Lidwina Fonmboh
Houston,Texas
Summary
Experienced Scrum Project Manager with a background in Oracle database administration, leveraging technical expertise and Agile methodologies to drive successful software development projects. Committed to delivering high-quality solutions on time and within budget while fostering collaboration and innovation within cross-functional teams. Experienced project manager with advanced knowledge of project management methodologies and practices. Proven track record of successfully executing project plans and achieving project goals. Skilled in assessing project needs and resources, managing risks and issues, and driving testing and acceptance of project results. Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to build partnerships and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager/Technical Delivery Manager
Corporate One Federal Credit Union
Columbus, Ohio
09.2022 - Current
- Led and executed complex project plans/roadmaps, including scope, budget, and schedule
- Managed project tasks and resources to achieve project goals using standard project management methodologies
- Assessed project needs and resources to ensure projects were completed on time and within budget
- Managed risks, issues, mitigation strategies, and decisions
- Drove testing and acceptance of project results
- Partnered with resource managers, business partners, and vendors to assemble project teams and provide ongoing motivation
- Led and facilitated project meetings and presentations to leadership
- Established and executed a project communication plan to maintain project alignment
- Built cross-functional alliances to drive results
- Collaborated with development teams to ensure work was completed as planned
- Followed analytical methods for task execution/tracking and budget/timeline tracking
- Manage project timelines, and resources, identifying risks and dependencies and proactively addressing issues to minimize project delays and disruptions
- Maintain clear communication channels with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, risks, and mitigation strategies
- Assisted Project Managers in planning, coordinating, and monitoring software development projects, ensuring adherence to project plans, timelines, and quality standards
- Advised other departments on best practices related to managing large-scale projects
Agile Project Manager
BOA
Charlotte, NC
02.2022 - 08.2022
- Coached 3 teams using diverse techniques and enabling them to become self-managing and self-organizing
- Facilitate open communication between product, senior leadership, and engineering teams
- Gather and implement companywide metrics such as flow efficiency, cycle team, and lead time
- Implement a companywide process of how escalations are handled within SRE teams
- Foster an environment of trust by encouraging open and transparent communication while working towards a common goal
- Coach engineering managers and directors through the adoption of the Agile mindset
- Lead the engineering department through an Agile transformation
- Collaborated closely with team members to achieve project objectives and meet deadlines
- Conducted testing of software and systems to ensure quality and reliability
- Managed time effectively to ensure tasks were completed on schedule and deadlines were met
- Worked successfully with diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our products and services
- Contributed innovative ideas and solutions to enhance team performance and outcomes
Scrum master/Agile Coach
PNC
Charlotte, NC
07.2020 - 12.2021
- Successfully drove organizational agility by promoting Agile values, principles, and practices among executive, mid-senior management, and distributed development teams
- Proven track record of implementing Agile (SCRUM) Methodology as both Product Owner and Scrum Master, optimizing team velocities, managing product backlogs, and coordinating release management activities
- Demonstrated expertise in supply chain management solutions, significantly reducing shipping costs and operating expenses through innovative optimization systems
- Led small to large projects from conception to completion, showcasing strong leadership, managerial, analytical, and technical skills
- Managed offshore teams, addressing quality, cost, communication, cultural, and other challenges typical in offshore setups
- Led a geographically distributed Operations Support team, ensuring effective monitoring, incident, problem, and change management processes
- Daily management of Agile delivery teams, directing efforts including requirements gathering, definition, user story creation, release planning, and facilitating Scrum ceremonies
- Assisted with the implementation of SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) best practices and coached teams transitioning from Waterfall to Agile
- Utilized Rally Agile management tool for team setup, capacity monitoring, sprint progress tracking, and facilitating PI planning events
- Identified dependencies, addressed impediments, and coached teams to improve performance and predictability throughout the software development lifecycle
- Maintained Scrum artifacts and facilitated Scrum ceremonies, conducted sprint planning and backlog grooming sessions, and coached team members on Scrum delivery
- Ensured project standards and requirements alignment with organizational expectations, facilitated internal and external communication to improve project transparency
Scrum Master
Volvo Trucks
Greensboro, NC
04.2019 - 06.2020
- Drove organizational agility by implementing Agile values, principles, and practices across executive, mid-senior management, and distributed development teams
- Successfully delivered project requirements on time within hybrid methodology environments, transitioning to Agile methodologies
- Reported progress to stakeholders through various reports including Sprint Burn-Down and Iteration Burn-Down reports, ensuring transparency and alignment
- Practiced backlog grooming, release and sprint planning, daily standups, and impediment removal, ensuring adherence to Agile principles
- Facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrums, Sprint Check-In, Sprint Review, and Retrospective sessions
- Wrote User Stories based on stakeholder requirements and utilized Story Sizing and Planning Poker techniques for backlog prioritization
- Ensured application availability and data integrity through preventative maintenance and upgrades, coordinating with systems partners as needed
- Provided leadership and support to program managers, coached teams on Agile practices, and led cross-functional project execution
- Established and drove Agile methodologies and Release Planning processes across multiple geographical locations, facilitating successful transformations from Waterfall to Agile
- Identified and resolved impediments, tracked progress, planned velocity, and groomed product backlogs, ensuring incremental improvement and high-quality software delivery
- Managed quality objectives, regulatory requirements, schedules, and program risks, making decisions based on business objectives
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, mentored and coached new teams on Scrum processes, transparency, and accountability
- Organized and participated in "Scrum of Scrum" meetings to track dependencies and blockers across program releases
- Worked with Program teams to identify epics and create KPI metrics for different leadership levels, serving as a trainer on Agile adoption
Scrum Master
Deloitte
Indianapolis, IN
01.2017 - 03.2019
- Driving organizational agility through adoption of agile values, principles, and practices for software delivery by working with the executive, mid-senior management, and distributed development teams
- Managed team relationships coached and supported the program manager to be the Product Owner
- Identified and resolved impediments, tracked progress, planned velocity, and worked with Product Owner to groom the product backlog, facilitated release planning, coached teams on Agile practices for incremental improvement for delivering high quality software
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Managed quality objectives, regulatory requirements, schedules, and program risks and made decisions based on business objectives
- Cross-functional project execution leadership including (but not limited to) concept discussion, program execution, pilot trials, and product field delivery
- Demonstrated interpersonal and leadership skills and can work and inspire others in a multi-functional team environment
- Integrated Agile methodologies and tools (TFS) and Waterfall (Microsoft Project, Excel, and SharePoint) project management tools
- Facilitates requirements gathering and interview sessions with customers in order surface essential IT requirements
- Facilitate scrum ceremonies (grooming, sprint planning, retrospectives, daily stand-ups, etc.)
- Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%
- Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
- Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 33 major initiatives
- Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
- Manage the lifecycle of code development, from ideation to sprints to deployment
- Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
- Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
- Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise
- Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
- Facilitated Scrum of Scrum for offshore teams in India
- Developed two websites and collateral for company facing
- Maintained corporate partnerships with NetSuite and Salesforce.com
- Hands-on experience with multiple issue and project tracking tools – JIRA
- Sets client expectations relative to project-related and system constraints
- Participated in converting the business requirements to software specifications using Rational UML
- Worked with ISA- internal security, stakeholder, application developer team in knowing what project manager required
- Highlighted any potential risks to the environment by categorized them in risk
- Involved in the meetings with business process owners, SME (subject matter experts), and Security Audit team for requirements gathering and verification stage
- Wrote Use Cases and produce Activity diagrams, Develop requirements specifications and Documentations
- Worked directly with the project managers, and internal security team to ensure clear communications on requirements and defect reports
Oracle technical support database admin
Deloitte
Indianapolis, IN
06.2015 - 01.2017
- Performance issue tracking and solution making using Explain plan to diagnose long running queries
- Successful in installation/maintenance of Physical Standby database for Oracle 11.2.0.3 standalone databases and Oracle 10.2.0.5 RAC databases
- And Implemented switchovers on primary and standby databases as a part of planned maintenance activities
- Designed and implemented different backup strategies like Cold, Hot, RMAN with Flash Recovery Area and Used EXPDP/IMPDP for Logical Backups, migration, and database refreshes
- Installed and currently Managing Oracle 12c Grid Control (OEM) for monitoring Production, Active Data guard (DG Broker), Stage and Dev systems
- Implemented Oracle TDE, Network data encryption to improve the security and implemented SSL wallet to secure the connections on Oracle 11g R2
- I was responsible for the maintenance, monitoring, and performance of critical Oracle and RDS database systems, to ensure high availability and consistent performance of the applications
- I was part of a team of specialists in the DBA area
- This includes Daily operation, tuning, capacity planning and consolidation
- I was involved in discussion with the different projects regarding their needs and guide them to a suitable solution
- I managed very large tables of up to 20Tb
Education
Bachelor's degree in accountancy -
University of Buea Cameroon
Skills
- Advanced knowledge of project processes, problem management tools, and procedures
- Knowledge of Agile development practices and ceremonies
- Proficient knowledge of application impact on operational and business functions
- Strong customer service and team orientation
- Ability to build relationships and influence without authority
- Active listening, presenting, and facilitating team and stakeholder meetings
- Ability to maintain composure under pressure and accurately assess problem situations
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative, team-based environment
- Skilled in leadership to direct performance of outside contractors and maintain positive relationships with internal customers
- Solid communication, metrics driven, and status reporting
- Cross-functional team leadership
- Conflict Management and Resolution
- Experienced enhancements of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Experienced Project Manager with Waterfall and Agile Methodologies
- Strong on strategy and content delivery during integrations
- Risk management
- Planning, engineering, and construction management of mission critical projects
- Experience as a Scrum Master & Agile Coach in diverse industry sectors including Mortgage, Banking, & Insurance
- Interacted with Subject Matter Experts (SME's) of different divisions (Information Technology, Risk and Operations) and established a business analysis and design methodology around Agile Methodology
- Experience with Project Management tools and techniques
- Agile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
- Oracle Database Administration, SQL and PL/SQL
- Stakeholder Management
- Jira, Azure Devops
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Oracle Certified Associate 12c Certified
- SQL fundamentals Certified
- SAFe Certified
- PMP Certified
Accomplishments
- Increased frequency of value delivered, improved story quality, grew Product Backlog to support 3x more customers. Team was initially serving 1 customer product. Now serving 4 departments with diverse products
- Served development teams through process and product focus. Cut cycle time from >90 days to
- Radically improved work organization and processes, resulting in massive praise from our primary clients.
- Organized weekly technical and Scrum Agile training for Developers and published edited video archives.
- Created Scrum Agile training videos for employee and client onboarding.
- Coached other development teams. Interviewed and trained additional Scrum Master
Timeline
Project Manager/Technical Delivery Manager
Corporate One Federal Credit Union
09.2022 - Current
Agile Project Manager
BOA
02.2022 - 08.2022
Scrum master/Agile Coach
PNC
07.2020 - 12.2021
Scrum Master
Volvo Trucks
04.2019 - 06.2020
Scrum Master
Deloitte
01.2017 - 03.2019
Oracle technical support database admin
Deloitte
06.2015 - 01.2017
Bachelor's degree in accountancy -
University of Buea Cameroon
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