INTEGRITY OBARA

Austin, TX ***** • 337-***-****

ad3paf@r.postjobfree.com

US Citizen

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Experienced IT Project Manager, Scrum Master, Program Manager, with over a decade of expertise in leading complex software development and innovation projects, including those centered around Identity and access management (IAM), DevOps and DevSecOps, AI, Machine Learning, and AWS cloud technologies. Proficient in applying Agile and Scrum methodologies, I have a strong track record of managing project scopes, timelines, and cross-functional teams in tech- forward environments. Skilled in formulating strategic objectives and coordinating interlinked projects, I excel in driving team collaboration and integrating advanced technological solutions. Demonstrated ability in leveraging Bash scripting and python scripting, AI and ML for innovative problem-solving and enhancing product features, coupled with expertise in utilizing AWS cloud infrastructure for scalable, efficient project execution. Adept in change and risk management, I have a solid foundation in Agile transformation & governance, essential for overseeing complex tech projects. Committed to translating business strategies into actionable plans with advanced technologies, I foster a culture of excellence and continuous improvement in the rapidly evolving tech landscape. CORE COMPETENCIES

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Agile Engineering Practices: Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP Framework; mention Agile engineering methodologies like Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) for DevOps practices.

• Agile Management Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, Jira Align, Confluence, SharePoint, Tableau, Rally, Kendis, Monday.com, Leankit, ServiceNow, emphasizing your project management and coordination skills.

• Cloud Technologies: AWS services (e.g., EC2, EBS, S3, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, Auto Scaling, ELB, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation). Also, include experience with cloud migration tools like Cloud Endure and MGN, and virtual workspace technologies like Amazon Workspaces and Appstream, showcasing your knowledge in cloud infrastructure and solutions.

• Technologies: Front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular), back-end technologies

(Hadoop, Spark), and data management systems (Snowflake, RestAPI). CERTIFICATIONS ( VERIFIABLE)

SAFe Practice Consultant SPC (SAFe 6.0)

Professional Kanban certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

Project Management Professional PMI- (PMP)®

Professional Scrum Master (PSM)®

Certified Tableau Desktop specialist.

Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)® - American Society of Quality (ASQ) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LAD, Remote (Consultancy) Jan 2023 – Dec 2023

Scrum Master/Agile Coach/Project & Program manager Worked on complex retail projects, demonstrating strong organizational and communication skills while ensuring alignment with Scrum, lean methodologies and Kanban best practices. While leading the Agile transformation within Agile Practices SAFe Frameworks Organizational Change Change Management DevSecOps IT Security

Program Management Team Leadership Risk Management Stakeholder Management Design thinking Risk Management Operational Excellence Analytical Thinking Digital Transformation an enterprise. Identifying misalignments across several groups and implementing a standardized framework to enhance collaboration and efficiency.

• Lead a team of engineers and product managers to deliver complex engineering projects, ensuring completion within strict deadlines and budgets.

• Managed the entire project lifecycle, from planning and execution to monitoring, control, and delivery, for over 7 projects.

• Implemented Agile methodologies to enhance project efficiency and team collaboration, resulting in a 25% increase in project delivery speed.

• Facilitated stimulating transformations within teams, promoting an environment of continuous growth and learning.

• Employed hands-on leadership to navigate through various challenges, fostering a culture of creativity and high-quality work.

• Orchestrated a company-wide standardized Agile transformation, addressing misalignment across diverse groups, to create a unified framework.

• Introduced best practices for Kanban in process tooling such as Jira, reducing waste and improving productivity by 25%.

• Designed and led Biweekly training sessions, educating over 300 employees on Agile principles, methodologies, and best practices.

• Leveraged data analytics for comprehensive stakeholder updates, providing in-depth insights into project progress, risks, and developing data-informed mitigation strategies.

• Utilized Kanban metrics to identify bottlenecks and optimize team productivity, resulting in a more streamlined project execution.

• Facilitated Azure DevOps adoption for delivery teams, providing one-on-one coaching and ensuring effective implementation of principles and practices, leading to enhanced collaboration and streamlined project management.

• Coordinated with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, potential risks, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Developed and implemented IoT applications for car functionalities, working closely with engineering teams and external vendors.

