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
Leeds11.2024
Strategic Agile Masterclass - Project Management
TCRT
Castlefield08.2023
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