ONOME KOKORI
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Collaboration- Facilitation- Problem Solving – Planning & Execution – Team Leadership Certified Scrum Master with over 6 years’ experience that focuses on Business Agility, Agile Mindset, and flow of value. A Servant Leader with good verbal and communication skill, successful at driving the adoption and practices of Scrum principles and implementing Scrum values. Committed and innovative servant-leader in leading initiatives, facilitating iteration execution and ART sync. proven knowledge in supporting business decision making, flow of values, constant feedback, and improved customer experience across all digital channels. Agile, Scrum, SAFe,
SDLC, Six Sigma,
DevOPs, Flow
Thinking,
Business Agility
Design Thinking
Enablers, CALMR
Inspect & adapt,
Lean Agile Leadership
Metrics & KPI’s,
Kanban, Pre & Post PI
Planning, XP Extreme
Programming, Value
stream, Excel,
MIRO, KANBAN
PowerPoint,
SharePoint, WebEx,
Balsamiq
JIRA, Confluence
Leading Scrum Principles, Practices and values, Retrospective, Conflict resolver, Business Process analysis,, Process Mapping, Gap Analysis, BPMN, Workshop facilitation, Root Cause Analysis, Business Process Modelling, User story, Value Stream Mapping, activity/process diagrams, flow charts, configuration management, Kaizen, Customer Journey, Data Analysis, Scoping Document Design, Continuous Integration, Improvement and Data Migration. UAT testing using (BDD), Traceability Matrix, Office 365, Windows 10 rollout, Omni-channel, Hybrid, B2B & B2C, GDPR and compliance.
Key Strengths
o Strong analytical, problem solving, and quick learning skills blended with appetite for learning and implementing new technologies.
o Extensive knowledge in organizing team around value, managing queue, agile mindset, and implementation. o Experience in engaging with wide range of internal/external stakeholders and third-party clients or vendors. o Great interpersonal skills, data migration, reporting, dashboards and making recommendations.
• University of Wolverhampton
Master of Laws – LLM, International
Corporate and Financial Law
• London Metropolitan University
Bachelor of Laws – LLB, Law
• College of Northwest London
• Certified SAFe 5.0 Scrum Master - SSM
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Yellow & Green Belt
Professional
Program Summary
Title – Agile Scrum Master Cenmic Management LLC Houston TX Date: Nov 2019 – To Date
Responsibilities -
• Develop strategies that help teams collaboratively design and adopt agile team agreements and drive relentless improvements.
Core Competence & Tool
Technical Expertise & Key Strengths
Summary
Education License Certification
• Mentor/coach team on the Agile Scrum methodology to be self-organizing to improve the Scrum team’s trust, standards of work, development, and prioritizing guidance in an evolving environment.
• Review Agile team structure to help guide, determine and recommend changes and approaches to the team as needed to reach high performance.
• Facilitates team breakout sessions at PI Planning and work with RTE to monitor PI progress.
• Guide and coach, the product Owner & the team in validated learning to adhere to Scrum rules and practices.
• Support the team to make work visible through burn-up charts and information radiators.
• Identify & document lessons learned and improvement recommendations in application in future iterations.
• Facilitate the Agile team in managing and defining conflict using the lose-win, win-win, loss-loss, and win-loss techniques.
• Identify impediments impacting the Scrum team’s ability to deliver on Sprint goals, mitigating against barriers impacting the cross functional team.
• Facilitate all Scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, daily stand ups DSUs, retrospectives, refinement, Inspect & Adapt and problem-solving workshops
Title – Scrum Master Milestone Consultant Baltimore, MD Jun 2017- Nov 2019
Responsibilities
• Lead and facilitate all Sprints Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Sprint Backlog, Refinement, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Retrospectives.
• Organizes Epics and User Stories in JIRA as well as helping the team Remove Impediments that may otherwise slow down Velocity.
• Support Data teams by helping them to serve as a liaison between Business Stakeholders and technical resources.
• Lead working session meetings to discuss scope, schedule, and requirements with product owners.
• Support the Product Owner, especially with respect to story grooming and maintaining the product backlog
• Assists the team’s progress in achieving their commitments through strong issue, risk, and dependency management.
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition. Achievements
• The successful delivery of the key features contributed to 2.5% increase in customer loyally and engagement.
Title – Scrum Master Micros Retails Akron, OH Feb 2015 – June 2017
Responsibilities
• Organized and facilitated all scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand up, sprint review, sprint retrospectives and inter-team dependency meetings.
• Assisted the team in tracking and communicating team progress and metrics.
• Supported and empowered the team to make appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.
• Challenged and enable the team to continuously improve through intentional and data driven inspect and adapt cycles (retrospectives).
• Conducts formal review with the internal product owner and stakeholders at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction.
• Facilitated discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution and built a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and resolved.
Achievements: Improves customer service rating by 5% with a further 10% increase in revenue. Title – Snr Process Analyst National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) Jun 2013 – Feb 2015
Responsibilities
• Processed commodities warrant against future contract. Validated closed positions against LBO (Local Buying Agent) contract, released bill of lading for both CIF (Cost, Insurance and Freight) and FOB (Free on Board) delivery terms, balance physical contract and terminal market for contract
• Designed portfolio key deliverables, developed selection criteria, assessed current state, defined vision and plan, integrated portfolio management and continuously improve portfolio process. Validated portfolio performance through health check
Title – Project Improvement Lead Diamond Bank Lagos, Nigeria Jan 2010 – Jun 2013 Responsibilities
• Facilitate progress and reduce costs, both in terms of sales and workflow inefficiencies.
• Coordinate and lead key projects for improvement across all levels of the organization.
• Providing leadership in improvement for the business and for coaching and supporting improvement specialists in advanced analysis.