OLU BOLARINWA

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Professional Profile

I am a proactive and extensively experienced Technology Expert and Project Manager with proven track record of successfully leading and supporting teams to achieve business objectives and client requirements. I am proficient in Project Management Office (PMO) set up, using Microsoft Projects for planning and the use of several methodologies including PRINCE2, ITIL and SDLC and a wealth of knowledge on project management governance structures. I am a natural leader who manages and coordinates personnel and resources to meet tight deadlines and schedules. I have practical knowledge in estimation, change control, risk, assumption, issue, and dependency management (RAID). I am very diligent and resourceful, I influence and negotiate effectively and I possess interpersonal and communication skills to build positive relationships with stakeholders at all levels.

I am a motivated, resourceful and dynamic business technology expert with extensive experience in management consulting, client opportunity management and business transformation for more than 13 years. Over the years, my core focus has been on helping organizations achieve set business objectives and transforming client businesses into a high-performing enterprise by utilizing cutting-edge technology offerings, systems and processes.

Education and Qualifications

B.Sc. Computer Science

PMP Training

Certifications

●PRINCE2 Certified and PMP (Project Management Institute) Trained

●ITIL Certification

●SAP Flexible Real Estate (REFX)

●SAP Business Intelligence & Business Objects

●SAP Finance & Controlling (FICO)

●SAP HANA

Professional Development

●ITIL Service Management

●PRINCE2

Career Summary

Technology Project Manager and Subject Matter Expert

Accenture (2011 – Present)

Duties:

●Initiated, developed and managed multiple strategic and transformation business and system integration projects.

●Collaborated with C-Level client executives and key stakeholders in cross-functional business units to identify programs and projects best able to drive high-performance. Delivered project status and progress to senior client executives.

●Developed business intelligence solutions using tools like SAP to client business requirement across several industries.

Key Highlights and Achievements:

●Led global teams in design and implementation of business solutions with various systems to address client requirements.

●Identified and analyzed critical business issues for clients with emphasis on developing resolutions in form of people, systems and processes. Focus on data analytics and business intelligence tools.

●Managed a range of senior stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SME), delivery teams and third party suppliers to ensure achievement of project / programme targets.

●Established and embedded fit for purpose, efficient, effective and compliant PMO governance and controls - Adherence to governance, risk, issue, change and dependency management (RAID)

●Managed the project risks ensuring that they reference back to project plan tasks and status, and that all remedial actions and mitigations are transparent to everyone and acted on in a timely and effective way

●Managed the project team members to facilitate completion of deliverables, including Business Cases, PIDs, test plans, deployment plans and their sign off, using SharePoint as repository

●Ran audits in time reporting applications to manage and analyse resource demand, allocations, and availability and time bookings.

●Managed the project budget planning processes and responsible for budget tracking with delivery partners

●Managed other project Delivery Leads status inputs; collating and distributing for steering group meetings

●Ensured the implementation and compliance with change control processes, ensuring Impact assessment of change is done by all delivery partners before presenting for approval

●Led and facilitated PMO phases and gates review meetings, and ensuring full adherence to gate and compliance deliverables for change management and successful project execution

●Facilitated workshops to develop plans from scratch across the projects lifecycle, identifying and proactively managing critical milestones, risks, issues, assumptions and cross project/programme dependencies

●Maintained an ongoing dashboard of key metrics covering critical path, inbound / outbound dependencies, variances

●Developed and customised a clear and articulate plan template fit for the purpose of guiding project delivery

●Creating baseline plans and monitoring progress to identify associated critical paths and risks, and flagging any schedule slippage

●Responsible for the production and distribution of weekly Programme Assurance Pack, chairing the weekly meeting and ensure one version of the truth exists across all reporting

●Responsible for the consolidated programme plan in MSP and the Plan on a Page in Visio

●Managed deliverables tracking and requirements traceability matrix using SharePoint

●Maintain an appropriate level of awareness of dependencies and constraints within the programme, ensuring that these are effectively monitored and managed

●Addressed on any adverse key milestones with supporting commentary and RAG

●Received work-stream weekly status reports from leads, reviewed and produce a more consolidated status report for projects and programs.

●Managed the programme change requests as requested by the Project Managers and Business Analysts to agree and communicate which are active and approved.

●Responsible for the development of document libraries for work-streams to ensure that all documentation is signed off, baselined and change controlled.

Select Projects and Initiatives:

Client: MTN (2015)

Industry: Telecommunications

●Supported various client executives across Finance, Treasury, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing and Technology in steering the business transformation initiative. Oversaw activities for Data Cleansing Initiative throughout country as part of this global project. Developed and launched initiatives to ensure all pertinent data collected, cleansed, validated and loaded in accurate, timely manner for the delivery of a cutting edge analytics environment.

