Oluwaseun Anthony Afolabi
London,City of London
Summary
A professional with hands-on experience in managing complex projects with a focus on delivering a working solution, optimizing business processes, and enhancing business systems. Specifically, I have strong expertise in managing both solution delivery and infrastructure projects, and I have delivered technology projects within Telecommunication,Fin-tech and Health sector.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Project Manager
MIM Construction Company
2017.12 - Current
- Facilitated Scrum ceremonies and ensure the impact of our project implementation approach are measured, productive, and timely
- Worked cross-functionally with product managers, development and marketing team, and business analysts to guarantee market readiness for product launches, including communications, trainings and support during rollout
- Applying technical competencies of Business Analysis to help organisations scale and deliver of strategic goals
- (>$200K) Manage multiple projects (average of 10) simultaneously while providing project management expertise in planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and hands-offs to ensure project is delivered within scope, on time and on budget
- Managed workforce planning, compiling information for informed decision-making.
- Oversaw integration of external technology solutions by leading 4 developers and 8 testers from two companies, resulting in an additional $1MM of sales
- Led technical delivery teams to deliver high-quality solutions within agreed timescales.
- Facilitated test driven development on all projects, increasing quality by 15%; ensured improvements based off customer feedback
- Consistently achieved 100% on time and on budget delivery while managing multiple projects (average of 5) simultaneously from initiation to customer hand-off, and ensured that work performed was safe, high quality, within scope and cost effective
- Delivered on projects' key objectives with agreed budgets, timelines and standards.
- Leveraging agile methodologies to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions for key clients in Ireland and beyond
- Evaluating business needs through detailed current state assessment and proposing solutions in line with strategic intent of the business
- Managed implementation of enterprise requirement gathering tool for solutions delivery, and improved UAT scripts.
- Built and nurtured professional relationships with wide range of stakeholders.
- Used project management tools and techniques for positive, successful outcomes.
Junior Project Manager
Project Pros Limited
2012.06 - 2017.11
- Managed project portfolio while reporting progress to Steering Committee (PSC) and ensuring that all deliverables
- Obtained and provide inputs to requirements documentation for business changes and solution designs
- Established business changes in program pipeline and documented operating procedures & identifying process improvement
- Identified project risks, facilitate team meetings, collate issues, and RAID log, harmonize backlogs from sprints
- Managed and supervise change testing at UAT by business users and identifying required learning needs for a successful testing exercise
- Reviewed change request prior to Change Approval Board (CAB) meeting to identify potential change conflicts and harmonize change approval
- Prepare packs to obtain go / no-go decision and coordinating system deployment/ go-live activities
- Wrote clear and concise change plan; identifying key milestones and deliverables, and the resources required to deliver on the project
- Ensured documentation of key project resources UAT test scripts and data migration plan and strategy
Junior Program Manager
Etisalat
2010.04 - 2012.05
- Managed the implementation of business-critical projects and solutions
- Delivered on key solution integration projects through exposing and consuming APIs from vendors and third parties
- Trained support team and end-users to manage and expedite resolution of issues relating to resources, network issues, and applications
- Managed UAT process of service delivery team to improve effectiveness
- Managed application deployment, and controlled installation of approved software applications for end-users
- Ensured effective reporting and enhanced reporting of the Service Delivery activities
Education
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Olabisi Onabanjo University
Nigeria 2004.01 - 2009.06
Skills
- Project planning & execution
- Stakeholder management
- Project Risk & Issues management
- Solution Testing, UAT and Defect Management
- Product Management and Backlogging
- Scrum Implementation and Adoption
- Team Collaboration
- Resource Planning, Cost Management, Budgeting, Project Initiation, Solution Design
- PM Methodologies - Agile Framework, Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall, SDLC
- Cloud Platform, JIRA, Microsoft Office 365, MS Project
- Confluence, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
- Technology integration
- Customer-focused
Accomplishments
- I have extensive knowledge of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), Test driving design, change management, project planning, qualitymanagement, stakeholders' engagement, resource management, solution design, requirement management, solutions testing, and programleadership
- In addition, I communicate effectively and efficiently to drive collaboration within a cross functional team and deliver on shared goal
- CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING EXPERTISE Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Scrum Certified Fundamentals Lean Six Sigma (Yellow Belt)
Languages
English
Fluent
Timeline
Project Manager
MIM Construction Company
2017.12 - Current
Junior Project Manager
Project Pros Limited
2012.06 - 2017.11
Junior Program Manager
Etisalat
2010.04 - 2012.05
Bachelor of Science - Accounting
Olabisi Onabanjo University
2004.01 - 2009.06