • Applied agile practices to keep the team focused on highest value and highest priority backlog items.

Scrum Master

Truist Bank
04.2021 - 06.2022
  • Led multiple teams during the enterprise integration of two legacy notification and alert systems into Truist Bank’s future-state alerts and notifications platform.
  • Facilitated Agile ceremonies across 3 cross-functional teams in a SAFe environment, increasing sprint velocity by 27% within two quarters through improved backlog refinement and stakeholder alignment.
  • Coached over 29 team members (Scrum Masters, POs, and developers) on Agile best practices and SAFe principles, resulting in a 34% improvement in PI Planning efficiency and consistently hitting 95% of committed objectives.
  • Coordinated communication across release trains and facilitated community actions for success to manage dependencies and mitigate program risks.
  • Created bonds and partnerships across dependent release trains teams work streams to achieve the success and delivery of notification standards.
  • Partnered with Alerts Product Manager for feature refinement. Created and refined feature in JIRA Align with the Alerts development team.
  • Assisted with resource planning with Release Train Engineers (RTEs) Scrum Masters, Delivery Coordinators and key business and leadership stakeholders partners to ensure clear tracks for teams to sprint.
  • Participated in release planning events with business partners and technical teams.
  • Increased knowledge of the TIBCO notification tool.
  • Created and presented a defect management process for the Alerts to keep tech debt at a minimum.

Scrum Master/BA

Wells Fargo
04.2019 - 03.2021
  • Responsible for driving strategy and design, followed by handing off to the agile scrum teams responsible for platform delivery of digital tagging and tracking across digital properties.
  • Leveraged business and technical expertise to align with the product vision and assess delivery team framework requirements. Designed and implemented a high-performing Agile environment from Sprint 1 through MVP delivery, across four separate product backlogs, significantly improving backlog management and team efficiency.
  • Pursued subject matter expertise in Tealium, Wells Fargo's Tagging & Tracking Management System, to effectively support digital business, technical, and operations stakeholders.
  • Worked with Product Owners in the backlog to ensure business priorities aligned with future planning.
  • Conducted root cause analyses on recurring blockers, reducing sprint disruptions by 35% and increasing throughput by 18% across 3 sprints for a high-priority feature release.
  • Coached developments teams on best practices for peer-to-peer coding and the use of JUnit testing to promote high quality software in the sprint faster.
  • Coordinated UAT activities and documented test case results per release.
  • Championed friendly work environment for continuous growth and development of the team and execution of business value.

Scrum Master

Premier Health Inc.
10.2018 - 04.2019
  • Acted as the customer proxy within a SAFe environment, collaborating with program managers, the VP of Contracts, and fellow product owners to define and prioritize user stories for an internal forecasting application.
  • Promoted Cucumber test automation in alignment with CI practices, reducing regression testing time by 45% and enabling nightly builds with automated compliance verification for critical contract manager onboarding workflows.
  • Developed self-serve Confluence documentation used by over 30 stakeholders, streamlining access to strategic business objectives and enabling faster decision-making; ensured delivery teams remained aligned with evolving priorities, reducing misaligned work by 25%.
  • Promoted a “lessons learned” forum for product owners to discuss risks and dependencies impacting other applications.
  • Facilitated brown bag sessions to promote team collaboration and build cross functional synergy.
  • Partnered with Product Management to re-prioritize 2 major epics, saving the business over $350K in resource misallocation while delivering 3 months ahead of schedule.

Product Owner

Wells Fargo Advisors
02.2017 - 08.2018
  • Researched existing process flows, business rules, and workflow requirements to ensure all migrated services aligned with business user needs while minimizing impact across each line of business (LOB).
  • Created and presented a current- and future-state analysis in PowerPoint to validate 120 requirements gathered from five impacted lines of business (LOBs) and multiple operations partners.
  • Wrote user stories with clear acceptance criteria to ensure all requirements met the definition of done, managing them within the VersionOne tool.
  • Defined, prioritized, and groomed the team backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities related to client asset movement.
  • Recalibrated UAT test cases to streamline testing efforts, saving the program nearly two weeks of work and ultimately enabling earlier-than-scheduled delivery.

