Ola Forsythe Olubokun

Senior Business Analyst with vast experience in Public Sector, Private Corporations and Finance.

Experienced in Business Systems Analysis, Project Management across Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in several enterprise-wide development initiatives including new development, legacy, data warehouse, data mining, enhancement projects, Release Management and other Commercial Off-The Shelf (COTS) implementation.

A certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with dual concentration in Business. Have diverse skill-sets in various industries in IT Projects acquired in private and public corporations with extensive knowledge of government procedures, Business Process Re-Engineering, Asset Management, Securitization, Primary / Secondary Mortgage, Telecommunications, and Banking.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Experience in defining cross-functional requirements and requirements workshops for application development projects involving Agile, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Waterfall processes, and creating Use Case Models, Data Flow Diagrams (DFD), Activity Diagrams and State chart diagrams.

Skilled in conducting Joint Application Development (JAD) and Rapid Application Development (RAD) focused sessions, brainstorming sessions, requirement reviews, system walkthroughs and customer interviews for various business processes.

Hands-on experience in Functionality, Usability, Reliability, Performance and Regression testing and UAT for various projects using manual methodologies (Black Box testing) and automated tools.

Experience in repository management, change management and submitting change proposals and analysis to Change Control Boards (CCBs).

Experienced in validating Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs), test cases with queries in SQL. Versatile in conducting gap analysis and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Skilled in leading projects in a constantly changing environment through the different phases from initiation to closing providing technical assistance.

Experienced in generating the Project Management Plan including Risk management Plan, baselines and intermediate baselines, change management plan and configuration

KEY ROLES

Senior Business Process Consultant

Senior Business Analyst

IT Business Analyst

Project Administrator

DOMAIN EXPERTISE

Public Sector

Private Corporations

Construction

Banking

KEY COMPETENCIES

Business Analysis using Use Case methodology

SDLC, RUP, Agile Processes

EDUCATION

MS, Info Systems, UMUC, Maryland

MBA, UoA, Aberdeen, Scotland.

BS, OAU, Nigeria.

CERTIFICATION

PMP Certified (05/2010)

Certified Scrum Master (02/2016)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Business Modeling Tools

UML CASE Tools, Rational Rose, MS Visio

Processes

RUP, SDLC, BPM, Agile Modeling

Modeling Languages

UML

Requirements Management

Telelogic DOORS, Rational RequisitePro, HP ALM

Repository Management

Rational ClearCase

Change Management

Project Management

Rational ClearQuest, Service Now, GitHub

MS Office Suite, MS Project, Primavera 6.0

Databases

MS Access, SQL Server,

Web Application Tools

HTML, Adobe: Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator, CMS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Winrock International Crystal City, VA 04/2017 – Present

Business Analyst Consultant / Project Manager

Winrock International is a part of the Rockefeller Foundation. It combines scientific and technical expertise with entrepreneurial innovation to deliver market based to solutions that improve lives around the world.

Implementation of a Corporate Performance Management System, Prophix, for budgeting, planning, reporting, analysis, forecasting and consolidations. Prophix includes functionality to deliver corporate information to all levels of an organization to ensure corporate goals are aligned with strategy. It uses OLAP technology for sophisticated reporting and business modelling. Prophix replaces Microsoft Dynamics Forecaster.

Preparing and generating monthly Project Status Analysis (PSA) Report, Project Plans and timelines

Contribute to annual budgeting and forecasting process and communication with stakeholders

Responsible for managing project resources according to budget, scope and schedule

Organize and coordinate BAs and Integrators documenting As-Is and building Future State using Business Analysis artifacts and Integration plans

Establish formal Release management process standardizing deployments and configuration management enhancing efficiency and reducing errors

J. Est. Jordan Associates/Kiddie Academy Odenton, MD 09/2016- 03/2017

Salesforce CRM Implementation Consultant

The Organizational set-up included obtaining appropriate licenses from salesforce, the deployment of the Sales Cloud Applications to manage the sales and enrollment-drive operations of the school. The first part of the implementation focused on Account Management, Leads, Contacts, Opportunities, Event and Campaign Management. The second part is Platform as a Service (PAAS) enabled for the Human Resources (HR) Module and Finance.

Responsibilities

Created Users and assigned standard Roles, Profiles and Permission Sets; Created and modified different page layouts and assigned page layouts based on record types

Customized salesforce standards objects - Accounts, Contacts, Opportunity, Campaigns, Cases and Solutions, created custom objects, Alerts and triggers.

Customized objects such as Custom Tabs, Record Types, Picklists, Dependent, Picklists, Validation Rules, Workflow rules, Approval Process

Configured sharing rules in the application for different object to maintain data visibility across different users using roles, users, profiles and permission sets.

