Scrum Master Agile Coach

Ify Okakpu

Agile Coach/Sr. Scrum Master

Contact: 612-***-**** / *******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Value-driven Agile Coach/Sr. Scrum Master with over eight years of experience

leading teams to incremental and timely delivery of value. I have experience and passion for excellence in change and growth mindset, while delivering value and meeting customer’s expectations. A typical servant leader, a great contributor and a driver for a successful change that is value driven.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

●8+ Years experience in Agile (SDLC) Scrum/Kanban processes and implementation

●7+ Years API experience in Software and Applications Development Management

●7+ Year experience in Project Management - Waterfall Project Life Cycle Management

●5+ Year experience in Cloud migration – Microsoft Azure, AWS

●5+ Years experience in Organizational Change Management

●3+ Year experience in Health industry

●Coaching/Mentoring/Effective communication/Stakeholder Management

●Advanced knowledge of various Agile Frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, LeSS, XP, Lean Agile, Crystal)

CERTIFICATION

●Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM 1)

●Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

●Certified Agile Leadership (CAL-E + CAL-O)

●Agile Coach Certification (ICP-ACC)

●Health Safety & Environment Certificate (Level 3), National Institute of Safety

●Professionals (NISP)

SKILLS SUMMARY

●Stakeholder Management

●Administrator/ Facilitator

●Emotional Intelligence

●Active Listener

●Knowledge of great tools (Jira, MS

Project, Monday, Asana, Visio, Clarity, Version One, Azure DeveOps, Confluence, SharePoint)

●Problem solver/Conflict Management

●Servant-leader

●Meticulous attention to details

●Team player (including multi-cultural

teams)

Multi-tasking

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Turnberry (HealthCare Industry) May 2024 to May 2025

Agile Coach / Sr. Scrum Master

●Worked with various teams, application owners and solution architects to migrate

applications from 3M to Solventum (a new company from 3M). This brought in huge cost savings for the company.

●Effectively managed the cutover timeline for the migration for all the apps as planned.

●Facilitate project planning, resource estimation, kick-off, and sprints coordination.

●Encourage team growth/improvement using feedback from customers/stakeholders.

●Effectively use project schedules to manage project critical path activities.

●Ensure cross-functional resources are assigned and held accountable for task and

outcome completion.

●For effective management and communication from planning to release, we successfully

utilized JIRA, Confluence, Clarity, MS Project, SharePoint, excel, and PowerPoint for

agile projects and portfolio management, providing data driven insights, managing

project tasks, increasing work transparency and reducing task completion period by

35%.

●Track and report team progress via delivery matrix using power BI dashboards to show

●progress.

●Ensure weekly communication/updates on the migration process.

●Raised and managed risks and dependencies as they arose.

CPrime (HealthCare Industry) August 2021 to December 2023

Sr. Scrum Master/Project Manager

●Successfully coached and migrated teams from Waterfall methodologies to Agile ways of working, guiding them through the mindset transformation. This cut down on delivery time by 25%.

●Managed various teams at the program level, using Scaled Agile framework and Scrum of Scrums, to effectively manage team team engagements/delivery.

●Coordinated release planning at the program level, identified risks and dependencies, and successfully managed them across the teams throughout the release cycle.

●Facilitate Portfolio/program meetings/quarterly plannings to ensure teams are delivering as planned.

●Worked with teams that successfully migrated on prem sites to cloud leveraging AWS.

●Facilitated project planning, resource estimation, kick-off, and sprints coordination.

●Encouraged team growth/improvement using feedback from customers/stakeholders.

●Utilized JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, excel, and PowerPoint to manage agile projects from planning to release.

●Tracked and showed team progress via delivery matrix like Release burn down and Time to Market charts.

Best Buy Co. Inc. June 2017 to August 2021

Sr. Scrum Master/Agile Coach

●Boosted team efficiency by 40% through effective Scrum and Kanban methodology usage.

●Implemented Kanban methodology for the helpdesk department utilizing ServiceNow software for effective and timely response to critical tickets submitted.

●Assisted Product owners with backlog prioritization using MOSCOW, requirements gathering, product backlog grooming, release planning, which resulted in 90% predictability in delivery.

●Facilitated scrum of scrums and use other effective methods to properly manage dependencies. Also, addressed and escalated new/urgent issues and risks in a timely manner.

●Empowered the team to implement process improvements by utilizing feedback and metrics captured in sprint reviews/retrospective meetings.

●Utilized 1:1s (one on ones), icebreakers and other fun team activities to encourage relationship building amongst team members.

Lifetouch Inc. (LPS) May 2015 to June 2017

Scrum Master

●Organized and facilitated scrum teams’ events and related meetings for hybrid and remote teams.

●Monitored progress toward pre-established objectives, assess risk and implement strategies to ensure successful delivery of products.

●Reviewed and implemented enterprise services API specification and requirements for development team using Azure API Management service.

●Utilized tools like SharePoint, Confluence, and JIRA software, to manage project flow from planning to incremental release.

●Ensured cross-functional resources are assigned and held accountable for their tasks and outcome.

●Showed team progress to stakeholders by analyzing the team's matrixes like velocity, burn up/down charts, and release burn down charts.

●Facilitated and implemented project kick offs and resource management.

EDUCATION

●Master of Science (Hons) in Environmental Quality Management - University of Benin

●Bachelors of Science in (Hons) Marine Biology - University of Calabar

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