• Led a series of Business Intelligence initiatives, successfully deploying BI solutions to analyze market trends and consumer behaviors, resulting in a 15% increase in targeted marketing effectiveness and enhanced decision-making processes.

• Collaborated with senior leadership and stakeholders to align the Agile transformation with the company's strategic objectives.

• Generated necessary Inspect and Adapt metrics for the Kanban teams on the program.

• Managed projects using Azure Boards in Azure DevOps; communicated progress and risks to stakeholders, utilizing Azure dashboards for real-time reporting and risk assessment. General Motors Innovation Center, Austin, Texas July 2021 – Jan 2023 Scrum Master

Supported continual value delivery by promoting and supporting Agile practices, metrics, and mentality - throughout the Business Unit. My teams facilitated a major predictive analytics platform that generates insights into several core business strategies, including anticipating market demand for autonomous vehicles. I integrated a CRM/ Customer data platform. I facilitated infrastructure migration, data/ applications to cloud/hybrid environments, and CI/CD automation. I used tools such as DBT and Snowflake.

• Supported project management processes for engineering projects, contributing to successful project planning, execution, and delivery.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to meet project milestones and adhere to budgets, demonstrating strong teamwork and communication skills.

• Played a key role in adopting Agile practices within the team, improving project tracking and team adaptability.

• Primarily function as servant leaders fostering Lean-Agile-Continuous Delivery-DevOps Mindsets.

• As the RTE I facilitated the ART events and processes and assist the teams in delivering value.

• Taught the Scrum Team, including Product Owners, about Agile planning and requirements, backlog-building practices, and other Scrum-related concepts.

• Integrated Azure DevOps practices into the delivery teams' workflow, providing continual one-on-one coaching to ensure the effective implementation of principles and practices learned in training, with a focus on enhancing CI/CD pipelines and Agile methodologies.

• Encouraged adoption of Agile values across Leadership and Cross-Functional Teams, through team building, decision- making, and conflict resolution.

• Designed and implemented interactive dashboards and reports using BI tools like Power BI and Tableau, enabling stakeholders to access real-time insights, leading to a 20% reduction in decision-making time and improved strategic planning.

• Responsible for coordinating, scheduling and assigning project tasks, team building, maintaining working relationships with client functional areas outside of IT.

• Conducted Value Stream Analysis and helped define product driven team structures.

• Incorporated data analytics in IoT application development for automotive features, focusing on data-driven design decisions and performance analytics.

• Facilitated and scaled Agile practices, by establishing and modifying organizational structures and role profiles - as a Change Catalyst

• Led daily stand-ups, reviews, retros, and PBI adjustments - as part of Scrum Ceremonies.

• Maintained a balance between features, quality, and functional software - working in collaboration with Product Owners.

• Spearheaded agile DevSecOps maturity and identified improvement areas and points.

• Shared knowledge of best practices and lessons learned across the organization.

• Utilized team feedback and metrics, including quality and delivery rate, to identify areas of improvement.

• Backlog tracking and Status Reporting to Key Stakeholders using Azure DevOps

• Utilized Business Intelligence tools for stakeholder communication, offering detailed project progress reports and insightful risk analysis for informed decision-making.

• Assisted in setting up Agile documentation and best practices both in Confluence, Wikis, OneNote, etc. onboarding and offboarding checklist, technical resources, incident management, program increments, shared processes and procedures, roles and responsibilities, Agile practices such as measurements and estimation, backlog structure and work item types, terminologies, ceremonies etc.

• Facilitated and coached to draft, track progress and continuously improve on Objective and Key Results (OKRs) M&T Bank, Bufallo, NY April 2020 – June 2021

Lead Scrum Master/Program Manager/Agile Coach

Develops the Agile mindset and capabilities of the organization, sets up Agile structures and roles, and drives the business performance impact of the Agile program. In this role, I worked with teams to manage the development and maintenance of a data warehouse, integrating data from multiple sources to support comprehensive BI analytics; this approach streamlined data processing and provided a unified view of critical business metrics, contributing to a 10% increase in operational efficiency.

• Coach Senior Management on Agile practices and ensures the adoption of best practices from the top down.

• Creates the customized Agile Operating Model (AOM) as a Transformational Agile Coach, to coach global tribes and squads to become and remain high-performing Agile Teams.

