WILFRED O. OKPERE

240-***-**** ad1tn4@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

An Experienced Professional with over 12 years of IT leadership and 9 years of scrum. Delivering large-scale software and Web development projects. Expert at driving the adoption of Agile Scrum in an organization and capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm and awareness to projects by applying expert judgment to the removal of impediments, keeping teams focused, and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments.

Transformation of client from Waterfall to Agile Scrum Framework, SAFe Framework, and Kanban.

Experienced in enterprise-wide process optimization initiatives, overseeing the transition of Projects using SDLC identifying metrics and KPIs to monitor and control the process

Mastery in the use of Agile/scrum related tools such as JIRA, Mural, Microsoft teams, TFS, Confluence, Rally, SharePoint to document and visualize stories, tasks, and measure performance through burndown charts/velocity charts

Extensively interacted with the designers, developers to ensure functional implementation of business requirements and the QA Team in executing test plans & test case scenarios, test logs, test objectives.

Removed impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment.

EDUCATION

Hood College, Frederick, Maryland

Master of Business Administration

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Accounting

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

Certified SAFe 5 Advanced scrum master

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Git and GitHub, Ansible, Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, SonarQube and Nexus

JIRA, Azure, Rally, and VersionOne

Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Confluence

Devops, Continuous integration and continuous deployment CI/CD

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Boeing Company, Arlington, VA

Senior Technical Scrum master

January 2021-April 2023

Responsibilities:

Coached and mentored newly assembled Scrum team to understand and apply scrum processes.

Help the team to remove impediment and manage dependencies among other teams.

Encourage and support personal development of team members for continuous improvement

Facilitated Agile Ceremonies and reinforced Agile Framework to team members and key stakeholders.

Created trust and safe environment where team members felt included and valued and where problems can be raised without fear of blame.

Coaches the whole team to collaborate, focus, open, respect and courageous towards achieving sprint goals.

Facilitate scrum ceremonies and ensure we achieve the goals and objective of each meeting.

Assists in the identification and mitigation of project risks.

Managing conflict in the team to promote effective team collaboration.

Ensures definition of done and definition of ready are met consistently.

Protect development team against outside influences and attends scrum of scrum meeting.

Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers, and support specialists on product issues.

Interfaced with product owners on an active basis to manage the product backlog and sprint activities.

Removed obstacles and manage risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness.

Assisted the scrum team in story point estimations using various techniques like poker planning, bucket system, T-shirt sizing across the timeframe of the project for sprint user stories and resolved any skirmishes through the process.

Coaches scrum team on improvement, Values, principles, and best practices.

Managed the burndown charts for the sprint and individual members to track the consigned stories/bugs.

Facilitated the product backlog grooming sessions with the scrum team to break epics into user stories and implementing invest criteria.

Track team progress through various matrix, Burndown, Burnup chart, velocities and others.

Datawiz Corporation, Mclean, VA

Senior Technical Scrum Master

May 2018- December 2020

Responsibilities:

Provided coaching and training to Scrum teams on Agile methodologies and Agility Health.

Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Retrospectives, and Sprint Review)

Assisted with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information from team level to management level.

Provided coaching on dependencies management, risks mitigation and issues from scrum team to the Agile Release Train.

Coaches scrum team on improvement, Values, principles, and best practices.

Worked with Product Owners and Business Analyst in product backlog refinement.

Educated and reinforced the SAFe Agile framework to team members when needed.

Directed and coached the development team from project initiation through the delivery of the final product.

Developed and managed the visual system to track the progress of work during sprints and projects.

Continuous integration and Devops.

Facilitate the scrum team on story point estimations using various techniques like poker planning.

Facilitate the product backlog grooming sessions with the scrum team to break epics into user stories and implementing invest criteria.

facilitate scrum ceremonies, ensuring we achieve the goals and objectives of each ceremony.

Navy Federal, Vienna, VA

Scrum Master

January 2017 – April 2018

Responsibilities:

Organized and facilitate Agile workshops for Scrum Teams on Agile insight.

Collaborated with client personnel and used oral and written communication skills to develop excellent working relationships with Business stakeholders.

Facilitate the scrum team on story point estimations using various techniques like poker planning.

Worked closely with the product owner to gather Business requirements from the stakeholders, and users for the product backlog and understanding of the business process

Responsible for overseeing all task activities assigned to the Scrum Team and making sure that they are performed on time with minimal technical debt while maintaining the highest quality of performance.

Continually finding creative ways to run Retrospectives to get valuable feedback from Scrum teams to ensure continuous improvement.

