Eko Makia

Qualification Summary

A high-performing professional with ten years of experience in IT transformation and legal analytic work. Skilled in developing relationships to facilitate collaborative achievements of high-priority goals. Confident in thriving in a fast-paced setting while leveraging skills for software development, planning, and reporting in the IT space. I am passionate about lifelong learning and going the extra mile to facilitate continuous improvement and integration of my work.

Professional Experience

Release Train Engineer/ Scrum Master Oct 2020 to Present

Cherokee Nation Systems Solution (SBA) Washington DC

•Hands-on experience in Lean-Agile processes, supporting teams, enhancing SOPs, and enforcing Agile principles across work environments.

•Provides leadership and technical consultation for new systems, development, and the enhancement of existing systems.

•Strategic in coordinating PI ceremonies, Scrum ceremonies, and Scrum of Scrums, PI risks while maturing the business towards business agility.

•Capable of facilitating SAFe ceremonies for the business team. Educate on Agile principles and systems thinking while building team capacity in moving from essential SAFe to Portfolio SAFe

•Quantify and establish project goals, scope and overview product backlog items in the JIRA board while providing clarity where needed.

•Facilitate discussion and recommend solutions without coercion or dictating to teams.

•Continuously support and collaborate with the Product Owners in driving the business vision and effectively communicating the vision to teams.

ScrumMaster/Business Analyst Oct 2017 to Oct 2020

MIL Corp (Dept of Commerce) Washington DC

•Develops requirements for information systems from a project’s inception to conclusion.

•Gather requirements from end users and document in a pre-defined format for the development team to build solutions.

•Develop and document test cases, testing plans, and procedures in an agile environment.

•Design and execute IT software tests and evaluate results to ensure compliance with applicable regulations.

•Develop and maintain automated regression and integration test plans for validation.

•Communicate test results and feedback with development teams and management.

•Perform database queries to identify and validate test data.

•Review data flow across multiple systems

•Report and track defects, risk and work closely with Developers in defect resolution.

•Analyze the resolution of software defects to serve as input to plans for retesting.

•Assist Test Analysts\Engineers with the development and maintenance of the test framework.

Business Analyst Oct 2013 to Nov 2017

Whichman Inc. (Confidential Healthcare) Greenbelt, MD

•Providing guidance into SDLC expected deliverables within an applications development methodology and Business process modeling.

•Prioritizing business and user needs while establishing clear business value objectives.

•Documenting and revising existing business processes while updating the documentation for requirements and test cases.

•Developing business and application domain knowledge for an assigned business portfolio to evaluate the business needs and user requests.

•Creating an atmosphere of trust to manage, motivate, and coach the team while encouraging responsiveness, quality, and improvement of the current process.

•Managing expectations and prioritizing project objectives by educating the scrum team about the team's tasks and potential risks on every sprint.

•Engaging stakeholders proactively to ask for service delivery feedback and suggestions. While making sure the team has enough stories to work on

•Providing and implementing strategies that align the customers with the project strategy.

Legal Specialist (Part-Time - Volunteer) Aug 2013- Present

International Law Firm of Bokwe Mofor Silver Spring, MD

•Attend to 2 to 5 clients and claims per week and provide informed solutions for their concerns.

•Prepare Motions and Appeals for ongoing cases as needed.

•Plan, investigate, and complete assigned projects as instructed by supervising attorney with a sense of urgency.

Certificates

•SAFe Certified 5.1

•Certified Scrum Master

•AWS in Progress

Education

•Master of Laws in Business and Investment Law, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC.

•Master of Laws International Trade, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR.

Technical Skills

•Agile Coach, scrum ceremonies, product backlog grooming, collaboration, scrum of scrums, scrum matrix, and SAFe practitioner

•Excellent technical skills in JIRA, Confluence, DevOp, SharePoint, Teams, Visio, Smartsheet’s, ARM and Microsoft office.

•Competent with visual models like; Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, Wireframes, Business Process Flows, and Requirement Traceability Metrics.

•Knowledgeable in analytics, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, UX, UI design, and AWS (Python)

•Compliance management, Risk Analysis (Active Risk Management -ARM), and Smartsheet.

•Data analysis, Data migration (modeling, query, and reporting)

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