Mo Odukoya

Celina, Texas *****

E: ad4a66@r.postjobfree.com

T: 1-347-***-****

Education

Bachelor’s degree (BSc.)

MBA Project Management – University of Wales, UK

ITIL Foundation

PRINCE2 Practitioner (Projects In Controlled Environments)

PMI Project Management Professional (PMP)

Professional Skills

•Proven experience in Project, Program and Portfolio Management from initiation to closure.

•Clearly understands and has worked multiple projects with either waterfall and agile practices and principles

•Experience working with public safety and managing public safety projects

•Preparation and Communication of Project and Contracts plans

•Effective documentation and monitoring of all Risks

•Ability to multitask on multiple complex projects and work independently and collaborate with key stakeholders.

•Effective liaison skills with clients identifying project requirements, scope, and objectives.

•Strong negotiation, documentation of project phases and project reporting skills.

•Effective prioritization and execution of tasks in a high-pressure environment.

•Ability to effectively work with project teams to manage issues when they arise.

•Possess ability to coordinate and conduct meetings with team members in a professional manner.

•Excellent presentation skills to deliver engaging, informative, and well-organized presentations is required

•Solid organizational and Schedule management, and Change Management skills

•Organized, efficient and precise in dealing with team members and Senior management.

•Experienced knowledge on the best ways to document lessons learned.

•Leading and communicating with global teams on projects ranging from $10m to $100m.

•Proficiency managing cross functional teams

•A strong understanding of business procedures, financial services, and technical terminology

•Possess strong organization and planning skills with an ability to quickly adapt to change

•Excellent leadership, communication and negotiation skills, behaves as an owner

•Self-driven, highly motivated, and comfortable interacting at various levels within and outside of the organization

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•Firsthand experience with Project Management tools (ServiceNow, Deltek Vision, OneVizion, Sharepoint, MS Project, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Microsoft Teams, Slack, MS Visio, Planview, Asana, Trello, KanBan, Jira, Clarity).

•Experience using Accounting tools Asset Suite, IBM Maximo, Salesforce.

•Familiar working with DevOps, AWS / Cloud services and Azure teams.

•Experience working on Infrastructure, Telecommunication Tower Projects, Data center upgrade, SaaS implementation and Office 365 Migration Projects, Data Migration projects, Enterprise Software releases / deployment and many other projects

•Knowledge of standards relevant to the software industry (e.g., ISO, CMM, Six Sigma)

•Manage software development projects through the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Work Experience

Xoriant Corporation

Citigroup– Project Manager Dec 2022 - Present

•Main Projects

•My Audit

•MI Migration Project

•Responsibilities:

•Lead executive review sessions and documented meeting minutes and action items.

•Tracked and reported Budget plans for continuous weekly reports to Senior Management.

•Worked with technical leads, and back-end developers to drive new platform delivery.

•Led the team to the Change Governance Board to receive approval for Change requests

•determines scope and impact of risks and issues raised

•Ensured user stories were updated when needed and updated the back-end team.

•Partnered with the senior architects to ensure deployment issues with designated teams were promptly addressed and fixed for the timely delivery of project

•Projected data plans through data mapping and data flow diagrams with the use of Visio.

•Lead the successful large scale enterprise data migration from the old legacy system to the new system

•Coordinates and facilitates routines to support delivery of technology solution -e.g. kick-offs, status reviews, stakeholder meetings, change controls, and tollgates.

•Plans and coordinates delivery and dependencies across multiple technology teams.

•Facilitates dependency management, risk management, and impediment removal for the defined deliverables.

•Promotes and facilitates communication and collaboration across organizations to support the deliverable completion and timeline. Articulate clear updates and critical path.

•Gathers and facilitates project updates for the deliverables to stakeholders and leadership about delivery, risks/issues, and schedule.

•Ensures that execution is aligned with deliverable requirements by working with the sponsor and stakeholders.

•Identify any emerging risks/issues, escalate as needed, and identify critical path to resolve.

•Execute appropriate due diligence and financial management routines to deliver against financial commitments.

•Ensures deliverables comply with Enterprise Change Management standards and maintain evidence and systems for record for change.

•Supports resource planning for delivery/execution.

•Ensures Project team's adherence to control and risk issues.

•Lead process improvement initiatives for the organization in general

•Tracking of project stories through Jira

•Raise Change requests promptly approved by the change Control Board.

