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Richard Oahimijie-Uneh

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Summary

Motivated Trainer eager to help new hires advance in knowledge and abilities to meet career goals. Engaging and hands-on instructor with more than 13 years of related experience and superior planning and time management abilities. Competent Process Engineering professional offering foundation in engineering project management and design. History of success in performing load and cost calculations and establishing clear parameters. Detail-oriented with strong knowledge of Software development teams and Business leadership teams.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

AGILE COACH/RTE

ENTEGRAL INC.
12.2021 - Current
  • Coached multiple (both product development and business) leadership teams through formation and maturity phases
  • Coached multiple leadership teams through proper objective/goal setting sessions to ensure us deliver on SMART goals
  • Coached business leaders on core values of transparency and collaboration to help drive alignment with the organization
  • Coached business leaders through sessions as we prepared to share our goals, deliverables and results with C-suite executives
  • Guided leaders through multiple HPT (high performing teams) exercise as a means to reflect on where the team is and decide on specific areas where we seek improvement
  • Track team's health and progress within PI and facilitated quarterly retrospective sessions for the value stream in the form of Inspect and Adapt ceremonies
  • Developed coaching materials and provided coaching for Scrum masters and coaches as the organization shifted focus to core organizational metrics for to guide leaders/Executive in key strategic and business decision making
  • Work with Product Manager to ensure that the Product Backlog remained groomed and ready for team's consumption before and during PI planning
  • Facilitate all traditional ART ceremonies as well as other ad-hoc meetings that help drive product development/enhancement forward
  • Support the Product Manager during key planning and grooming ceremonies
  • Coordinate internal and external communications for dependencies management and impediment resolution
  • Collaborated with Scrum Masters and other RTEs to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum practices within the organization
  • Researched Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings through coaching sessions with my team to continuously improve.

RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
03.2020 - 12.2021
  • Collaborate with other Agile Release Trains to manage cross dependencies and risks
  • Drive the practice of CD/CI within the release train and across the project
  • Track team's health and progress within sprint using team's velocity and burndown chart in TFS
  • Work with Product Manager to ensure that the Product Backlog remained groomed and ready for team's consumption during sprint planning
  • Coordinate with Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineer during Scrum of Scrums to keep track of and resolve any Train/Solutions level obstacles
  • Facilitate all traditional ART ceremonies as well as other ad-hoc meetings that help drive product development/enhancement forward
  • Helped guide one of the agile teams in transitioning from the Scrum approach to the Kanban approach when the kind of work that was best suited for Kanban came up
  • Used Azure Dev-ops (TFS) to create the initial Kanban board for the new Kanban team
  • Guided the team on how to set up and use the Kanban board, as well as what the role of the Product Owner will be in the Kanban team
  • Support the Product Manager during key planning and grooming ceremonies
  • Coordinate internal and external communications for impediment resolution
  • Coach Scrum Master/Product Owner/Product Manager and the entire team on how to write better Features, Epics and user stories and prepare for sprint planning
  • Collaborated with Scrum Masters and other RTEs to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum within the organization
  • Researched Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings through coaching sessions with my team to continuously improve
  • Helped shield the team from external intrusions and distractions
  • Ensured Scrum principles were applied in a manner consistent with the corporate mission and vision
  • Proof of Concept (PoC) and Vendor Management.

RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER

EXXONMOBIL
03.2019 - 02.2020
  • Track team's health and progress within sprint using team's velocity and burndown chart in TFS
  • Work with Product Manager to ensure that the Product Backlog remained groomed and ready for team's consumption during sprint planning
  • Coordinate with Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineer during Scrum of Scrums to keep track of and resolve any Train/Solutions level obstacles
  • Facilitate all traditional ART ceremonies as well as other ad-hoc meetings that help drive product development/enhancement forward
  • Helped guide one of the agile teams in transitioning from the Scrum approach to the Kanban approach when the kind of work that was best suited for Kanban came up
  • Used Azure Dev-ops (TFS) to create the initial Kanban board for the new Kanban team
  • Guided the team on how to set up and use the Kanban board, as well as what the role of the Product Owner will be in the Kanban team
  • Support the Product Manager during key planning and grooming ceremonies
  • Coordinate internal and external communications for impediment resolution
  • Coach Scrum Master/Product Owner/Product Manager and the entire team on how to write better Features, Epics and user stories and prepare for sprint planning
  • Collaborated with Scrum Masters and other RTEs to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum within the organization
  • Researched Agile/Scrum techniques and shared findings through coaching sessions with my team to continuously improve
  • Helped shield the team from external intrusions and distractions
  • Ensured Scrum principles were applied in a manner consistent with the corporate mission and vision
  • Proof of Concept (PoC) and Vendor Management
  • Collaborate with other Agile Release Trains to manage cross dependencies and risks.

