EHIS OKOJIE

Washington DC-Baltimore Area 786-***-**** adxy8p@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/ehis-okojie Professional Summary

Dedicated, resourceful, and efficient Business Analyst/Product Owner with 5 years + of experience in successfully eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and fulfilling stakeholders' and business users' complex functional and business requirements. Excellent communication skills with a demonstrated track record working with cross-functional teams, clients, management, and team members to realize business goals. Proficient organizer with a proven ability to thrive in fast-paced environments requiring the management of multiple priorities.

Skills And Tools

• Project Team Coordination

• Project Management

• SDLC

• Retrospective

• Jira/Confluence

• Agile best practices

• Management skills

• Servant Leadership

• Acceptance Criteria

• External Communication

• User Stories

• Requirement Elicitation

• Team Management

• ADO

• Coaching

• Microsoft Office

• Agile Methodology

• Waterfall Methodology

• QA Testing

Professional Experience

Business Analyst. October 2017 to Present

Sogeti USA

• Serves as the company's Business Analyst/Product Owner, eliciting requirements and providing necessary solutions for business needs.

• Continuously improve backlog with the team, ensuring all items are clearly described, estimated, and prioritized.

• Improves business direction by prioritizing customers and implementing changes based on collected feedback.

• Ensures alignment of product features and stories, i.e., review, give feedback, and prioritize user stories from the user’s perspective.

• Conducts interviews with various stakeholders to gather information on business processes and user requirements.

• Participates in building, editing, and maintaining the team backlog. Backlog items are prioritized based on user value, time, and other team dependencies determined in the Program Increment planning meeting and refined during the PI.

• Participates in sprint and release plans together with technology teams.

• Communicates ‘the story’ effectively to stakeholders and the rest of the team.

• Analyzes, creates, and documents business and system processes into functional requirement documentation ensuring the IT development standards are met using templates and process flows.

• Acts as a key participant in Agile ceremonies, including retrospectives to continually improve team processes.

• Jira and confluence

• Owns the end-to-end product strategy from inception and determines business value once the solution enters production, including delivery of product demos.

• Analyzes client business processes/requirements and develops corresponding processes and data flows.

• Assists with UAT strategies, conditions, and evaluation of expected results.

• Conducts user research, drafts user stories, and meets with product owners to validate and enhance them.

• Coordinates and facilitates exchange meetings to determine the needs of customers, as well as to determine the impact of changes.

• Creates wireframes for the user stories and review them with users and gathers feedback.

• Collaborates with Visual/UI designer and adds/updates stories based on user response.

• Documents workflows and processes based on requirements.

• Works with the scrum master, customers, and developers to write user stories that are independent, negotiable, valuable, estimable, small, and testable.

• Documents requirements and provide final technical review and validation of requirements.

• Works with stakeholders and the project team to prioritize collected requirements.

• Provides training and demonstrations as required.

• Oversees requirements tracking process, assigns requirements to the appropriate service provider, and communicates status to customers.

• Supports the collection and reporting of requirements-related metrics.

• Verifies completion of requirements with customer and service providers, ensuring expectations are appropriately met.

• Responsible for ensuring user stories include validation criteria that reasonably cover all areas necessary for completing testing of the new functionality.

• Acts as an interface and customer advocate ensuring customer, stakeholder, and user needs are being addressed.

• Provides additional support and guidance to clients during the implementation phase including the development of training resources.

• Participates as a member of the development team.

• Improves and expands knowledge and skill sets regarding current trends and changes in the software development industry and is up to date with the latest design trends.

• Conducts and/or participates in SCRUM ceremonies including Product Backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demos, and Sprint Retrospectives

• Performs project release management activities including developing release timelines, scope, and schedule.

• Identifies and establishes the scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.

• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes. Education

• Bachelor of Science – Industrial mathematics. University of Benin Certifications

• Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

• SAFe® Certified Product Owner/Product Manager

"Software As A Service (SaaS), Customer Relationship Management(CRM), Enterprise Resource Planning(ERP), JAVA, Balsamiq, Tableau, Power Bi, Python, SAP, ServiceNow, HTML, API, XML, IOT(Internet of Things), Salesforce, Oil and Gas, Figma, E-commerce, transportation, Healthcare, Real Estate, Airline, Logistic, Supply, Hospitality, AWS, Oracle, SAP, Excel, PowerPoint, Google suite, Outlook, Exchange, coding script, DeVos, UAT, Testing, Software development life cycle, Cloud, SQL, Excel, SDLC, Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM), Service Now, Figma, Axure"

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