CHUDI ZIK IKEORHA
Product Owner
Houston,Tx.
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Professional Scrum Master certified (PSM 1) and Professional Scrum Product Owner Certified (PSPO 1)
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Sr. Business Analyst/Agile Product Owner
Concept Pluss LLC
05.2022 - Current
- Support the development of Product & Sprint Backlogs through user personas, epics, features, and user stories in an approved tool, such as Jira and ServiceNow.
- Organize requirements of solution as Product Roadmap to detail path to accomplish delivered product and features.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, customers, and developers to refine high level requirements into detailed specifications for development.
- Work with customer, architect, and scrum team to create backlog items that have well-defined acceptance criteria and other needed details for development.
- Manage product lifecycle to meet product release goals in Scrum development environment.
- Prioritize backlog to create steady stream of work for development team.
- Validate product updates to ensure all requirements are met.
- Lead or participate in Agile ceremonies and team meetings.
- Coordinate release communications and technical documentation.
- Maintain regular communication with key team members and manage team communication channels.
- Developed and delivered change management support documentation and manuals via ServiceNow.
Combat Logistic Specialist
UNITED STATES ARMY RESERVE
02.2019 - Current
- Constructs bins, shelving, and other storage aids
- Raise quality and accuracy of performance, cost, and parts data through improved maintenance management
- Organize material distribution and transportation logistics in accordance with executive direction
- Supervise personnel in supply, services, materials management, and logistical operations
- Manage daily activities of inventory operations in alignment with regulatory agencies and related policies
Sr. Business System Analyst
IBM/ARTECH
05.2020 - 05.2022
- Scrum Master for 2 agile teams
- Work in agile team environment alongside product owners, scrum masters, developers, and architects for well-defined projects, ensuring that project deliverables meet business specifications
- Assisted Product Owner with Backlog grooming and refinement, User Story development, prioritization,
- Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Scrum Meetings, and other agile activities
- Coordinate all Scrum Ceremonies including Sprint
- Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint retrospectives
- Facilitate and organize daily stand- ups, sprint planning, retrospective
- Empower teams to self-organize and grow cross- functionality
- Track and remove internal and external impediments for scrum team
- Identify and prioritize risk issues, facilitate development of action plans
- Facilitate retrospectives at key project milestones and final project completion
- Responsible for Product Backlog Grooming
- Facilitate development of Acceptance Criteria for user stories
Business Analyst/Agile Coach
Memphis
06.2017 - 04.2020
- Light, Gas, And Water –, Responsible for definition, adoption and optimization of agile methodology, processes, and practices
- Drove and facilitated sprint ceremonies including planning, backlog grooming and refinement, daily stand-up meetings and retrospectives
- Guided, coached, and motivated team to be highly effective, self-organized, productive, and accountable, with emphasis on achieving sprint commitments
- Partnered with product owners to effectively create, maintain, and refine product backlog
- Facilitated communication channels for Scrum teams and associated business and technical stakeholders to ensure vision, goals, progress, and product delivery commitments are visible and well understood
- Identified and removed impediments and blockers preventing teams from delivering sprint goals
- Taught, mentored, facilitated, and refined Scrum practices and Agile Principles within teams
- Monitored progress and team performance throughout thelife of initiatives and monitor and manage project scope and deliverables.
GIS Analyst
CENTERPOINT ENERGY
10.2015 - 06.2017
- Utilized GIS and database software to gather, analyze, develop, review and process data related to natural gas industry
- Provided support and research in developing, maintaining, updating, and retrieving information from various G.I.S related files and relational database
- Conducted research to locate and obtain existing databases
- Digitized all field work installations of gas mains, services, and meters from all service territories within
- ARKANSAS, TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA
- Reviewed, generated, revised, and updated land maps using MicroStation,
- G.I.S and/or G.I.S platforms, SAP, P8, and Google earth from several States like TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, AND
- ARKANSAS.
Education
Bachelor of Science - COMPUTER
STRAYER UNIVERSITY
Houston, Tx03.2021
Bachelor of Science - Interior Design & Business
Harding University
Searcy, AR08.2015
Skills
- MS Office
- Problem-Solving
- Jira
- GIS Analysis
- Grooming Practices
- Scrum Methodology
- Best Practices and Methodologies
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Quality improvement plans
- Agile Framework
- Materials review
- Backlog Refinement
- Agile and Scrum Environments
- Visio
- Acceptance Criteria
- UAT Support
- Stakeholder Relationship Management
Certification
- Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 (PSPO 1)
- Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM1)
Timeline
Sr. Business Analyst/Agile Product Owner
Concept Pluss LLC
05.2022 - Current
Sr. Business System Analyst
IBM/ARTECH
05.2020 - 05.2022
Combat Logistic Specialist
UNITED STATES ARMY RESERVE
02.2019 - Current
Business Analyst/Agile Coach
Memphis
06.2017 - 04.2020
GIS Analyst
CENTERPOINT ENERGY
10.2015 - 06.2017
Bachelor of Science - COMPUTER
STRAYER UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Science - Interior Design & Business
Harding University
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