OBUAKU PHILOMINA CHIDICHINEDU

Email: ad3e6x@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 1-562-***-**** Location: Gardena, USA, 90249 SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE:

A data driven Scrum Master and Statistician with over eighteen years of relevant experience in Private and Public Institutions. Served several teams and projects following waterfall and agile framework. Provide agile leadership that led to the successful completions of several projects including enhancement of enterprise record management system, development and management of database and improvement for vendor, contract, inventory and warehousing management process leading to operational waste reduction. A persuasive and effective communicator with strong servant and thought leadership which has been demonstrated across multiple teams, Stakeholders and C-Suite management to drive alignment and collaboration. Presently available to support agility in a fast paced organization as a Scrum Master.

SKILLS SET & PROFICIENCY:

Communication: Written, Verbal and Presentation

Testing: Usability and Functional Test

Research: Qualitative and Quantitative

Thinking: Creative, System, Strategic and Design

Product, Process, People and Project Management

Change and Risk Management

Conflict, Problems and Issue Management

Servant leadership and Team Building

WORK EXPERIENCE

Behavioral Health Works Inc, California

Helping individuals with autism and other development disability reach their potential by collaborating with families, and relevant professionals.

Registered Behavior Technician Oct 2022 - till date Project: Applied Behavior Analysis Therapy

Leading the way in individualized, comprehensive, and family-focused approach

Ongoing support, mentorship and supervision of a board of certified behavior Technicians.

implementing behavior Intervention plans created by our Board-Certified Behavior Analyst

Record data on goals and progress during each session

Work one-on-one with children diagnosed with autism using ABA methods and techniques.

Teach children how to communicate, socialize, and play through the use of researched based techniques.

Assist Behavior analyst and clinical Supervisors to implement behavior reduction and skill acquisition treatment plans.

Assigned to a clinical team and be responsible for implementing treatment plans and collecting data for client in an individual or group setting.

Soteria Home Health Agency, California.

Committed to raising and setting the standard of quality home health care by providing nursing, therapy and home health aide programs Snr statistician Feb 2018 – Sept. 2022

Project: Telemedicine Software Application Enhancement

Foster a continuous learning environment through workshops, lunch and learn and community of practice.

Track, gather and analyze metrics such as epic, sprint and release burndown chart, burnup chart, velocity chart, lead and cycle time to measure progress, patterns, influence planning and aid decision making.

Drive backlog refinement following the definition of ready (DoR) in alignment with INVEST characteristics with the aim of achieving ready backlog for the next two sprints.

Facilitate the sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective to inspect and adapt and drive progress towards the sprint goal, product goal and program objectives.

Partner with the Product Owner to define the product vision, product goal and adapting release roadmap.

Drive PDCA, iterative and incremental way of working to ensure early and continuous value delivery in a two week sprint.

Facilitate conflict resolution by establishing common goal in either a group or 1-on-1 coaching sessions.

Radiate information such as risk log and metrics dashboard with stakeholders to promote transparency and visibility.

Identify and remove impediments, prevent distractions and risks interfering with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal.

Identify and document dependencies, negotiate the priorities and resolution between teams.

Ensure the Developers are practicing core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility

Manage the team’s capacity board on confluence and use the data to influence teams commitment for sprint and PI planning.

Perform statistical analysis on large scale research projects with complex Electronic health system data. Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission Provision of social amenities and the development of oil host communities Delta State Senior Statistician/Division Head Jan 2016 – Dec 2017 Project: Process Improvement for Vendor, Contract, Inventory, Project and Warehousing Management

Led process overhauling and improvement covering vendor, contract, inventory, warehousing and logistics management; a major improvement that removed operational waste and increased efficiency.

Conducting appropriate statistical tests and models to analyze the data

Contribute to preparation of journal articles, presentations manuscripts and grant proposals

Consultation with principal investigators on appropriate experimental designs and statistical planning for research projects with complex designs.

Project Manager/Senior Statistician Jan 2012 – Dec 2015

Led a team of project monitoring, Facility Manager, Inventory Analyst, Contract Manager, Value Engineer, Auditor, Internal Auditor, Business and Quality Analyst in presentation to the management.

Scheduled and facilitate planning, daily meeting to review, and ensure the objectives are achieved in less than 80% of the time limit.

Provided support and administration to the project monitoring team.

Identified, documented and removed impediments and escalated as necessary.

Attended daily meetings to collaborate with other teams to resolve dependencies.

Resolved conflicts within and across teams of engineers without bias, favoritism by establishing common goal.

Assisted the Team to define done and factor in quality in all works.

Collaborated with the developers to develop success roadmaps in alignment with organization vision and strategic goals. Statistician II Jan 2007 - Dec 2011

Project: Database Development and Management

Led the development and maintenance of the database for client records covering data digitization, data profiling, data mapping, data quality, secure storage with informatics.

Supported a team of Business Analyst, Database Engineer, Database Administrator, Network Engineer, Quality Analyst, Security Engineer and Informatica Engineer.

Collaborated with other statisticians in the development of statistical methodology, study design, and data analysis.

Evaluated information sources in order to determine any limitations in terms of reliability or usability.

Gathered data from cross-functional teams by conducting employee surveys, identified business needs, proffered recommendations to increase cost efficiencies and solved organizational problems.

Engaged internal stakeholders on the immediate, short term and long term improvement plans and assisted in resolving complaints.

Collaborated with several teams, IT department and business groups to support new and existing products. Geomarine Oil Services Limited in Collaboration with PGS Oil Exploration Nigeria Limited A Geoscience company, specialize in Seismic Exploration, Geotechnical Engineering, Swamp Offshore and Land Pipeline Route Surveys Business Analyst Jul 2004 - Jan 2007

Project: Enterprise Record Management System

Supported the digitization of enterprise-wide records information management covering parsing of manual data, scanning, upload, security, retrieval, usage and real-time update.

Support a team of Database Administrator, Solutions Architect, Software Engineer, Compliance Officer, Quality Analyst, Data Capture Officers and API Developers, Full-stack Developers.

Conducted value stream mapping to identify value and non-value adding processes and also recommended waste elimination options such as automation which increased enrolment by more than 60%.

Responsible for risk identification, suggested mitigation plans and documented both for learning purpose.

Planned and facilitated trainings on new processes for both new and existing employees and provided on the job support.

Participated in the business intake where initiatives are reviewed, epics created and funneled down to team levels. EDUCATION:

Bachelors of Science: Applied Statistics & Demography, Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria

Diplomas, Los Angeles Community College:

CSH General Education

Liberal art: Natural Science

Interdisciplinary Studies: Social and Behavioral Science PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS:

Registered Product Owner (RPO) Scrum Inc

Registered Scrum Master (RSM) Scrum Inc

Certified Agile Project and Delivery Manager (ICP-APM) ICAgile

Executive Master’s in Project Management Project Management College UK

TOOLS:

Agile Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps (ADO),

Microsoft: Word, Excel, Outlook, Visio, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Teams

Collaborative Tools: Google Meet, Zoom, MS Teams,

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