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Christian Ononiwu

Scrum Master/Agile IT Project Management
Upper Marlboro,MD

Summary

Dedicated, highly accomplished and certified Senior Scrum Master with more than 8 years of experience. Driving Agile transformations and leading cross functional teams. Consummate professional who coaches, mentors, and fosters a culture of continuous improvement and optimizing Agile practices. Seeking a challenging role to utilize skills and contribute to the success of this organization. PROFILE OF QUALIFICATIONS Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban and understanding of Agile principles frameworks and best practices. Facilitation and Collaboration. Expert in facilitating, collaborating and guiding individuals in adopting Agile practices and achieving project goals. Coached and mentored team members on Agile principles, practices, and frameworks, resulting in increased productivity and efficiency. Collaborated with Product Owners and other stakeholders to prioritize and refine the product backlog, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs. Spearhead Problem solving and conflict resolution within agile teams. Mitigate project risks, removing impediments, and ensuring the smooth flow of work across teams. Implemented and maintained Agile metrics and reporting systems to track team performance and project progress. Functioned as a servant leader, fostering a positive team environment, resolving conflicts, and promoting a culture of transparency and collaboration. Communication skills both verbal and written and the ability to clearly articulate project progress, risk, and dependencies to stakeholders at all levels. Proficient in Agile metric reporting using agile tools such as version one and others to track team performance, measure project progress and provide actionable insights for continuous improvement. Mentor and coach team on different areas of agile within a team environment. User stories, features, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and backlog reviews Proficient in computer skills such as MS Office Suite and other applications/systems.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Senior Scrum Master

Allegis Group
Hanover, MD
06.2019 - Current
  • 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
  • Established cadence between Agile Teams and DEVOPS improving feature delivery by 11% in first half of 2023
  • Developed program plans, resource allocation strategies and project timelines to ensure on time delivery for EMEA business implementation
  • Ran daily standup , retrospectives, backlog refinements, Sprint planning, Sprint Review for Finance Art
  • Teams
  • Coach and enable others to function as scrum masters and Program managers
  • Educate development teams on Agile best practices
  • Spearheaded cut off time and product readiness resulting in process improvement and adoption of best practices to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Senior Project Manager

Noblis
McLean, VA
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
St Louis, MO
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
Washington Dc, DC
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
St Louis, MO
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
St Louis, MO
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, MI
06.2006 - 08.2008

Bachelor of Arts - Economics and Political science

Northeastern Illinois University
Chicago, IL
06.1999 - 08.2002

Skills

Risk mitigation planning

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Affiliations

AFCEA Member 2020 -2023

Timeline

Senior Scrum Master

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
06.2006 - 08.2008

Bachelor of Arts - Economics and Political science

Northeastern Illinois University
06.1999 - 08.2002
Christian OnoniwuScrum Master/Agile IT Project Management