Adamu Olajire

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EDUCATION

Master of Science (MS) Business Analytics Grand Canyon University, Phoenix USA.

Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Real Estate

Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria

Key competencies:

• Adept at requirements elicitation and management, business process modeling, data analysis/mapping and conducting user acceptance tests.

• Authoring Business Requirements Documents (BRD’s), Functional and Non-Functional Requirement Documents (FRD’s), Requirement Traceability Matrixes (RTM’s), and User Acceptance Test Plans to validate end to end functionalities, and workflows.

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

• Engaging in a hands-on approach to business analysis; donning several hats through the SDLC to ensure deliverables meet functional, quality and schedule requirements.

• Possesses 6 years of experience in Finance and Mortgage servicing and management space.

• Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall and RUP, with a concentration in the Scrum/Agile iterative framework.

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

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Covey Security, Phoenix Arizona January 2013 - present

Security Officer

Achievements:

Inbound and outbound specialist

Walking round the building perimeter

Documentation of Drivers

Issuing Bill of Lading to Drivers

Wells Fargo Mortgage, Phoenix Arizona December 2011 – December 2012

Business Analyst: Home Equity Group

Achievements:

• Worked to understand Wells Fargo mortgage process from Loan Origination, Mortgage Servicing to Loan Payoff/Selloff.

• Identified business stakeholders, developers, solution architects, delivery managers, and acquired sign-offs with varying levels of impact to projects and enhancements: inviting them to Kick-Off and subsequent FR meetings.

• Knowledgeable in all five derivative asset classes (Credit, Interest Rates, FX, Commodities and Equities) and product types under each; and fields required to ensure ACKed submissions to the GTR/DTCC for DF/EMIR and successful submissions to other jurisdictions.

• Collaboration with Underwriters, Monitoring, Risk, Loan Services and Wholesale Loan Operations internal partners is required to resolve production.

• Developed Use Cases, Activity Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, OOD (Object-oriented Design) to support requirements documentation.

• Authored actionable Functional Specification Documents (FSD’s) among other artifacts and tracked each requirement to delivery.

• Consistently worked with business users and other stakeholders to analyze root cause, and come up with solutions to enhance current processes using continuous process improvement models and techniques.

• Played key role in testing changes in UAT and validating in Prod environments for multiple regulatory efforts.

• Analyze incoming xml data from different Front Office Systems / SoR’s as well as out-going FPML’s to DTCC and other reporting jurisdiction and channels.

• Familiar with DTCC accepted message types - RT, PET, SP, VAL, VSR, CFM, etc.

• Conducted JAD sessions with business users (accountants), technical teams and other stakeholders to understand system needs, gaps, and dependencies to prepare detailed BRD’s, FRD’s and System Requirement Specifications (SRS).

• Functioned as the primary liaison between accountants (business users) and development team and other stakeholders.

• Gathered, analyzed and prioritized test data to ensure that new regulations, standards, and procedures were met.

• Assisted in daily settlement operations of middle office in coordination with back office operations.

• Worked to transition data transfer format from Wells Fargo upstream systems from XML to FPML to meet regulatory requirements.

• Coordinated and tracking team’s delivery on assigned JIRAs through scheduled Catch-Up Calls (Monday/Wednesday and Friday) with Product Owners and Daily Stand-Ups with team members.

• Ensured that teams understood the existing system as it affects new inputs such as Property and Casualty requirements.

• Interact with the development team and ensure that the developers clearly understand the business processes models towards meeting needs.

• Extracted test data from data warehouse and converted data type from source to target systems using Cognos BI.

• Created mapping document to map plans, products, rate keys, commissions, groups/sections, and agreements.

• Completed issue logs, work requests, change requests, and change control requests for projects and enhancements/bugs.

• Collaborated with the Project Managers in developing business processes and documentation of Business process flows using MS Visio.

• Identify the business and accounting triggers that will initiate the automated journal entry and define the various business and accounting events.

• Work within a 2-3 week time-box per sprint to deliver shippable products engaging in all Agile/Kanban ceremonies with the Dev team.

