CHIMA OBIOHA, PMP CSM

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SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER /PORTFOLIO MANAGER

SKILLS SUMMARY

17+ years of progressive professional experience that includes strong portfolio and project management, analytical, administrative, communication, and technology skills.

12+ years working as part of an organization’s enterprise PMO function developing, maintaining and promoting program/project management and project governance best practices.

Thorough understanding of the major project management methodology practices such as SAFe, Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid, IBM Rational Unified Process, Lean and DevSecOps.

Managed over 100 IT and/or multimedia projects from inception to delivery.

Good communication and organizational skills leading/working with cross-functional teams.

Expert knowledge developing, and maintaining project artifacts such as BPO, CBA, WBS, RTM, estimation methods, resourced work plans, baselines, product backlogs, ridac logs, user stories, sprints, registers, dashboards, burn-downs, training manuals and closure briefs.

Advanced knowledge of RDBMS technologies including SQL Server, Oracle, SAP and MySql.

Strong knowledge and experience working with Data Warehouses (OLAP), ETL (Alteryx), Visual Studio (SSAS, SSIS, and SSRS), and reporting tools (Tableau & Excel).

US Citizen with Secret Clearance & High-Risk Public Trust Clearance.

Areas of Expertise:

Project/Program/Portfolio Management

Requirements Gathering

SQL Server 2008-2019

Waterfall Methodology

Documentation/Training

Oracle 11g, 12c

SAFe, Agile, Scrum & DevOps Methodolgy

Vendor/Contract Management

MS Visual Studio/MS TFS/MS SharePoint

Rational Unified Process

MS Project Server(PWA)/Project Professional/Azure DevOps Server

Transact-SQL PL/SQL

Value Management

Atlassian Jira

Database Replication

Risk Management

Change Management

Yammer

ServiceNow Platform

Partitioning/Indexing

Extract Transform Load

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Planview Enterprise One, MS Project Online, Project Web App, PMO Project Management Workbook, Atlassian JIRA, MS SharePoint Online, MS Visio, Azure DevOps Server, MS Team Foundation Server, ServiceNow ITBM, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPMC), Asana, Slack

HARDWARE: Client-Server/PC, Laptops, Scanners, Printers, Routers, Switches, Multifunction Devices

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 10, 11; UNIX (Linux), Solaris, Windows Server 2010, 2016, 2019

LANGUAGES: SQL, PL/SQL, DMX, VBA, PowerShell/Managed Shell

DATABASES: MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, MySQL, DB2, MS Access

ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS: Cybersecurity Assessment & Management (CSAM), MS Business Intelligence Development Studio, SAP Financial Accounting (SAP FI), Toad, Report Manager, Alteryx, Tableau, Crystal Reports, Lawson, Hyperion, Oracle Financials, Oracle Fusion, SAP FICO, Yammer, QuickBooks Pro, MS SharePoint, MS Visual Studio, MS Dynamics CRM, Salesforce, CyberArk PV, IIS, WAS, LAMP, AWS, WordPress, PayPal, Adobe, WebDB, eGov Strategies, Bugzilla, ServiceNow, Remedy

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Raytheon Technologies (RTX) / (Disruptive Solutions / Deloitte) Richardson, TX (Remote)

Portfolio Operations Manager Jan 2022 – Sep 2022

Member of the Raytheon Technologies’ (RTX) Corporate Enterprise Application Services’ (EAS) Portfolio Management team.

Manage an EAS portfolio that normally consisting of between fifteen & twenty multi-year IT projects initiatives with a consolidated budget ranging from $70M to $100M. Provide project management and/or oversight of the execution of said initiatives. Project objectives include systems integrations, legacy systems migration to cloud, robotics process automation and intelligent business process management. Project teams’ size range from 6 to over 100 resources.

Build out elaborate multi-year budgets and spend plans that include capital & expense cost categories, cost of money impacts, management reserves, forecasted tax impacts and return on investment forecasts.

Work closely with PMs, Sponsors, Business Relations Managers (BRMs), Solution Architects, Technical Leads, RTN (Raytheon Missiles and Defense & Raytheon Intelligence and Space) and UTC (Pratt & Whitney & Collins Aerospace) Business Unit’s Finance personnel and Vendor Representatives in overseeing the progress of projects including real-time analysis of the earned value positions of the projects in the portfolio.

Manage the EAS demand intake of initiatives. Manage the funnel process of demand intakes – from idea capture – resource review – initiation approval – funding commitment (backlog) – to greenlighting project initiative.

Participate in enterprise Agile Framework (SAFe) ceremonies including 10-week Program Increments and Agile Release Trains.

Coordinate with RTX buyers/procurement personnel in assessing vendor proposals; generating purchase orders and approving invoices settling to said invoices.

Work with RTX’s Account Payable personnel to ensure that invoices are paid before penalties, related to not meeting net related terms, are incurred.

Currently developing and/or refining RTX PMO processes that ensure that initiatives that are greenlit can execute immediately.

Champion change management action items that promote the utilization of standard PM processes and artifacts by RTN (Raytheon Missiles and Defense & Raytheon Intelligence and Space) business units and the recently acquired UTC (Pratt & Whitney & Collins Aerospace) business units.

Grow a document library of Project Management methodologies’ (Scaled Agile, SDLC, Waterfall, Hybrid) best practices; and PMLC phases and each phase’s specific processes/artifacts.

Manage and report to C-suite the statuses, earned value & performance of the projects in my EAS portfolio of projects.

Utilize technology platforms such as Planview Enterprise One, Project Online, HP Project and Portfolio Management Center (PPMC) and SAP FI for record repository.

Center Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / (The Signal Group ) Washington, DC (Remote)

GovCloud Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master Sep 2022 – Apr 2023

Technical PM of an e-commerce website build (TogetherTakeMeHome (TTMH) – www.together.takemehome.org) for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Forecasted Go-Live (Phase 1) completion date is April ’23.

Utilized an Agile project execution methodology with 2-week sprints that includes a sprint plan, a sprint retrospective as well as a weekly touchpoint ceremony to assess the current sprint status and identify/monitor roadblocks and risks.

Provide performance and burn-down (cost & schedule) reports to Executive Committee.

Managed the ecommerce website build team made up of 15 resources that included user interface designers, Python developers, content contributors, database engineers and UTM (URL tracking) coders.

Reported directly to CDC program executives as well as representatives of Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health & Building Healthy Online Communities.

Worked closely with the multiple client stakeholders (CDC, Emory University & Building Healthy Online Communities) to establish baseline scope based on allocated budget.

Developed project plan artifacts such as requirements (functional & non-functional) documents, success criteria and project schedule.

Managed the expectations of all stakeholders that included limiting scope creep. Created and continuously updated requirements traceability log to ensure that expectations and deliverables were clearly aligned.

Led in the development of the website’s primary user journey based on the primary call-to-action (cta).

Managed the execution of technology related acquisitions such as GovCloud (AWS) including Simple Email Service; ShipBob (fulfillment); MailChimp, Twilio, Melissa & HelpScout. Worked with representatives of said technology stacks to standup their solutions and integrate them within the AWS platform.

Developed the testing plan (usability and system) and associated test cases (20+) that were executed to ensure the proper operability of the website before April ’23 launch.

Performed quality assurance tasks that centered on verifying the operability of bi-directional HTTP requests between the multiple APIs that are part of the TTMH’s website system.

Scheduled and verified the execution of penetration tests for HIPPA and cloud security (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP)) compliance.

Project Management tools utilized include MS Project, Asana, MS Teams, Slack, Google forms & MS Office.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) / (Technalink, Inc.) Arlington, VA (Remote)

PMO Program Manager / Mission Area Expert Sep 2020 – Jan 2022

Team Lead for FDIC’s PMO section Contractor IT Project Managers (PM) resources. Supervised the progress of IT Software Products/Services initiatives that were being executed. Majority of initiatives supervised included legacy applications migrations to the cloud, PaaS and SaaS initiatives. Initiatives directly managed and/or oversaw included cloud deployments/enhancements/integrations involving technologies such as SharePoint Online, Azure DevOps, Project Online, ServiceNow ITSM & ITBM, Salesforce and O365 add-ins. Budgets of initiatives ranged from a couple of hundred thousand to multi-million dollars.

