Obinna Olaoluwa Njoku
Tallinn
Summary
Knowledgeable in Agile leadership with solid track record in leading teams to success. Demonstrated ability to develop effective strategies and enhance player performance, fostering culture of excellence and accountability. Proven skills in communication and leadership enable building strong, cohesive teams.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Head Coach
i61groups
01.2023 - Current
- Offer coaching as a service to start ups seeking Agility in business.
Agile Lead | Scrum Master
Ericsson
09.2021 - Current
- Facilitating self-organizing and self-governing teams which are currently achieving the ideal burn down sprint after sprint
- Serving my teams and stakeholders by identifying the stoppers to the work and removing them so they can shine effortlessly
- Serving multiple cross functional project teams to work sustainably together
- Removing structural blockers resulting in team burn out and project delays
- Enabled data driven retrospectives by creating reviewable reports and highlighting areas of improvement
- Using concepts from Kaizen and Six Sigma, and frameworks of Agile, Kanban, we continuously find areas to improve and learn
- Facilitates Obeyas and vision creation sessions, workshops and trainings
- Set up an Agile Community of practice to improve and share our best practices in the view of consolidating a department wide way of working suitable to our teams
- Coach other agile leaders in implementing our company wide strategy of a leaner and more efficient way of working
Intern
Heat Consult
07.2020 - 10.2020
- Designing heating and cooling networks
Small and Medium Scale Business owner
EDEN Nigeria
03.2015 - 07.2017
- Led a successful and competitive SME for 2 years
- Used customer data to enhance profit and improve operations
- Using data for market shaping and sensing
- Drove continuous innovation to enable customers engagement and retention
- Grew valuation by over 1000% of initial capital investment
Education
MSc. - Material and Processes for Sustainable Energy
Tallinn University of Technology and University of Tartu
07.2020
B.Eng - Petroleum Engineering
Covenant University
07.2013
Skills
- Lean Management
- Power BI tool
- Agile ideologies (Scrum, Kanban, Kaizen, Six Sigma)
- Analytical problem solving
- Team management
- Training and coaching
- Motivational leadership style
- Team bonding
- Strategic planning
- Performance analysis
Accomplishments
- Leading a team of 37 staff members and coordinating with our external stakeholders
- Facilitating continuous improvement across our ways of working by enacting positive changes.
Publications
Optimizing the Iru Waste to energy plant through periodic plastic co-pyrolysis for renewable energy generation, 2020
Wax avoidance during production using flow control phenomena, 2013
Reading, Board Games, Networking
I love to learn new things, play strategy games and meet new people.
Timeline
Head Coach
i61groups
01.2023 - Current
Agile Lead | Scrum Master
Ericsson
09.2021 - Current
Intern
Heat Consult
07.2020 - 10.2020
Small and Medium Scale Business owner
EDEN Nigeria
03.2015 - 07.2017
B.Eng - Petroleum Engineering
Covenant University
MSc. - Material and Processes for Sustainable Energy
Tallinn University of Technology and University of Tartu
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