Blessing Osazuwa, PMP

Lagos, Nigeria Tel: + (***) 816-***-**** ad0me7@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Senior Project Manager with over five years of experience in business growth, product and brand development, marketing, and communications. Proficient in planning, executing, directing, and controlling projects from initiation to closing. Supervises a cross-functional team of professionals, including executives, product managers, quality assurance, marketing and sales, IT and design experts. Skilled in managing and overseeing all project aspects, including scope, schedule, costs, risks, stakeholders, quality, resources, and team dynamics. Facilitates training sessions on project management methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid. EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

Project Management Institute (PMI) 2023

Project Management Professional (PMP)

University of Lagos 2019

BSc (Hons), Mass Communication

TRAINING CERTIFICATES

Certification Edge 2021

Training in Business Analysis, Agile HR, HR Metrics Udemy 2020

Training in Product Management

Coursera 2022

Training in Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Smartpreneur Senior Project Manager 2021 –Present

Identifies and prioritizes initiatives that are aligned with the company’s strategic objectives through business analysis and earned value management techniques.

Owns project lifecycles from proposal through implementation including initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling and close-out.

Develops project charters outlining scope, schedule and cost baselines.

Develops scope statement and determines delivery approaches, human, material and financial resources.

Creates and maintains project schedule including activity definition, sequence, duration, work breakdown structure and associated resource requirements.

Identifies and manages risks, dependencies and critical path.

Monitors project performance through trend and variance analyses.

Prepares and present project status at the working team, executive and director levels.

Verifies final deliverable and conducts project closing by archiving documents.

Updates "lessons learned “register, performs PIRs and creates recommendation reports.

Serves as an advocate for the project team, empowering them to meet quality and strict deadlines.

Trains team on project delivery methods like Agile and waterfall as well as project management skills and artefacts according to PMI.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Continued

Emblue Project Manager 2019 – 2021

Collaborated with the client team to capture requirements and ensure that campaigns and deliverables meet their expectations and align with business goals.

Defined scope, developed time and financial estimates in collaboration with team members.

Managed constraints including scope, quality, risks, budget, schedule, human and material resources.

Determined the metrics with which the project will be evaluated at its completion.

Updated stakeholders including senior management and sponsor on project status as slated in the project management plan.

Proactively resolved issues, mitigated negative risks, addressed variances and analyzed schedule performance.

Directed cross-functional team in departments including product development, production, media, marketing, sales, quality assurance and design.

Monitored burn down rate, scope changes and ensure milestones are met.

Constantly removed impediments for the project team while evoking innovative thinking, helping them bring their ideas to fruition.

MagikPro Multimedia Project Coordinator 2018 –2019

Provided support for the preparation of project background information, contributed to scope reviews, creation of business cases to be submitted to senior management and sponsor for approval.

Supported project manager in reviewing applications, disseminating project scope to new in-house creative and technical crew members.

Maintained accurate project documentation, including meeting minutes, decisions and action items.

Communicated project updates to stakeholders and provided regular status reports to project manager.

CRT Africa Project Assistant (Internship) 2017 –2018

Assisted project management team in scheduling meetings, and handling correspondence.

Carried out research to support team decision-making on media buying, youth TV and radio programs strategies.

Assisted in communication efforts, and maintained a list of external project contacts. TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project Management Business Analysis Communication

• Cross-functional team Leadership Requirements Analysis

Management Software (Jira, Asana, Trello) Presentation Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid DISTINCTION AND RECOGNITION

Award of Excellence 2020

Most reliable staff member at Emblue.

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