Arinze Ikeh
Laurel,MD
Summary
Qualified and dedicated Project Manager with 7+ years experience building web apps and platforms. Comfortable using project management tool like Microsoft Project or Confluence, Jira, Smartsheet to track project schedule, milestones, and product backlog. Extensive experience as a scrum master, leading the daily stand-ups and working with the project team. Work across the client and project teams to gather and analyze high-level and detailed requirements. Seasoned IT Project Manager lends unique oversight for critical info technology programs. Resourceful, tech-savvy approach honed over more than 7+ years toward handling complex hardware and software installations. Lends experienced knack for IT equipment planning, installation, troubleshooting and maintenance. Provides expert navigation to avoid risk associated with cost, allocation and technical considerations.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Project Manager
AMGEN
07.2022 - Current
- Manage 4-teams in Pillar 1 clinical research trial for oncology drug, achieving all study milestone
- Leading and coordinating logistics for Agile ceremonies and practices, e.g
- Backlog maintenance, sprint planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives to help reduce communication error
- Pulling weekly report for managers depending on the report requirement
- Build SharePoint sites as requested by Epidemiologists and researchers as at when needed
- Create Project schedule for my project team using Smartsheet
- Set up a semi-automation (Data Mash) process to update the schedule daily using Smartsheet resource management
- Create and maintain project roadmap/timeline using Microsoft Office timeline for the stakeholders month.
IT Project Manager
PFIZER
04.2021 - 07.2022
- Oversaw 8 cross-functional teams consisting of 6 members each to manage a large-scale Pfizer clinical research
- Developed comprehensive project plan, project timeline, milestones, resource allocation and risk assessment using confluence JIRA
- Capture requirements and document requirements as it pertains each project being handled
- Built and maintained project dashboard on JIRA
- Regualy pulling reports off the the JIRA dashboard for report as at when necessary
- Create executive-level reports, especially in Microsoft PowerPoint, presenting information targeted for an executive audience, such as project sponsor
- Assessed the probability and impact on each risk and lead the team in the development of mitigation strategy
- Provided timely reporting to stakeholders and project teams, alerting them to the possibility of endangered/missed or conflicting milestones and critical path activities.
Release Manager/Project Manager
CISCO
05.2020 - 04.2021
- Lead all aspects of projects, including capacity planning, resource allocation, project documentation, and client engagement using Microsoft projects, Microsoft teams and Microsoft Office timeline
- Served as a release manager for all assigned product
- Created and managed release in JIRAfor rlease management
- Documented project details using AHA, collaborating with both internal and external team
- Collaborated with 20+ internal development and QA teams to help ensure end-to-end quality and adhere to Cisco change governance process
- Prepared and presented status reports to stakholders using Microsft Power point.
Technical Project Manager
HOUSING AUTHORITY BALTIMORE
09.2016 - 05.2020
- Acted as the liaison between HABC agency and external development teams to make clear the agency demand and expectation
- Oversaw the End of Service Life (EOSL) retirement of the 504 system and coordinated the system replacement with the Microsoft CRM system to help manage the resident housing needs
- Utilized coaching and Socratci questioning to help the team identify and manage risks, issues and barriers throughout the sprint
- Based on expericnce and education in Agile, consult on and support the company in its goal to continuous mature agile process
- Identified complex impediments and assisted the team in identifying a path to deliver on their sprint commitments
- Spearheaded Agile Ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Retrospectives, Story Refinement, and Release Planning Created 100+ product backlogs that established development priorities for each release.
Education
Master of Science in Computer Science -
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Business Administration -
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Skills
- Project Scheduling
- Mobile Application Development
- Scrum Framework
- Stakeholder Management
- Requirements Analysis
- Project Management
- Technical Documentation
- Agile Methodologies
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- IT Service Management
- Change Management
- Resource Management
- Schedule Management
- Project Tracking
- Document Management
- Project Planning
- Agile Methodology
- Requirements Gathering
- Presentations
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Project Scope
Certification
- PMP - Project Management Professional
- CMS - Certified Scrum Master
Technical Skills
Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office Professional (Outlook, Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint Office Timeline), JIRA, SharePoint, AHA, Confluence, Smartsheet, Lucid, Smartsheet Resource Management, Miro, Agile Developments, Agile Framework (Scrum, Kanban), Scrumban, Waterfall
Timeline
IT Project Manager
AMGEN
07.2022 - Current
IT Project Manager
PFIZER
04.2021 - 07.2022
Release Manager/Project Manager
CISCO
05.2020 - 04.2021
Technical Project Manager
HOUSING AUTHORITY BALTIMORE
09.2016 - 05.2020
Master of Science in Computer Science -
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Business Administration -
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY