Product Owner Resume Houston, TX - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

15+ years of professional work experience in the IT, Telecommunications and Consulting domains
Agilist, Servant Leader, Product Owner with lean and value delivery mindset
Highly proficient in cloud computing, SDLC, product development and project management
Adopted SAFe and Scrum to successfully to complete several IT projects
An experienced Facilitator with excellent communication skills
Successfully managed and released a web and mobile betting product with 99% uptime and subscriber’s growth rate of 11% monthly

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston, TX

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

Communicate product visions and determine the sprint goals to align with value expectation
Support the digital enablement platform for product development
Customize and configure cloud services for client’s software development projects
Consistently refine and order the product backlog based on current product realities
Elicit requirements from different stakeholders, clients and business units and use same to create epics and user stories in Jira
Itemize acceptance criteria for all user stories and provide clarity to the development teams

Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Supported the Agile Coaches in transforming three different teams from waterfall to agile
Planned the capacity of the team ahead of all sprints to ensure higher productivity
Facilitated all scrum events and ensured they met the intended goals
Planned releases and ensured all increments were deployed as expected

Confidential

General Manager/Country Manager

Responsibilities:

Started and nurtured Confidential business portfolio in Nigeria
Responsible for managing the profit and loss (P & L) in Nigeria
Initiated and managed the corporate clients nation - wide
Managed a team of 21 senior and mid -level employees
Prepared periodic reports and reported directly to the Managing Director in France

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Managed Value-Added Service (VAS) USSD/Short code projects from initiation to closing
Prepared project plans, budget and product release map for the stakeholders and project team
Managed a team of 13 onshore and offshore technical team members
Responsible for managing MASP projects, telecoms voice product and data products.

Confidential

Senior Product Manager

Responsibilities:

Adopted scrum framework to manage two different products
Planned the release and entry of new products based on market needs
Utilized Jira to collaborate with a distributed team of 12 members and ensuring all stories met the acceptance criteria.
Presented completed increments during sprint review and updated the product backlog accordingly.