Adebayo Asoro (MBA, PMP, CSM)

**** *** **** ***

Humble, TX 77338

acxlbp@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 832-***-****

Objective

A systems/product/project management position with a dynamic, growth-oriented company that will effectively utilize my acquired skills, education, training, and experience to make positive contributions toward meeting organizational goals and objectives.

Summary of Qualifications

15 years’ project Management experience within ERP & EPCI environments using methodologies such as the PMI PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge), SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle), Agile, ASAP (Accelerated SAP) based on company’s best practices.

10 years IT experience including Consulting, Implementation, Development, Configuration, Production Support and Training.

5 years of experience delivering consulting services around SAP HR Personnel Administration, Organization management and Benefit functionality from R/3 4.6c to ECC 6.0

Managed administrative, technical, and resource management aspects of a project including planning, resourcing loading, and scheduling, coordinating, communications, monitoring, evaluating, and problem-solving.

Strong analytical aptitude, with a proven ability to analyze/interpret business requirements and translate them into functional specifications.

Strong ability to collaborate with corporate senior leadership, senior technologists and business stakeholders to align business requirements to IT strategy and plans.

Excellent communication skills – verbal and written. Team player with a lot of attention to detail.

Technical skills:

SAP R/3 4.6 to 6.0; Microsoft Office 2007 to 2013 (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project, SharePoint Online, Outlook, SharePoint, Access), MS Dynamics, IMs info Path, MS Groove, and Windows live meeting up to 2010 versions; Project Web Access (PWA), Rally, Jira, Team Foundation Server (TFS), HP Quality Center (ALM), Clarity, Project Server, Neocase (Case management tool), Dita Xchange, Kapow, AssignmentPro (Global mobility tool); o365 online; .net, SSIS, SQL, Primavera (P6), and Mind genius.

Functional competencies:

Project Planning, Team Building and Leadership Management, Business/Requirements Analysis, Change Management, SAP Implementation Projects, Enterprise Portfolio Management, Deliverable & Milestone Fulfillment, Project Cost, time and risk Management, Managing clients’ relationships, process improvement and control; scope Management, Architecture, Infrastructure and strategic Implementation Planning.

Professional Experience

Apex Systems Inc. Houston TX 06/2016 to Date

Agile Program Manager at Phillip 66 (Houston Tx)

Lead and coach project teams in addition to driving successful delivery of highest value features.

Develop and track schedule and cost plans that support the business objectives, timelines, budgets, resources, milestones, and project deliverables.

Lead teams in implementing Scrum in order to maximize velocity.

Work with Product Owner to ensure highest value features are delivered within iterations.

Actively participate in assisting teams resolving issues and escalate as needed.

Work with technical resources to coordinate outside part time resources as needed.

Prepare and conduct periodic project status reports to update project governance teams and executive management regularly on progress, risks and issues.

Prepare monthly project status updates and capital forecasts per P66 established processes.

Coach and manage multiple teams with travel between Houston, TX and Bartlesville, OK.

Eliassen Group. Dallas TX 08/2015 to 04/2016

Technical PM/Scrum Master at Fidelity Investment (Westlake Tx)

Support the SDLC process using agile practices for projects and backlog items.

Guide the development efforts for infrastructure team across 3 Business units namely PI, FI and WI.

Lead and support agile teams to create high level project, iteration and release plan that will carry out necessary activities to achieve project capability and deliverables.

Manage teams/projects that leverage matrix teams in diverse locations (multiple time zones).

Work independently and in a team environment in addition to dealing with constant change.

Lead and facilitate product releases with various teams through standard processes.

Coordinate Scrum process including facilitating daily stand-up meetings, sprint planning meetings, sprint retrospectives and sprint demos.

Effectively solving team’s problems, identify risks and issues in addition to knowing when to escalate.

Help teams manage must-have deliverables to ensure customers’ expectations are met.

Facilitate communication across product team.

Continually evaluate to improve team’s velocity, predictability, engagement and success.

Identify issues that require management intervention and communicate them appropriately.

Work closely with development, testing, product management and other groups to remove impediments.

Sentari Technologies Inc. Dallas TX 04/2015 to 07/2015

Senior Business Analyst/Project Consultant at Texas Railroad Commission (Austin Tx)

Work closely and interactively with the business areas as primary point of contact for multiple projects.

