Project Management Senior Consultant

TOSIN DANIEL FAKOREDE (SAFe Practice Consultant SPC, MBA)

San Antonio, TX

E-mail: ********@*****.*** Tel: +1-316-***-****

PROFILE:

Over 12 years of enterprise strategy, innovation and consulting experience with the responsibility of leading portfolio of core clients, multi-disciplinary teams, driving work quality, growth, operational excellence and culture to exceed expectations for our clients. I have executive presence to interact with and advice C-Suite clients on strategic business opportunities and adeptly articulate how to drive shared success. WORK EXPERIENCE

Senior Consultant/Manager, Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) at TransUnion August 2021 till date

Domain: BANKING/CREDIT REPORTING BUREAU

Here at TransUnion, I am saddled with the responsibility of Advisory, Strategy, Co-ordination and Communication within the company for both internal and external stakeholders concerning TransUnion’s most complex and most expensive products- Identity Exchange (IDX). Furthermore, Also, overseeing the digital transformation program in TD Bank as they migrate to Next Evolution of Work (NEW). Biggest Accomplishment: I led the team to deliver on the IDX product into Production for our clients. This will generate about $30M per year for the company across the US and Canada. Currently leading Investment transformation for TD Bank, one of the largest banks in N. America. The impact of the change will move significant portion of the bank from the traditional software development into Agile developments. Some of my responsibilities include the following:

• Provide company-wide guidance, governance, standardized process and project portfolio management best practices

• Stakeholder management and talent development

• Design and implement the Canada-wide deployment process, impacting the entire delivery departments- IT, Infrastructure, Business, Product, Compliance, Legal and offshore.

• Engagement manager, managing a portfolio of customer-facing teams (Solution Designers, Software developers, Business Systems Analysts, Software Quality Engineers, Scrum Masters and Product Owners)

• Quickly identify dependencies/risks and escalate as necessary

• Owning the end-to-end process of solution initialization to release

• Coaching teams and management in the agile practices

• Communicating the progress of projects to clients as when needed

• Partner across business teams and technology partners to align the portfolio roadmap for Business Applications to top business priorities.

Lead Consultant at Capco

May 2021 to August 2021

Domain: CONSULTING INDUSTRY

As a Capco consultant currently deployed to TD Bank, I am currently working on a digital transformation project for the Business Banking Customer Sales Transformation BBCST. This project is mainly about building a new CRM for BBCST, and it involves data migration between TD bank and Wells Fargo. Some of my roles include but not limited to the following:

• Coach Product Owners (POs) and teams in story writing, backlog grooming/prioritization and planning

• Creating and maintaining detailed project plan for all aspects of the project based on delivery methodology

• Monitor the creation of Objects based on data collected from Wells Fargo, and working with the ETL team in transforming and loading data into TD Salesforce CRM

• Facilitating all ceremonies of Scrum and making sure teams adhere to the time box of all ceremonies

• Remove every roadblocks/impediment on the ways of the team

• Responsible for conflict resolution (Internal or External)

• Responsible for team’s stability through consistent velocity

• Manage Product Backlog to facilitate forecasting

• Coach developers, designers, managers, analysts in Agile practices, values and principles Global Enterprise Transformation Consultant at Ramasser Group October 2019 to May 2021

Domain: CONSULTING INDUSTRY

As the lead Agile Coaching Consultant, I am accountable for ensuring teams obtain the maximum business value using Agile through effective application of lean mindsets and frameworks.

• Work collaboratively with Business Units, consulting team members and peers to facilitate agile transformation at an organizational, leadership and team level

• Facilitated Kaizen events with key business & technology stakeholders/teams to define, analyze, and deliver solutions that reflect the needs of both the business and end-customers.

• Coach Agile teams, teams of teams and product owners, Scrum Masters in adopting Agile ways of working. In particular, scrum/ SAFe and Kanban and provide hands-on support and immediate feedback to product teams.

• Contribute to the growth and development of our people, by making mentoring and coaching of team members a priority

Enterprise Business Transformation at Jesta I.S., Montreal March 2019 to October 2019

Domain: RETAIL INDUSTRY

As an enterprise Agile Coach, I lead and implement the new direction of the company’s goal which focuses on agility, IT/cultural change management and Design Thinking.

• Focus on providing business transformation advisory, organizational change through the mix of Agile operating model design, Organizational Design and Agile training and coaching.

• Support facilitation of joint client workshops (i.e. story mapping, customer journey mapping, value steam mapping, etc)

• Help teams continuously reflect and improve, becoming more effective in their roles and increasing their predictability, teamwork, and practices.

• Leading execution and providing insight, innovation, and expertise to meet and exceed client expectations and achieve goals.

• Focusing on delivering maximum value related to client needs and goals while actively managing expectations and properly defining story points, Velocity and Capacity

• Implementation of Kanban board and establishing WIP Limits

• Implementing Test-Driven Development TDD that resulted into over 70% reduction in rework

• Leading the development team in Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery while exhibiting User Personas and Empathy Mapping.

• Coaching using games/simulation.

Project Manager at Tellus LLC, Deerfield Beach, FL, USA July 2017 to January 2019

Domain: HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

As a Scrum Master, I led and supported multiple software engineering teams as they developed features for the Electronic Visit Verification EVV for the state of Florida.

• Worked with teams to groom and plan work, generating size and time estimates for projects

• Facilitated team meetings, including daily stand-ups, planning sessions, sprint reviews and retrospectives. Worked with teams in following up on any impediments that could hinder project’s timely completion.

• Facilitated training sessions for users, including upper management team

• Created release plans and product roadmaps to communicate to communicate team’s delivery schedule

• Took responsibility on assigning resources to projects and responsible for the success of projects under my purview.

Senior IT Consultant at American Technology Company, Clive Iowa, USA December 2016 to April 2017

Domain: CONSULTING INDUSTRY

Working as an IT consultant, I took a leadership role in the bank and work with other experts in IT Transformation of the bank. The roles I took included but not limited to the below:

• Helped execute project deliverables by working in team as required by the varying nature of different project requirements.

• Facilitated client workshops to understand business requirements and gather, review and validated functional requirements

• Contributed to the development of thought leadership in support of the client and their growth. Business Analyst/IT Consultant (US Midwest) at Jakesfireworks, Pittsburg Kansas, USA May 2016 to December 2016

Domain: RETAIL BANKING INDUSTRY

One of the largest fireworks companies in the US Midwest needed an internal change regarding inventory/case management portal, my roles are below:

• Documented Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional and non-functional Requirement Documents.

• Created application supporting documents like user manuals, and training materials for end users within the company.

• Developed Business Process Flow diagram for more than 40 functionalities for retail sale transaction, promotion, payment, and guest experience and cashier activities.

• Prepared test cases for the testing phase.

Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master at United Bank for Africa, Lagos Nigeria Jan 2011 to Jan 2015

Domain: RETAIL BANKING INDUSTRY

This is one of the leading banks in Africa and as a senior member of the Digital Transformation team, my roles included the following:

• Interacted with Product Owner to get a better understanding of Client Business Processes

• elicit requirements in sync with the scope of the project

• Facilitated all scrum ceremonies for all my projects across the continent.

• Led all daily stand-up meetings for my projects.

• Responsible for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for products before and after launch

• developed an intuitive step-by-step RCA guide for Global RCA process.

• Continuously monitored ATM and Mobile Transactions and services across the continent and making sure there is no down time.

EDUCATION/TRAINING/CERTIFICATIONS

• Digital Transformation: Leading People, Data & Technology- UC Berkeley Executive Education

• MBA, International Business- Pittsburg State University

• B.Sc. Computer Science Ekiti State University

• Digital Strategy

• Certified Scrum Master

• SAFe Agilist 5.1

• SAFe Scrum Master

• Lean Portfolio Management 5.1

• Defining a Digital Transformation Roadmap Certificate- Udemy

• Centre of Excellence CoE

• SAFe Program Consultant

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Scrum & Kanban Best Practices, Agile Development, Agile Coaching, Acceptance Test Driven Dev (ATDD), JIRA, Rally, Strategic Planning, Process Improvement, Design Thinking, Gemba Walk, Miro, Program Increment (PI) Planning, Innovation & Planning (IP) Iteration, Leadership, Public Speaking, Skill Training, Metrics & Measurement, Business Analysis, Data Analysis, Risk Management. LANGUAGES

• English (Mother tongue)

• French (Basic)

REFERENCES

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