Christian Ononiwu
Upper Marlboro,MD
Summary
Dedicated and experienced Program manager, with more than 10 years' experience, defining and delivering programs with a high degree of complexity that have broad cross-organizational impact Leader adept at defining product delivery process and agile system strategy using data. Innovative, inventive and constantly evolving ways to simply business and team process
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Program Manager/Agile Project Manager
Allegis Group
06.2019 - Current
- Manage planning, assigning, monitoring, and coaching of finance agile release teams. Promote team development, review, production and guidelines within organization and service level agreements
- Lead Agile team implementation of cloud services, and solutions that support global finance teams in US and EMEA. Performed change management as well as team briefings, change control boards, and decision-making.
- Ran day-to-day operations of finance delivery team, continuous improvement and management of reports that improve throughput to stakeholders about how teams are conforming to value.
- Coach finance team and support adoption of agile practices and methods. Promote agile values and Agile mind set.
- Developed 8 Teams within finance Agile release train (ART) resulting in 15% increase in delivery during last 2 Program Increments (PI) of 2023
- Partnered closely with technical Project Management team, Development leadership and Product leadership to define and manage Agile processes using rolling wave process to enable feature readiness during upcoming Program increments
Senior Project Manager
Noblis
01.2019 - 06.2019
- Work closely with 3 stakeholders, 2 clients, and 6 team members to define project goals, objectives, and deliverables
- Supply Bi-weekly updates to stakeholders on project progress, milestones and Provide Project Management and coordination to ensure program milestones and goals
- Work closely with stakeholders, clients, and team members to define project goals, objectives, and deliverables
- Lead project teams, assigning tasks and responsibilities to team members
- Supply guidance, support, and motivation to 2 teams improving effectiveness and productivity, velocity of team moved by 8% for quarter
- Established cadence with other managers to allocate 2 developer resources and resolve any conflicts or issues that arise
- Delivered on-time, meaningful outcomes, on postal integration project while coordinating multiple assignments, maintaining cheerful outlook, and providing exemplary customer service
- Continuous Improvement with Teams on scheduled retrospective and analyzing project performance, finding areas for enhancement, and implementing lessons learned from past projects.
Technical Program Manager/Scrum Master
MasterCard
04.2017 - 01.2019
- Spearheaded high level planning with finance team Ariba to SAP Coupa Implementation
- Developed team using agile framework, thereby increasing capacity and efficiency of Team by 12%
- Established timeline with DevOps and 3rd party vendors to accurately perform needed audits and effective team functioning
- Identify resource management capability of teams and assign to relevant Initiative
- Drove growth with regular touchpoints with stakeholders and teams
- This process allowed maximization of backlog work and completion
- Performed bi weekly lessons learned and retrospectives with teams at end of each iteration.
Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master
CSBS
02.2014 - 04.2017
- Established lightweight scrum project management process and helped team meet sprint goals
- Served Role of Scrum Master for two development (11 team members) delivering products related to famous new Platform
- Built relationships with application users, product owners, analysts, and developers
- Promoted advancement and adoption of Agile method best practice methods
- Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint Retrospect
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
Project Lead
Brown Shoe Company
10.2012 - 10.2013
- Established lightweight scrum project management process and helped team meet sprint goals
- Served Role of Scrum Master for two development (11 team members) delivering products related to famous new Platform
- Built relationships with application users, product owners, analysts, and developers
- Promoted advancement and adoption of Agile method best practice methods
- Facilitated Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews and Sprint Retrospect
- Met with manager weekly to provide detailed project report and milestone updates
- Partnered with project team members to identify and quickly address problems.
Test Lead/Scrum
Stereotaxis St
06.2011 - 09.2012
- Designed Agile artifacts for 2 new teams
- Mentored and empowered team to self-organize and create working agreement which empowered 2 offshore Teams to better manage risks and issue
- Engineered feature Demonstration with key stakeholders to get official sign off
- Conducted daily scrums, daily progress tracking, burn down chart reporting, retrospective reviews, release planning
- Created accurate and successful test scripts to manage automated testing of certain products and features
- Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing
- Reviewed project specification documentation to create appropriate testing methodologies.
Education
MBA - Management
Cleary University
Ann Arbor, MI08.2008
Bachelor of Arts - Economics and Political science
Northeastern Illinois University
Chicago, IL08.2002
Skills
- Program Management
- Cross functional Team Leadership
- Waterfall methodology
- Quality assurance
- Analytical and Critical
- Agile Expertise
- Leadership Skills
- Facilitation and Coaching
- Conflict Resolution
- Communication
- Technical Acumen
- Establishing Relationship
- Metrics and Data Analysis
- Continuous Learning
Affiliations
01/01/20, 12/31/23, AFCEA
Timeline
Technical Program Manager/Agile Project Manager
Allegis Group
06.2019 - Current
Senior Project Manager
Noblis
01.2019 - 06.2019
Technical Program Manager/Scrum Master
MasterCard
04.2017 - 01.2019
Senior Project Manager/Scrum Master
CSBS
02.2014 - 04.2017
Project Lead
Brown Shoe Company
10.2012 - 10.2013
Test Lead/Scrum
Stereotaxis St
06.2011 - 09.2012
MBA - Management
Cleary University
Bachelor of Arts - Economics and Political science
Northeastern Illinois University
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