Develop/maintain understanding of key business drivers/impacts, assisting clients with identifying and solving business challenges.

Facilitate analysis of functional requirements and design of technology specifications, working with business/functional personnel, capturing requirements by interactive sessions with clients.

Define functional design and systems specifications; prepare/review/deliver completed packages.

Participate and provide guidance to Business and Functional Units in developing and completing user acceptance testing, training, and implementation-related activities.

Work closely with Project Manager, providing input into project planning, scheduling, and budgeting.

Provide direction, indirect supervision to team members during development cycle of projects.

Responsible for managing team deliverables during requirements gathering and design activities.

Assist in the adoption of agile methodology using Scrum framework as part of the commission’s hybrid project management process.

Research and introduce new tools, best practices of processes, as continuous improvement methodology

Baker Hughes Inc. Houston TX 10/2013 to 02/2015

Lead Business Systems Analyst

Worked with Project team to organize and facilitate project planning, risk analysis and change management with focus on how decisions impacts clients.

Formulate and define systems scope and objectives based on the business needs, a thorough understanding of business systems, and industry standards.

Gather, analyze and document business and functional requirements and recommend innovative solutions.

Work with business stakeholders including the product owner to understand, refine and document key requirements.

Support ongoing product maintenance, including production support and cross team communication.

Plan, organize and direct the implementation of business solutions in accordance with company and organizational strategies.

Develop and manage relationships with business, internal and external IT partners to provide technology based solutions to business needs.

Perform advanced problem solving analysis.

Enhance user satisfaction by improving the usability, ease of use, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the users and the product.

Support development, QA and UAT activities as it pertains to system functionality throughout the project and product lifecycle.

Identify application risks, impacts, options and recommendations for mitigation.

Create and maintain process flows, component diagrams, and detailed process functionality.

Coordinate and lead interaction across multiple platforms and groups in order to produce quality deliverables.

Provide direction and mentoring to entry-level and junior business systems analysts.

Maintain intermediate level technical and functional awareness and competence of support business applications, and organizational and industry technology standards.

Kelly Services Inc. Houston TX 07/2012 to 10/2013

Senior Business Analyst/ Scrum Master at Baker Hughes

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, and other Scrum-related meetings.

Facilitate the adoption of agile practices using Scrum framework.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress.

Assist in the estimation of project resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.

Assist with backlog maintenance and prioritization and resolution of defects.

Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition.

Participate proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools, documents and best practices.

Identify and remove impediments and prevent distractions.

Facilitate discussion, conflict resolution and empower team to be self-organized.

Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, tasks and workflow analysis.

Understand the customer's business requirements and process.

Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources to develop functional requirements.

Collect and analyze project business requirements and transferring the same knowledge to development team.

Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and review the Business Requirements Documents and Functional Requirements as needed.

Provide functional assistance to users; serve as subject matter expert for requirements, test planning and test execution for projects and enhancements in addition to obtaining sign-off from the appropriate client.

Interface with technical team to deliver service to end customers

Troubleshoot production issues and engage appropriate teams and individuals to address to meet customer needs.

Drive business process implementation and improvements.

Evaluate data collected through task analysis, business process, surveys and workshops.

Manage any change requests related to the working project plans daily to meet the agreed deadlines.

Work independently with users to define concepts and under direction of project managers

Serve as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow.

Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates.

Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical solution.

Provide weekly status reports to senior level management.

Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams

Wal-Mart Logistics New Canny TX 09/2007 to 06/2012

Project manager

Developed Statements of Work and project work plans that identified and scheduled deliverables, milestones, project dependencies, and required tasks.

Arrange meetings with project team members to ensure all members understand the scope, responsibilities, and accountabilities.

Serve as the point person for organizational projects and manage all vendor relationships.

Setup Project Management Office and provide advice on PMO best practice, project management methodologies, tools and techniques.

Act in concert with project lead to continually assess project status, made decisions and took necessary actions to achieve project objectives and quality standards.

Managed all aspects of assigned projects including detailed planning, task tracking, cost control, and quality assurance in accordance with the Professional Services Methodology.

Developed detailed work plans, risk management plan, schedules, project estimates for cost, resource plans and status reports to layout the progression and scope of the project.

Prioritize and coordinate deliverables and inter-dependencies among the various Wal-Mart PMO Teams.

