Henry Ade

About Henry Ade

Scrum Master & Agile Delivery Lead with 8+ years of experience driving successful delivery in financial services and healthcare. Skilled in Scrum, Kanban, stakeholder management, and metric-driven execution to improve predictability, reduce risks, and build high-performing cross-functional teams.

Experience

1. Scrum Master

   Fifth Third Bank

   Jan 2025 — Present

   Supported Agile delivery for financial services initiatives by coordinating Product, Engineering, QA, Security, and compliance stakeholders to deliver enhancements under strong governance and risk controls.• Facilitated team execution with consistent Scrum ceremonies while reinforcing disciplined backlog practices (definition of ready, story quality, acceptance criteria) to reduce ambiguity and increase throughput.• Managed delivery risks in a regulated environment by maintaining strong RAID governance, change/release readiness, and decision logs to support auditability and reduce delivery surprises.• Improved delivery predictability through metric-driven planning velocity trends, burnup/burndown, spillover analysis, cycle time patterns and used insights to improve estimation accuracy and commitment reliability.• Coordinated cross-team dependencies by aligning timelines, clarifying integration responsibilities, and creating practical escalation routines that reduced delays caused by upstream/downstream constraints.• Strengthened release execution by coordinating UAT readiness, defect triage processes, and production change windows; ensured teams were prepared with validation plans and rollback decision support.• Built and maintained Confluence documentation (process notes, release artifacts, meeting outcomes, decisions) to improve continuity and reduce operational risk during audits or leadership changes.• Coached teams toward higher performance by improving collaboration practices, facilitating constructive conflict resolution, and reinforcing psychological safety so impediments surfaced early and were resolved faster. • Provided clear stakeholder communications focused on outcomes, risk posture, and delivery confidence, enabling leadership to make timely trade-offs across scope, timeline, and quality.

Education

• Olabisi Onabanjo University(O.O.U)

  Bachelor's degree, Bachelor’s in Accounting

• Obafemi Awolowo University

  Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General