ISRAEL ODOGBO
Agile Project Manager
Lewisville,TX
Summary
Seasoned and motivated Agile professional with over seven years of experience in scrum practices and principles,project management ,data governance,mobile application management,product management, SDLC , project lifecycle management, meeting facilitation, good collaborator , agile software, team leadership,managing migration and successful work with cross functional teams. Good communication , customer and relationship development .
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Delivery Lead /Agile Scrum Master
AT&T Communications
Dallas, TX
08.2019 - Current
- Led daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, cloud data warehouse projects , concurrent projects
- Worked with offshore and onsite team on clients Cloud Data Migration project
- Managed multiple internal and outside scrum teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication
- Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs
- Trained and mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use Scrum processes to improve efficiency and reduce production times
- Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches
- Delegated tasks to each team member, regularly assessing workloads to complete tasks on time and within project parameters
- Ensured INVEST criteria is met for all user stories in the backlog
- Prepared various dashboards in JIRA using advanced JQL and Filters
- Helped Product owner with effective management of product backlog
- Innovated new processes and workflows that realized 97% improvement in efficiency of the delivery team
- Evaluated projects for issues, alleviating problems and distractions to meeting team goals
- Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation and implement risk reduction action plans
- Executed critical path scheduling for software development in order to meet delivery schedules and budget.
- Guided and coached Scrum team and organized Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
- Supported team using servant leadership style and leading by example.
- Evangelized Agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
Agile Delivery Lead /Agile Scrum Master
Permanente Healthcare
Oakland, CA
02.2016 - 07.2019
- Chaired business stakeholders (Customers) to understand needs and priorities
- Researched emerging technologies and current trends to stay knowledgeable in methods that could benefit Scrum team.
- Chaired role of data steward and helped in deploying data governance program within the organization.
- Coordinated with scrum team in Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Planning Meetings, Sprint Review ,Retrospective Meetings.
- Worked closely with developers working on Web Orchestration and Java API’s to integrate it with different
- Applications
- Created Sprint Burndown, Burn-up and Release Burndown Chart to keep track of team’s velocity
- Sprint progress for forecasting, and any scope changes
- Worked with a well self-organized cross-functional development team (called Developers) to execute roadmap
- And bring new functionalities to the product
- Mentored and coached business analysts, developers in applying agile principles and practices to achieve team
- Tracked and managed all change requests taking them through complete change request lifecycle Backlog
- Items (PBIs) using techniques like MoSCoW and estimated Story Points using Planning Poker
- Ensured teams are adhering to DOR and DOD criteria
- Assessed team metrics and worked to drive improvements and innovate new approaches
- Worked to gather customer requirements, clarify specifications and translate into product backlog.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
Customer Success Project Manager
NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO
Houston, TX
08.2013 - 01.2016
- Composed Interaction with sponsor/customer and if approved, execute project based on plan that has been committed to by delivery lanes
- Developed ability to qualify new leads, ability to retain existing clients, prepare and submit sales contracts
- Advanced interfacing with Customer peers on daily basis as needed to complete tasks
- Organized Project status and progress reporting to both internal and external peers and upper management covering project plans, resources, budgets, and risk analysis and mitigation
- Meet weekly, monthly, and quarterly activity goals (emails & calls) as outlined by a manager, ability to plan strategically
- Chaired and worked together in Prime Integration activities during project delivery
- Headed project liaison in support of Customer Commercial launch
- Orchestrated and Track projects to ensure efficient use of time and budget to meet goals and established milestones
- Developed ,Established and managed to critical dates required for on-time completion of network activations
- Examined buyer research, cultivation of pipeline growth/build top of pipeline funnel supplementing inbound leads generated by marketing
- Developed best practices for email, phone, and social media to connect with new prospects, comfortable cold calling
- Maximized objection handling, ability to negotiate, ability to pitch solution
Education
Master of Science - Project Management
The University of Texas At Arlington
Arlington, TX12.2023
Bachelor of Science - Technology Management
Lagos State University
05.2013
Skills
- Conflict Resolution Expert
- Jira
- Business Relationship Analyst
- Project Development and Lifecycle Agile Methodologies
- Team Collaboration
- Quality Assurance and Control
- Microsoft Office Suite Expert
- Employee Coaching and Motivation
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Analyzing and Compiling Data
- Project Management
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Backlog Refinement and Management
- Scrum Processes
- Software Process Management
- Coaching and Mentoring
- System/ Software Implementation
Certification
- Professional Scrum Master - 2019
- Scaled Agile Framework Examiner 2019
- Project management Professional- in view
- Certified Business Analysis Professional- in view
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Agile Delivery Lead /Agile Scrum Master
AT&T Communications
08.2019 - Current
Agile Delivery Lead /Agile Scrum Master
Permanente Healthcare
02.2016 - 07.2019
Customer Success Project Manager
NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO
08.2013 - 01.2016
Master of Science - Project Management
The University of Texas At Arlington
Bachelor of Science - Technology Management
Lagos State University
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