EXPERIENCE

Aug **** – Present

SAFe SCRUM MASTER

Charter Communications,

Coppell, Texas

March 2014 – Jun 2016

SCRUM MASTER

British Petroleum, UK

Dec 2010 – March 2014

BUSINESS ANALYST

British Petroleum, UK

EDUCATION

2019

MASTER OF SCIENCE – SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT

University of Texas at Dallas.

2014

MASTER OF SCIENCE – PETROLEUM AND ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

Coventry University, UK

2008

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING – PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

University of Benin

CERTIFICATIONS

Professional Scrum Master–PSM

Certified SAFe Agilist–SA

Certified Project Manager- (CPM)

Certified Six-Sigma Green Belt- (CSSGB)

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner–Amazon Web Services

Graduate Certificate–Systems Engineering

MEMBERSHIPS

United States Army Reserves

OMON REX OKIEI

Scrum Master, Systems Business Analyst, Systems Engineer

MSc, BEng, PSM. SAFe.

ABOUT ME PROFESSIONALLY

Self-motivated Professional scrum master with a passion for developing cross-functional high performing teams, and a track record of delivering business value and promoting agile transformation at a pace sustainable by the business

My career path includes gaining

and contributing knowledge & solutions in industries at the forefront of innovation in the UK and the US, within organizations as diverse as oil and gas and communications.

With a solid foundation of academic qualifications and certifications, strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, team management and leadership – I create solutions, get results and bring value.

I AM VALUED FOR

Proficiency at the intersection between business, technologies and systems.

Project Management.

Business systems and business process solutions.

Professionalism and integrity.

Excellent client - stakeholder rapport based on trust & backed by delivery.

System support & optimization.

Successful delivery on complex multiple and multi-phased business/technology projects.

A service-orientation mindset and servant leadership style.

A collaborative approach to teamwork.

Solutions and methods that utilize my knowledge and experience, including Agile Scrum.

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

Project methodologies: Waterfall, Agile/Scrum and Scaled Agile Framework (SA)

Project Scheduling & Work Management Tools: MS Projects, Rally, JIRA and Azure Devops.

Office tools: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint. Oulook. Google Suite

Collaboration tools: Zoom, Skype for business, Webex, Slack.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Charter Communications (Spectrum), Coppell, Tx

Aug 2016 – present

SAFe SCRUM MASTER

Context: A leader in the provision of internet, cable and telephone services to residential homes and businesses.

Role Summary:

Scrum master for two teams focused on web applications. Facilitating Agile ceremonies, acting as servant leader to an Agile team, removing impediments, splitting user stories, product backlog management, and tracking team matrices to ensure continuous delivery of value.

Key Outputs/Accomplishments:

Championed the Agile Project Management processes – Facilitating Agile ceremonies (Daily scrum, spring planning meeting, sprint review, sprint retrospective) and scrum team and acting as servant leader to scrum team, helping in product backlog prioritization, and removing impediments for scrum team to work properly. Coaching product owner, and Scrum team on scrum practices and processes to ensure continuous delivery of value.

Played a critical role in the client experience - managed both internal and external stakeholder relations and encouraged stakeholder participation in agile ceremonies.

Excellent client relationships ensured willing cooperation with clients’ IT – and seamless workflow between front / back end / QA development teams.

Continual improvement of through focused lessons learned sessions. By Conducting sprint retrospective meetings at the end of each sprint thereby promoting team relationship.

Ensured Product delivery- Analyzing requirements and working effectively with QA team, development team, and encouraging transparency within team members, facilitating task breakdown for every sprint. And working closely with Product owners, coordinating product backlog grooming and user story estimation.

Ensured Team Effectiveness - Carrying out capacity planning for team and communicating velocity team member and tracking project increment milestones and resolving disputes between team members and ensuring that user stories meet the quality standards (definition of done) and that the acceptance criteria are met.

Improved the Project and Sprint Status Visibility within team members and stakeholders- Maintaining and updating development and test task board and produced daily burndown charts.

Team Improvement - Enabling improvement in team delivery commitment improvement and capacity planning for sprints by tracking and Identifying hidden tasks that brought increase in customer satisfaction.

Improved team velocity – Managing team dependencies, incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions and ensuring development team burn down hours by tracking Jira and sending messaging to team via outlook.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Requirement Gathering and Analysis

Integration

Agile Methodologies

Kanban

Business Process

Waterfall

Software Project Management

Cross-functional Team Servant Leadership

SDLC

ATTRIBUTES

Self-starter

Conflict resolution

Open communicator

Empathetic

Analytical

Strategizing and implementing

Dynamic

Leadership

Positive attitude

Proactive thinker

Flexible

Change influencer

Process improvement

Attention to detail

Team player

Professional excellence

Integrity

Resourceful

Servant Leadership

Facilitator

Coach

Mentor

Quality Control

Relationship Management

WORK EXPERIENCE

British Petroleum (BP) London, Uk

March 2014 - Jun 2016

SCRUM MASTER

British Petroleum is a multinational oil and gas firm operating in the United Kingdom, the United States and other parts of the world, serving as one of the leaders in oil and gas exploration, production, refining, distribution and marketing, also involved in renewable energy. British Petroleum operates from London, UK. Started out as a Business Analyst and then became Scrum Master.

Role Summary: Converted business requirements to functional requirements as business analyst, product backlog management. Facilitated and removed impediments for scrum team. Carried out capacity planning for team, and updated team task. Tracked Project Progress and communicated matrices like velocity and burndown chart information to scrum team daily, ensured constant stakeholder collaboration with scrum team.

Key Outputs:

Tracked and managed product backlog, burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown.

Guided projects until completion on time, within scope, and on budget.

Facilitated accurate user story estimations creating accurate burndown output.

Worked closely with product owner in backlog management and ensured continuous delivery of features.

Tracked and monitored product Increment milestone.

Coached and empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross functionally

Facilitated Scrum Ceremonies such as Daily Scrum, backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives and Sprint Review.

Identified Risk, and dependencies to help drive delivery.

Dec 2010 - March 2014

BUSINESS ANALYST

Key Outputs:

Assist Product owner and other business and technological partners in backlog grooming, user story development and prioritization.

Worked Closely with Project Managers, Scrum Masters and stakeholders to help Define scope and track Project delivery milestones.

Created business process models by converting user requirements to functional requirements to make sure that business and technology are aligned.

Ensured requirements validation and analysis by working with users and stakeholders.

Translated user concepts and ideas into business requirements and design documents.

Conducted Requirement Analysis, Feasibility Studies and then organized reviews and meetings with Stakeholders and the end users aimed at finalizing the Software Requirements Specifications.

Organized requirements by grouping essential business processes, business rules, and information needs, and ensured that critical requirements are not missed.

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