•Managed the development of a SharePoint site specifically for all program details including scope, cost, time, quality, communication, and risk management.

•Provides evalutive judgement based on analysis of information in unique situations.

•Reported project progress and status periodically to the designated management.

•Led daily stand-up calls with internal team and Client

•Championed and headed the UAT team to ensure all fixed bugs were retested and resolved.

•Monitored Project deliverables and progress

•Coordinating Testing of Product through End to End, UAT and Regression testing

IBM/Chevron – Senior IT Project Manager Feb 2022 - Nov 2022

•Main Projects

•Salesforce Copado implementation

•Retailer Connect Implementation

•Data Migration Projects

•Responsibilities:

•Managed successful development of a salesforce site from configuration to testing.

•Lead executive review sessions and documented meeting minutes and action items.

•Develop, plan, and maintain detailed project plans with clear identification of milestones, tasks, dependencies and resource required

•Lead the successful large scale enterprise data migration from the old legacy system to the new system

•Worked with technical leads, and back-end developers to drive new platform delivery

•Ensured user stories were updated when needed and updated the back end team

•Raised deployment issues with deployment teams to ensure timely delivery of project

•Raise Change requests promptly approved by the change Control Board.

•Managed the development of a SharePoint site specifically for all program details including scope, cost, time, quality, communication, and risk management.

•Reported project progress and status periodically to the designated management.

•Led daily stand-up calls with internal team and Client

•Monitored Project deliverables and progress

City of Dallas – Senior IT Project Manager (Dallas, TX) January 2020 till February 2022

•Main Projects

•Telecom Tower Construction

•Installation of New P25 Radio system

•Asset management and configuration item management

•Process design to achieve company’s financial goals

•Data Migration Projects using SaaS solution

•Configuration Management Projects

•COTS Implementation Projects

•Healthcare Department Project

•ServiceNow ITSM Implementation Project

•Software development projects (SDLC)

•Responsibilities:

•Managed successful construction of new Telecom towers with the Dallas, DMV area and the remediation of already existing Telecom towers.

•Lead executive review sessions and documented meeting minutes and action items.

•Prepared Budget trackers for continuous weekly reports.

•Worked with technical leads, Engineers and Design teams to assist with Project Management tasks as needed for different workstreams.

•Lead the successful large scale enterprise data migration from the old legacy system to the new system for different departments

•Raise Change requests promptly approved by the change Control Board.

•Managed the development of a SharePoint site specifically for all program details including scope, cost, time, quality, communication, and risk management.

•Reported project progress and status periodically to the designated management.

•Ensured proper management and negotiation of vendor contracts.

•Managed schedule closely and ensured issues and risks were raised promptly and addressed.

•Proactive vendor management and monitoring of vendor tasks.

•Create weekly status reports on using PowerPoint, word and other tools

•Manage defect, issue, risk, status and other project health reporting standards

•Lead Business partners through structured Acceptance Testing cycles

•Liaison with all Business Partners and vendors to achieve Business goals and objectives.

•Manage multiple projects simultaneously without supervision.

•Coordinate waterfall and agile Projects in accordance with the scope and budget and ensured timely delivery

•Facilitates the creation of templates and ongoing updates of roadmap documents

•Records lessons learnt and ensure continuous improvement feedback is documented

•Prompt delivery of infrastructure projects from Design stage to the Building and delivery stage.

•Took charge of process documentation for all assigned projects

•Worked hand in hand with procurement to ensure proper vendor selection

•Managed Configuration of several software implementation projects

•Ensured accurate documentation of DSS PCI compliance artifacts

•Managed Asset inventory of all telecommunication sites

AEP – IT Project Manager (Tulsa, OK) December 2018 till December 2019

•Main Projects

•Telecom Tower Construction

•RDI to PPP conversion

•Property leasing

•Power easement procurement

•Frequency coordination approvals

•Process design to achieve company’s business goals

•Install of symphony consoles

•Installation of New P25 Radio system

•Asset management and configuration item management

•Data Migration Projects using SaaS solution

•ServiceNow Project

•Responsibilities:

•Led successful construction of over 150 New Radio tower sites that represented a multi-million-dollar investment across Texas, North Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas

•Managed the development of a SharePoint site specifically for all program details including scope, cost, time, quality, communication and risk management

•Led the successful Configuration Items and Asset management process for the entire Telecom Radio project

•Periodically discussed potential risks with the leasing team on property acquisition and sign off

