Babatunde Karounwi

BABATUNDE KAROUNWI Address: Lagos, Nigeria. LinkedIn PROFILE SUMMARY Detail-oriented Scrum Master and Project Manager with proven success in leading cross-functional remote teams to deliver high-impact healthcare solutions. Skilled in driving Agile transformations, achieving over 90% sprint success, and fostering team engagement through innovative collaboration strategies. Adept at stakeholder management, process optimization, and risk mitigation with hands-on experience using ClickUp, Excel, and Google Sheets for project tracking and reporting. WORK EXPERIENCE Project Manager | Verseat, Lagos, Nigeria (Volunteer, Remote) December 2024 – present • Facilitating Agile delivery processes for the development of the product’s investment platform, ensuring alignment across product, design, and engineering teams. • Documenting and validating functional and non-functional requirements by collaborating with stakeholders, users, and development teams to ensure proper alignments and avoid miscommunication. • Facilitating sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, promoting continuous improvement and delivery. • Translating product requirements and user journeys into actionable sprint backlogs, enabling efficient development execution. • Removing delivery impediments and blockers, improving team velocity and workflow efficiency. • Driving cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder alignment, ensuring transparency, accountability, and continuous value delivery. Project Manager | Lifestores Healthcare, Lagos, Nigeria (Remote) December 2023 – May 2025 • Facilitated Agile ceremonies, ensuring sprint goals and deadlines were consistently met. • Collaborated with product owners to groom and prioritize product backlogs, aligning sprint deliverables with business goals. • Coordinated sprints and tracked progress to ensure timely delivery of sprint outcomes using tools like burndown charts and KPI dashboards. • Led the scrum team to deliver an MVP version of a new product ahead of schedule, resulting in increased affiliate engagement and revenue growth. • Documenting and validating functional and non-functional requirements by collaborating with stakeholders, users, and development teams to ensure proper alignments and avoid miscommunication. • Improved sprint deliverable success rate from 50% to 95% within six months through improved backlog grooming, risk management strategies and Improved tasks scoping framework. • Identified and mitigated risks and blockers throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to maintain team velocity and delivery consistency. • Served as a liaison between development teams, product owners, and stakeholders ensuring clear communication, managing expectations, and securing alignment. • Documented and validated functional and non-functional requirements through stakeholder collaboration to prevent miscommunication and ensure clarity. • Maintained a centralized repository of technical documentation, project plans, communication strategies, and team knowledge resources. • Reported weekly updates on team progress, blockers, and performance metrics to business stakeholders. • Enhanced team cohesion by introducing virtual bonding activities and ensuring consistent participation in remote settings. • Captured and applied feedback from sprint retrospectives to drive continuous improvement and adopt best practices. • Utilized Excel and Google Sheets to track metrics, measure performance, and generate actionable insights for team optimization. • Identified process inefficiencies and contributed to ongoing workflow and system enhancements. • Aligned technical solutions with strategic business objectives to support informed decision-making and long- term planning. • Introduced the use of burndown chart to help visualize how much velocity the scrum takes on across sprints. Intern Project Manager | Lifestores Healthcare, Lagos, Nigeria (RemoteFebruary 2023 – November 2023 • Collaborated with the project manager to coordinate calls and communications with relevant stakeholders. • Coordinated with cross-functional teams to manage and track sprint progress, resulting in timely completion of deliverables. • Utilized Clickup to create and manage tasks, effectively track progress and minimize miscommunication between team members resulting in an increased sprint success rate of over 70% • Frequently coordinated daily standup with the scrum team where ongoing blockers are being discussed with potential solutions being provided to resolve such blockers • Applied scrum methodologies to achieve deliverables by 70% • Collaborated with the product team, engineering team to avoid miscommunication on tasks for the sprint EDUCATION University of Lagos Bachelor of Pharmacy (B.Pharm), 2021 CERTIFICATIONS • Google AI Essentials, Coursera (2024) • Google Project Management Professional, Coursera (2024) • Scrum Methodologies, Coursera (2024) • Introduction to Project Management, Aptlearn (2022) CORE COMPETENCE • Project Management Lifecycle• Agile / Scrum / Kanban • Stakeholder Engagement• Requirements Gathering• Risk & Change Management • Reporting & Data Visualization • Team Collaboration• Process Optimization Tools: Microsoft Office Suite | Google Workspace | ClickUp | Slack |