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Certification
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Okerafor Anthony

Leeds,England

Summary

Versatile professional with focus on project coordination, Scrum and operational efficiency. Skilled in streamlining processes, ensuring timely project delivery, and fostering cross-functional team collaboration. Committed to driving project success through strategic planning and meticulous attention to detail.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work history

Scrum master

TC Resource Technology
Castlefild, England
04.2025 - Current
  • Lead and inspire multiple delivery teams, embedding agile best practices and driving continoius improvement.
  • Managed communication amongst project team members to foster collaboration.
  • Collaborate with the product owner to decompose features, facilitate story-mapping and refine actionable stories for sprint.
  • Facilitated regular team meetings to monitor progress.
  • Addressed potential risks timely, preventing unnecessary setbacks.
  • Monitored project timelines to avoid delays.

Agile Team Lead / Remediation Analyst

University of Bradford
Bradford , England
04.2023 - Current
  • Develop and execute a comprehensive development plan, crafting a suitable roadmap with detailed time line, milestone and resource requirements to facilitate product delivery.
  • Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, feature refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives, ensuring they are efficient and outcome focused.
  • Identify, track, and monitor dependencies, removing delivery blockers and showstoppers while escalating issues when necessary.
  • Advocate for the adoption of agile practices fostering a culture continuous improvement and agility across the organisation.
  • Provided expert technical support, resolving critical issues promptly.
  • Designed impressive solutions to overcome existing system challenges.

IT (Vulnerability Management) Specialist

Canterbury Christ Church University
Kent, England
08.2024 - 08.2025
  • Negotiated contracts with clients, securing lucrative business deals.
  • Coordinated logistics operations ensuring timely delivery of goods and services.
  • Led team meetings for improved communication and collaboration.
  • Adhered strictly to compliance regulations minimising legal risks and liabilities.
  • Fostered an inclusive work environment promoting diversity and respect.


Agile team Lead

Alternatively Services
07.2023 - 09.2024
  • Facilitate regular team meeting, including sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review, and retrospective mentoring and coaching members to focus on sprint goals and adopt agile mindset.
  • Successfully leverage scrum events to support product and project delivery.
  • Collaborate with the product owner to define roadmaps and translate these into actionable user stories.
  • Assist the product owner in maintaining a healthy backlog, addressing blockers for the development team.


Scrum master

NIMC
11.2020 - 01.2023
  • Achieved project delivery deadlines through effective backlog management.
  • Managed stakeholder expectations, fostered good working relationships.
  • Implemented Scrum framework, guided teams towards achieving goals.
  • Nurtured self-organising culture within the team by providing necessary training.
  • Developed communication channels to ensure transparency amongst stakeholders.
  • Resolved conflicts for improved team dynamics.

Education

Certified Professional Scrum Master - Project Management

Scrum.org
Leeds
11.2024

Strategic Agile Masterclass - Project Management

TCRT
Castlefield
08.2023

Cybersecurity Analyst - Information Technology

Google Cybersecurity certification
10.2024

Master of Science - Information Technology

National Open University
06.2020

Skills

  • Jira software familiarity
  • MS (project and Visio)
  • Agile estimations
  • Knowledge of CI-CD pipeline
  • Story Mapping
  • Service Now
  • Halo
  • Time efficiency
  • Burn downs
  • Mural
  • RAIDS logs
  • Trello
  • Scrum
  • Facilitate Workshop
  • DevOps
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Agile
  • Facilitating
  • UI

Accomplishments

  • Collaborated with team of 10 in development of Vulnerability Management in IT DevOps.
  • Implemented Agile Mindset , streamlining work and increasing efficiency 80%

Certification

Certified Professional Scrum Master PSM 1 and 2

Strategic Agile Masterclass

Comptia Security +

Manage Engine Professional Certification

Timeline

Scrum master

TC Resource Technology
04.2025 - Current

IT (Vulnerability Management) Specialist

Canterbury Christ Church University
08.2024 - 08.2025

Agile team Lead

Alternatively Services
07.2023 - 09.2024

Agile Team Lead / Remediation Analyst

University of Bradford
04.2023 - Current

Scrum master

NIMC
11.2020 - 01.2023

Certified Professional Scrum Master - Project Management

Scrum.org

Strategic Agile Masterclass - Project Management

TCRT

Cybersecurity Analyst - Information Technology

Google Cybersecurity certification

Master of Science - Information Technology

National Open University
Okerafor Anthony