YVETTE AGBORTARH
DALLAS,TX
Summary
Goal-Driven Product Owner and Scrum Master Successful at collecting and defining feedback from stakeholders to plan effective stories that bring products to life. Exceptional skills in organizing workloads, building relationships, and managing product development steps. Dedicated to addressing technical challenges head-on. With over 9 years of diligent experience in software delivery with a specialty in Information Technology, Financial institutions, and healthcare. Coached organizations, teams, and individuals while embedding agile values and mindsets. Experienced in managing multiple initiatives whilst simultaneously maintaining focus on the highest-priority tasks
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agile Product Owner
Oracle America
Austin, TX
03.2018 - Current
- Support product evolution by engaging with stakeholders and sponsors to identify and document potential requirements or business opportunities and supporting Product Visions and Roadmap, in addition to aligning stakeholder expectations
- Create lists of backlog items and prioritize them based on overall strategy and business objectives and map out project dependencies to inform all necessary sequences of development while making lists accessible and available to all stakeholders (particularly developers) to ensure optimized performance and project outcomes
- Partner with UX, business teams, and developers to design solutions for product features
- Maintaining and updating backlogs by adjusting features and priority as needed after each sprint or iteration while juggling triangle, scope, budget, and time while weighing priorities according to stakeholder demands.
- Attach business or customer value to each story/task to ensure that features are built based on User wants and needs.
- Lead, manage and collaborate with cross-functional teams, business owners, and end customers to understand and document business requirements, use cases, and acceptance criteria and Represent business owners and customers to develop teams on each priority.
- Strategically evolve and grow existing products and services to constantly deliver better customer experience.
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product and business strategy
- Managed team of 10 people across 4 locations, to deliver software solutions/features for oracle cloud architectures that address customer business requirements and identified problems
- Work with several agile methodologies including Scrum, XP, DSDM, FDD, Kanban, and scrum-ban to coordinate and support software deployment activities such as requirements, design, development, QA, and Business and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities.
Technical Product Owner
ST David’s Medical Center
05.2015 - 12.2017
- Define product vision by communicating with stakeholders to understand business objectives to create product roadmaps whilst keeping products in line with business goals.
- Prioritize needs and objectives of stakeholders, juggling scope, budget, and time to prioritize product lifecycle.
- Managing product backlog by mapping out dependencies, creating lists of backlog items, and writing well-defined user stories concerning appointed story points
- Overseeing Product stages from planning, execution, and review of each sprint whilst working towards development processes.
- Anticipating clients’ needs by having knowledge of Market value, and creating customer journey maps to have (an understanding of customer expectations).
- Acting as Primary liaison to gain in from stakeholders and deliver clear instructions to developers.
- Managed 2 teams of 10 experts each across 4 different locations to deliver software solutions.
- Work with Product management and system architects to appropriately capture feature requests, used Cases, and POC requests and to organize them into properly prioritized user stories and acceptance criteria
- Evaluate product progress by inspecting, testing, and evaluating each progress through each iteration while ensuring end product is acceptable.
- Actively participate in all scrum ceremonies.
- Used critical thinking to break down problems, evaluate solutions and make decisions
- Created plans and communicated deadlines to complete projects on time
- Identified issues, analyzed information, and provided solutions to problems
- Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where, and when each component would work
- Led projects and analyzed data to identify opportunities for improvement
- Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for monthly reporting.
- Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication
- Identified issues, analyzed information, and provide solutions to problems
Scrum Master
Canopy
Charlston, MI
03.2013 - 03.2015
- Actively participate in all scrum ceremonies
- Create high-performing teams through optimization of flow, quality, delivery, and collaboration across Multiple Teams.
- Partner with business leaders, product owners, and development teams to define and manage backlogs, set goa accurate forecasts, gather feedback, and ensure that software is delivered reliably and predictably
- Identify and remove risks and impediments via formal and informal channels and escalate effectively when identifying and eliminating patterns of distraction and interruption
- Collaborate to identify and manage dependencies between internal teams and departments, and stakeholders, develop team- and initiative-level metrics and analytics and manage progress reporting
- Led daily scrum stand-ups and Agile development sprint planning meetings for multiple, concurrent projects
- Consistently worked to identify project risks, initiate risk mitigation, and implement risk reduction action plans
- Worked with project owners and end users to prioritize feature development and enhancements based on critical paths and business needs.
- Managed 2 teams of 10 experts each across 5 different locations to deliver software solutions.
- Supervise Deployment unit testing for all components, improve test cases and product quality, and good quality of software applications developed by dev teams
- Ensure that product backlog item are transparent and clearly expressed to make sure that all backlog items are understandable and transparently communicated
- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration between individual team members and management.
- Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
- Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
- Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
- Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
Education
Bachelor - information technology
UB(University of BUEA
SW Province(Cameroon)2013
Skills
- SDLC Tools:
- JIRA/Confluence, TDD, BDD, DevOps, CI/CD, Jenkins, Chef, SAFe, Kanban, Bitbucket
- Agile/Scrum coaching, Scrum, Scrum ban, DevOps, Agile project management
- Kanban, Jira/Confluence, Agile transformation, Facilitate Meeting, SAFe
- Impediment removal, SDLC, Excellent communication skills, Documentation
- Management, Project risk management, Lean agile, Customer interaction
- Extensive Scrum ceremonies
- Azure
- Web Programming
- Software Deployment
- RDMS Development and SQL
- Methodologies: Agile and Waterfall
- Agile Management Tools (JIRA, Visual Studio)
- Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Access), Doodle, Salesforce, Word Press, Adobe InDesign, Survey Monkey, Stata, Infographics
- Finance
- Healthcare
Certification
- Certified Scrum Master
- Certified Product Owner
Timeline
Agile Product Owner
Oracle America
03.2018 - Current
Technical Product Owner
ST David’s Medical Center
05.2015 - 12.2017
Scrum Master
Canopy
03.2013 - 03.2015
Bachelor - information technology
UB(University of BUEA
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