SUMMARY
PMP- certified Project Manager and Business Analyst professional with 7 years’ experience providing cradle-to-grave management over medium to large-scale implementation. Excel at liaising between business and technical areas to achieve system solutions that is on-time, on-budget and on spec project completions. Able to merge customer and user needs with business requirements, budgetary restrictions as well as logistical considerations to meet project deliverables.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE & SKILLS
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Water Fall
• Business Analysis
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Jira
• Agile
• Scrum
• SQL
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Comcast Corporation March 2018 – date
Business Analyst/Project Manager
Business Analysis
• Elicit project requirements by facilitating stakeholders meetings, conducting documents analysis, workflow analysis, researching and analyzing Business Description Documents (BPDs), creating scenarios and visiting client’s site.
• Lead efforts to analyze, design, and document requirements for project solutions and enhancements to existing applications.
• Develop, and manage assigned detailed requirements documentation. Render pro-active support in other unassigned tasks.
• Perform business process analysis and develop business process models (As Is/To Be).
• Develop lifecycle documents, including Use Cases, Detailed Functional Requirements, Detailed Design Specifications, and User Manual.
• Recommend and implement enhancements to the process and tool to improve effectiveness and efficiency
• Develop data models as well as relationship diagrams in order to help customers visualize their requirements.
• Co-authored reference materials for requirements analysis. Provide Technical and Non-Technical support to new team members.
Project Management
• Accountable for driving complex projects and programs to achieve business goals and objective
• Coordinated all stages of project lifecycle, from identifying, monitoring, reporting and escalating project-related issues for timely resolution.
• Effectively coordinating and scheduling resources across many organization to align project with business goals and objectives.
• Identified and developed risk management plan or corrective actions to mitigate impact on project schedules and business objectives
• Effectively utilizing project tracking tools and systems to document milestones completion, project issues, corrective actions and project completion
• Working with various installation and material vendors to ensure timeliness of delivery as well as the right order
• Maintaining excellent communication with all stakeholders (Functional team members and management) for smooth running of the project
• Mediated among conflicting project team members
Project Edge Consulting February 2014 – February 2018
Project Management Consultant
Industry – Healthcare, Fiduciary, Telecommunications, Government and Oil and Gas
Business Analysis
• Accumulated system requirements from various departments like accounting, Human Resource through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions.
• Created Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Specifications Document (FDS) using MS Office.
• Responsible for meetings with users and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and to improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Daily involvement with the agile software development life cycle, documenting and working through systems issues as part of a business analysis team.
• Created Use Case specifications, data modeling using UML techniques, business flow diagrams, Activity/state diagram and sequence diagram using Rational Rose, so the developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process according to their perspective with possible alternate scenarios.
• Created exceptions report which were then submitted to project lead and stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Performed Requirement, Data analysis and Gap analysis.
• Developed Use Cases and documented them using MS Visio.
• Updated and modified progress and resources allocation in MS project for the team
Project Management
• Provides Project charter, framework, and schedule for project activities
• Accountable for driving complex projects and programs to achieve business goals and objective
• Coordinated clients stages of project lifecycle, from identifying, monitoring, reporting and escalating project-related issues for timely resolution.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment
• Identified and developed risk management plan or corrective actions to mitigate impact on project schedules and business objectives
• Effectively utilizing project tracking tools and systems to document milestones completion, project issues, corrective actions and project completion
• Directs project teams in the development and implementation of project plan
• Effectively utilizing project tracking tools and systems to document milestones completion, project issues, corrective actions and project completion
Team Management
• Review and determine all appropriate staffing requirements within required budget, timeframe and responsible for the storage and maintenance of project artifacts.
• Provide day to day direction to the project team; provide periodic project status updates to project sponsors/system owners
Diamond Bank July 2011 – February 2014
Business Analyst
• Accumulated system requirements from various departments like accounting, Human Resource through surveys, interviews and JAD sessions.
• Created Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and Functional Specifications Document (FDS) using MS Office.
• Responsible for meetings with users and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and to improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution.
• Created user stories and story cards.
• Designed the non-functional requirements of the application through Mock-up forms for better illustration of the application.
• Daily involvement with the agile software development life cycle, documenting and working through systems issues as part of a business analysis team.
• Created Use Case specifications, data modeling using UML techniques, business flow diagrams, Activity/state diagram and sequence diagram using Rational Rose, so the developers and other stakeholders can understand the business process according to their perspective with possible alternate scenarios.
• Created exceptions report which were then submitted to project lead and stakeholders on a regular basis.
• Performed Requirement, Data analysis and Gap analysis.
• Developed Use Cases and documented them using MS Visio.
• Updated and modified progress and resources allocation in MS project for the team.
• Make sure to trace test cases to operations use cases.
• Recommend and implement naming convention for Test Cases, Test Sets and Defects.
• Attended Weekly status meeting in reporting and provided a weekly report that includes test metrics consisting of status reports.
• Facilitated user acceptance testing (UAT) and test strategies with Information Technology Group.
Ecobank September 2007 – June 2011
Data Analyst
• Set clear metrics and measurement priorities
• Write queries to extract data from different SQL databases.
• Analyze, visualize and interpret data for strategic decision making using statistical procedures.
• Worked complex data into decision
• Initiate communications on findings through different mediums
• Maintains database to track performance
EDUCATION
University of Denver – University College June 2019
Master of Science in Information Technology
Pan-Atlantic University – Lagos Business School Dec 2017
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Covenant University – College of Information System July 2007
Bachelor of Science, Management Information Systems
CERTIFICATION AND PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION
Project Management Professional (PMP) 2011
Project Management Training, McKinsey & Company 2011
Business Analyst Training, McKinsey & Company 2009