Nelly Mhangami

• Managed the project from supplier selection, discovery, implementation, and testing to its going live.
• Acted as a scrum master looking after Jira boards and scrum ceremonies.
• Managed cross-functional teams based in India, Ireland, and Germany.
• Managed a £3.2 million budget.
• Increased solution adoption from zero to 100% through change management.

Essex Cares Ltd wanted to eliminate manual processes and automate their case management, staff shift management, contact management, and payments. Managed vendor selection and onboarding, requirements gathering, end-to-end project delivery following the Agile Scrum methodology. Managed stakeholder engagement, project risks, issues, and budgets. Conducted scrum ceremonies.

1. Worked with data engineers and IT engineers to scope the projects, select suppliers, plan project delivery, and release plans; ensured product owners built product backlogs.
2. Planned and conducted backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and refinement sessions.
3. Compiled team sprint reports.
4. Coached the teams in Agile Scrum.

As an agile delivery manager and scrum master, I supported a cross-functional team of data engineers, analysts, and data scientists for large video gaming manufacturers and key internal and external stakeholders, migrating ADS services from Hadoop On-premise to the cloud (AWS).

Worked with the product manager to ensure that the product backlog was built, groomed, and prioritized. I also worked with the development teams to plan and facilitate scrum ceremonies, using Jira to manage backlogs.

Coached the development teams and stakeholders on the Agile framework and Scrum principles.

Removed blockers highlighted during daily stand-ups and protected the team from outside interference.

Produced team burndown and sprint velocity reports and drove their use in improving team and sprint performance.

Worked with product owners, vendors, and development teams to develop, analyze, and groom backlogs for a portfolio of over 100 third-party solutions. Coordinated activities of third-party vendors, ensuring that projects were resourced, roadmaps developed, Jira updated, and remediation plans were developed and executed

Managed and supported a team of data analysts, data scientists, and data engineers at Jagex by developing a process for receiving and prioritizing requests from other departments.

Supported the teams in delivering the requests, following the SDLC using Agile and Scrum as well as hybrid project management methodologies.

1. Led GDPR and cybersecurity risk and gap assessment activities for Tesco's externally supplied and hosted applications, websites, and infrastructure.
2. Developed release plans working with third party suppliers, product owners, and the project team.
3. Planned, scheduled, and conducted Scrum ceremonies managing various Jira boards.
4. Produced and distributed project status reports.
5. Managed the end-to-end implementation of remediation projects ranging from IAM, SSO, disaster recovery and penetration testing, vulnerability management, Splunk to SSAST using Coverity, data loss prevention.

I worked with remote teams based in the USA, India, and Europe to gather requirements, prioritize the backlog, and ultimately develop and launch a 40,000-page website which we translated into 24 languages. I handled the development of the project plan, managed tasks using Wrike, organized and facilitated team meetings and communication, and managed stakeholder engagement.