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Otto Makoge

Product Owner
McKinney,TX

Summary

Systematic Product Owner with a detail-oriented and thorough approach to defining requirements, outlining specifications and working with team members to bring to life high-quality products for customers. Good planner and problem-solver with in-depth understanding of iterative, customer centered valued products. Ready to offer 5+ years of experience and take on a dynamic new position. Experienced product management professional well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodologies and principles of product development. Comfortable making key decisions for team to move products efficiently through pre-production and production timelines.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Product Owner

Luxbill Technologies
Dallas, United States
01.2018 - Current
  • Oversaw entire product deployments from vision and creation to rollout and delivery.
  • Owned and prioritized product backlog.
  • Focused on building critical features up front in order to identify constraints and technical challenges.
  • Coordinated with software developers to create custom applications and trackers to achieve client goals.
  • Brainstormed with peers and other members of design team to determine enhancements and product features.
  • Suggested enhancements to product design that would improve user experience.
  • Contacted proper stakeholders to share changes to project scope and timelines.
  • Identified changes in project scope and modified job schedule accordingly.
  • Demonstrated respect, friendliness and willingness to help wherever needed.
  • Documented each step in product's design process for use in manuals.
  • Allocated and approved team resource usage.

Minister/Coach/Teacher/Volunteer

WGBI
Global, TX/MD
02.2022 - Current
  • Led programs such as worship, study, fellowship and service opportunities.Servant leadership
  • leading by examples
  • Compassionate, empathetic, listening to understand.
    Strategic ministerial counselling (iterated, results driven)
  • Encouraged, motivate, and help built practical coping skills for daily living
  • Teaching, mentoring, and coaching young preachers, youth preachers, children’s preachers to bring out the best of their potential.
  • Develop lesson plans and materials for classroom instruction to meet education goals using several teaching methods such as lectures, discussions, hands on activities.
  • Develop strategies to move socially and economically diverse group of students towards success each year.

Nurse-Team Lead

Hope Pediatric
Dallas
07.2012 - 01.2018

Ensured administrative duties are accurately completed in a timely fashion.
Supported clients establish and maintain robust relationships and interest.
Facilitated demonstrated initiatives, tasks and activities aimed at meeting the customer’s personal individual need.
Facilitated the team to meet the agreed and working case plans of the customers.
Proactively plan, organize, and execute team brainstorming sessions to bring about new innovations to improve team objectives.
Guide and coach, the team to become self-organized.
Built a safe and trusting environment where conflicts are managed in a healthy way without fear of blame.
Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information.
Providing all support needed to the team including using servant leadership style and leading by example.

Realtor

Fairfax Realty
Silver Spring, MD
07.2006 - 01.2011

Customer centered sales & marketing skills. Build trust and confidentiality fostering referrals
Million-dollar agent (cumulative sales amounting to S1million a month regularly). Served a hybrid agency as seller and buyer agent.
Accurately obtained client criteria and presented homes matching specified needs/desires. Showed residential properties and demonstrated the futures /benefits of available homes.
Advised homebuyers on purchase procedures. Provided timely follow-up during all phase’s property research and acquisition.
As a sales agent, I leveraged my master networking skills to cultivate strategic relationships, build a strong referral base and generate leads. Then follow up with my persuasive communication skills to negotiate best terms and expedite a smooth closure all while delivering excellent customer service.
Mastered sales techniques for varied marketing products including newspaper, print ads, targeted magazine publications, online, direct marketing, pre-print inserts.
Ensured administrative duties are accurately completed in a timely fashion.
Supported clients establish and maintain robust relationships and interest

Education

Software Product Management - Technology

University of Washington
Seattle, WA
11.2022 - 09.2023

MCM, Masters Degree -

Oral Roberts University
Tulsa, OK
01.2020 - 05.2021

Bachelor of Science -

University of Buea
Cameroon
05.2001 -

Skills

    Story planning

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Accomplishments

  • Planned and estimated 2-week sprints in a realistic yet time-efficient manner that allowed the teams to deliver 97% of the MVP according to the company roadmap.

Timeline

Software Product Management - Technology

University of Washington
11.2022 - 09.2023

Minister/Coach/Teacher/Volunteer

WGBI
02.2022 - Current

MCM, Masters Degree -

Oral Roberts University
01.2020 - 05.2021

Product Owner

Luxbill Technologies
01.2018 - Current

Nurse-Team Lead

Hope Pediatric
07.2012 - 01.2018

Realtor

Fairfax Realty
07.2006 - 01.2011

Bachelor of Science -

University of Buea
05.2001 -
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