●Supported change management initiatives as part of new system implementation. Established collaborative relationships with client stakeholders to ensure project goals achieved.

Client: TRANSNET (2014)

Industry: Capital Projects

●Supported client senior executives in directing successful implementation of the project by providing guidance and thought leadership for the initiative.

●Analyzed and evaluated current processes, capabilities and business reporting environment for capital projects.

●Improved insight and visibility of costs and operations for stakeholder with implementation of process, system and KPI database.

●Designed and presenting recommendation encompassing best practice and an end-to-end solution for analytics and business intelligence reporting for the client.

Client: DANGOTE Group (2014)

Industry: Commodities

●Supported client director in identifying and architecting a solution to address a business problem in HR business processes.

●Successfully transformed key business functions within group HR space, such as Employee Self Service and Performance Management.

Client: Anglo-American (2014)

Industry: Global Mining

●Supported client senior executive in identifying and architecting a solution to address a business problem in HR business processes for on-boarding new hires.

●Overhauled process of hiring and on-boarding new hires into organization, ensuring a process that empowered, guided and engaged staff from day one.

Client: BHP Billiton (2013)

Industry: Global Mining

●Supported client executives across Finance, Supply, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing and Plant Maintenance to drive the successful implementation of the final phase of a transformation initiative. Oversaw deployment of change management required across various sites nationally for 800+ users.

●Designed and delivered Business Intelligence training initiatives, plans and strategies for identified project team members. Led Business Intelligence and Performance Management Report testing and implemented post-go-live strategy for clients at several sites and mines with the support of Global Delivery Teams.

Client: AngloGold Ashanti (2012)

Industry: Global Mining

●Supported client executives across various business units with the requirements for capability development across the organization with respect to the SAP project implementation.

●Developed new Business Intelligence and analytics training strategy in support of client’s global SAP implementation team. Facilitated training for BI end users and super users across two countries. Collaborated efforts as part of team that successfully streamlined and enhanced various reports for diverse user groups, including senior leadership and super users.

Client: JD Group (2012)

Industry: Retail

●Led the update of all BW Data Flows, including extractors, info-providers and queries, incorporating solid knowledge of cube partitioning.

●Restructured and optimized identified reports and related analytics as needed to supper Merchandise Business Unit, enabling improved strategic and operational decision made company-wide.

Client: JD Group (2011)

Industry: Retail

●Oversaw stakeholder engagement process in order to identify Real Estate requirements and opportunities for improvements across all group stakeholders and users.

●Played critical role within cross-functional team managed build of proposed Real Estate management solution based on SAP REFX.

Client: Liberty Life (2011)

Industry: Insurance

●Designed and implemented proposed solution for improved space management, allowing for improved budget allocation to various cost centers.

Technology Officer and IT Service Delivery Manager

Accenture

(2003 – 2011)

Duties:

●Worked closely with Accenture leadership across several geographies to implement technology and digital solutions for various initiatives designed to transform business processes.

●Led various technology initiatives and projects to enable Accenture’s clients to better position their organizations as leaders in the industry and hence becoming high performing businesses and industry leaders.

●Managed and supported the delivery of technology services to Accenture clients.

●Managed and delivered the first MPLS and VOIP solution built on CISCO technology in Nigeria for Accenture. This was a part of a bigger program designed to drive a global collaboration strategy, implementing a global Network Transformation Program aimed at unifying the telecommunication Network platform for the organization.

●Managed the implementation of various technology initiatives with various budgets of between USD800k and USD100M over a seven year period providing savings on telecoms services and offerings.

●As technology analyst, deployed technology solutions and services and supported project requirements to deploy technology solution internally for Accenture and for our clients.

●Managed several capital projects including the delivery of technology infrastructure for a new office spaces and a few years later a total office move, relocating all technology infrastructure to a new office location.

●Management of the weekly reporting cycle, ensuring reports are produced by Stream Leads in a timely manner, quality checking and ensuring they are available for the weekly management meeting

Core Competencies

●Business Intelligence

●Program and Project Management

●Strategic Analysis & Planning

●Analytics

●Analytics Thought Leadership

●Systems Implementations

●Business Transformation

●Technology Strategy

●Relationship Management (Vendor)

●Infrastructure Service Management

●Stakeholder Management (Client)

●Digital Marketing

●Change Management

●Sales and Business Development

●Teamwork & Collaboration

●Communication

Professional Training

●Accenture Delivery Methods

●Accenture Project Management: Estimating

●Accenture Project Team Supervisor Methods

●Consulting Core Business & Systems Analyst School

●Emotional Intelligence

●SAP HANA, BI/BW, BObj, Lumira.

●Microsoft Visio, Excel, Project

●Digital Marketing Capability Development

●Internet Marketing Summit

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