Rosemary Ikharo

Rosemary Ikharo is a Project Delivery Professional with over 10 years of project management and software delivery experience; the last 4 years has been in Agile Scrum, Kanban and Lean Methodologies. Her career began as a Business Analyst leading teams in assessing projects, documenting current state processes, identifying opportunities for improvements and documenting future state requirements largely in Healthcare, Insurance and Government sectors.  By the year 2000, Rosemary’s career progressed from handing off project requirements to full management of technical teams in the development and implementation of future state solutions.

The first exposure to Agile came in 2010 under the mentorship of two champions, P. Walker and L. Sabarsky, in Agile Adoption and Transformation at BlueCross and Blue Shield of NC.  In 2011, Rosemary transitioned a geographically distributed waterfall team (US and India) into the first Agile Scrum Team for the Solutions Value Stream located in BCBSNC’s Enterprise Data Warehouse.  She successfully managed 21 departmental and enhancement projects end to end.

In 2011, Rosemary also became a Lean Practitioner and led three lean projects uncovering over $600,000 of waste in resources and future costs savings

In 2012, Rosemary initiated two Kanban teams consisting of 4 scrum masters and 8 business analysts. These teams managed PMO intake and coordinated the delivery for all Information Management and Analytical Services Projects in the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Presently, Rosemary is engaged as a Senior Consultant for CSpring Inc.  Since 2014, she has been working at the Raleigh NC client site, where she coached 4 Scrum Teams distributed among multiple states in US, France and Egypt.    These teams value delivery involve Data Migration, Java Application Development and Process Management.

Rosemary’s ambition is to continue coaching Agile Scrum teams, help organizations with Agile transformations and become a subject matter expert in Lean Six Sigma.