FAITH AKINYEMI

• Leading delivery teams in an agile development environment including daily scrum meetings, sprint retrospective, and planning meetings, managing the task board, backlog list, and sprints
• Full project lifecycle ownership including but not limited to successful project delivery to include full implementation from initiation to deployment for major initiatives simultaneously
• Defining project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with the senior leadership team and internal stakeholders
• Developed statement of work contracts and devised sourcing strategy to maintain costs and clarify service expectations.

PROJECTS:

UK Cabinet Office - Senior Project Manager

Technologies: ServiceNow ITSM, Government Digital Services, Splunk, Google Analytics.

Project Budget - £1.6m

Successfully delivered a centralised Service Management SaaS solution to fulfil service requests resulting in 15% uptake by other government departments.

Waitrose & Partners - Programme Manager / Workstream Lead

Technologies: ESB/ABINITIO Integration, MDM, WMS, JDA, Abinitio).

Project Budget - £10m

Defined the programme's delivery framework to align delivery processes from inception to BAU handover, saving the business £500k per year. Managed cross-functional teams of 60+ programme resources promoting collaboration to consistently meet business goals. Delivered 99+ business changes across all projects and achieving positive customer feedback.

AstraZeneca – Data & Analytics Project Manager

Technologies: SAP S/4 HANA, QLIKVIEW, COLLIBRA, SNOWFLAKE

Project Budget - £1.5m

Increased income revenue growth by 30% and directed the end-to-end project delivery leadership in the successful deployment of a complex data analytics technical solution in-line with AstraZeneca’s strategic objectives and to standardise the global supply chain of pharmaceutical products across all AstraZeneca’s geographical regions incl. NAM, LATAM, EMEA and APAC.

John Lewis Partnership (JLP) – DevOps Data Delivery Lead / Engagement Manager

Technologies: SQL DB, Snowflake DW, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), DBT, Looker, Tableau, Salesforce

Project Budget - £2m

Headed the data ingestion project workstream according to defined and agreed scope, within agreed time, cost and quality constraints. Successfully managed workstream resources to deliver the ingestion of raw data into Snowflake DW with the capability to Transfer, Transform and Extract the datasets. Managed 3rd party suppliers to deliver contracted deliverables including the extraction of datasets.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) – Senior Project Manager

Technologies: GOV.UK PaaS, Jenkins CI/CD

Project Budget - £500k

Exceeded department KPIs by 20% for 6 months concurrently. Supervised the delivery and management of HMRC’s Test Automation solution . Successfully coordinated end users to perform automated tests after the release of the solution.

• Directed the delivery of business change requests raised under the McD's Change Request Programme and supervising the delivery team and 3rd party suppliers to execute delivery tasks within the timeframe agreed with stakeholders
• Collaborated with stakeholders to manage project scope, deliverables, goals, risks, blockers, success measures, and estimated resources needed
• Weekly submissions to the Change Advisory Board for approval to deploy changes into production environment.

PROJECTS:

McDonald’s UK, Ireland & Global – Programme Manager

Technologies: Oracle ODS, Talend, Oracle APEX, Amazon AWS, Paxata, Snowflake, MicroStrategy BI Reporting, EPOS.

Project Budget - £2.5m

Successfully delivered on-premise / cloud projects with a £100k - £1m ROI revenue achieved spanning over several fiscal years.

Successfully delivered c25 small to complex projects which resulted in 10-30% increase in new customers measured through MI reporting.