Dominic Anyanwu

Greater Atlanta Area: ad0fk0@r.postjobfree.com: 678-***-****

SUMMARY:

Dominic is a customer centric, innovative problem-solving ScrumMaster, Project Manager, with over 15+ years of experience delivering business values. Used OKR framework for scaling prioritization, clear goals and Measurable outcomes. I have been involved with Product development from Ideation to product delivery, Using Waterfall, Agile and Artificial intelligence. Lead diverse Teams with Agile Scrum/KANBAN and DevOps (CI/CD pipeline) operations.

Addressing Customer Pain Points to increase ROI. Worked with Digital transformation projects, Cloud on-premise Infrastructure Migration, UX/UI Optimization, Change management, secured Software development and Business Story writing.

Coaching Team members on Agile methodlogy and Anti-partterns to deliver value to customers and reduce waste. Conducting Scrum ceremonies, Capacity planning, created and maintaing RAID logs, Tech debt logs and Query log.

Participate Product roadmap creation, Splitting EPICs and Relatively sizeing of user stories. Wrote User stories with INVEST model and SMART acceptance Criteria. Prioritized Product Backlog and Sprint backlogs. Definition of Ready (DOR) and Definition of Done (DOD) for each EPIC and User story. Defined Acceptance criteria. Cross-functional leadership experience with analytical mindset, with ability to manage scope and risk.

Participated in PI planning sections, Scrum of Scrum, Product lifecycle management and Strategy. B2B, B2C, shift-left development ( Early testing, performance evaluation, before any code is written).

Proficient in Project Charter, Planning, Risk Management, Execution, Monitoring and Controlling Projects to delivery. Defining Product and Project vision. Project Scheduling, Team Building and Mentoring, Vendor Management, Quality Assurance, Managed end to end Project delivery. Tracked Project Milestone and deliverables. Identify and manage project dependencies. Participate in Agile Ceremonies such as daily standups, grooming/Refinement, Sprint planning, Sprint demo and retrospect. Cloud and Information Security proficient.

Digital Transformation, E-Commerce, Payment Engine, Product UX/UI enhancement, Database Redesign and Cloud Migration, Framework and Integration. Value stream mapping and Change Management. Product life cycle management.

Experienced with Scale Agile Transformation framework Methodology, Shift left, KANBAN (WIP).

Prioritized using MoSCoW and WSJF monitoring Cost of Delay (CoD), Experience using MVP and BDD.

Managing Projects with Artificial intelligence: Used Gen AI and prompting to analyze, stakeholders requiremnts, brainstorming, risk management and Time management. Contributed to PMO where necessary.

Domains: eCommerce, Healthcare, Banking, Telecommunication and Hospitality.

EDUCATION:

B. Tech (Bachelor of Technology), Computer Science and Mathematics.

Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Imo state Nigeria

Certifications:

Certified: SAFe 4 Product Owner / Product Manager

PMP: Certified Project Manager

IT- Project Management: Georgia Institute of Technology, GA

Certified: SAFe 4 Advanced Scrum Master

Certified: SAFe 4 Agilist, Lean Six Sigma

Certified: AWS Cloud Practitioner

Certified: AWS Solution Architect Associate

Certified CompTIA Security +, RedHat Admin

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA

Trainings: -LeanSix Sigma, CSSLP (Certifies Secured Software Development, CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) CCSP.

SKILLS: Design Thinking, Risk Management, RAID, Analythical Thinking and Problem Solving, Agile Methodoloy, Capacity Planning, SWOT, ChatGpt, AI and Prompting Engineering

TOOLS:

Microsoft Office suit, Office 365, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Visio, Azure Board, Version one, Splunk, MySQL, SharePoint, and Scale Agile Framework. JIRA, Azure Board ( DevOp), Zephyr, CONFLUENCE. Google Suit. GitHub and Git lab. Slack, Planning Poker for Estimation. Microsoft Teams, Zoom and WebEx

EXPERIENCES:

TATA Consulting Services (TCS), Iselin New Jersey (Remote) Novermber 2022 To Present

Scrum Master/Project Manager

Project: Marriott International Digital Transformation Project ( Cloud Infrastructure Data Warehouse and Product life Cycle Management Implementation)

Understood Customer Legacy on- premise Infrastructure, Current Businesss Process, Pain Point, and Future Business plan.

Moderated all Scrum events ( Daily Stand Up, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospect).

Created right environment for open conversation to encourage open open communication, collaboration, identify obstacles and promote quick decision making. Shield Team from external distractions and improved Transparency. Managed Scope creep and Reprioritized to achieve result with OKR framework. Monitored and lead the Team with Security Subject Matter experts on Secured development approach, Cyber Security principles and integration for proper Team alignment avoiding unessary rework.

Ecouraged collaboration, transparency, learning and Anti-parttern amongs the Team.

Wrote User stories with INVEST Model and SMART Acceptance Criteria to add value to product delivery.

Wrote Non-functional Cloud Security user stories and acceptance criteries.

Worked with BA and the Product Owner to maintain Healthy Product and Sprint Backlog Refinement.

Worked with the Team to get clear Understanding of Definition of Ready and Definition of DONE.

Created and Monitored Capacity Planning, Query Tracker,Tech Depts and Scrum Metrics.

FacilitateTeam discussions, Agile Team Coaching, decision making, removal of Impediments and Conflict. resolutions. Maintained a healthy product backlog, facilitated meetings with SMEs and all Stakeholders for Team efficiency. Eliminate SILOs, Anti-partterns with adequate buffer of 20% to 30% to accommodate Scope Creep.

