Okokon Essiet

 Transformation Engineering Master

VISION

Summary. OKOKON is a seasoned, sought after Leader, Coach and transformation Engineer on Lean - Agile and Six Sigma Methodologies. He is a highly resourceful corporate advisor helping Top Management, Hardware and Software Engineers, Quality Assurance Engineers, Value and Release Engineers, ScrumMasters, Product Owners, Project Engineering Managers, and new hires of Fortune 100 companies explore psychological mechanisms of smart change. A dedicated, results-driven, detail oriented, extremely organized and well respected executive trainer taming industrial waste culture, driving down pyrrhic cost using Lean Methodologies, DevOps, Agile/Scrum workflow, Kanban information radiators, Xtreme Programming, CI,TDD, BDD, DDD and more. Possesses a strong set of Servant-Leadership skills through 15+years of PLM experience, with determination, resilience, persistence, goal-oriented leadership to hash out sustainable strategies for process visibility and synchronization.

Education | Professional Development

• MBA in Human Resources / Keller Graduate School of Management, Miramar, Florida Dec 2007;        
• MA History Portland State University, Portland, OR, Jul1998;
• B.A. History / Portland State University, Portland, OR, Jul1995;
• Association of Professional Consultants; 12 Manage; Atlanta Meetup; Scaled Agile Academy;
• PMI Agile Forums; Center for Agile Leadership; Scrum Alliance Community; Atlanta Scrum Users Group; Leading Agile;

Certification

• LMC: Lean Management Certification
• CSP: Certified Scrum Professional
• CSM: Certified ScrumMaster
• CSSBB: Certified Six Sigma Black Belt                            
• ASTM: Accredited Software Test Manager  
• PMP: Project Management Professional

Skills | Strengths| Abilities

Management. self starter, self managing, natural Leader, leadership by example, charismatic, e xpert influence, motivation, intelligence, analytics.

Communication. Verbal: oral and written, metrics, charts, adept listener, metaphors, feedback facilitation, formal and informal conversation

• Rally
• Jenkins/Selenium
• SCRUM/Kanban          
• VERSIONONE
• HTML/XML                 
• Jira
• PHP6                             
• Plutora/Maven/Ant
• JavaScript/J2EE                         
• Bamboo
• Linux                             
• Android
• XP- Xtreme Programming
• ASP.NET
• iOS
• JUnit/Swing/JMock
• JBehave/JaCoCo
• TestNG/Cucumber