Princess Akhamie
Lawrenceville,GA
Summary
Results-driven Project Management and Technology Delivery Leader with over 8 years of experience managing complex initiatives and driving process improvements. Aligns technical and business stakeholders through effective release governance and risk management, enhancing accountability and predictability. Leverages data analysis and AI insights to identify trends, improve data accuracy, and facilitate data-driven decision-making.
Overview
1
1
Certification
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Release Engineer / Domain Coordinator
Macy's Tech
04.2023 - Current
- Delivery Leadership: Lead delivery and release coordination for four Store Operations product teams, guiding committed work through planning, development, testing, dependency resolution, production readiness, and release across functions.
- Replace status-based reporting with evidence-based release criteria that cover development completion, QA readiness, quality, dependency resolution, and production readiness; establish and improve governance and readiness processes supporting these criteria.
- Developed and monitored delivery KPIs and operational indicators to inform leadership decisions regarding commitment reliability, capacity and carryover, quality and readiness, dependency movement, and release risk.
- Clarify ownership, communicate delivery impact, track unresolved actions, and escalate risks in cross-functional dependency management to ensure committed releases.
- Synthesized information from meetings, transcripts, dashboards, Jira reports, communications, and release artifacts to identify risks, dependencies, inconsistencies, and emerging delivery patterns.
- Process Improvement: Use AI to evaluate multiple operational signals and distinguish isolated delivery issues from recurring systemic process problems, enabling focused root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- Translated complex operational and technical information into concise executive-level reports highlighting delivery health, production readiness, risks, dependencies, decisions, and required leadership actions.
Scrum Master
Macy's Tech
02.2022 - 07.2023
- Strategic Delivery: Led technology delivery across multiple portfolios to advance strategic roadmap commitments, cost-savings targets, and operational goals. Helped teams balance new initiatives with operational health, improving delivery predictability and system reliability.
- Delivery Maturity: Enhanced backlog readiness and sprint predictability while balancing KTLO and defect work, standardizing MVOW practices to improve delivery efficiency.
- On-Time Execution: Enabled domains to deliver most initiatives on schedule despite code-freeze constraints and compressed timelines.
- Delivery Insights: Used AI tools to analyze sprint and backlog data, automate status reporting, and flag at-risk commitments early improving on-time delivery and reducing manual preparation time.
- AI-Enabled Ceremonies: Integrated AI into stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives to capture decisions and action items automatically, ensuring consistent follow-through on open items.
- Platform Resilience: Strengthened critical platforms, including Onex, by coordinating Java upgrades and security remediation, prioritizing KTLO to reduce friction and expedite repairs.
- Scalable Growth: Positioned Stores Technology to support scalable growth and an enhanced customer experience ahead of 2027.
Scrum Master
Morgan Stanley
02.2021 - 01.2022
- Led collaboration with Product Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and teams to translate strategic vision into transformation backlog, prioritize work, and define OKRs for Agile delivery alignment.
- Facilitated pre-PI Planning meetings with Product Owners and teams to assess capabilities and epics, aligning them with sprint backlogs to enhance preparation for ART events.
- Risk and Dependency Management: Partnered with Release Train Engineer to manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, resolve conflicts, and eliminate delivery obstacles promptly.
- Coordinated cross-functional teams of UI and Java developers, QA/QE engineers, .NET resources, and UI/UX designers to ensure adherence to project scope and quality standards for successful delivery.
Scrum Master
Johnson & Johnson
03.2019 - 02.2021
- PI Planning: Led quarterly Program Increment sessions to define upcoming workloads, coordinate sprint activities, and align teams with Agile best practices.
- Coordinated pre-PI Planning meetings with Product Owners and teams to assess capabilities, align epics with sprint backlogs, and prepare for ART events.
- Advised Product Delivery Managers and teams on translating strategic vision into a transformation backlog, prioritizing work, and defining OKRs for Agile delivery.
- Partnered with Release Train Engineer to manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, resolve conflicts, and remove delivery obstacles.
- Coordinated UI and Java developers, QA/QE engineers, .NET resources, and UI/UX designers to maintain project scope and uphold quality standards.
Education
MSc - Project Management
University of Salford
Manchester, United Kingdom09-2014
Bachelor of Science -
Igbinedion University
09-2010
Skills
- Program & Delivery Leadership: Project management Cross-Functional Leadership Agile Delivery Release Management Production Readiness
- Data, AI & Reporting: Data analysis KPI Development AI analysis AI Integration Executive reporting Data-driven decisions
- Risk & Process Improvement: Risk management Process improvement Root cause analysis Continuous improvement Stakeholder engagement
- Agile & Work Management
- Jira Azure DevOps ClickUp Smartsheet Confluence SharePoint Miro Figma
- Dependency resolution
- AI tools
- Agile Tools AI Integration Meeting Automation AI Collaboration
- Analytics & Reporting
- Excel PowerPoint Tableau Team Mood Jira Rovo
Certification
- PSM 1, Professional Scrum Master Scrum. Org
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Certified SAFE Scrum Master.
Timeline
Release Engineer / Domain Coordinator
Macy's Tech
04.2023 - Current
Scrum Master
Macy's Tech
02.2022 - 07.2023
Scrum Master
Morgan Stanley
02.2021 - 01.2022
Scrum Master
Johnson & Johnson
03.2019 - 02.2021
MSc - Project Management
University of Salford
Bachelor of Science -
Igbinedion University