Abayomi Olawale
Omaha
Summary
Experienced IT Project Manager and Business Analyst with 8 years plus in managing multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring timely completion. Strong background in equipment operation, staff training, and customer service enhancement. Flexible and detail-focused professional dedicated to continuous process improvement.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager/Business Analyst
The Brandy Whitmire
Dallas
06.2024 - Current
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver strategic initiatives and meet emerging needs, including defined project plans, coordinated resources, managed implementation activities, and development/management of processes associated with program rollout and ongoing support.
- I develop strategies to reduce project costs (same costs but allowing for more projects) and increase project success rate from 50% to 75% by initiating a two-phase project selection process.
- Manage project(s) and project resources throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle and manage Scrum teams as needed.
- Engage business stakeholders to identify and incorporate business owned project tasks and dependencies.
- Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously and provide regular and timely Project status updates to project team and leadership as needed to ensure Projects are meeting the agreed-upon timeline.
- I work with the team to create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
- I ensure projects are on schedule and deadlines are met and I also manage project budget and forecast.
- I direct and oversee the project team and manage conflicts within the group and efficiently identifies, escalates, and solves project issues.
- Responsible for change/communication management and weekly updates reporting to stakeholders and PMO concerning project progress.
- Ability to drive strategic projects to completion on time and in scope.
- Experience in facilitating open communications between technical teams and the senior board.
- Experience in arbitrating issues arising from project work and creating useful working relationships with all members of the project team.
- Experience in gathering, analyzing, and disseminating information to the team in order to maintain project progress.
- Experience in defining and documenting business requirements for moderate-to-complex projects, and Use Cases documentation for a variety of projects.
- Experience in performing user acceptance and application testing.
- Experience in providing consultation in information security technology alignment to the client to identify and satisfy the business needs.
- Experience in reviewing designs and technical specification documents for alignment with business solutions.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment with the ability to prioritize competing deliverables due to changing timelines.
- Working with the IT team members to coordinate daily tasks and lead daily scrum.
Project Manager/Business Analyst
Alpha Bank Plc (UK)
London City
03.2021 - 03.2024
- Experience in managing multiple IT Initiatives such Data & Analytics, Cloud Migration, Compliance, Power BI Reporting etc.
- Experience in managing stakeholder partnerships and communication. I also serve as the point of contact and subject matter expert on our EMT team applications.
- Experience in overseeing interdependencies and integration of interrelated projects.
- Highly experienced in facilitating technical design discussion and implementation of IT solutions.
- Experience in using azure DevOps in project planning and tracking of our dev tasks.
- Lead and facilitate Daily scrum ceremonies as well as grooming features, stories, and tasks in Azure DevOps.
- I train and coach cross-functional teams using azure DevOps across offshore teams.
- Experience in creating project road maps and prioritizing the epic for the team.
- Experience in crafting a vision and strategy based on input from customers, stakeholders, and internal staff team that can be clearly communicated to all levels of the organization.
- Experience in troubleshooting company pain points and issues to determine resolutions that lead to new fixes or projects
- Experience in defining project scope and objectives, managing resources to reach objectives.
- Experience in providing project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about adjustments, and progress.
- Experience in coaching of Scrum techniques and artifacts (such as the definition of done, user stories, automated testing, backlog refinement).
- Served as SCRUM Master in managing Daily standup, sprints, and addressing blockers.
- Experience in facilitating discovery and ensures the removal of roadblocks and promotes them in a timely and assertive way.
- Experience in ensuring the team is focused on sprint commitments and shields the team from distractions and hidden work.
- Experience in facilitating backlog grooming and creating dashboards for management view.
- Experience in ensuring there are no commitment changes during the Sprint and collaborating with Leadership Teams to ensure team success.
Project Coordinator/Scrum Master
CHS Health Care
London
05.2017 - 12.2019
- Expert in working with the Product Owner to gather business process data and requirements.
- Experience in handling multiple projects across project teams simultaneously.
- Experience in driving discovery sessions to gather requirements from clients, while simultaneously guiding them on best practices and recommendations.
- Experience in documenting the discovery as user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria, value maps, and the overarching project management plan. I also led the daily scrum ceremonies across 2 major SAFE teams for our UX improvement projects.
- Proficient in leading my team to successfully monitor our applications using Splunk and Grafana.
- Experience in collaborating with the Live operations team, QA, Engineering, and various partners to prioritize and coordinate efforts to deliver on schedule.
- Experience in coaching, facilitating, and maintaining steady and beneficial Agile process methodologies for the teams, driving process, and transparency.
- Experience in communicating with the business around the team's velocity and projects health while supporting the PMO in reporting on all teams' status.
- Experience in preparing project plans, documentation, risk mitigation, and resource management as needed for cross-team initiatives and large projects/programs.
- Experience in resolving urgent issues and removing impediments for the team Lead and facilitated architecture and design of Single Page Applications and Micro-frontends.
- Responsible for granting access rights for audits, risk & compliance assessment & audit responses using archer.
- Experience in managing & troubleshooting multiple applications using SFDC (salesforce) and ITIL framework on L3.
- Experience in troubleshooting incidents using Splunk & violet support tool to drive solutions from the Splunk logs.
- Experience in the use of sales cloud for storage and infrastructure.
- Experience in managing multiple project teams over 10 developers and vendor teams ensuring we meet the delivery.
Education
MBA, Leadership Management - Business Administration
Canterbury Christ Church University
Kent, United Kingdom10-2021
BA Business Administration_HRM -
Wisconsin International University College
Ghana01.2010
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite proficiency
- Project management and coordination
- Interpersonal and customer interface skills
- Organizational and analytical abilities
- Effective communication and presentation
- Professional interaction with diverse groups
- Adaptability in fast-paced environments
- Clear project documentation production
- Client expectation management
- Independent and team collaboration
- Minimal supervision capability
- Logical problem-solving skills
- Technical team leadership
- Methodology( Agile Scrum Kanban Waterfall Hybrid)/risk Management
- Team leadership/conflict resolution
Certification
. Certified (AGILE) Scrum Master
· Certified Scrum Product Owner- (CSPO)
· Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
· Service now SAP
· Certified ITIL foundation: Version 4
Timeline
Project Manager/Business Analyst
The Brandy Whitmire
06.2024 - Current
Project Manager/Business Analyst
Alpha Bank Plc (UK)
03.2021 - 03.2024
Project Coordinator/Scrum Master
CHS Health Care
05.2017 - 12.2019
MBA, Leadership Management - Business Administration
Canterbury Christ Church University
BA Business Administration_HRM -
Wisconsin International University College