CHUKWUDI OKOLIE
Rockmart,GA
Summary
Agile program management professional coordinating enterprise delivery across multiple teams, releases, and business stakeholders. Aligns backlog management, dependency mapping, and executive reporting with strategic priorities, while strengthening delivery predictability and on-time milestone execution. Brings the Agile coaching discipline needed for Agile Program Manager roles across complex programs.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Program Manager
Luxottica
McDonough, GA
07.2025 - Current
- Prepare executive updates that summarize progress, risks, decisions, and next steps for program stakeholders.
- Evaluated operational problems and formulated innovative solutions to drive ongoing operational
enhancements. - Developed and maintained a systematic follow-up program to ensure compliance with procedures
in all operational areas - Delivered comprehensive reports to management outlining variances and proposed action plans
for ongoing process improvement. - Coordinate change management activities to communicate updates, gather input, and reduce delivery disruption.
- Align program plans with portfolio priorities to support sequencing, visibility, and business readiness.
SAFe Program Consultant / Agile Coach
General Motors
Detroit, MI
12.2021 - 05.2025
- Conduct Agile maturity assessments and build targeted improvement roadmaps that strengthen team ownership and decision-making.
- Coach 60+ cross-functional teams on Agile delivery, flow optimization, and dependency management to raise sprint commitment reliability from 70% to over 90%.
- Guide SAFe implementation by planning PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt workshops, and System Demos to align business priorities with engineering execution.
- Lead large-scale SAFe transformations across multiple Agile Release Trains by coaching executives, RTEs, Product Managers, and delivery teams on Lean-Agile practices, improving program predictability and on-time PI objectives by 30%.
- Translate assessment findings into practical action plans that accelerate team adoption and sustain performance gains.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment and program coordination across releases, dependencies, and delivery risks.
Scrum Master
Inalfa Roof Systems
Acworth, GA
03.2019 - 10.2021
- Strengthened leadership visibility by delivering clear sprint reports, risk updates, and progress summaries across delivery teams.
- Guided Agile maturity improvements by introducing practical workflow adjustments that improved predictability, quality, and delivery efficiency.
- Analyzed Agile metrics, including velocity trends, burndown charts, and throughput, to identify bottlenecks and guide process improvements across releases.
- Removed delivery impediments by partnering with technical leads, vendors, and business stakeholders, reducing 18% of cycle time and mid-sprint disruptions.
- Applied backlog management and prioritization to keep work aligned with team capacity and shifting delivery needs.
- Mapped dependencies across multiple releases to surface blockers early and maintain coordination between teams and stakeholders.
Project Management Specialist
Florida Blue
Jacksonville, FL
12.2015 - 02.2019
- Managed project budgets and forecasts, maintaining financial control and achieving cost efficiencies of up to 12% without compromising quality.
- Tracked project performance with defined indicators, flagged schedule slippage and cost variances early, and improved delivery timelines by 18%.
- Planned and coordinated multi-disciplinary teams of up to 20 internal staff, consultants, and vendors, reducing handoff delays by 25%.
- Directed full project lifecycles from initiation through close-out, translating strategic objectives into actionable work plans and delivering over 95% of milestones within approved scope, schedule, and cost.
- Used corrective actions to address early schedule and cost risks, strengthening predictability across active projects.
Microwave Engineer
general telecommunication plc
Lagos, Nigeria
03.2008 - 05.2015
- Translated system-level requirements into detailed microwave designs, supporting the product development lifecycle and reducing development timelines by 15%.
- Performed full-wave electromagnetic modeling and circuit-level simulations in ANSYS HFSS, CST Microwave Studio, and Keysight ADS to predict performance and cut physical prototyping cycles by 25%.
- Executed RF and microwave measurements with vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, power sensors, and signal generators.
- Validated gain, insertion loss, return loss, phase noise, and harmonic distortion against design targets through comprehensive bench testing.
- Diagnosed signal leakage, parasitics, thermal drift, and electromagnetic interference affecting system performance.
- Resolved performance degradations and restored system functionality after isolating root causes across hardware and RF signal paths.
- Increased first-pass test yield to over 95% by tightening validation and corrective action workflows.
Education
Master of Science - Engineering Management
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
Kennesaw, GA09-2027
Bachelor of Science - ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY
Lagos, Nigeria01-2006
Skills
- SAFe implementation
- PI planning
- Inspect & Adapt workshops
- System demos
- Agile maturity assessments
- Change management
- Stakeholder management
- Executive reporting
- Portfolio & program alignment
- Risk mitigation
- Backlog management & prioritization
- Agile metrics & performance tracking
- Dependency mapping
- Continuous improvement
- Program predictability
Timeline
Program Manager
Luxottica
07.2025 - Current
SAFe Program Consultant / Agile Coach
General Motors
12.2021 - 05.2025
Scrum Master
Inalfa Roof Systems
03.2019 - 10.2021
Project Management Specialist
Florida Blue
12.2015 - 02.2019
Microwave Engineer
general telecommunication plc
03.2008 - 05.2015
Bachelor of Science - ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY
Master of Science - Engineering Management
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY