Anthony OLAOGUN

** ******* ******, ******, **, Canada L9T 0R5 289-***-**** adcj8e@r.postjobfree.com

Work Authorization: Permanent Resident

HIGHLIGHTS

Over 4 years experience setting up and managing JIRA for clients

Over 10 years experience in Program/Project Management within the IT, financial and insurance services industry while managing resources and a budget over 100 million dollars.

Experienced with system development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodology (PMLC), inclusive of gating hurdles, and the completion of prescribed deliverables.

Managed, tracked and maintained project plans with multiple work streams; ensuring all project milestones and deliverables were tracked completely and reported.

Highly skilled at relationship building with clients and across organizations and teams; exceptional writing, presenting, and interpersonal communication skills.

Experienced with Atlassian products especially JIRA.

Strong knowledge of Financial/budget analysis for monitoring, tracking and maintaining project financials including forecast, actuals and variance analysis.

Adept at assessing needs, generating options, and implementing solutions in collaboration with client and stakeholder needs.

Extensively utilized project management tools and techniques such as WBS, Gantt Charts, RAM, Org Chart, RACI Chart.

Strong negotiation, facilitation and time management skills with proven ability to prioritize and multitask.

Highly Proficient in Microsoft Project, and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Power Point Outlook, Visio).

Promptly identifying risks, impacts, remediating and escalating where necessary to ensure desired outcome.

Self-starter, analytical and detail oriented with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.

Ability to handle multiple projects/ clients in a fast paced, team oriented and collaborative environments.

Strong knowledge of the Scrum/Agile iterative framework.

SKILLS

JIRA

Confluence

MS Project

MS Office

Workfront

CA Clarity PPM

MS SharePoint

Seapine

Cisco WebEx

Agile Methodology

JIRA Plugins

SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Jimtofere Inc. January 2019 - Present

JIRA Administrator / Project Manager

Freelance JIRA Administrator for JIRA migration project

Set-up of JIRA cloud based application for project, and act as SME on all JIRA related activities

Gather business requirements from business team and configure JIRA to meet client’s expectation

Conduct training sessions on best practices, and how to utilize the tool effectively

Create decks on tips and helpful links to assist team with JIRA

Integrate JIRA with other tools, applications including confluence, and install add-ons in JIRA

Automate JIRA leveraging REST APIs

Create reports and dashboard using JIRA

Manage user access for JIRA project

Provide JIRA support on all JIRA related activities

Create JIRA project, and implemented JIRA plugins

Create user groups and permissions

Create workflow, issue types and customize project according to requirements

Create sprints for each release

Creation of project plans and management of schedule, and project deliverables

Provide leadership, and guidance to team

Manage team to reach future state based roadmap and schedule, and communicate project status reports with stakeholders

Maintain project artefacts on team collaboration tool

Conduct training sessions for team members, project managers on tools and best practices

Ensure all changes, enhancements go through the proper process for triaging, and prioritizing before being implemented

Manage all risks, issues, actions, and decisions on project

Solve all P3 tickets / issues regarding JIRA

Royal Sun Alliance June 2015 – December 2018

JIRA Administrator

Developed and managed the JIRA cloud based application for the Claims Technology program, and across the organization

Conducted JIRA training sessions, and served as scrum master for over 200 stakeholders across various project teams, including offshore resources

Performed requirement gathering sessions with Project Managers and team leads regarding how process workflows, and activities can be utilized effectively for each project

Created and managed projects through the use of epics, components, versions, releases, filters etc.

Worked with team to triage and troubleshoot issues that arise with JIRA upgrades, and communicated when ever upgrades, enhancements were scheduled to occur

Created dashboards, and reports for Project Managers, Program Managers, VPs, and senior executives

Identified and implemented plugins in order to effectively and efficiently manage story cards in JIRA

Resolved and managed all JIRA related issues and activities that were escalated through Project Managers, and team leads

Created and populated JIRA story cards for projects

Assigned resources to story cards

Provided user and group access to JIRA and confluence users

Acted as the JIRA Administrator for 14 projects. JIRA responsibilities involved:

oProject Customization

oUser & Role Management

oGeneral Configuration

oIssue Type Scheme Configuration

oNotification Scheme Configuration

oPermission Scheme Configuration

oIssue Security Scheme Configuration

oField Configuration Scheme Configuration

oWorkflow Scheme Configuration

oWorkflow Definition

oTransition Screens Configuration

oEvents and Notifications

Project Manager / Project Control Officer

Program: Claims Technology Program (CTP): This program had a budget of $160 million. The purpose of the program was to deliver and replace a legacy claim system by implementing an out of the box Guidewire based solution while utilizing Project Management Lifecycle (PMLC) and System Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) processes.