RTE/SCRUM MASTER

USAA
10.2018 - 02.2019
  • Manage and lead scrum teams from novice (waterfall) to expert self-organizing teams
  • Lead and coach with daily Stand up, Capacity, Retrospective, Sprint Planning and coach team collaboratively and independently while utilizing Jira as a tool with 2 week sprints
  • Work with Product Owners and or BA's to make sure they are on task with prioritizing the backlog before each retrospective, and planning session
  • Proof of Concept (POC) and Vendor Management
  • Deliver high quality projects on time in a fast-paced, and rapidly changing software development environment
  • Experience managing multiple scrum teams (Dev/Support) developing 6 applications with data aggregation and custom functionality simultaneously on 1 platform
  • Competency-based talent development systems and processes, culture change, needs analysis Testing, HR scripting, facilitating, reporting statistics and daily team Scrum meetings
  • Develop change management strategies, conduct stakeholder analysis, impact assessments and devise appropriate plans
  • Create project tasks, benchmarks, reporting, conduct testing meetings, web based issue tracking and assign resources per project
  • Implement Benefit module, and update according to Office of the Comptroller of Currency's OTS enforcement orders
  • Manage effectiveness of change management activities including communication to stakeholders
  • Define and initiate projects, assign project managers to manage cost, and schedule, while ensuring success
  • Coupled SCRUM solutions with developing a Project Overview, Timeline, and Process Flow using MS Word and MS Visio.

AGILE COACH/SM

HPE (DXC)
03.2016 - 09.2018
  • Facilitated Scrum ceremonies like Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement and Sprint Reviews
  • Collaborate with project stakeholders to negotiate scope boundaries, approaches to mitigate risk, priorities of specification elements, and adjustments as indicated to alleviate conflicting requirements
  • Worked closely with product owners in Backlog grooming and managing the product backlog
  • Coordinating & collaborating with other scrum teams to help identify and track user story dependencies
  • Coordinate PI (Program Increment) planning and coached stakeholders in setting up ART (Agile Release Trains) and Solutions Trains
  • Worked closely and extensively with the Business unit executives as well as the various business OPS teams
  • Helped the team and product owner to prioritize the PBI's using prioritization techniques like 100 Dollar test, MOSCOW, Business Value based etc
  • Managed multiple off-shore and on-shore teams
  • Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
  • Facilitated Sprint Planning helped the team commit to a sprint goal with and break all stories into tasks
  • Used Estimation techniques like Planning Poker, T-shirt sizing and relative mass evaluation
  • Helped the team in Sprint review to review the potentially shippable product increment (PSPI) to the business users, higher management and all the other stakeholders
  • Facilitated Agile Retrospective using techniques like Silent Writing, Happiness histogram, Sad Mad Glad, Speed dating etc
  • And guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance
  • Protected the team from over-commitment and prioritize resolution of defects/bugs
  • Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
  • Worked on decomposing EPICs into smaller user stories for effective utilization by considering and identifying SMART tasks with the help of the team
  • Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables
  • Working knowledge of other agile concepts such as continuous development and deployment, Test Driven development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) etc
  • Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction
  • Also created and maintained Sprint Burn-down Chart and Product Burn-Down Chart to keep the track of the team's and also created Product Burn-up Chart to show the progress of the team to higher management using JIRA.

SNR BUSINESS ANALYST

HPE
08.2015 - 02.2016
  • Performed Requirement Gathering & Analysis by actively soliciting, analyzing and negotiating customer requirements and prepared the requirements specification document for the application using MS Word
  • Developed the project plan with assistance from the management, and included provisions for project scope changes and issues and initiated efforts to make improvements
  • Worked on project life cycle and SDLC methodologies primarily-Waterfall
  • Conducted project kick off meetings with team members to explain roles / responsibilities, relationships with other groups, deliverables, timelines, assignments and status reporting
  • Analyzing existing system to ensure it meets documented requirements standards
  • Prod verifying existing system for new change orders
  • Documenting confirmation of Prod verification
  • Documenting change order requests from the state (client)
  • Prepare presentation slides in MS Project, which was extensively used in different meetings at the client's location
  • Interpreting documented business and functional requirements to the development team.

SCRUM MASTER

NB PLC.
08.2013 - 07.2015
  • Worked in collaboration with the Product Owner, Development team and other stakeholders to define and enumerate the scope of the project and set the expectations
  • Facilitated time-boxed meetings such as Sprint planning, daily scrum, Sprint review, Sprint retrospective and backlog refinement meeting
  • Educated and reinforced both offshore and onshore teams in Agile and Scrum methodology
  • Facilitated cross-team coordination and collaboration
  • Ensured cross-functional coordination between product owners, analysts, developers and QA occurred early and often, and removed barriers and blockers for the team
  • Helped the product owner in writing user-stories that meet the INVEST criteria and in prioritizing the product backlog using MOSCOW technique
  • Guided the scrum team in Sprint planning as regards the determination of effort required per Sprint(length of Sprint), as well as guidance in selection of additional user stories in case of overestimation of Sprints
  • Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions
  • Estimated the stories using the Planning poker technique
  • Facilitated and time-boxed the daily stand up meeting with both off-shore and on-shore resources
  • Conducted Physical and Virtual Retrospective meetings using techniques like silent writing, happiness histogram etc, every sprint to improve the upcoming sprints and also team's productivity
  • Monitored the development progress throughout each sprint to ensure project was within scope and budget
  • Providing all the required support to the team using a servant leadership style whenever possible by example- Escalate and resolve impediments to the team's progress
  • Report sprints progress, release notes, metrics like Burndown, Burnup, and velocity to the upper management and the team and maintain dashboards.

