Mary Jane Ukwuegbu
Dallas,TX
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Regions Bank
Dallas, TX
04.2020 - Current
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver strategic initiatives and meet emerging needs, including defined project plans, coordinated resources, managed implementation activities, and development/management of processes associated with program rollout and ongoing support.
- I develop strategies to reduce project costs (same costs but allowing for more projects) and increase project success rate from 50% to 75% by initiating a two-phase project selection process.
- Manage project(s) and project resources throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle and manage Scrum teams as needed.
- Engage business stakeholders to identify and incorporate business owned project tasks and dependencies.
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously and provide regular and timely Project status updates to project team and leadership as needed to ensure Projects are meeting the agreed-upon timeline.
- I work with the team to create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
- I ensure projects are on schedule and deadlines are met and I also manage project budget and forecast.
- I direct and oversee the project team and manage conflicts within the group and efficiently identifies, escalates, and solves project issues.
- Responsible for change/communication management and weekly updates reporting to stakeholders and PMO concerning project progress.
- Ability to drive strategic projects to completion on time and in scope.
- Experience in facilitating open communications between technical teams and the senior board.
- Experience in arbitrating issues arising from project work and creating useful working relationships with all members of the project team.
- Experience in gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information to the team in order to maintain project progress.
- Experience in defining and documenting business requirements for moderate-to-complex projects and use Cases documentation for a variety of projects.
- Experience in performing user acceptance and application testing.
- Experience in providing consultation in information security technology alignment to the client to identify and satisfy the business needs.
- Experience in reviewing designs and technical specification documents for alignment with business solutions.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritize competing deliverables due to changing timelines.
- Working with the IT team members to coordinate daily tasks and lead daily scrum.
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
Dallas, TX
01.2019 - 02.2020
- Experience in managing multiple IT Initiatives such Data & Analytics, Cloud Migration, Compliance, Power BI Reporting etc.
- Experience in managing stakeholder partnerships and communication. I also serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert on our EMT team applications.
- Experience in overseeing interdependencies and integration of interrelated projects.
- Highly experienced in facilitating technical design discussion and implementation of IT solutions.
- Experience in using azure DevOps in project planning and tracking of our dev tasks.
- Lead and facilitate Daily scrum ceremonies as well as grooming features, stories, and tasks in Azure DevOps.
- I train and coach cross-functional teams using azure DevOps across offshore teams.
- Experience in creating project road maps and prioritizing the epic for the team.
- Experience in crafting a vision and strategy based on input from customers, stakeholders, and internal staff team that can be clearly communicated to all levels of the organization.
- Experience in troubleshooting company pain points and issues to determine resolutions that lead to new fixes or projects
- Experience in defining project scope and objectives, managing resources to reach objectives.
- Experience in providing project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about adjustments, and progress.
- Experience in coaching of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
- Served as SCRUM Master in managing Daily standup, sprints, and addressing blockers.
- Experience in facilitating discovery and ensures the removal of roadblocks and promotes them in a timely and assertive way.
- Experience in ensuring the team is focused on sprint commitments and shields the team from distractions and hidden work.
- Experience in facilitating backlog grooming and creating dashboards for management view.
- Experience in ensuring there are no commitment changes during the Sprint and collaborating with Leadership Teams to ensure team success.
Project Manager/Project Manager/Scrum Master
BBVA Compass Bank
Dallas, TX
08.2016 - 12.2018
Timeline
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Regions Bank
04.2020 - Current
Project Manager/Scrum Master
Wells Fargo
01.2019 - 02.2020
Project Manager/Project Manager/Scrum Master
BBVA Compass Bank
08.2016 - 12.2018
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