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Damilola Oduntan

Sunderland

Summary

Dynamic Agile Delivery Manager with a proven track record at NHS Business Service Authority, excelling in stakeholder management, requirements gathering and effective project delivery. Expert in driving project success through effective use of Jira Software and fostering client relations. Committed to continuous improvement and delivering impactful results in fast-paced environments.

Strongly demonstrates high level of analytical, communication, and teamwork skills, with proven ability to quickly adapt to new environments. Eager to contribute to team success and further develop professional skills. Brings positive attitude and commitment to continuous learning and growth.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Delivery Manager

NHS Business Service Authority
12.2024 - Current

Projects Managed:

A. Data Classification to meet with the Government Security Classification Policy (GSCP)


B. Build Update on the WeCare Annual Staff Award


C. Data Retention in Microsoft Dynamics Platform for all Services


D. Data Migration from Oracle to Fabrics - Building the Presentation Layer Platform Workstream.


1. Identified all stakeholders and prepared stakeholder matrix to gather the right information from all Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)


2. Gathered requirements (including all GSCP documents) on a continuous basis to understand the project deliverables.


3. Continuously liaise with the stakeholders to review requirements and ensure prioritization based on business needs and urgency.


4. Facilitate the sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective to inspect, adapt and drive progress towards the sprint goal, product goal and programme objectives.


2. Facilitates scrum events to check with team members what has been done, what is to be achieved for each day as well as removing blockages for each member to get the work done.


3. Escalated and inform the stakeholders of every impediment that cannot be easily managed within the team.


4. Collaborated with the Product Owner to drive backlog refinement to ensure definition of ready (DoR) in alignment with INVEST characteristics with the aim of achieving ready backlog for subsequent sprints.


5. Identified impediments within the team and ensure escalation to the product owner, with continuous updates for the team to be aware of the status for resolution.


6. Guides, coaches and encourages team member to autonomously work on their tasks and ensure blockers are identified and resolved as quickly as possible.


7. Liaised with the product owner to prioritize the product backlogs, and define the success criteria (Definition of Done)


8. Estimated the team velocity towards ensuring that work is planned with the available capacity.


9. Continuously updates the project report and communicates constantly to the product owner about the status of each user story.


10. Conduct sprint review meetings to check the increments meet with the definition of done (DoD) and aligns with the overall project goal.


12. Conducts sprint retrospectives after completion of each sprint to reflect on what went well, what could have been done better and implement these into the next sprint.


13. Track, gather and analyze metrics such as epic, sprint and release burndown chart, burn-up chart, velocity chart, lead and cycle time to measure progress, patterns, influence planning and aid decision making

Agile Delivery Manager (Contract)

ZHILL SYSTEMS LIMITED
03.2023 - 09.2024

Project: Customer Experience Report Analytics


  • Support the analysis of customer feedback, request, successes and failure as a way to increase customer success and provide data for decision making.
  • Lead team of Product Owner, Research Analyst, Data Analyst, Power BI Engineer, Quality Analyst and Customer Service Manager.
  • Fosters a continuous learning environment through workshops, lunch and learn and community of practice.
  • Track, gather and analyze metrics such as epic, sprint and release burndown chart, burnup chart, velocity chart, lead and cycle time to measure progress, patterns, influence planning and aid decision making.
  • Collaborate with the Product Owner to drive backlog refinement following the definition of ready (DoR) in alignment with INVEST characteristics with the aim of achieving ready backlog for the next two sprints.
  • Facilitate the sprint planning, daily scrum, sprint review and sprint retrospective to inspect and adapt and drive progress towards the sprint goal, product goal and program objectives.
  • Partner with the Product Owner to define the product vision, product goal and adapting release roadmap.
  • Drive Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA), iterative and incremental way of working to ensure early and continuous value delivery in a two-week sprint.
  • Facilitate conflict resolution by establishing common goal, resolution contract in either a group or 1-on-1 coaching sessions.
  • Radiated information such as risk log and metrics dashboard with stakeholders to promote transparency and visibility.
  • Identified and removed impediments to prevent distractions and risks interfering with the ability of the team to deliver the sprint goal

Education

Master of Science - Project Management

Teesside University
Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
01-2021

Certificate of Completion - Stakeholder Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)
06-2023

Certified - Risk Management in Projects - Risk Management

University of Adelaide
Australia
03-2019

Certificate - Agile Project And Delivery Manager (ICP APM)

International Consortium For Agile
09-2022

Certificate of Completion - Change Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)
06-2023

Certificate - Business Requirements And Gathering

Project Management Institute(PMI)
06-2023

Skills

  • Software development lifecycle
  • Requirements gathering
  • Stakeholder management
  • Problem-solving
  • Client relations
  • Task prioritization
  • Decision-making
  • Jira Software
  • Project development
  • Active listening
  • Status reporting
  • Microsoft Office Packages (Teams, MS Office, MS Project, Planner etc)

Certification

  • Project Management Professional, Project Management Institute - Renewal due in December 2026
  • Agile Project and Delivery Manager (ICP APM), International Consortium for Agile.
  • Scrum Master Certification (Registered Scrum Master), Scrum Incorporation
  • Product Owner Certification (Registered Product Owner), Scrum Incorporation

Timeline

Delivery Manager

NHS Business Service Authority
12.2024 - Current

Agile Delivery Manager (Contract)

ZHILL SYSTEMS LIMITED
03.2023 - 09.2024

Master of Science - Project Management

Teesside University

Certificate of Completion - Stakeholder Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Certified - Risk Management in Projects - Risk Management

University of Adelaide

Certificate - Agile Project And Delivery Manager (ICP APM)

International Consortium For Agile

Certificate of Completion - Change Management

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Certificate - Business Requirements And Gathering

Project Management Institute(PMI)
Damilola Oduntan