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Bismark Appiah

Lanham,MD

Summary

Seasoned Project Manager with a proven track record at Comerica Bank, adept in leading cross-functional teams to deliver projects efficiently and within budget. Excels in workforce training and project tracking, leveraging tools like JIRA and SQL. Demonstrated success in enhancing business processes and implementing robust systems, achieving significant operational improvements.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager

Honda
Marysville, OH
01.2022 - Current
  • Lead project planning sessions, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
  • Define project scope, create schedules, and allocate resources efficiently.
  • Manage risks, track progress, and ensure timely project delivery.
  • Conduct daily standups, sprint planning, Scrum of Scrums, and retrospective meetings.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and define project deliverables.
  • Identify opportunities for business process improvement and drive optimization efforts.
  • Oversee UI/UX design alignment with project requirements.
  • Assist QA teams in test case reviews and final usability testing.
  • Manage UAT efforts, validating technical designs against functional specifications.

Project Manager

Comerica Bank
Detroit, MI
03.2016 - 01.2022
  • Developed project plans, timelines, and deliverables, while ensuring stakeholder alignment.
  • Facilitated requirements workshops, interviews, and business process documentation.
  • Monitored project risks, issues, and dependencies while providing mitigation strategies.
  • Led cross-functional teams to execute projects efficiently and within budget.
  • Managed SQL-based data analysis for reporting and decision-making.
  • Conducted defect review meetings to prioritize fixes and streamline quality assurance.
  • Coordinated with QA teams to ensure successful testing and project implementation.

Business Systems Analyst/Senior Scrum Master

Comerica Bank
Detroit, MI
08.2014 - 03.2016
  • Lead the daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning, scrum of scrums calls, big room planning sessions, and sprint retrospective meetings to ensure targets are reached for each call.
  • Created and maintained the enterprise product backlog, feature list, and created detailed user stories for sprint planning and grooming sessions.
  • Partnered with the other business stakeholders, process owners, and end users to identify high-level product features and drilled them down into detailed user stories.
  • Interviewed business users to gather requirements, and analyzed the feasibility of their needs by coordinating with the Technology Business Analyst, Solution Architect, and Technical Lead.
  • Identified, researched, investigated, and defined opportunities for business processes, improvement, documented business processes, and initiated efforts to make improvements.
  • Involved in requirements scoping and identifying high-priority requirements for implementation.
  • Facilitated review meetings to ensure that the project was implemented within the specifications.
  • Validated technical designs created by IT developers against functional specifications.
  • Assisted the QA team in reviewing test cases, test plans, and tested the final application for usability testing to verify whether all the user requirements were catered to by the application.
  • Defined and documented requirements, identified gaps, evaluated requirements, and change requests, managed scope, and transferred knowledge.
  • Coordinated the testing efforts in user acceptance testing.
  • Worked with the UI developers to ensure that the UI/UX designs meet product specifications.
  • Created consolidated project documents, requirements documents, and use case surveys.

Education

Master of Science - Information And Computer Systems

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
05-2018

Bachelor of Science - Natural Sciences

University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD
05-2014

Skills

  • Workforce training
  • Project tracking
  • Work flow planning
  • Feasibility analysis
  • Systems implementation
  • Project development
  • Tools: JIRA, Confluence, MS Visio, SQL, Tableau, Power BI, and Excel
  • Databases: SQL Server, MySQL
  • Cloud: AWS
  • Languages: Python (basic), XML, JSON

Affiliations

  • I run a Project Management Class for those looking to become Project Managers, Scrum Masters/Team Coach, Business System Analyst

Accomplishments

  • I received an Award on " Honda Black Excellence Award"

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
  • Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • SAFe Practitioner
  • Certified Remote Sensing Professional (CRSP)
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional

Languages

English
Professional

Timeline

Project Manager

Honda
01.2022 - Current

Project Manager

Comerica Bank
03.2016 - 01.2022

Business Systems Analyst/Senior Scrum Master

Comerica Bank
08.2014 - 03.2016

Master of Science - Information And Computer Systems

University of Michigan

Bachelor of Science - Natural Sciences

University of Maryland, College Park

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