Project Manager for the Access Management project, which involved management of users and roles via Siteminder for Guidewire and provision of LDAP access for RSA claims staff across the organization

Project Manager for the laptop, and monitor rollout project. Developed and managed the project plans, and successfully managed the roll-out of dual monitors, and laptops across the organization for the Guidewire project implementation

Supported Program Managers with developing full-scale program plans and associated communications documents to meet stakeholders’ requirements

Provided periodic updates and executive summaries to senior management, and incorporated their feedback into on-going SDLC processes and project deliveries

Planned, scheduled and managed project activities, timelines and milestones using tools such as JIRA, Microsoft Project, Workfront, Microsoft Excel, Clarity etc. for better understanding

Measured and monitored progress at clearly defined points in the process to ensure that all deliverables are completed on time, within gating hurdles, and within budget; and provided weekly reports to program, and project managers using Microsoft Excel, and PowerPoint

Used Clarity for Resource planning/allocation, budgeting, and timesheet approval

Tracked variances in the project plan, milestones and deliverables to ascertain the deviation percentage from project plan and their effects to project completion using Microsoft Excel, JIRA, Workfront, and Clarity

Supported Program Managers with identification of all dependencies and risks within and across deliverables, and projects ensuring that they are effectively managed/escalated

Set and managed project goals with Program Managers, Project Managers, team members and stakeholders for understanding targets and expectations

Managed client / project stakeholder relationship as they pertained to work streams and / or assigned work package

Acted as the central point of communication on the program. I maintained and updated the program SharePoint site, in which I saved all project artifacts, and documentations used by the program team members

Supported, and managed a diverse range of stakeholders expectation; communicated effectively to a diverse audience; collaborated with key partners, sponsors, businesses and other partners

Provided advice and guidance, and training sessions and presentations on Project Management processes, tools and standards to Project Managers, Project Teams, PMO (Project Management Organization) and Program leadership

Assisted in facilitating status and project team meetings; including preparing and distributing meeting agenda and other required materials/documentation

Produced and managed project reports, including meeting minutes, issues, actions, decisions and risks

Logged and controlled change requests, enhancements, risks, issues and action items in the project using Microsoft Excel

Excelled in my responsibilities due my ability to adapt to situations in fast paced, and agile environment

Managed project budget, and financials, tracked accruals, forecasts, and invoices against program budget and cost center

CIBC September 2013 – April 2015

Project Control Officer

Created and maintained project plans, and reported variances to Project Manager

Ensured mitigation/contingency plans were in place for identified risks and applied appropriate project controls

Investigated and ensured that all project issues were effectively resolved or escalated in a timely manner

Provided resource planning and financial forecast planning input for creation of business case estimate

Managed project budget/financial including motoring forecast vs actual and provided variance analysis

Prepared monthly/quarterly accrual package with supporting documentation as required for any work incurred but not billed

Tracked project financial including creating pivot tables, and V-look up in Microsoft Excel

Led and participated in brainstorming sessions that always led to innovative ideas on how to resolve issues

Collaborated with multiple stakeholders including product owners, directors, VPs to understand how data required would be secured, stored, and reported

Provided reports on a weekly and monthly bases about deliverables inform of dashboard and status reports using Microsoft PowerPoint

Identified all dependencies and risks within and across deliverables, ensuring that they are effectively managed/escalated

Controlled changes to the scope of agreed upon deliverables through accepted change management processes and documentation

Ensured that dependencies and links within and with other schedules are established correctly

Managed, tracked and assigned task to project resources/associated cost

Ensured that all project milestones and deliverables were tracked completely on and reported at the weekly status meeting

Collected monthly accrual estimates and provided financial report to management

Investigated and analyzed variances between actual and forecasted budget

Supported a diverse range of Stakeholders; Communicated effectively by adapting style and message to diverse audience; collaborated with key partners, sponsors, businesses and other partners

Adapted to situations in fast paced, and agile environment

Utilized the SDLC, and Project Management approach

Maintained project team’s SharePoint site, and ensured all project documents were updated

Aviva Canada November 2010 – August 2013

Project Control Officer

Complied with the system development life cycle (SDLC) and project management methodology (PMLC), inclusive of gating hurdles, and completion of prescribed deliverables

Created, updated and maintained project plan with new and updated work packages, tasks and assignments received from the Project Manager and team leads using Microsoft Project

Created and communicated high-level milestone chart for senior management using Visio and PowerPoint

Worked alongside and supported the Project Manager and, when appropriate acted as back-up Project Manager

To the senior Project Manager to enable focus on business issues and demands

Provided advice and guidance to PMO on Project Management processes, procedures, tools and standards

Developed/Assisted in the creation presentation decks to various stakeholder groups, including Steering Committee using Microsoft Power Point

Assisted in facilitating all status meetings, responsible for coordination, booking, monitoring attendance, distributing materials, taking meeting minutes etc.

Ensured that all RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues and Decision) are captured/reviewed at the weekly and management status meeting

Managed Project SharePoint (User permissions, weekly document upload, and version control via well-organized filing system)

Facilitated/assisted in ensuring all project start up and close off administrative tasks are completed, including filing of project documentation in SharePoint

Managed Program/Project Change Management log (PCN) to capture their execution and cost implications

Assisted in the development and creation business case cost estimate

Managed project budget/reporting by utilizing financial tracking process including managing all project forecast and actuals, monitoring and maintaining records, invoices & updating weekly/monthly spreadsheets to track and forecast all project expenses

Reviewed and confirmed validity of purchase orders for the projects (via confirmation with Business Case Cost Estimate)

Monitored, reconciled and processed vendor expenses (RFS) and other invoices

Ensured tracking and measurement to budget and schedule, coordinating the preparation of latest estimates for financial reporting

Excelled in my responsibilities due my ability to adapt to situations in fast paced, and agile environment

Utilized the SDLC, and Project Management approach

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Project Management Professional (PMP) – In view (Dec 2019)

Scrum Master Certification – In view (Nov 2019)

SAP Certification (ERP 6.0) - 2014

Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) – 2013

Project Management Postgraduate Certificate - 2013

oHumber College

Project Management Training – 2010

Bachelor of Science – 2010

oCovenant University

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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