OT Uwagbai
@otuwagbai1
I lead Scrum and SAFe teams, removing blockers and optimizing delivery metrics to help enterprises ship quality software.
What I'm looking for
I’ve led Agile across enterprise teams using Scrum and Kanban, including work at USAA, JPMorgan Chase, and The Home Depot. I focus on facilitating the ceremonies that keep execution moving and on partnering with Product Owners, Tech Leads, and stakeholders to improve how teams deliver.
At USAA, I improved Kanban workflow metrics like WIP limit, lead time, cycle time, implementation time, and throughput. I strategized feature-to-story sizing for steadier cycle time, ran metrics reviews, supported secure authentication rollout, and prioritized tech debt in the Auth/Sec flow.
More broadly, I coach teams through migration and transformation efforts—refining backlog readiness, conducting PI planning-related coordination, handling dependency/risk, and driving Kaizen. I’ve also served as a community Scrum Master and mentored professionals across IT, project management, customer service, and sales while keeping continuous improvement at the center.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Scrum Master
Remote Freedom
Feb 2026 - Present (6 months)
Facilitated community meetings and provided coaching to professionals on career progression and workplace challenges.
• Facilitated community meetings by fostering collaboration, encouraging open communication and ensuring members share progress, blockers, and action plans aligned with their weekly goals.
• Served as a trusted resource by responding to member questions and providing timely guidance on career progression and workplace challenges.
• Coached and mentored professionals across Information Technology,
● Led long term improvements of Kanban workflow practices to improve our team metrics:
WIP Limit, lead time, cycle time, implementation time and overall throughput
● In PIP, strategized with teams from Feature to Story sizing breakdown, to maintain a steady flow
in teams’ cycle time, to then elevate and sustain teams’ monthly/quarterly throughput
● Championed rollout of our secure authentic
● Collaborated with PO and Tech Leads to consistently refine and prioritize backlog to
ensure healthy backlog and sprint readiness during our migration from On-Prem to AWS
● Facilitated the Scrum ceremonies: Sprint Planning, Daily Standup,
Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective
● Removed 60% of blocked/impediment tickets within a quarter to increase team
delivery by 40% from implementing new
● Collaborating closely with other departments/partners to establish on-time
delivery of critical demos
● Fostered a data-driven Agile culture based from “fail fast and continuously improve”
enabling teams to quickly identify delivery challenges and adapt sprint strategies
● Managed Jira boards for burndown metrics and team velocity to maintain a 90%+
Sprint completion rate
● Overseeing/faci
● Served as an Agile/Scrum leader, coaching Dev teams on framework adoption and best
practices to improve delivery consistently under the principles of Agile
● Analyzed team metrics: velocity and burndown trends to identify improvement opportunities
and guide continuous process optimization
● Removed both team and delivery impediments which enabled engineers to maintain consistent
Sprint ex
● Partnered with IT managers to ensure project requirements, monthly goals and
milestones were achieved
● Facilitated the Team Sync ceremonies: Monthly Planning, Daily Standup,
Review and Sprint Retrospective
● Assisted team in prioritizing and maintaining our backlog, identifying and resolving
low priority or redundant tickets while also resolving tech debt tickets
● Collaborated with IT ma
● Working closely with other departments/partners to establish on-time delivery
of critical demos/programs
● Utilized Jira to oversee workflows, track sprint progress and communicate
performance indicators: Velocity, burn down charts and story completion,
maintaining a 95% completion rate while maintaining team and leadership
on time deliverables
● Guided teams in Agile SDLC practices and Sc
● Support for in & outbound hardware/software support for clients
● Analyzed, installed, and provided upgrades of all company software
● Resolving tickets under Service Now program
● Submitting, escalating, and following up on support tickets
● Remoting into laptops, handsets and desktops to troubleshoot several Citrix issues
● Setting up and providing remote access via VPN across Windows Platform
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Dallas College
N/A, Business Administration and Management, General
2020 - 2021
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