Mide Okusanya

Project is focused on Ecommerce, Web Application, Mobile Application, Premier Practice Management solutions to empower legal professionals deliver data insights to support critical corporate transactions, and to enable essential payments infrastructure trusted by government and financial institutions.

• Ensured that there is collaboration between Business and IT department to gain understanding of their current processes and also creating environment where there is transparency across all product verticals.
• Support Product owner to achieve value of product backlog by having effective backlog refinement sessions and making sure stories are ready for iteration planning.
• Collaborated regularly with ART as group and work with individual members of team as needed to discuss and resolve any impediment affecting entire team or their ability to meet PI objectives.
• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Provide expertise regarding implementation of SAFe, lean and agile practices to team and stakeholders.
• Communicate with stakeholders on project scope, release planning and budgeting.
• Work with portfolio and value-stream executives to develop strategies for transitioning to Lean-Agile practices and implementing changes to new operating model/ways of working with focus on continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Product Owners, and Solution Architects to assist in backlog creation and ensure that backlog items are consistently refined and prepared before iteration planning.
• Use of metrics such as velocity and burn-down chart as well as qualitative metrics such as team self-assessment, to keep tabs on progress towards iteration goals.
• Use Iteration Retrospective to enhance use of CI/CD tools like Git and Jenkins hence increasing code deployment frequency.

My project was focus on four value streams within financial crime. The aim was to create a robust infrastructure to prevent pension fraud.

• Created story mapping and worked together with product owner to ensure that product backlog and sprint increment reflected product vision.
• Facilitated Scrum ceremonies ensuring full participation of team members to achieve value and team improvement.
• Educated product owner on writing concise user stories and facilitated refinement sessions to priorities product backlog items.
• Lead Offshore and Onshore team of developers responsible for building and maintaining frontend and backend development through consensus agile ways of working.
• Identify areas of opportunity, best practices, and changing technical and consumer trends, building and executing plans to address these gaps and limitations.
• Prepare monthly reports to stakeholders for effective communication on project updates and release plans.
• Plan sprint with dev team, and implement migration from On premise servers to AWS.
• Coached teams on Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset towards business agility.
• Managed product backlog and supported Scrum framework for monthly sprint releases.
• Led sprint reviews and planning meetings to promote full team engagement.

Project was to deliver key financial services systems quickly, as well as empower scrum team in developing Cloud Infrastructure to ease Data Migration between RBC and Brewin Dolphin. Project played important role in customer engagement efforts as well as business process improvement initiatives.

• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Facilitate agile ceremonies (e.g. daily scrums, sprint planning, sprint review, sprint retrospective) in ways that ensures full teams engagement.
• Foster close collaboration across all team members, encourage cross-training and supporting each other.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between business and IT to ensure transparency within projects.
• Identify and remove impediments and help resolve issues and conflicts.
• Shield team from external interference to ensure team is fully functional and productive.
• Promote continuous improvement, help teams to increase productivity, and foster innovation which yielded positively as release increased by 30%.
• Report on project velocity, risks, roadblocks, sprint burn-down and project release status to engage stakeholders without ambiguity.
• Build trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of punishment.
• Maintain product knowledge to help product owner in backlog refinement hence increasing efficiency in delivery of high value items.

Project aim is to deliver on digital accessibility to ensure Sky Mobile and Web portal were compliant, with Web Content Access Guidelines 1.0, increase access to information and services for 23 million Users of Sky.

• Successfully lead all Scrum ceremonies with positive impact, time-boxed meetings to foster team harmony and transparency.
• Collaborated with product owners, and project managers on agreeing to project goals which aligned with Sky digital accessibility strategy.
• Coordinated work activities of two development teams to supply data, business improvement process, digital channels for Web/ Mobile application and social media integration for 23.12 million Sky portal users.
• Partnered with both onshore and offsite developers of 25 people to align communications and ensure quality code development by using agile approaches with team consensus.
• Supported product owner in setting sprint goals, managing backlog items more effectively, and continuously releasing features thereby increasing releases by 30% Collaborated with agile team to define DOD clearly while breaking down user stories using INVEST criteria.
• Facilitated workshops to educate stakeholders on Agile principles and values as well as Scrum framework that drives continuous improvement across digital channels.
• Ensured clarity on scope of work, risk mitigation, clarified dependencies, and removed any impediments which might affect delivery of project on time.
• Took ownership of data on release log by working closely with my release manager on release plans, delivery timelines, and environment issues.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.
• Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.

Led creation of Web Application, and Mobile application designed to streamline E-Commerce process, CRM system and Salesforce integration for increased business functionality.

• Encouraged team to adhere to Agile principles, values, and Scrum guide by facilitating Scrum ceremonies such as daily stand-ups, backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning meetings, reviews, and retrospective meetings.
• Acted as coach to Product Owner on writing concise user stories, product backlog refinement and estimation.
• Assisted in development of user stories, defined acceptance criteria, and identified risk factors.
• Produced data-driven reports that illustrate story points achieved, completed, and tested compared with ability burned, estimates to completion and sprint velocity.
• Created shared vision of product to align teams' efforts towards sprint goals and resolve conflicts within teams effectively.
• Ensured sprint deliverables and objectives were met on time and within scope.
• Established, initiated and optimized business development strategies based on company targets, product specifications, market data, and budget factors.
• Analyzed and reported on KPIs to validate and demonstrate success of marketing campaigns.
• Improved website visibility through development and implementation of SEO strategies.
• Launched successful digital marketing campaigns that achieved goals for increased website traffic.

Project objectives is to build robust system to detect customer account takeover and third party fraud.

• Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
• Anticipated impediments to team delivery involving cultural barriers and logistical challenges.
• Guided and coached Scrum team and organised Agile and Scrum practices and values while also meeting delivery commitment.
• Evangelised agile as strategic asset of culture and business value, inspiring teams in implementation of new tools and techniques.
• Proactively identified and found ways to resolve issues to prevent distractions and keep projects on track.
• Coached teams in Agile practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Worked to provide continuous improvement for product development lifecycle.
• Acted as go-to resource for engineering team, providing clarity on tasks, gathering missing assets or requirements and handling project changes.

Project objectives is to transition multiple IT projects - website build, and upgrading legacy system.

• Monitored customer quality metrics and took proactive steps to implement resolutions and restore acceptable levels.
• Coordinated delivery of contracted solutions at program level and in full accordance with outlined cost, scheduling and quality terms.
• Led cross-functional teams to successfully complete IT projects.
• Generated reports for IT project progress and performance.
• Conducted quality assurance to verify accuracy of data used in IT projects.
• Implemented customer-driven solutions which improved user experience by 50%, while reviewing customer satisfaction.
• Monitored project progress closely while mitigating risks to prevent delays or cost overruns and mitigating issues that might cause project delays and costs to go beyond expectations.
• Created comprehensive documentation detailing project requirements, scope, and goals. Created automated reporting systems to track project milestones and enable data-driven decision-making Managed operational budgets and resources effectively so projects were completed on time.