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Olawunmi (WUMIE) Bello

Program Manager/Project Manager
Dallas,TX

Summary

Dedicated and focused Project and Program Manager with over 15 years of experience excelling at prioritizing, completing multiple tasks simultaneously and following through to achieve project goals. Flexible, detail-oriented and adaptive team player with expertise in equipment operation, staff training and development, customer service and process improvements.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification

Work History

Project Manager/Program Mgr

Walmart Inc
Dallas, Tx
- Current
  • Worked alongside product managers to re-architect a multi-page web app into a single page web-app built in React resulting in a yearly revenue lift of $1.1M
  • Driving collaboration, alignment and integrated delivery for a given project/initiative
  • Coach and manage the team through Agile processes and provided process improvements
  • Leads the development of eCommerce projects and programs by collaborating with subject matter experts to develop project scope; forecasting projected expenses; developing and managing project or program budget; establishing metrics to ensure adherence to established expectations; developing capital and resource plans; developing project timelines and deliverables; ensuring successful delivery; and providing feedback regarding project success
  • Help technical teams to improve their Agile practices in test-driven development, test automation, working practices, environment setup, and code reviews
  • Communicate and maintain project progress and decisions via meetings and status reports on a regular basis and on demand based on stakeholder need
  • Use of technologies: Microsoft: Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint; Jira, Planview, Smartsheet.

Product Project Manager/Scrum Master

Humana
Dallas, Tx
10.2020 - 04.2021
  • Led all phases of the product life cycle, from inception to introduction into marketplace, by developing products to meet specific customer needs and achieve specific cost and success outcomes
  • Once products are launched, monitored efficacy of products and used customer and business partner feedback to ensure products met customer needs across each customer segmentation, adjusted products over time to continue to achieve the desired outcomes
  • Management of sprint team data in Jira/Jira Align and Azure DevOps
  • Coordinated cross-functional project/program teams from design to delivery of fully developed voice customer experience solutions within Enterprise Shared Service Voice Channel
  • (Requirement gathering) Participated in discussions and in presenting project reports to leadership, recommending changes and ideas
  • Worked within an agile team, and helped prioritize and scope feature requests to ensure that the biggest impact features were worked on first
  • Establish and manage realistic and committed project schedules; taking into consideration deadlines, dependencies, resources, and costs when making changes and decisions to schedule.

Scrum Master

AAFES (Dept of Defense)
Dallas, Tx
09.2017 - 09.2020
  • Facilitated scrum and any ad-hoc ceremonies
  • Supported tasks as needed throughout the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • Embodied 'servant Leadership' philosophy in providing the support needed to help Agile Teams achieve its goals
  • Delivered weekly key status updates to key stakeholders/BOs
  • Collaborated with Product Owners, Business Partners, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, and IT Developers to build and define the Product Backlogs
  • Work in collaboration with team to define business requirements for organizational processes, achieve productivity standards and adhere to accuracy standards
  • Assisted team with pre and post PI planning activities, objectives, and plans
  • Worked to understand client pain points, and demonstrated that data in team presentation reports.

Agile Project Manager

AAFES (Dept. of Defense)
Dallas, Tx
08.2010 - 09.2017
  • Owned the project schedule, and met 100% of feature deadlines by proactively identifying and mitigating any engineering roadblocks
  • Debriefed with project team to review goals, completed projects, and steps to drive KPIs 90% or higher
  • Participated in discussions and in presenting project reports to leadership, recommending changes and ideas
  • Successfully guided two cross-functional development teams through transition from waterfall to agile development
  • Proactively helped team identify and resolve impediments
  • Ability to facilitate impediment resolution in a timely and effective manner
  • Acted as the liaison between product, IT, and sales teams to understand customer demand for new features and prioritize the product roadmap for the internal tooling team
  • Managed the development of a tool for e-commerce retailers to automatically recommend products to customers through Military Star Website.

Education

MBA, Master of Business Administration -

University of Phoenix
10.2013

BSc, Finance and Management -

Mercer University
12.1998

Skills

  • Microsoft Office
  • Project Mgmt & Waterfall
  • Charts & Reporting
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jira Align, Jira, Clarity and Rally
  • Gantt Charts
  • Project Planning
  • Product development & Quality Management
  • Tracking Expenses and Budget
  • Conflict Resolution and Task Delegation
  • ServiceNow, Confluence & Rally
  • Stakeholder Management and Team Leadership
  • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
  • IVR, Avaya & Verint
  • Assessing Project Risks and Process Improvement
  • Advanced problem solving
  • Program leadership
  • Team leadership and direction
  • Project planning and development
  • Performance monitoring
  • Policy and procedure improvements

Nickname

OLA

Personal Information

Title: Project Manager/Program Manager

Certification

  • CSM
  • SAFe
  • PSM
  • Certified ServiceNow Administration - In View

Timeline

Product Project Manager/Scrum Master

Humana
10.2020 - 04.2021

Scrum Master

AAFES (Dept of Defense)
09.2017 - 09.2020

Agile Project Manager

AAFES (Dept. of Defense)
08.2010 - 09.2017

Project Manager/Program Mgr

Walmart Inc
- Current

MBA, Master of Business Administration -

University of Phoenix

BSc, Finance and Management -

Mercer University
Olawunmi (WUMIE) BelloProgram Manager/Project Manager