Olaotan Ibraheem
Duluth,GA
Summary
Results-driven Project Manager with over 10 years of experience leading cross-functional teams and managing complex projects across various industries. Proven track record in delivering projects on time, within scope, and under budget. Adept at stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and process Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
PROJECT MANAGER
STATE OF GEORGIA
09.2023 - Current
- Interacts with all aspects of the business, including Operations, Engineering, Call Centre, and Business Managers
- Led [number] projects with budgets ranging from [$50,000) to[$1,000,000], consistently delivering results within scope, schedule, and budget.
Managed project teams of [5-10] members, including developers, designers, and analysts, fostering a collaborative and high-performance environment - .Arrange client meetings that are pertinent to the project and develop agendas
- Responsible for the daily administration of projects, including stakeholder engagement, risk management, scope, and schedule management, in accordance with the project's established standards
- Worked in conjunction with sourcing and operations to enhance the company's revenue and preserve favorable client relationships
- Guaranteed the safe handling and transportation of perishable and climate-sensitive products
- Guaranteed that personnel adhered to fleet standards and vehicle operating policies
- Monitored the productivity of personnel to guarantee the timely delivery of products
- Led risk avoidance or mitigation strategies to minimize the project's risk impact and assessed and reported on identified and forecasted project risks
- Utilized cross-functional project planning and collaboration to effectively manage project dependencies
- Ensured that stakeholders were adequately informed by monitoring and preparing project status reports and briefs on milestones in accordance with the communication plan.
SCRUM MASTER/BITCLOUD CONSULTING
BITCLOUD CONSULTING
01.2019 - 09.2023
- Constructed Scrum for numerous Teams and organized them according to their respective values
- Guided the teams in constantly improving the quality of their deliverables and meeting the definition of done
- Implements metrics that monitored and optimized the flow of work among distributed and cross-functional teams
- Implemented Scrum-Kanban practices on numerous activities for teams, thereby facilitating the development and engineering of craftsmanship
- Fostered partnerships with architects, system analysts, and operations
- Assisted and coached the development team in self-organizing and achieving their objectives without designating or dictating the work
- Collaborated with the call centre and product owner Leads to the sequence of the intake process and the conversion of call records into backlog items on the Kanban Boards
- Generated information and data matrices and reports from Azure DevOps to assist the enterprise in comprehending current status, future trajectory, and the opportunities and tradeoffs associated with project selection and prioritization
- Collaborated with the team to establish specific WIP limits for each state or status and adjust them as needed to enhance flow, capture flow time, flow burden, and throughput
- Reviewed the policies that have been adopted for the administration of the Kanban Board and specified work management to ensure that flow is measured
- Established the utilization of classes of service on the Kanban board to prioritize tasks according to the cost of delay.
- Created charts that exemplified the team's predictability and fluidity.
PROJECT MANAGER
Ducal Oil Nigeria Ltd.
10.2008 - 12.2017
- Successfully identified and resolved process issues, resulting in a more efficient workflow, smoother procedures, and overall business growth for the team
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to perform comprehensive discovery and due diligence on existing processes
- Conducted visual evaluations of products to assess their compliance with quality standards
- Coordinated and facilitated activities related to revenue maximization, customer acquisition, customer relationship management, and sales
- Formulated DLP policies that guaranteed adherence to state and federal regulations, as well as PCI DSS procedures
- Provided the teams with guidance on how to consistently enhance the quality of their deliverables and adhere to the definition of done
- Utilized Primavera P6 to interpret the blueprint and create work packages/work breakdown structures for the proposal schedule
- Ensured compliance with company guidelines and reporting requirements by collaborating with the project team and providing schedule analysis
- Facilitated enhancements in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying constraints and monitoring concealed tasks that could impede the flow of value
- Worked in conjunction with stakeholders to create and implement SharePoint data reports regarding security and usage
- Investigated, diagnosed, and resolved concerns regarding the corporate application's maintenance and support.
Education
MBA/healthcare management - Business Administration And Management
Western Governor University
Salt Lake City, UT04.2024
Masters in education - Education
National Open University
Lagos Nigeria09.2017
Banking and Finance - Finance
Osun State Polytechnic
Nigeria04.2004
Skills
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Project Management
- Resource Coordination
- Contract Negotiation
- Team Building
- People Management
- Time management
- Continuous process
- Confluence, Jira, and Miro
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Microsoft Project
- Smartsheet for the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Agile and Waterfall Methodologies
- Risk Management
- Project Planning
- Procedure Development
- Root Cause Analysis
- Cost Control
- Compliance Monitoring
- Meeting facilitation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Stakeholder Communications
Certification
- Project Management Institute Certification
- Professional Project Manager Certification
- Certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
- Certified Professional Scrum Master II
- Certified Product Owner (PSPO)
Timeline
PROJECT MANAGER
STATE OF GEORGIA
09.2023 - Current
SCRUM MASTER/BITCLOUD CONSULTING
BITCLOUD CONSULTING
01.2019 - 09.2023
PROJECT MANAGER
Ducal Oil Nigeria Ltd.
10.2008 - 12.2017
MBA/healthcare management - Business Administration And Management
Western Governor University
Masters in education - Education
National Open University
Banking and Finance - Finance
Osun State Polytechnic
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