Project Manager

Okey Ofili, PMP, CSM

T: +1-832-***-**** E: *******@*****.***

SUMMARY

Project manager with 10+ years international experience with fortune 500 firms across a wide range of industries including the technology startup and energy industries. Recognized for leadership, professionalism, commitment to excellence, creativity and demonstrated ability to communicate and work with stakeholders, senior management, associates, and customers to deliver projects on time and within budget without sacrificing quality or safety.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES AND TRAININGS

Languages: Familiar with HTML, mySQL and CSS.

Frameworks & Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall.

Technical Skills: Jira, Typeform, Trello, Visio, Power Bi Dashboards, SAP, Primavera P6, Marvel, Metabase and Slack.

Microsoft: MS Office, MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Teams, MS Sharepoint and MS Project.

Professional Development : Certified Scrum Master (CSM), PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.

In Progress: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate) in Training (October 2020).

WORK EXPERIENCE

OKADABOOKS.com (Mar 2014 to Date): Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Performance Monitoring and Close-Out

CEO and Business Development Lead (Mar 2017 to Date)

Led Company operations and strategic direction (setting OKRs and KPIs) with full responsibility for bottom-line factors, including long-range planning, product management and software development processes. Provided cross-functional management, directing the CTO and CMO with general oversight of employees.

● Selected and participated in Google Launchpad accelerator program (12 startups from 1000+ applicants).

● Developed & delivered pitch deck to Angel Investors that got the company approved for a $150,000 investment from the Lagos Angel Network.

● Raised $100,000 money from friends/family within a year and an additional $150,000 from angel investment on term sheet making it top 5 raise for African based Media company in 2018.

● Implemented a formal CRM marketing tool that identified and produced unique business partnerships with banks worth over $100,000 in annual revenue.

● Pitched and evangelized product to investors, prospective customers via tv interviews, radio shows, trade shows and various organizations to crowds ranging from 50 to upwards of 1000 people.

● Created over 10 high value strategic partners that utilized OkadaBooks services to sell their digital books.

● Negotiated contracts with external vendors, resulting in an average 10% reduction in expenses.

● Developed a deep understanding of the business objectives of internal and external stakeholders; evangelized the product roadmap vision and built trust by maintaining an accurate and achievable roadmap.

Founder and Product Manager (Mar 2014 to Nov 2017)

Created an e-commerce app specifically designed to generate revenue for authors and publishers in Subsaharan Africa by leveraging mobile technology. Led 20 person global team (US, Nigeria, Vietnam and Ukraine) thru engineering, product, design and marketing to build award-winning app reaching 150,000 monthly readers, across 3 platforms including Android, Opera Mini and IOS.

● Grew company from a 1-man operation to 20 people within 2.5 years making it the largest e-book reading platform in West Africa with over 2.5 million pages read monthly.

● Improved employee productivity by 200% while reducing server costs by $1,000 by refactoring code base to minimize code maintenance and migrating EC2 and Elastic Beanstalk AWS cloud services to Digital Ocean.

● Led the product design vision and set the product direction selecting and remotely managing international UX designers utilizing Marvel to prototype app and Opera Mini website design to cater to the low-data African market.

● Leveraged beta testing, data analytics and user interview sessions to identify and experiment to maximize payment portal UX and efficiency, simultaneously increasing user purchases by 50%.

● Actively participated in dev team scrum meetings, generated user stories and prioritized product backlog

● Increased team velocity by introducing Agile methodology (standups, sprint planning) to marketing and subsequently entire non-technical teams.

TOTAL (Mar 2015 to Mar 2017): Project Execution, Performance Monitoring and Close-Out

Project Manager

Managed contractor with $700 million in spend for direct, indirect components, assemblies, and procurement for the delivery of over 27,000+ materials. Maintained budget by identifying and tracking contract scope changes via Variation Order register, recouping over $79m to company from contractor scope changes.

● Managed technical and commercial activities, within the $1.6bn+ SPS (Subsea Production System) WBS package while ensuring identification, tracking and resolution of critical package problems and delays.

● Delivered technical oversight of all engineering issues with commercial impact, ensuring compliance with contract requirements/specifications. Reported directly to the SPS General Manager and Project Controls Manager.

● Generated $79mn in unplanned revenue via variance analysis by identifying, tracking and negotiating with contractor scope changes embedded in Technical Queries and Variation Order Requests.

● Updated Technical Query process to identify TQs with significant commercial impact. Retroactively applied the new process to past queries, converting 10% of Technical Queries to cost recoupable variation orders.

TECHNIPFMC (Dec 2010 to Mar 2015): Project Initiation, Planning, Execution, Performance Monitoring and Close-Out

Lead Project Engineer

Successfully managed and led all aspects of engineering design for the development of Subsea Pipeline system scope worth $20M . Coordinated with the client and contractors to resolve technical issues, obtaining interface details and provided on-site technical support to Fabrication yard to allow seamless integration of Manifold pipeline equipment subsea and accomplishing 100% on time project delivery.

● Directed and managed the project life cycle and operations within the $210M+ portfolio value from preliminary planning to job close out, managing client and EPC companies to provide subsea manifold pipeline system per customer specifications and schedule.

● Led cross-functional team of 6 local engineers, drafters and fabricators to execute project scope and design review, team recognized by Nigerian national authorities for best-in-class accomplishment.

● Reviewed customer project specification documentation against company internal standardized procedures to identify gaps; developed and executed technical queries which generated over $2mn in Change Orders.

● Acted as on-site liaison between engineering and local construction teams to resolve NCR and high-stakes issues on test plans and accomplished 100% on time delivery.

● Approved construction, welding, machining, and installation testing drawings with on-site Engineering Manager.

● Conducted technical audits of local vendors, evaluating technical capabilities and readiness to construct/assemble/test subsea equipment in-country, reducing manufacturing cost by 20% in the process.

EARLY AND MISCELLANEOUS CAREER

SCRIPT WRITER, BBC, over 1,000,000 viewers per episode, Amsterdam, Holland (Jun 2014 to Aug 2015)

PUBLISHED AUTHOR OF FOUR BOOKS, over 13,000 copies sold, Houston, TX (2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014)

DESIGN ENGINEER, FMC Technologies, Internal Award KLV-8 Connector design, Houston, TX (Jan 2005 to Dec 2010)

RELIABILITY ENGINEER, Rohm and Haas, Houston, TX (May 2004 to Dec 2004)

FIELD ENGINEER, Schlumberger, 2001 Intern of the year, Various Locations (Summer Internship 2001, 2002 and 2003)

EDUCATION, SKILLS, OTHER

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (SUMMA CUM LAUDE), University of Houston (2004)

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Google Launchpad Accelerator Graduate - 2018

Quartz Africa Innovators List - 2016

Venture Africa’s 40 African Innovators to watch - 2015

FMC Technologies: Best in class accomplishment on $210m Shell Bonga Northwest project - 2015

FMC Technologies: Platts Global Engineering Project of the Year Award for Bonga North West project - 2015

University of Houston: Cullen College of Engineering Distinguished Alumni of the Year - 2014

Toastmasters International: Outstanding Club President in District 56 (out of 150 clubs in District) Spring - 2006

CORE SKILLS

Strategic Sourcing Business Development Contract Management Cost Control Agile Framework Change Management Risk Management Construction Management Scrum Master Contract Negotiations Budget Analysis Construction Management

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