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Godsfavour Okpara

Experience

A career built on clarity and delivery

  1. Project Manager Transnet Cloud · Lagos – Present

    Managed AWS cloud projects and customer success initiatives in an AWS Advanced Partner environment, coordinating a 5-person engineering team, tracking delivery milestones and dependencies, resolving technical issues, and supporting customers through billing issues and post-migration.

    Achievements

    • Built a centralized project governance and tracking framework that improved visibility into sprint execution, risk, and resource use, and sped up decision-making.
    • Led a billing stabilization initiative across 20+ cloud customer accounts, resolving outstanding discrepancies and mitigating potential financial risks.
    • Improved on-time delivery by 20% by aligning the technical team on delivery priorities, customer commitments and addressing blockers.
    • Supported customer account and service continuity through post migration follow-ups and resolution of billing and service concerns.

    Responsibilities

    • Manage project scope, schedule, and budget across simultaneous cloud infrastructure workstreams.
    • Facilitate Agile/Scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) for the engineering team, communicating priorities, progress and outstanding actions to relevant stakeholders.
    • Track blockers, risks, dependencies, and issues (RAID), and escalate and resolve them early.
    • Manage stakeholder escalations and customer commitments through to resolution.
    • Gather and translate customer feedback and business needs into actionable service improvements.
    • Google Workspace
    • Gantt Chart
    • Project Charter
    • Risk Register
    • BRD
    • Zoho
  2. Scrum Master Africa Agility Foundation · Lagos –

    Achievements

    • Cut delivery delays by 25% by proactively removing blockers and managing cross-team dependencies, using RAID logs
    • Achieved 85% roadmap alignment by partnering with the Product Owner to prioritize the backlog using MoSCoW, based on the agreed business objectives, user needs, urgency, risk, dependencies and refine user stories.

    Responsibilities

    • Facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives for a distributed team.
    • Coached the team on Agile/Scrum principles and tracked sprint velocity and team performance
    • Managed stakeholders, risks and dependencies, block and conflict resolutions

    Projects

  3. Execution Lead Baykins · Lagos –

    Led operational delivery and process improvement across a pharmacy and diagnostics business, managing budgets, timelines, and cross-unit coordination, and introducing Agile practices to the team.

    Promoted from Executive Assistant to Execution Lead

    Achievements

    • Led a strategic process restructuring initiative on a ₦5M+ budget estimate resulting to improved service delivery by 50% and 80%+ revenue growth within 3 to 4 months.
    • Introduced Agile practices and Scrum ceremonies to a team of 5, coaching them before onboarding to sprint-tracking tools, which improved delivery visibility and predictability.
    • Led a 7-person community outreach project, managing stakeholders, timeline, budget, and resources to a 70% success rate.
    • Owned the delivery of the backup management project across 6 units of the backend office.
  4. Junior Project & Product Manager Fidelcom Systems Limited (Software Development) · Lagos –

    Coordinated the delivery and development of digital solutions, from requirements to launch, supported technical teams from planning through execution, and maintained project documentation.

    Achievements

    • Delivered the Anexon e-commerce platform with 95% timeline adherence through structured milestone tracking and sprint-ready task breakdown.
    • Took SuperCash4U, a loan and wallet app, from initiation to launch by defining the roadmap and compliance-aligned requirements (KYC, credit scoring).
    • Took the DonacSchool management system from concept to launch, adoption result of 20 schools, tracked user feedback.

    Responsibilities

    • Coordinate the end-to-end SDLC for e-commerce and fintech products, working directly with engineering teams.
    • Gather user needs, translate to requirements, turn them into sprint-ready backlog items in Jira and Trello and manage feature prioritization
    • Manage and maintain all project documents from discovery to launch; product backlog, PRDs, roadmaps, risks, RAID logs, change logs
    • Jira
    • Trello
    • Google Workspace
    • Change Log
    • Power point
  5. Project Suport IceTech Limited · Awka –
    • Supported project teams by conducting research that informed key decision-making processes.

    • Prepared essential project documentation, improving stakeholder communication.

  6. Office Representative (NYSC) Ministry of Agriculture · Awka –

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