•Followed through to ensure Federal communications Approvals and National Environmental Policy Acts are processed and complied with

•Monitored company-wide assets and ensured inspections are conducted on time

•Identified and created the operational process for closing work orders and closing subprojects in Service Now

•Ensured all Purchase Orders are processed in a timely manner in Asset Suite

•Continually evaluated existing operational processes for Sox financial reporting and established a working process

•Efficiently managed and tracked project budget through IBM Maximo in collaboration with the Program Manager

•Kept the Program Manager updated with scope and suggestions for scope changes

•Managed effective communication between Design, Construction, Wireless Engineering and Transport Engineering teams

•Ensured changes approved by the change control board are implemented

•Followed up on Action Items and followed up with respective teams responsible

•Negotiated terms and contracts with vendors in line with company policy

•Provide status reports to stakeholders in a timely and professional manner

•Assist lead engineers in project planning and coordination with field and customers to ensure projects are running efficiently

•Maintained project timelines with current P6 schedules.

•Provide reporting to ensure all projects are on track and escalate those that are not

•Keep dates current for the construction and field operations in Service Now

•Prompt delivery of infrastructure projects from Design stage to the Building and delivery stage.

•Resolved and/or escalated resource, budget, schedule and change issues affecting all projects

B +T Group – IT Project Manager (Tulsa, OK) November 2018 to December 2018

•Main Projects

•Telecom Tower Modification

•Structural Analysis

•RF Engineering

•Data Migration Projects using SaaS solution

•Process design to achieve company’s strategic goals

•Responsibilities

•Ensured accurate data entry of project planning timelines

•Scan and save relevant engineering documents to appropriate job folders to expedite production

•Support the project team by developing the scope and budget.

•Obtain appropriate signatures and seals for deliverables

•Respond to client enquiries with accurate information on project statuses while ensuring the program and project managers are updated and made aware

Klay PM – IT Project Manager (Dallas, TX) October 2010 to September 2018

•Main Project Types for Multiple Organizations

•Network Refresh

•VoIP Deployment

•IT Build Out for Construction

•Office 365 Roll Out

•Data Migration Projects using SaaS solution

•Process design to achieve company’ s Business objectives

•COTS Implementation Projects

•Responsibilities

•Established project plans, schedules, and reports.

•Created and maintained project timelines.

•Assisted the Assistant Director and Program Manager in developing the project presentation materials to the Governance board.

•Assisted in Process design by focusing on helping to define what the organization will do to achieve its business objectives.

•Prompt delivery of infrastructure projects from Design stage to the Building and delivery stage.

•Escalated resource, budget, schedule and change issues affecting the project

•Supported the project team by developing the scope and budget.

•Execute project plan to deliver to the scope and budget.

•Coordinate meetings and workshops; take down minutes and action plans.

•Ensured maintenance of project tracking logs.

•Assisted the Program Manager with his or her duties which include budget and schedule.

•Coordinate the preparation and delivery of materials to the field.

•Respond promptly to emails and monitor project tracking logs, actions, issues, change, risk and schedule.

•Provide all necessary administrative and operational support to Program manager.

•Ensured all policies and procedures are complying with all project management office goal and objectives.

•Manage multiple projects simultaneously without supervision.

•Managed budget of projects, compiled project status updates from all program and project offices.

•Coordinate data entry and project activities.

•Tracked and identified inaccurate data in project and collaborate with project teams to ensure timely corrections.

•Managed the negotiation and preparation of contracts for the PMO Manager’s approval.

•Ensured the lessons learned log is up to date.

•Define and lead large scale project proposals.

•Created reports using graphs diagrams and visually appealing graphics through MS office applications.

•Identify and apply the most appropriate project methodology (Agile or Waterfall) to create detailed project plans and/or backlogs/ sprints timelines.

•Tracked and managed tasks with the use of Planview tool.

•Vendor management and ensuring prompt delivery of Projects.

•Coordinate waterfall and agile Projects in accordance with the scope and budget and ensured timely delivery

•Ability to identify all impacted teams, applications, and engage as needed for design, development, testing through to deployment(s).

•Ability to partner with testing teams to ensure testing timelines and deliverables are met.

•Ability to identify deployment readiness plans and documentation and ensure deployment timelines and event are coordinated with broader planned release activities and externally impacted application teams.

•Proactive in driving team to achieve commitments and result

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