Nola Kemi
Project Manager
- Role
- IT Project Manager at Uber
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Nola Kemi
I am a results-driven Senior IT Project Manager with 7+ years of experience leading…
Experience
IT Project Manager
Jan 2023 — Present · US
Leads assigned 2 Scrum Teams in prioritizing features, user stories, and identifying team velocity.• Facilitates daily scrums and send out minutes to the team.• Updated Confluence with outcome and action items from sprint planning, sprint demos, and retrospective meetings• Managed system implementation and integration projects• Spearheaded development and launch of new app features, increasing user bookings by 25% and reducing wait times by 20%.• Implemented Agile methodologies, improving project delivery times and adaptability.• Developed project plans, schedules, and budgets, ensuring on-time and within-budget completion.• Conducted risk assessments and developed mitigation strategies, minimizing disruptions.• Led cross-functional teams from initiation to closure, ensuring alignment with objectives.• Championed continuous process improvement initiatives to increase efficiency.• Facilitates estimations and planning sessions to forecast numbers of deliverables possible in an iteration.• Worked collaboratively among cross-functional teams and multiple vendors to execute timely releases of code.• Use of JIRA correctly to plan, track and manage the agile development projects.• Provides support to the Chief Enterprise Architect, the Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Senior Leadership.• Facilitated all aspects of the Scrum framework, including sprint planning sessions, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.• Manages projects/programs to meet customer expectations and SOW terms that can sometimes be ambiguous.
Education
University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM)
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Accounting and Business/Management
Coventry University London
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Oil & Gas
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