Responsible for ensuring accountability by the various Wal-Mart PMO’s on all aspects of the project over the entire project life (initiate, plan, execute, control, close).

Communicate with Project Stakeholders, Wal-Mart PMO Functional Area leadership, Portfolio Performance Manager and Planning & Program Managers.

Twin Tech Consulting, Services Houston TX 02/2006 to 08/2007

SAP Project Consultant

Responsible for gathering requirement and analyzing As-Is-Business Process, developed To-Be-Business Process

Liaised with executive leadership to ensure that system design support and enabled corporate strategic objectives.

Identified and worked with functional team leads to resolve key business issues by balancing division business requirements with clients’ Global Leading Practice.

Analyzed business process and improved collaboration through conflict management and client interface.

Conducted brainstorming sessions with management and clients to design Enterprise Structure, Personnel Structure, and Organizational Structure and mapped them into SAP.

Reviewed deliverable contents including Business Process Procedures

Prepared specifications for user exit

Configured Personnel Administration module set Actions types and invoked dynamic actions.

Configured various master data screens, action menus and infotype selection of menus

Configured work scheduled rules using a flexible calendar

Altered the structure of standard infotypes for clients’ specifications and designs.

Performed GAP analysis and formatting report specification

Prepared functional design specification.

Test the program with respect to its performance and accuracy

Transport the program from development to quality assurance box.

Worked on employees turn over reports, age reports and years of service reports.

Provided Post Implementation support in identification of errors and eliminating them.

Haploid Consulting Lagos, Nigeria 01/2005 to 12/2005

SAP HR Business Analyst

Gathered business requirements for the development of interfaces and end users

Worked with the user community to determine the best solution to help resolve customer problems and satisfy customer requirement

Analyzed current business processes according to the company’s best practice and made recommendations.

Determined the financial impact of ownership decision-making, corporate structure, business planning and industry benchmarking.

Prepared functional specifications and delivered to ABAP developers.

Configured based on business requirements the following modules: Personnel Administration, Organization Management, Benefits, and Enterprise Structure.

Configured Health Plans, FSA Plan, Eligibility, Dependents and benefits design, and work & life events by project milestone due dates.

Configured infotype menu, infogroups, and personnel actions.

Utilized ASAP methodology and tasks required during each phase of the implementation

Participated in test scripts, pilot and parallel testing.

Performed integration and tested work as necessary to ensure that new functionality or enhancements do not adversely affect existing functionality.

Provided end user training and documentation using uperform.

Nomako & company Lagos, Nigeria 05/2001 to 12/2004

Project Coordinator

Prepare and present status on project schedules, project costs, project deliverables, project risks, and risk containment strategies.

Assisted project team lead to ensure deliverables were met in a timely manner and within budget and scope.

Worked with inter departmental groups, such as the basis team and configuration specialists to communicate user requirements and resolve issues.

Worked in conjunction with the service desk to analyze, prioritize, and resolve work ticket requests.

Assisted with business processes and workflow plans.

First point contact to vendors and clients.

Certification, Education and Training

Project Management Professional – PMP, March 2015 (PMP #: 1795661)

Project Management Institute (PMI - Member ID: 2333552). Houston TX

Scrum Product Owner Certified – SPOC, October 2015

SCRUMstudy – (Member ID – 86025) Houston Tx

Certified Scrum Master, March 2013 (MEMBER ID: 000243556)

Scrum Alliance, Houston TX

Systems Development Life Cycle Training

SCRUM and AGILE Training

Runs ASAP Training

Master in Business Administration – Technology Management, October 2010

University of Phoenix, Houston, TX

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management May 2005

Lagos State University

References

Rashidi Benson – Senior Project Manager at Fidelity Investments - 817-***-**** – Westlake TX - acxlbp@r.postjobfree.com

Lee Raabe – Director of PI Technology at Fidelity Investments - 817-***-**** – Westlake TX - acxlbp@r.postjobfree.com

Randall Mallette – Senior Project Manager at Fidelity Investments – 214-***-**** – Westlake TX – acxlbp@r.postjobfree.com

Richard Lawrence – SAP Project Consultant at CSC – 281-***-**** – Houston TX – acxlbp@r.postjobfree.com

Kehinde Alli – Senior Partner at Twin Tech Consulting Services – 773-***-**** - Houston TX - acxlbp@r.postjobfree.com

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