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Akiyo Urano

Reston, VA

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About

Title: Agile/Scrum Coach

With over 15 years of experience as a seasoned agilist,  Akiyo have successfully orchestrated impactful initiatives and led agile transformations for Fortune 100 companies across diverse sectors including Pharmaceutical, Finance, Education, Advertising, and IT/Software Development.  Over the past three years, she force was in Japan, where she served the role of an Executive Agile Coach for business marketing divisions within a Pharmaceutical company.  Her efforts include: integrating the OKR cycle to expedite decision-making processes and fostering an agile mindset, which in turn shifted employee NPS from negative to positive. Furthermore, Akiyo's background includes a role as a team agile caoch at Fannie Mae, where she contributed to the successful implementation of SAFe. 

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 10/01/2018 - 03/30/2020 - Fannie Mae (Senior scrum master )
    • 09/26/2016 - 09/26/2018 - The College Board (Scrum Master)
    • 02/09/2015 - 09/23/2016 - Eliassen Group (Senior Technical Scrum Master )
    • 08/11/2014 - 12/31/2014 - KForce (Scrum Master)
    • 11/29/2010 - 03/14/2014 - AOL (Scrum Master/Principal Technical Project Manager)
    • 04/07/2008 - 11/24/2010 - TEK System (Scrum Master/Senior Project Manager)