Manager Project

Mr. Barnabas Okere

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Email: **********@*****.***

Phone: 301-***-****

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barnabas-okere-044505206/ PROJECT MANAGER/SCRUM MASTER

OBJECTIVE Senior Project Manager/ Scrum Master with 12 years of experience managing multiple projects in Supply Chain environment and software Development. Experience in managing the entire project lifecycle and in-house Applications and Systems development. Experience in running Agile projects leading scrum ceremonies and incremental delivery of value. International consulting in Public Private Partnership (PPP) Projects including Procurement, Supply Chain and Budgeting. Excellent Leadership, Communication and Coaching skills. EXPERIENCE

The World Bank Group, Washington Dc

Position: Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master Dates: May 2017 – Present Primary responsibilities:

• Ensure projects run smoothly and activities are completed within budget and on time.

• Actively collaborate with partner organizations, stakeholders in project implementation and planning processes

Organizing and facilitating sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint reviews, retrospectives, product backlog refinement and ensuring there's full team engagement.

• Facilitating discussions and conflict resolution while empowering team to self-organize.

• Lead the agile development teams in the delivery of business critical enterprise software development projects by promoting continuous improvement

• Foster team and individual growth, in all areas of Scrum, by establishing customized plans for furthering education, based on first-hand observation and provided feedback.

• Provide support with change management, risk management, release management and facilitate release planning activities

• Develop, track and communicate team progress through velocity, burn down charts, and other metrics

Utilizing JIRA to track and effectively communicate team velocity, burn down charts and sprint/release progress to the team.

Provide direction and coaching to the team to encourage adoption of good agile practices

• Coordinate customer demos as well as internal demos to enable learning and cross-training.

• Develops project plan and drives project milestones.

• Support the recruitment of staff, facilitate the inception reports.

• Finalize complex projects including the elaboration of end reports, evaluation and learning, closure of project offices.

ITC Johannesburg, South Africa

JUNE 2010 – MAY 2017 INTERNATIONAL PROJECT MANAGER Primary responsibilities

• Managed diverse project staff, budgets and project resources with various government (South Africa Government, Tanzania, Swaziland, Kenya, Namibia and Uganda)

• Produced accurate and high-quality reports on a monthly, quarterly and bi-annual basis for internal and international clients

• Coordinated projects with all relevant stakeholders, including Country Governments, World Bank, UN, NGO, and Community representatives

• Ensured that all projects relevant support is in place (Monitoring, Logistics, Finance Administration …)

• Managed the entire project lifecycle through implementation

• Accountable for meeting agreed upon scope, cost, schedule and quality measures

• Coached and trained government consultants in Procurement, Supply Chain, Risk Management and Budgeting

• Maintained high quality delivery standards and ensured professionalism and ethical conduct at all times. EDUCATION September 2017 Master’s degree in Project Management; University of Venda, South Africa Major: Project Management, Supply chain

June 2006: Bachelor’s Degree in Management; River State University of Science and Technology, Nigeria CERTIFICATION

• Certified Scrum Master from Scrum.org

• Agile with Atlassian Jira – Certified by Atlassian SKILLS

Agile Framework (Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean)

Software Development (DevOps, SDLC)

Project Management: Agile Business Analyst, Agile Project Management, Scrum Master) RDMS (Oracle )

Programming Language: Linux

Business Tools: (Confluence, Jira, Trello, Discord Channel) Leadership & Management (Team Building, Coaching & Mentoring, Motivational Speaker, Other skills: Marketing, Sale. Recruiting, MS Office Page 2

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