TONI OKOLIE

• Established criteria for each milestone within product roadmap as means to measure developmental progress.
• Conceptualized and deployed enhanced product features and optimized implementation for use in marketing strategies.
• Analyzed metrics to measure product performance.
• Coordinated project planning and execution with team members and team leads.
• Engage in all stages of product’s lifecycle and drive product development.
• Spearheaded collaborative efforts to bring products to market.
• Set goals and formalized policies to maximize team performance and keep project on-task.
• Reduced project downtime with quality product inspections.
• Liaised with clients to better understand business needs and current market landscape.
• Maintained positive vendor relations to build strong partnerships.
• Coordinated design meetings and decisions with internal departments and teams.
• Documented user stories, specifications and product features into detailed work order to communicate across teams and build mandatory requirements.

• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
• Drove Scrum team progress to overcome obstacles and realize success throughout life of each sprint.
• Worked closely and listened to team members' feedback to identify issues and resolve conflicts.
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
• Worked effectively with multiple Scrum teams both internally and externally.
• Worked across teams outside of engineering to find solutions and answers to issues encountered by engineering personnel.
• Provided extensive guidance on Agile scrum processes and methodologies to highly effective teams with goals of improving quality and productivity.

Worked on software development project with international team of 9 members and achieved targeted result by delivering product 2 months ahead of product launch date thereby saving organization about 23% of budget cost.