Patricia Odusami

Freelance consultant for Tech start-up, Maxut Consulting. Principle Duties: Collaborate, Facilitate, Leadership and Coaching:

• Brought onboard as trusted partner & PM expert to create a strategy for identifying client needs, differentiating the company, and creating a competitive advantage through innovative program delivery.
• Introduced project management discipline across IT/Business teams; and developed branded templates for project charter, risks and issue management, milestone tracking and other PM artifacts.
• Spearheaded scrum ceremonies, ensuring effectiveness and adherence to scrum practice.
• Coached team members to uphold scrum principles.
• Introduced daily stand ups, utilization of JIRA for issue and bug tracking as well as for Agile scrum projects.
• Achieved excellence in project delivery and 40% in turnaround time through automation of processes and instilling PM methodology, discipline and commitment.

Led team of developers, business stakeholders on a time-constrained Salesforce backend program to deliver a high traffic eCommerce websites:

• Managed virtual team of 16, and implemented project with realized savings of $650,000 per annum, budget, $2.5MM.
• Realized success through hybrid of agile and waterfall methodologies, and exceptional leadership skills.
• Collaborated with business users, technical teams, database administrators and testing teams during kickoff meetings, joint application designing, build, testing and go-live
• Developed stories in JIRA, and project plans in MS Server. Worked in collaboration with Cap Gemini.
• Utilized MS Project server for comprehensive long-term planning including portfolio, resource and financial management. Managed project spend.

• Coordinated organization-wide project management for North American arm of this multi-billion-dollar Biotech company. Partnered closely with IT and department leaders.
• Directed multiple strategic projects and managed all aspects of SDLC project lifecycle involving multiple delivery partners. This included Mergers and Acquisition projects and digital transformational projects such as Marketo, Workday, and SAP Business One.
• Provided project management and scrum master leadership for projects impacting North America region.
• Facilitated communication, addressed mid level and executive questions and concerns, maintained deadlines. Protected development team from outside interference, facilitated discussion, decision making and conflict resolution.
• Managed status reports, status meetings, risks workshops, issues, scope, quality and communication strategies.
• Skillfully managed complex stakeholder relationships, and promoted transparency, open communication and collaboration leading to 35% increase in project success rates.
• Credited as Champion for scaled agile initiative and process improvement efforts.

• Led team of 14 in development of online, self-service tool empowering customers to manage their own accounts. Worked in collaboration with developers and product owners through this 1 million 2 year Scrum project with projected 750k savings over 2 years.
• Supervised creation of user stories, assigned story points, worked through project backlog, and spearheaded daily stand ups.
• Managed major financial transformation initiative to replace outdated hosted financials system with ERP Cloud SAAS solution. Led project from RFP, vendor selection, SOW review, resource allocation and through all stages of project implementation, and release management, bringing this project to close below budget with 15% savings
• Led and assisted technical upgrade projects by working and coordinating with consultants and developers for integrations.
• Conducted application development reviews, ensuring compliance with audit, information risk management and regulatory agencies.

• Brought in to rescue a high-visibility SAP ERP project going off track. This was a SAP Materials Management implementation, a core supply chain component.
• Rescued the derailed project by bringing it back on track and a successful go-live through instilling strong PM discipline, re-baselining, active vendor management, tight monitoring of project spend, open communication, dependency tracking, prioritizing risks, issues, and actions, managing timelines and monitoring for scope creep.
• Saved the organization 30% planned project spend
• Designed and implemented processes to manage the workstream activities; including appropriate change management processes to keep projects on track.
• Automated dashboards for reporting, leadership visibility into project progress and milestone tracking.

• Responsible for managing high-risk information security projects consisting of multiple complexities within the Enterprise's network, systems, and applications; ensuring compliance and audit readiness:
• Reviewed vulnerabilities in network systems, identified threats to IT infrastructure, managed risks remediation, and presented opportunities to reduce risk and ensure compliance including HIPPA
• Partnered with cross-functional teams to enhance business processes, ensuring that enterprise security standards are met, and standards support application, infrastructure, and business needs
• Managed the implementation of security patches across 700+devices

• Successfully led team of 18+ hands on IT experts, consulting team from Cap Gemini and cross functional stakeholders to deliver robust integrated system for financial planning for new arm of Credit Agricole set up to meet SEC 15a-6 rule
• Established and enforced project timelines and deadlines.
• Spearheaded successful communication between local and global diverse team and navigated cultural barriers
• Accomplished extraordinarily successful cutover to production leading to optimal performance, transparent financial management and cost comparability across all subsidiaries.