OGO (ENEH) ONYIA

Phoenix, Arizona • 309-***-**** • ad1maz@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly trained passionate Scrum Master with over 6+ years of experience in information technology, the last six years as a Certified Scrum Master and Scrum Product Owner, and experience in healthcare management and corporate space. A committed Servant-leader and Change Agent who plays a significant role in planning, facilitating, supporting teams, removing impediments, and providing team coaching and mentorship. Manage multiple Business Agility teams. Lead teams through the Agile Transformation process. Experience with other methodologies, such as Waterfall (SDLC). Critical thinker focused on high-performing team dynamics while encouraging healthy conflict resolution.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Agile Transformations

Agile coaching

Story Mapping

Capacity planning

Quality Management

Team building & mentoring.

Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Project risk management

Continuous Improvement

Release Management

Frameworks: Scrum, SAFe 6.0, Kanban, ScrumBan

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office 365, Miro, Trello, Slack, Mural, Azure DevOps, Sevice now

Agile Techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MUFG UNION BANK– PHOENIX AZ February 2022 - Present

Technical Scrum Master/IT Project Manager,

Facilitating Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, sprint

retrospectives, and planning daily meetings.

Drive continuous improvement efforts by identifying and implementing process improvements and best practices.

Collaborate with technical and business partners to identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and impediments that impact project delivery.

Lead two or more Agile application development teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously, including new projects and applications with high level of dependencies.

Prioritizing collaborative approaches to problem solving, contributing to a constructive and supportive team environment.

Encourage an open, inclusive communication among project stakeholders, promoting a collaborative environment for prompt problem-solving and a growth-focused dialogues.

Refine and work with the Product Owner to enforce best practices and maintain team standards around process and execution of work.

Leads the efforts of developing and continuously improving agile methodologies, Lean Agile engineering and effective team policies, metrics, through the entire end-to-end value creation lifecycle, from concepts to delivery, deployment, production, and maintenance.

Facilitate knowledge sharing and group problem-solving to handle team-specific issues in an active community of practice.

Made a strong Business Case promoting the adoption of cost-effective automated tools like Jenkins and Selenium within DevOps, driving significant company savings.

Orchestrated technical schedules across cross-functional teams in Agile environment, fostering self-organization, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Coach team members in self-organization, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement.

United Healthcare – Remote, AZ June 2019 - January 2022

Scrum Master

Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.

Utilized Azure DevOps to manage project workflows and track team progress.

Developed and maintained project dashboards and reports to provide visibility to stakeholders.

Enlighted stakeholders, product owners, and the development team the value and mechanics of the scrum framework, and value-driven product development.

Increased development team participation in daily scrums from 75% to 100% within my first month at work.

Scheduled, coordinated, and successfully concluded several backlog refinement sessions in the middle of ongoing sprints to help the product owner to be more prepared prior to upcoming sprints.

Encouraged continuous improvement by striving to uphold the three pillars of empiricism: transparency, inspection, and adaptation and Tracked team metrics (Health, Velocity, Productivity, Balance, etc).

Effectively collaborated with team members focused on team collaboration, communication, building trust, identifying growth opportunities, and improving overall team capabilities and progress.

Proactively and reactively remove impediments to the team and elevate awareness of any organizational impediments discovered. Ensure root causes are effectively identified and addressed.

Target – Phoenix, AZ January 2017 - May 2019

Scrum Product Owner

Updated mobile app features and functionality.

Documented the design process, use research, and accessibility standards.

Responsible for Usability Testing Results.

Supported scalable infrastructure the Personalization Engine algorithms and models.

Collaborated effectively with a highly cross-functional team, including developers, designers, and business stakeholders to deliver innovative products.

Utilized strong analytical skills to define appropriate lead measures and analyzed metric-driven results to inform product decisions.

Leveraged deep understanding of product management best practices to drive user research, user experience design, and Agile development methodologies.

Zenith Bank – Central Area, Abuja

IT Project Manager June 2014 – December 2016

Developed and managed the implementation of new technology solutions for the bank.

Led cross-functional teams to develop and deliver projects on time and within budget.

Identified and resolved project issues and risks.

Managed the budget and resources for projects.

Oversaw large portfolio of projects to support teams, report progress and influence positive outcomes for stakeholders.

Outlined work plans, determined resources, wrote timelines, and generated initial budgets as part of project scope determination.

Developed project management roadmap to define project objectives, timelines, and milestones.

Maintained relationships with material vendors to lower costs and diversify capabilities.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

Master of Arts- Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL - 2017

Bachelors in Law – 2013 Igbinedion University Okada Nigeria.

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Scrum Product Owner Certified (CSPO)

Certified SAFe 6.0 Agilist

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