IFY OKAKPU

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Professional Summary

Value-driven Agilist/Transformation Leader with over eight years’ of experience in coaching and transforming teams to the Agile ways of working, leading teams to incremental and timely delivery of value. I have experience and passion for excellence in change and growth mindset. A typical servant leader, a great contributor and a formidable obstacle to successful change. The ability to lead through quick adoption of the change that is value driven.

Resume Highlights

8+ Years experience in Agile (SDLC) Scrum/Kanban processes and implementation

7+ Years API experience in Software and Applications Development Management

7+ Year experience in Waterfall Project Life Cycle Management

5+ Year experience in Cloud migration – Microsoft Azure, AWS

5+ Years experience in Organizational Change Management

3+ Year experience in Health industry

Coaching/Mentoring/Effective communication

Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

Certified Agile Leadership (CAL-E + CAL-O)

Stakeholder Management

Professional Experience:

CPrime (HealthCare Industry), MN Aug 2021 – Till Date

Sr. Scrum Master/Program Manager

Routinely coach high performing teams on the Agile methodologies and it’s Frameworks, while patiently guiding them through the mindset transformation.

Facilitates quarterly plannings and ensures team is delivering as expected per quarter.

Facilitate Porfolio/program meetings to ensure we communicate and keep track of all our deliverables, track risks and dependency.

Worked with teams that successfully migrated our on prem sites to cloud leveraging AWS

Facilitates scrum of scrums and use other effective methods to properly manage dependencies. Also address and escalate new and urgent issues and risks in a timely manner.

Facilitate project planning, resource estimation, kick-off, and sprints coordination.

Facilitates/coach teams on the benefits of backlog refinement), while maintaining a healthy backlog of stories ready for the next two sprints ahead.

Encourage team growth/improvement using feedbacks from customers/stakeholders.

Facilitate/continuos coaching of different Committee of Practice groups in the Organization on the Agile Mindset Transformation.

Assist Product owners with backlog prioritization using MOSCOW, requirements gathering, product backlog grooming, release planning.

Monitor progress toward pre-established objectives, assess risk and implement strategies to ensure successful delivery of products to our patients.

Effectively use project schedules to manage project critical path activities.

Ensure cross-functional resources are assigned and held accountable for task and outcome completion.

Utilize JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, excel, and PowerPoint to manage agile projects from planning to release.

Track and report team progress via delivery matrix like sprint burn down and release burn down charts.

Empower the team to implement process improvements by utilizing feedback and metrics captured in sprint reviews/retrospective meetings.

Best Buy Co. Inc. Richfield, MN June 2017 – Aug 2021

Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Coach

Facilitate project planning, resource estimation, kick-off, and sprints coordination.

Organize and facilitate scrum team’s events and related meetings.

Assist Product owners with backlog prioritization using MOSCOW, requirements gathering, product backlog grooming, release planning.

Collaborate with scrum team to establish acceptable criteria for Automated Testing, continuous Integration, and continuous delivery.

Led teams on successful cloud migration projects leveraging AWS.

Work with product owners on backlog grooming during sprints to achieve enough READY items for the next sprint and reduce time of sprint planning.

Collaborate with scrum team to develop user stories and story points using planning poker.

Track and report team progress and velocity utilizing burn up and burn down charts, control charts, and release burn down charts.

Encourage collaboration of discipline in the development team to increase intensity in early stages of sprints to maximize the speed of the team.

Collaborate with scrum team to establish acceptable criteria for Automated Testing, continuous Integration, and continuous delivery.

Remove impediments and coached on the advantages of scrum principles with development teams and organization stakeholders.

Empower the team to implement process improvements by utilizing feedback and metrics captured in sprint reviews/retrospective meetings.

Implement Kanban methodology for the helpdesk department utilizing ServiceNow software.

Utilize 1:1s (one on ones), icebreakers and other fun team activities to encourage relationship building amongst team members.

Lifetouch Inc. (LPS), Eden Prairie, MN May 2015- June 2017

Scrum Master

Organized and facilitated scrum teams’ events and related meetings for 3 development teams in remote locations.

Worked with product owners on Epics, backlog grooming, requirements gathering, prioritizing.

Reviewed and Implemented enterprise services API specification and requirements for development team using Azure API Management service.

Utilized MTF Server 2017, SharePoint, Confluence, and JIRA software, to manage project flow from planning to incremental release.

Reported team progress and velocity to stakeholders by analyzing burn up/down charts, and release burn down charts.

Collaborated with scrum team to define criteria for Automated Testing, Integration, and continuous delivery.

Facilitated and implemented project kick offs and resource management.

Empowered the team to implement process improvements captured in sprint review/retrospective meetings.

African Women Cancer Awareness Association, Greenbelt, MD May 2014 – May 2015

Project Coordinator

Identified and resolved project risk and issues in conjunction with the project manager.

Coordinated all training sessions.

Took ownership of task and tracking of milestones to monitor project progress against plan.

Provided administrative support, developed and maintained accurate filing system for easy location of project files.

Coordinated and executed all elements of stakeholder events including logistics, budgets, venue selection, activity planning, transportation and entertainment.

Built strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and devised strategies, initiatives, and events promoting products and services.

Planned and arranged meetings with external organizations and individuals, enabling all parties to meet and discuss project progress.

Soft Skills

Scrum Master/Coach, Scrum Cheerleader, Project Manager, Administrator, IT Project coordinator, Great Listener, Knowlegde on great Agile tools (Jira, Version, Azure DeveOps, TFS), Problem solver, Servant-leader, Facilitator, Coordinator, Champion for change, Meticulous attention to details, Team player (including multi-cultural teams), Multi-tasking, Security and Safety Oriented.

Education

. Certified Agile Leadership (CAL E & CAL O) – 2022

. Agile Coach Certification (ICP-ACC) – 2021

. Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1) – 2019

. University of Benin, Nigeria M.Sc (Hons) Environmental Quality Management - 2014

. National Institute of Safety Professionals (NISP), Health Safety & Environment Certificate (Level 3) - 2009

. University of Calabar, Nigeria B.Sc (Hons) Marine Biology - 2008

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