BUSINESS ANALYST

NB PLC.
02.2012 - 07.2013
  • Performed Requirement Gathering & Analysis by actively soliciting, analyzing and negotiating customer requirements and prepared the requirements specification document for the application using MS Word
  • Developed the project plan with assistance from the management, and included provisions for project scope changes and issues and initiated efforts to make improvements
  • Worked on project life cycle and SDLC methodologies primarily-Waterfall
  • Conducted project kick off meetings with team members to explain roles / responsibilities, relationships with other groups, deliverables, timelines, assignments and status reporting
  • Analyzing existing system to ensure it meets documented requirements standards
  • Prod verifying existing system for new change orders
  • Documenting confirmation of Prod verification
  • Documenting change order requests from the state (client)
  • Prepare presentation slides in MS Project, which was extensively used in different meetings at the client's location
  • Interpreting documented business and functional requirements to the development team.

SALES TEAM MANAGER

NB PLC.
10.2011 - 02.2012
  • Clear definition of yearly sales target after review of previous years' sales performance by brands, by sales cluster and by customer
  • Annual review of Sales executive performance as per pre-set business objectives
  • Annual and quarterly review of customer sales performance by brands as per pre-set business objectives
  • Determining what the best marketing strategy by brand was in the sales district and coordinating with the national marketing team to define what, when and where commercials and strategic billboards should be displayed
  • Coordinated with the national administrative and legal team to determine the most viable sales vehicles to keep on local routes
  • Coordinated with logistics on batch scheduling of release for key brands to customers following the FIFO rules
  • Coordinated with National sales training manager for planning of individually tailored sales training for every member of my sales team, from sales executive to field sales men
  • Coordinated with my district manager on key issues to present at the monthly regional sales management meetings as well as setting the agenda for weekly sales meeting
  • Facilitated on-site trainings for both field sales men as well as support staff at key distributors' warehouse
  • Consolidated field sales data for analysis at district level and onward presentation to regional and national sales team.

Education

Master of Science - Information Technology Management

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT
04.2019

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Ambrose Alli University
Ekpoma, Nigeria
11.2006

Skills

  • Agile Framework Expertise
  • Scrum mastery
  • Servant Leadership
  • Backlog Grooming
  • Project Management
  • Technical reporting
  • Engineering Documentation
  • Project Planning
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Process Improvement
  • Agile Metrics Tracking
  • Work Planning and Prioritization

Educationcertifications

  • Bachelor of Science, Computer science, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria, MM/DD/YY
  • Master of Science, Information Technology Management, Western Governors' University, Texas, USA, MM/DD/YY
  • Scrum Master Certified, MM/DD/YY
  • SAFe RTE Certification, MM/DD/YY
  • SAFe Agilist Certification, MM/DD/YY
  • PMI-PMP/ACP/CAPM Certification, MM/DD/YY

Summaryofexpertise

Goal driven, Release Train Engineer (RTE) with specific knowledge of current practices in Leadership development, Change Management, Organization Design and Agile Methodologies. Scrum Master with multiple years of experience in both IT and the complete software development life cycle as well as a rich knowledge of business processes. Senior Business analyst with multiple years of experience in both IT and the complete software development life cycle in both the Agile Scrum and Waterfall methodologies. People-focused manager with years of experience providing leadership and mentorship to resources both in the IT and business side of organizations.

Certification

  • Certified Scrum Master
  • Certified Product Owner
  • SAFe RTE Certified
  • SAFe Agilist Certified
  • PMI - PMP
  • PMI - ACP

Timeline

AGILE COACH/RTE

ENTEGRAL INC.
12.2021 - Current

RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS
03.2020 - 12.2021

RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER

EXXONMOBIL
03.2019 - 02.2020

RTE/SCRUM MASTER

USAA
10.2018 - 02.2019

AGILE COACH/SM

HPE (DXC)
03.2016 - 09.2018

SNR BUSINESS ANALYST

HPE
08.2015 - 02.2016

SCRUM MASTER

NB PLC.
08.2013 - 07.2015

BUSINESS ANALYST

NB PLC.
02.2012 - 07.2013

SALES TEAM MANAGER

NB PLC.
10.2011 - 02.2012

Master of Science - Information Technology Management

Western Governors University

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Ambrose Alli University

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