Project Management Business Development

Fenwa Akamo

Visionary, Results-Focused Leader Dedicated to Maximizing Project Excellence

Stafford, TX 77477 713-***-**** ******@*****.***

Profile of Qualifications

Project Management Program Management Business Analysis & Planning Trends Tracking

PMO Process Optimization Product Management Business Growth & Development Reporting

Cross-Department Team Leadership & Collaborations Customer, Client & Stakeholder Relations

Highly Accomplished Leader who drives dynamic project management, business analysis, product management, business development, and operations initiatives to deliver on-time, in-budget results that align with a company’s forward-thinking mission, vision, and values while maximizing synergistic processes to achieve impactful outcomes. Influential Strategist who positions projects of diverse size and scope for success, and who builds lucrative relationships with senior-level decision-makers, teams, suppliers, and / or stakeholders while excelling in rapidly evolving, high-pressure scenarios. Top Performer who quickly understands complex and challenging business objectives to meet scheduled deliverables, as well as within fast-paced environments to champion best practices, techniques, and industry trends to exceed expectations.

Professional Synopsis

Limitless Electric, Houston, TX 2023 – Present

Business Development Representative

Leverage broad scope of industry knowledge toward actively meeting with customers to provide key information about cost-saving and energy incentives relating to solar-powered products and equipment, including preparing and previewing comprehensive designs for customers’ optimal solar installation.

Develop and implement strategic sales plans that led to a 30% increase in revenue and a 25% expansion of market share in targeted commercial and residential markets.

Manage a pipeline of 150+ leads using Salesforce, resulting in a 20% improvement in lead conversion rates in Q2 and Q3’23.

Consistently deliver excellence in after sales service, including courtesy calls and site visits.

Profitably generate new leads by cold calling, emailing, and / or door-to-door communications.

Create detailed analysis reports based on customer usage.

Micron, Houston, TX 2022

Global Procurement Program Manager / Scrum Master (Contract)

Collaborated with Category Supply Leaders and Legal teams to develop project plans to support 750+ Category Supply Managers with identifying and converting Non-Contract and Contract Suppliers to Micron’s standardized payment terms. Developed process playbook and training for long-term processes.

Facilitated cross-team collaboration and integration, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and seamless execution of complex projects.

Implemented and refined Agile and Lean portfolio management practices, enhancing throughput and value delivery across the enterprise.

Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress using Microsoft Azure DevOps.

Improved days payable outstanding metric from current metric of 45 days to an industry-standard 55 days while enhancing cashflow benefit of $1+ billion and recurring economic benefit of $95 million annually by converting supplier base of 1,000+ to standardized payment terms.

Interfaced with accounts payable and procurement teams to implement tax code field in Ariba and tax code conditions in SAP to resolve issue with POs having the wrong tax codes to collectively improve on-time payment metric by 2%.

Phillips 66, Houston, TX 2020 – 2022

PMO Operations Lead (Contract)

Excelled in collaborating with cross-department teams to understand internal processes to document and implement within PMO process. Consistently ensured Project Managers complied with PMO process through enhanced and standardized monthly project reviews in alignment with project-specific objectives.

Developed and implemented a comprehensive project leadership job family and career road map that contained all skills and core competencies associated with project leadership, a link to training matching each skill, a career ladder with role descriptions, and a salary grade-level mapping per role.

Improved Scrum team efficiency by 30% through effective sprint planning, facilitating conflict resolution and big room planning.

Introduced and educated two (2) to four (4) PMs / BAs on PMO processes on a bi-weekly basis.

Led projects through the planning stage by meeting with stakeholders and team to understand requirements and develop project plans prior to transitioning projects to PM and BUs.

Co-created an audit framework with 30 audit points and successfully reduced out-of-compliance projects by 85% while delivering process change proposals to the PMO Director.

San Jacinto College, Pasadena, TX 2017 – 2019

IT Project Manager / Business Analyst (Contract)

Strategically steered IT project initiatives by meeting with stakeholders for requirements gathering and to further understand project scope to implement new IT Service Management ERP solution through College’s RFP process. Developed and maintained project schedules and plans for routine status updates.

Developed and maintained project schedules and plans to create regular communicated status updates that were relevant to different stakeholders. Developed and rolled out PMO processes and templates for the IT department to create and standardize project intake processes and ensure successful project delivery.

Coached and mentored junior Project Managers on project management.

Led organizational change management efforts with a newly implemented PMO.

Reduced project implementation costs 10% and RFP timeline by two (2) weeks by identifying inefficiencies in RFP process and developing new RFP template and processes.

Reduced cost 10% by switching providers for an RFP project completed with a cross-functional team for procuring a vendor to provide and implement web-hosting services.

Kronos, Chelmsford, MA 2015 – 2016

IT Project Coordintor (Contract)

Expertly coordinated and managed resources to implement a workforce solution to Australia Finance department. Developed and monitored project schedules, budget plans, resource plans, and milestones to ensure adherence to approved standards for up to three (3) concurrently managed high-value projects.

Quickly identified and resolved issues and obstacles.

Escalated challenges as necessary to business owners and PMO.

Built stakeholder relations while providing integral support for optimal project delivery.

Collaborated with Project Manager – IT Delivery Lead to develop and communicate necessary PMO processes and objectives, as well as project status and all schedules to key stakeholders.

NITEC PC, Houston, TX 2012 – 2015

IT Support Specialist / Associate Project Manager

Provide excellent customer service as first or second level contact and resolve problems for all users with hardware, software, and application problems, resolving technical issues via phone, in person, or through remote access.

Recognized as a “go-to” contact between Project Stakeholders and cross – functional teams of up to 15 team members across four (4) projects with budgets up to $300,000. Continually supported other Project Managers / Leads with coordinating and executing key projects, including all logistics, status reports and presentations, and process mapping.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement a streamlined deployment of Windows 10 across 100 workstations, enhancing overall user experience and system security.

Provided post-upgrade training and support, significantly improving user adaptability and satisfaction with the new software, as evidenced by a 15% increase in positive feedback from internal surveys.

Utilized Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) for efficient management of the software lifecycle, including updates, patches, and inventory tracking, which boosted operational compliance and software deployment efficiency.

Reduced average problem resolution time by 20% by optimizing troubleshooting procedures and enhancing team collaboration tools.

Created and managed cross functional project schedules up to 2,500 line items.

Collaborated with project teams to maintain status updates, risk and issues list, and change management log.

Interfaced with stakeholders to analyze key estimates, budgets, dates, resources, and project milestones.

Continuously seek opportunities to improve processes and procedures to enhance the customer experience within the PMO and IT departments.

Education & Professional Development

Bachelor of Business Administration in Information Systems University of Texas at San Antonio

PMP, Project Management Professional (In- Progress)

SMC, Scrum Master Certified (No. 55406)

Technical Summary

Software

Microsoft Project 2013 Microsoft SharePoint Microsoft Visio 2013

JIRA Slack AWS PowerBI Azure Board Tableau Confluence

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Team Foundation Server 2013 Primavera P6

Microsoft Office Suite Workforce TimeKeeper Microsoft Teams G- Suite SAP Ariba

Programming & Methodologies

Java SQL HTML .NET VBA.NET Python Waterfall SDLC Agile

Contact this candidate