• Enhanced team efficiency by integrating Azure DevOps tools in Agile workflows; provided tailored coaching to teams, ensuring seamless adoption of Azure pipelines and repositories.

• Establishes an Agile CoE (Centre of excellence, LACE), to facilitate the development and complete implementation of the AOM.

• Directs Agile workshops for Teams, other coaches to support transition to self-sufficient Agile Teams.

• Supports leaders in the planning and implementing continuous improvement processes measures.

• Promotes the use of metrics (Burn down, Burn Up, Velocity, CFD etc.) and other objective measurements.

• Develops and tracks adoption and maturity metrics of Agile practices, to accelerate overall Agile transformation efforts.

• Assists Leaders Product Owners, Managers, and other business stakeholders in obtaining most value of improved operational processes by improving Agile practices, supporting policies and standards.

• Identifies and addresses organizational barriers that limit team productivity and quality, coaching the organization through change, and developing strategies for Agile tooling.

• Fosters a culture of continuous improvement, and an environment that values and promotes autonomy, skill mastery, empowerment, transparency, innovation, and learning.

• Establishes standardized metrics and KPIs in collaboration with leadership and stakeholders, to assess performance and effectiveness at the team, product, and organizational levels. BAKER HUGHES, Houston, Texas November 2017 – April 2020 Agile Coach/ Scrum Master

Responsible for moving the company's existing IT infrastructure to the cloud. The current infrastructure consists of several on-premises servers hosting applications such as well monitoring, production management, and data analytics. The migration will provide several benefits including improved scalability, increased flexibility, and reduced costs. The project will also improve disaster recovery capabilities and enhance security.

• Worked with the stakeholders, customers, and users in identifying and documenting Epics.

• Effectively communicated weekly project status using the Burndown charts to the business leadership, while recognizing the problem definition as part of continuous process improvement towards the business continuity of the organization

• Implement the Company specific project management approach to effectively handle the project lifecycle, ensuring compliance with all governance requirements.

• Promote refinement, story splitting, estimation, and other Scrum techniques for grooming and sprint planning.

• Facilitate improving practices and guiding team to more predictable delivery.

• Optimize team velocity and cycle time to achieve higher levels of team performance.

• Actively set prioritization, team readiness, and commitment for each Sprint.

• Manage tasks and project delivery milestones through tracking issues and milestones in Gitlab.

• Coached Self-managed teams and ensured Agile/Scrum implementation methodology, practices, values, and framework are adhered to by team members.

• Tracked and managed all change requests taking them through the complete change request lifecycle Backlog Items

(PBIs) using techniques like MoSCoW and estimated Story Points using Planning Poker.

• Successfully removed obstacles for the cross-functional team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.

• Mentored and coached business analysts and developers in applying agile principles and practices to achieve team unity and high performance.

• Assisted the PO in setting realistic project expectations and in evaluating the impact of changes on the organization, and plan accordingly by conducting project-related presentations.

• Oversaw and managed implementation of various agile techniques such as TDD, BDD, Automated Testing, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps Support all inter and intra team communication. United Health Group August 2014 – October 2017

Scrum Master/ Kanban Coach / Agile Team Coach

Responsible for cost saving project involving The Lift and Shift Migration my Company, aims to move the company's existing IT infrastructure to the AWS cloud with minimal changes to the applications.

• Helped in the transformation Process from a waterfall mindset to Agile, coaching the team on the various Metrics to help in Product delivery and Maintenance and formed a self-sustained team

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

• Act as a mentor to ensure development teams work toward the core Scrum principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility.

• Partnered with the Product Owner and agile team to understand, identify, and document the business opportunity through non-ambiguous, testable stories.

• Perform as a servant leader for Agile practices, mindset, and continuous improvement.

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, and Sprint Retrospective.

• Assist in coordinating and tracking the progress of all items to keep goals and milestones on track and identifying issues/delays before they occur.

• Help the team to prepare for, facilitate, and continuously improve PI Planning processes and events.

• Collaborate with product owners, product managers, and team members to effectively communicate the delivery of each work product in meetings, presentations, and status reporting deliverables. EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER Stavanger, NORWAY.

• Msc, Computer and Information Technology, 2016

UNIVERSITY OF Texas, Austin. Austin, Texas.

• Post Graduate Diploma, Cloud Computing, 2019

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