Scrum Master

Ally
06.2015 - 01.2017
  • Performed data mining activities to create valuable dashboards for business and product teams to make impactful decisions.
  • Supported delivery of a high-security online banking platform by aligning Scrum cadence with regulatory testing gates, helping teams consistently deliver MVP increments with zero compliance breaches across 4 regulatory reviews.
  • Create storyboards to outline and detail customer focused flows and user experience using MIRO to validate requirements.
  • Mentored 3 junior Scrum Masters, two of whom were promoted to senior-level roles within a year and facilitated knowledge sharing through monthly CoP (Community of Practice) sessions.
  • Contributed to reductions in employee turnover by revamping training programs.
  • Tracked program and team deliverables on the Kanban and team boards to ensure alignment with KPI metrics.
  • Helped team resolved delivery impediments and remove blockers bring the right teammates together to formulate solutions.

Business Analyst

Bank of America
08.2013 - 06.2015
  • Collaborated with data architecture partners to understand database models, including data sources, definitions, and maintenance processes, ensuring alignment with enterprise data governance standards.
  • Developed detailed data mapping documentation to guide cross-functional teams through the extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) processes of large-scale data files supporting customer profile management systems, reducing onboarding time for new team members by 30%.
  • Designed and maintained standardized templates, detailed use cases, and line-of-business (LOB) requirements in IBM RequisitePro, improving requirements traceability effectively reducing rework during project development.
  • Conducted comprehensive audits of data outputs to validate accuracy and ensure data integrity, eliminating recurring issues with misaligned customer information and significantly improving downstream processing reliability.
  • Regularly reviewed manual QA test scripts in collaboration with development team members and implemented revisions directly within HP QC/ALM to ensure test accuracy and alignment with evolving application requirements.

Business Systems Analyst

Nationstar
08.2011 - 06.2013

Business Coordinator/Analyst

State of MD
06.2010 - 06.2011

Education

BBA - Economic

Kent State University

BBA - Specialization in Project Management

American Inter University

Skills

  • Agile methodologies: Scrum, SAFe, Kanban
  • Experienced in web development with ColdFusion, NET, and JavaScript
  • SDLC tools: JIRA, Confluence, JIRA Align, Azure DevOps (ADO), Version One, JAMA, QTP, MIRO
  • Additional tools: ACCELA automation, QC ALM, Kafka
  • KPI tracking
  • Product validation
  • Project planning
  • Product lifecycle management
  • Product strategy
  • Product roadmaps
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Stakeholder communications

Certification

  • Scaled Agile Framework PM-PO
  • Safe Practitioner 4
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM I)
  • Google Analytics / GTAG
  • Risk Management Framework

Interests

  • Blockchain
  • GenAI
  • Business modeling
  • Product Strategy
  • Coaching, Teaching, and Learning,
  • High-Intensity Interval Training
  • Cooking
  • Geography
  • Architecture

Timeline

Product Manager/Scrum Master

Wells Fargo
05.2023 - 05.2025

Product Owner

TIAA
07.2022 - 05.2023

Scrum Master

Truist Bank
04.2021 - 06.2022

Scrum Master/BA

Wells Fargo
04.2019 - 03.2021

Scrum Master

Premier Health Inc.
10.2018 - 04.2019

Product Owner

Wells Fargo Advisors
02.2017 - 08.2018

Scrum Master

Ally
06.2015 - 01.2017

Business Analyst

Bank of America
08.2013 - 06.2015

Business Systems Analyst

Nationstar
08.2011 - 06.2013

Business Coordinator/Analyst

State of MD
06.2010 - 06.2011

BBA - Specialization in Project Management

American Inter University

BBA - Economic

Kent State University

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