Communicated Sprint metrics (Sprint Reports, Burndown/Burnup Charts, and velocities) to Agile Transformation Leaders and Senior Managers.

Use JIRA and Confluence as a tool for tracking and reporting Project Progress.

Managed and maintained issue tracking systems and coordinated release activities

Viacom, Inc, NY

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

July 2015 – November 2016

Responsibilities

Coordinated with the Product Owner identifying the User Stories for the Sprint Backlog

Coordinated the Scrum Team in Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Review Meetings, Sprint Retrospective Meetings and Backlog Grooming meetings.

Coordinated the Scrum Team during each Sprint towards a shippable product release working closely with the Product Owner to make sure each user story in the Sprint Backlog is being attended to.

Elicited and documented requirements for the various channel applications leveraging the microservices, this increased efficiency for the business users decreasing time from average of 2 weeks to 5 minutes.

Worked with a well self-managed cross-functional development team (QA, Developers, Designers, legal, marketing, etc.) to execute roadmap and bring new functionalities to the various products.

Performed Gap Analysis, conducted walkthroughs, and acted as a liaison between the business users, stakeholders, and the team to perform requirements, quality, and risk analysis.

Involved extensively in the inception phase for understanding the scope of the project, feasibility of the implementation, and define the risk factors involved in the project.

Gathered business requirements through JAD sessions and analysis by interviewing users and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

Studied the inherent systems to have a clear understanding of the business processes and associated system workflow.

Analyzed business/system requirements using requirement arbitrage and assigned appropriate priorities.

Effectively managed the specifications and requirement change requests during various phases of the project life cycle.

Ensured that all requirements, enhancements, and defects for the release were developed, fixed, and tested by creating traceability matrices between all the project artifacts.

Documented the results of requirements elicitation effort and created the Requirements package for presenting to the stakeholders for review

Assessed the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching the team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organization.

Tax Genius, Queens, New York

Financial Analysis

February 2013 – June 2015

Responsibilities:

Analyzed Financial statement, financial modeling, and comparison of actual to projected performance

Strong knowledge of Amortization

Examine purchase orders, invoice, and another related supporting document for accuracy

Analyzed data, created financial models, filing documents, and overseeing accounts payable and receivable

Prepared journals, ledgers, and trial balances.

Supported and collaborated with CFO with all relevant financial matters and monitor the budget, generating reports for the CFO and other senior members.

Prepared financial statements, bank reconciliation statements, accounts payables, and receivables.

Cost analysis management with a strong recommendation to reduce costs and improve financial performances to boost revenue

Worked with businesses and individuals to examine unique tax situations, advise on best practices and maintaining accounts receivable and payable using QuickBooks

Provide financial analysis reports of commercial real estate, and borrower financial statement

Strong knowledge of financial assets management and mortgage analysis

Track expense using spreadsheets.

Help prepare comprehensive income statement, balances sheet and statement of cash flow.

Accounts receivables, payables, and bank reconciliation statement.

Financial statement analysis to highlight area of weaknesses and take corrective actions

Review cash deposits and disbursements with their corresponding document

Investment Banking, Mortgage, Loan Origination, and Commercial Loan.

Royal Exterminator, Queens, New York

Manager

January 2011 – January 2013

Responsibilities:

Responsible for customer service, oversight of product management, and quality control

Inventory management of hazardous and costly chemical supplied following strict regulations

Received and recorded customer payment, responsible for purchase transactions of supplies

Conducted analysis of customer feedback to optimize services and business practices

Contacting the client periodically to follow up and get feedback to improve services

Establish and audit positions in the financial system and maintain a position control system.

Maintain all accounting records, including the general ledger and cashbook

GlobalCom, Nigeria

Scrum master

September 2008 – October 2010

Responsibilities:

Coached and mentored newly assembled Scrum team.

Help the team to remove impediment and manage dependencies.

Encourage and support personal development of team members for continuous improvement.

Facilitated Agile Ceremonies and reinforced Agile Framework (Kanban, Scrum) to team members and key stakeholders.

Created trust and safe environment where team members felt included and valued and where problems can be raised without fear of blame.

Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers, and support specialists on product issues.

Interfaced with product owners on an active basis to manage the product backlog and sprint activities.

Removed obstacles and manage risks to enable team efficiency and effectiveness.

Assisted the scrum team in story point estimations using various techniques like poker planning, bucket system, T-shirt sizing across the timeframe of the project for sprint user stories and resolved any skirmishes through the process.

Managed the burndown charts for the sprint and individual members to track the consigned stories/bugs.

Facilitated the product backlog grooming sessions with the scrum team to break epics into user stories through vertical slicing and implementing invest criteria.

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