Implementation Specialist Scrum Master

Plax Dzumbunu (MBA) (CSM)

Frisco, Texas 214-***-****

************@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/pdzumbunu

Summary

Results driven Program Management Consultant with over 20 years of professional experience in IT and Financial Services. Certified Scrum Master with emphasis on Data Validation, BI Analytics, digital transformation. Analysis of coverage of control frameworks across organizations and propose plans to address the gaps. Leverages technical, business and financial acumen to communicate effectively with executives about Data Governance in order to attain new business and retain clients. Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills to build strategic partnerships with a focus on client growth and retention. A multifaceted and resourceful leader with experience managing successful cross-functional teams.

Core Competencies

Reporting and Analytics Data Modeling Requirements Analysis Digital Transformation and automation Testing and QA Functional Specifications UAT, Functional and Regression Testing Project Management Program Management Agile Data Governance Accounting and Finance.

Technology Skills

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Oracle Analytics Cloud Oracle BI Publisher MS Projects Jira HPQC MS Visio MS Office Enterprise Confluence Jira

Professional Experience

SIGNATURE CONSULTANTS, DALLAS TX,

Sr Program Manager, Capital One Auto Finance, 10/2021 to present

Managed multiple initiatives in the Data Governance and Risk Operations. Organized various programs to improve the organizations efficiency in Policy Role Assignments, Policy exceptions and Preventive Controls and risks to develop long term fulfilment of goal for the company projects and developing bank programs and budgets. Created dashboards in Confluence to reduce the volume of spread sheets and trackers that were maintained, to create a more collaborative views of open control issues in an AGILE environment. Reviewed user stories, groomed backlog and lead sprint planning. Mentored a team of scrum masters and ensured that impediments were reported to leadership and ensure the fulfillment of larger organizational roles.

Lead the automation of the existing manual Role assignment intake processes and implemented it for use by the domain leads and their teams. The process was used on average of 60 times a month across the bank.

Streamlined and optimized the opening, closing and renewing of Banks policy exceptions by creating automating a process of uploading validated documentation prior to submitting it for approval by leadership and implementing controls in the process

Created a program to manage the preventative controls and risks that are designed to be implemented prior to potential impact of a successful threat and provided visibility of the 9 approved controls to Sr Leadership.

Lead the initiative to create dashboard views in Confluence for EPICS related to ensuring a strong process of capturing and tracking control exceptions and share the trend analysis. Worked with control partners (operations, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Risk, IT, HR and Audit) to ensure end to end processes for all clients.

GRANT THORNTON LLP, Dallas, TX

Sr. Program Manager, 08/2018-10/2021

Performed program management consulting services for financial institutions, insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Co-managed an $800K budget and headed a team of 3 Associates and multiple offshore teams. Demonstrated exceptional knowledge of IT and testing to deliver quality work that drove customer satisfaction by displaying excellent communication skills whilst working with a team. Participated in campus recruiting events for summer internships and provided information about the firm to potential interns.

·Lead a separation research and discovery effort at a pharmaceutical company with a $7.4 billion revenue (2019) and produced a fit gap analysis for 1875 applications that were affected by the separation and produced an interface to table to field mapping matrix.

·Worked in PMO coordinating a team of 48.

·Provided direction to the team in the documentation of 56 legacy system reports, tables, fields, logic and calculations in the table views, stored procedures and in the SQL scripts. Created an inventory of all the applications objects.

·Mentored Graduate students associated with (ISACA) Information Systems Audit and Control Association on an event where GT volunteers annually at the ISACA Business Etiquette Luncheon.

KPMG LLP, Dallas, TX

Sr. Associate, 08/2013-08/2018

Provided consulting services to clients in financial services, manufacturing and utilities industries and while managing an offshore team of 4 software developers to model data, develop reports on 4 or more dashboards for different business units for Oracle BI implementations. Co-Managed a project budget of $500k in addition to maintaining a resource schedule and ensured that their milestones were completed timeously. Participated in University campus recruiting events and shortlisted candidates.

·Successfully developed a new dashboard for a new Oracle product OLAP. Oracle OLAP, a world class multidimensional analytic engine that is embedded in Oracle Database 12c. Performed regression testing when changes were made to the ODS Data model to match the complexity of the OLAP.

·Performed General Ledger account reconciliation data verifications, data quality and system transformation for Multinational Electric and gas utility company with $14, 359 + million in revenue. Ensured that adequate controls were in place to ensure timely reconciliations.

·Developed the material and provided mentorship to associates for their OBIEE 11g Implementation Specialist Certifications.

BANK OF AMERICA, Dallas, TX

Financial and Reporting Analyst, 03/2008 - 04/2013

Member of the Oracle BI reporting development team. Worked as a report developer, leading gathering requirements efforts, while developing financial reports and custom dashboards whilst leading multiple offshore teams.

·Coordinated with 2 teams of up to 16 associates in the budgeting and forecasting departments to analyze and prepare variance reporting.

·Identified the needs of senior managers to gain an understanding of their business requirements, while leading process improvement initiatives and the implementation of a new accounting system implementations – MS Dynamics.

·Collected, aggregated, organized, analyzed and reported on escrow data from disparate sources and issued access to dashboards to senior leadership on up to date and delinquent escrow accounts.

MARANATHA FERROCHROME, Harare, Zimbabwe

Chief Finance Office, 10/1998-10/2007

Member of the finance and accounting team for a company that made sales of $1, 2 million dollars a month in ferrochrome sales. Managed multiple finance and accounting teams across the country. Was hired as a bookkeeper and later promoted to Finance Office in 2003

·Managed accounting of fixed and long-term assets valued at $4.3 billion U.S. in accordance with applicable accounting policies and assessed depreciation and amortization expenses, capital, general, administrative expenses and operating expense accruals.

·Managed a cash flow of $14 million dollars a year and invested any excess funds on the stock exchange.

·Oversaw financial reporting, reviews, approvals of month-end periods, year-end audits as well as budget variance analyses.

Education

AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY, Chandler, AZ

Master of Business Management M.B.A (Project Management)

Specialization in Project Management

AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY, Chandler, AZ

Bachelor of Business Management B.B.A (Project Management)

Specialization in Finance and Accounting

Affiliations

Member of Project Management Institute (PMI)

Scrum Alliance

Delta Mu Delta

Certifications

Certified Scrum Master

OBIEE 11g Implementation Specialist - Oracle

BI Cloud Service Specialist – Oracle

Collibra Data Governance Level 1

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