Activated Web-to-Lead, s Email-to-Case for capturing salesforce Leads and Emails created via web or emails received to support email.

Implemented public access settings for sites, restricted login hours, and restricted login IP ranges on Profiles, Groups, Queues and Sharing Rules.

Created and customized Reports and Dashboards as requested by the business

Zekiah Technologies / KCI Technologies Sparks, MD 02/2016-09/2016

Senior Business Process Consultant

Project support implementation efforts included a variety of project enhancements for business applications at the end of their lifecycle and customized mobile application development for the Oracle Asset Data Warehouse (ADW). The environment interfaced with the enterprise Geographical Information Systems (eGIS) using ArcGIS. I led a portfolio of application projects used for managing the assets of Maryland State Highway Administration.

Responsibilities

Worked hand in hand with the project stakeholders to gather requirements, validating the requirements, creating meeting minutes,

Managed and modeled large volumes of data from various systems to identify issues impacting the program at a portfolio level, track portfolio level performance, trends and compliance issues

Established and defined Use cases, Activity Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams, Workflows according to the business rules and policies

Authored Functional Requirement Specifications documents, Design Specifications, Test Plan, Test Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix

Developed a variety of Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) prototypes and wireframes.

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Washington DC 02/2015- 02/2016

IT Business Analyst

I supported multiple programs within the EPMO that included highly visible, large and complex programs integrated with the Oracle ERP. The implementation used cutting edge technology by interfacing Oracle ERP with third party applications within Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) and e-Business suite.

Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) module implementation was the consolidation of disparate human resources systems housed in Ceridian and Deltek Management Systems for employee Self-Service, Manager Self-Service, Position Management, Time and Labor interface within the Oracle HCM R12 application module. This program was deployed and implemented to harness human resources management and practices.

Responsibilities

Worked with business users to design, develop and implement business applications by: defining business process improvements, assisted in gathering requirements information for system design, performed and supported quality assurance initiatives and defined requirements within a scrum/ agile environment

Led requirements gathering sessions and validated the requirements with the business users. Supported the project manager in project discovery efforts and planning activities that led to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) or decisions in appropriate contract vehicle to ride

Implemented and maintained comprehensive software systems; tested systems specifications; applied enhancements to meet current and foreseeable requirements; resolved end user-support and training issues with regards to application/systems

Coordinated testing of new software and software upgrades after development; ensured developed solution met users’ needs; secured sign-off/approval; assisted in future maintenance, as necessary

Involved with enterprise wide initiatives such evaluation and design of unit’s performance management, review of policies and conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on appropriate business applications.

Embassy of Nigeria, Washington DC 10/2011- 09/2014

Senior Business Analyst

The project effort encompassed the deployment and implementation of Oracle ERP and R12 upgrade. The seamless implementation involved the conversion of the legacy systems and upgrade of R 11.5.10 to R12. The Oracle HCM R12 application module implementation was to harness human resources management and practices in core HRMS, Benefits and Time Management.

Responsibilities

Conducted JAD sessions to elicit requirements from both internal and external users while ensuring feasibility with technical leads

Produced key project artifacts including use case diagrams and scenarios that provide detailed explanation of what is to be delivered and the priority of each request

Developed key requirements documents such as the Functional Requirements Document (FRD) and Business Requirements Document (BRD), Design Specifications documents

Defined GL integration, value sets, key flex-field segments, descriptive flex fields, period types, accounting calendar and currencies

Develop presentations, charts, and graphics, translating complex technical information into clear, non-technical presentations

Proptimum Inc. Germantown, MD 06/2010 – 10/2011

Project / Business Analyst

The Maestro loan was implemented for the mortgage arm of one of the national home builders.

Maestro loan application automated system was developed to automate the process of assessing the eligibility of a customer for mortgage loans from the company. The system allowed users to create, validate and certify the necessary steps to prepare a loan for application. The application also supported document processing, closing processes and funding. The software’s advantage was that it provided instant loan choices, automated processing, ordering and compliance review, scans image workflow-docs and e-signature. Other features such as verifying credit reports, Automated Valuation Model (AVM), SSN and identification verification, employment history, deposits, income, assets, benefits of the customer were also in-built.

Responsibilities

Conducted quality assurance by conducting extensive manual and functional testing

Documentation of bugs and defect issues found during testing using a defect tracking tool

Coordinated with the development team to resolve defects found during testing

Authored user training manuals and conducted User Acceptance Testing

Created functional enhancements documents for functional and reporting requirements

Responsible for schedule management and alignment with Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).

EDUCATION

MS, Technology Management: Information Systems and Services

University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD 09/2011-12/2015

Master of Business Administration in Business (MBA)

University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland 09/2006 –11/2007

BS: Environmental Design & Management

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria

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