• Conducted User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using HP Quality Center while initiating and closing problem reports after resolution.

• Scheduled and led meetings with functional resources in various departments to provide detailed functional knowledge on respective subjects from which high level requirements are drafted using Caliber, MS Word, MS Outlook, IE, and MS SharePoint.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice. April 2009 – November 2011

Correctional officer lll

Achievements:

• Administered the daily activities of administrative segregation of inmates

Build and maintain rapport with inmates

Mobile patrol of the prison perimeter and watch over, fully armed to ensure there are no security breaches or contraband intake.

Issue logs and inventories facilities key.

• Check I D to ensure only authorized person enter or leave facilities. • Uses portable 2 – way radio for communication

Union Bank of Nigeria PLC. January 2006 - December January 2009

Business Analyst

Achievements:

• Conducted Change Control meetings with SME’s, IT Developers, Quality Analysts and other stakeholders to understand and identify specific needs towards meeting business goals and enhancing existing systems and processes.

• Performed End-to-End Analysis and Design from initiation to delivery.

• Gathered business, user, functional and non-functional requirements through JAD sessions with IT, Vendor groups, and SMEs.

• Worked with Project Management Office (PMO) in defining timelines, Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access compliance, group membership, configuring permissions and preparing work schedule for various phases of the project and constantly documenting and reporting status and milestones throughout the SDLC.

• Conducted sessions to disseminate solid understanding of capital market implementations as it relates to new regulations and procedures such as Dodd-Frank and Trade Surveillance compliance.

• Identified & designed Use cases from the Functional requirements and wrote Use Case Specifications and created business process workflow diagrams. Executed cutover and performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with new requirements, providing change and configuration management support using HP Application Life Cycle Manager.

• Led and Documented Agile development ceremonies including daily Scrums, Release Planning, as well as Sprint Planning, Reviews and Demo’s.

• Involved in extracting test data from data warehouse, converting data types and integrating data from multiple sources from source to target destinations.

• Prepared Functional Design Specifications employing Use case scenarios, sequence diagrams and class diagrams for Union Bank CRM system.

• Worked on a broad range of technologies and business process modeling tools including Microsoft Project, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Visio, MS PowerPoint and JIRA.

• Interaction with underwriters to understand multiple data points and inputs. Prepared data flow diagrams and Wireframes using MS Visio and Axure for better clarity and to ensure documented process.

• Interfaced and scheduled meetings with data analysts, developers, System Analysts to explain the business needs and fine-tune the requirements at different phases of the SDLC.

• Submitted self-authored progress and completion reports to PMO on a weekly basis.

• Worked closely with developers and testers to ensure that requirements and functional specifications are translated accurately into working technical designs.

• Wrote and reviewed Test Plans and Test Cases Integration testing, Beta testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) using HP Quality Centre, and validated resolved issues from mock conversions towards resolution.

• Conducted Functional Walkthroughs, and conducted training sessions using Need-to-Know, FAQ, FYI and How-To-Catalogues using PowerPoint slides to familiarize users with the system.

Ministry of Land and Housing Ado Ekiti Nigeria. May 2002 – December 2005

Land Officer ll

Achievements:

Worked with a team of 18 – chartered valuers under the overall portfolio of the director of land services.

Supervised well over 28 junior staff.

Prepared projected analysis for compensation on corporate and government acquired properties. Crop enumeration inspections and preparation for compensation purposes on government acquired land for public use.

Management of more than 265 housing units in various locations within the state, and collecting annual rents on behalf of the government.

Weekly filling and submission of returns on accounts, collation activities to the state treasury department.

Presentation of biweekly and monthly reports to the members of the governing council.

TECHNICAL SKILLS.

MS Word, Prezi, Cognos, DEMS, BSC, Excel, Visio, MS SharePoint, MS Outlook, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, HP Quality Center, QTP, Full – Lifecycle software implementation Experience, Waterfall

FDR, ACES, E Gain, MSP, SWD, ETL, HTML, XML, FPML, and SQL.

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