Worked with Product Manager, BA and Tech Lead to track and resolve Tech debts and Feedbacks.

Participated in PI Planning and Scrum of Scrum, delivery detailed timely status reports to all stakeholders.

Ensure milestones and deadlines are met and communicate effectively to management with Issues and seek resolutions, feedbacks and tradeoffs.

Product Owner/ Product Manager.

Project: Ingram Micro Digital Transformation Project ( Payment System ) Remote March 2022 – September 2022

Interacted with Business stakeholders to understand business painpoints, mission, scope, Roadmap. Priotized by taking care of the low hanging fruits with respect to timeline and Value delivery.

Worked with the development team to give clarity on requirement for alingnment towards timely shippable product to addrerss business need. Worked with the Team to achieve MVP for product development to ensure customer ROI

Created extra sessions for development team offshore to clear doubts with requirements, Cybers Security and secured software development approach and principles.

Participated in PI planning, all Sprint ceremonies to make sure that Sprint Objectives are delivered at the end of the Sprint.

Worked with Business Analyst to Split EPICs, refine Product backlog and write clear user stories with INVEST Model, and SMART acceptance criteria. Define DOD (Definition of Done) and DOR ( Definition of Ready)

Used Solution evaluation and design thinking when necessary to solve complex problem with little insigh.

Used necessay KPI metrices and dashboard to monitor product success and improvement using the Noth Star.

Maintained healthy Value stream structure and eliminating waste due to delay as much as possible and monitoring cost of delay.

Effectively Cordinated Stakeholders perceptions and valued charactristics to delivering a desired product

Created release notes and tags, tagged tickets that passed Quality Assurance before regression testing.

Worked with management on trade offs, scope, priority changes and product life cycle

Hosted zoom meetings to get product clarity from Managmeent, stakeholders and subject matter experts. Keep them updated with effective communication with product development transparency.

ATA Analytiq LLC, Woodland Hill, CA Client : Audacy Technology Colorado (Remote) June 2021 to date. Feb. 2022

Technical Product Owner

Project: Audacy 2.0 Digital Transformation Project, Application development and Migration of Legacy Database to the Azure Cloud.

Responsibilities:

Sync with the Product manager to understand the business painpoint, Vision, roadmaps, architectural guidance.

Participated in PI planning meeting, Scrum of Scrum meetings and tracked the priority content summary from breakout sessions of the PI planning. Worked with the Architecture runway or Business value enablers for futher development foundations as Knowledge value and ( PI + 1).

Drive iteration Goals and iteration content via prioritized stories and quantifying Cost of delay ( CoD )

Wrote Feature based Epics and User stories with ‘ INVEST ‘ model and ‘SMART’ acceptance criteria to reflect the business need and deliverables. Spilt Epics and relatively size user stories.

Developed strategic features, roadmap and defined and articulated product requirements including backend interfaces and cloud deployment Azure.

Created product backlog using Azure DevOps relating to data automation, data warehousing, data storage, data modeling, data migration, data integration, metadata management.

Infused security functionalities in the Epics and user stories to attain secured product delivery

Prioritized the Product/team backlog with ‘ DEEP’ concept to deliver targeted sprint goals. Participated in release planning meetings. Worked with Tech Lead on CI/CD pipeline process for every for product releases.

Worked with both the frontend and backend lead develpers to write technical application programming interface (API) user stories. Review the 6 Rs Migration stragegies and concentrated on the refactoring factor.

Worked with the Scrummaster and the development team, during daily standup, Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Sprint retrospect, Poker Planning and Sprint Demos.

Defined goals and services and ensure the cloud service fits with business priorities, risk identified and Mitigated. Ensures user needs are met.

Ensures the definition of ready (DOR) and Validated DOD for every user story or task before being added to Sprint backlog.

Monitored shipped products for ‘SPIKES’, technical debts, refactors, enhancements, bug fixes and discoveries

Created release notes and tags, tagged tickets that passed Quality Assurance before regression testing. Monitorted the Kanban board to show management visibility of the domain product development progress.

Wrote clear and detailed functional and Non-functional requirements and the acceptance criteria.

Worked with the Architectural review board and UI/UX team for design and product alignment.

Glenlake Associates LLC, Atlanta, GA May 2017 – May 2021

Scrummaster /Project Manager

Projects: I. Employee Compliance App, ii. Providers’ evaluation, relationship engagement Application. Iii. Vetting Process Product, iv. Windows 7 to Windows 10 and Office 365 Migration. v. Digital communication Application. Hybrid implementation of Agile and waterfall. AWS Migration. Increased UI/UX Resulting to efficiency of staff, and savings of 30%

Allied Data Systems Client: Regions Bank, Atlanta, GA Jan 2014 – Apr 2017

Project Manager:

Projects: Implemented a structured Digital Transformation, E-commerce, UX/UI website presence. Increase customer’s user experience and Interface Increased revenue stream to 20%)

AWS Application Server Migration

Northwestern Medical Center, Chicago, IL Jan 2011 – Dec 2013

Project Manager:

Project (i) Epic Hospital Electronic Medical Record Migration form Cerner Hospital Management ii. Hospital (ii) Website Re-engineered to infuse more secured payment Method and Customer satisfaction to up to 30%.

HomeGoods, Atlanta GA. Apr 2008 – Nov 2010

Product Owner / Business Analyst:

Project; Dynamic, UX/UI, Digital Transformation E-Commerce Website as a Value stream with Robust Payment engine

Cbeyond Communication, Atlanta, GA. Mar 2005 – Mar 2007

Business Analyst/Product owner

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