Thelma Okocha

Led the Optum Now program, a multi-discipline initiative, achieving an 85% on-time completion rate for critical launches. Orchestrated weekly cross-team planning, identifying and mitigating over 15 interdependencies and risks on high-profile projects.

Spearheaded daily huddles, sprint planning, and scrum of scrums, guiding five major teams in adhering to scrum principles for streamlined project execution. Introduced best practices in Agile methodologies to optimize project management processes and coordinated with stakeholders to align project objectives.

Managed On-prem to Azure migration projects, resulting in a $500K company savings for the year. Conducted weekly meetings to track multi-project status from start to completion, ensuring consistency and presenting reports and metrics.

Led daily sprints to review project status, deliverables, and develop risk and mitigation plans. Directed support initiatives, prepared documentation, and coordinated user acceptance testing (UAT) meetings with business users.

Maintained the application programming interface between the provider repository, significantly reducing outsourcing costs. Led the integration of MS SQL repository and MC400, and created reports on growth projection for servers.

Transformed business and user needs into functional requirements and led change management efforts for system improvements. Performed data cleansing and fine-tuned highly complex TSQL stored procedures for maximum efficiency and performance.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. Gained foundational knowledge in various engineering principles and practices.