Acted as administrator for weekly meets (standups/standdowns) with FDIC’s Federal PMO manager(s). Meets’ agenda included current portfolio & project’s performance, projects backlog position, portfolio risk log (risk impact assessments).

Led weekly stand-ups with Contractor IT PMs to monitor overall status; identify and monitor risks/roadblocks; and develop mitigation strategies/action plans; and earned value management positions.

Supervised scrum stand-ups; agile risk log and impediments ceremonies.

Mentored IT PMs on Agile industry best practices, risk management and earned value management.

Member of the IT tiger team charged with the ongoing development, maturing and promoting of PMO’s updated Project Management Lifecycle (PMLC) /Software Development Lifecycle SDLC) disciplines that integrated the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Special Publication (SP) 800-64 (security integration) for FedRAMP Marketplace compliance.

Performed periodic audits of IT related acquisitions and IT project executions to ensure their compliance with FDIC governance mandates such as Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), FedRAMP, Plans of Action and Milestones (POA&Ms), Authority to Operate (ATO), data retention directives and systems decommissioning workflows.

Utilized FDIC’s Cyber Security Assessment and Management (CSAM) application to perform ad-hoc audits on FDIC’s systems compliance strategies. Ensured that the CSAM database was up-to-date with the System Security Plan (SSP) artifacts of ongoing security authorizations. SSP artifacts included Interconnections log; Point of Contacts (PoCs); and the Classification and Management of data assets.

Acted as FDIC’s PMO section SharePoint Online administrator. I created and/or enhanced multiple SharePoint (SP) sites that disseminated and/or graphically illustrated PMO/CIOO Project Management related guides, SOPs, toolkits & checklists.

Led the effort of developing and enhancing the FDIC’s PMO knowledge library on Project Management methodologies’ (Agile, Waterfall, Lean, Hybrid) best practices; and Project Manager’s processes/artifacts toolkits such as guides/checklists; and FDIC corporate and IT governance business management processes.

Led in the generation of PMO reports for CIOO executives that details the quarterly/annual performance, including value derived, of the organization’s projects portfolio.

Provide Tier3/Tier 4 ServiceNow ITBM (PPM) incident & resolution support to FDIC’s PM. Provide ongoing training on utilization best practices related to the ServiceNow PPM application.

Work with the ServiceNow platform deployment team on ServiceNow PPM functionality enhancements.

Led in functionality user acceptance testing when new ServiceNow ITBM Releases are deployed.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) McLean, VA

Manager – Forensics Technology Services Jan 2020 – Sep 2020

A manager in a Forensics Technology Services workstream made up of thirteen resources in total with 6 offshore.

Managed (onsite, remote & offshore) a data analytics team that provided support to internal PwC ‘Audit and Deals’ teams with advance data analysis related to financial statements for a multinational corporation with over $20 billion in FY2019 revenue.

Utilized Agile project management methodology (Scrumban) that included 2-week sprint epics with user stories/product backlogs constantly refined based on changing priorities and immediate deliverables.

Utilizing enterprise Agile Framework (SAFe), acted as the team’s representative for products deliveries, agile ceremonies such as tribe stand-ups/stand-downs and risk log meetings. The PwC tribe was made up of multiple PwC pods from PwC verticals such as Audit, Deals and Technology.

Utilizing Scrumban project management methodology, led my team in performing financial/accounting data analysis to ensure accuracy of performed reconciliations as well as completeness of financial records.

Utilizing Scrumban project management methodology, managed and delivered custom data generation/ad-hoc analysis requests from client and/or other PwC pods/teams. Created data marts from multiple SAP Financial Accounting (SAP FICO) modules.

Developed and ran Extract Transform Load (ETL) jobs from the client’s SAP FICO modules to the PwC’s internal MS SQL Server infrastructure.

Managed and developed unique MS SQL Server queries that created data marts which were then migrated to excel workbooks through VBA coding.

Utilizing an agile iterative approach, created Tableau and Power BI interactive dashboards which included extensive drill-down functions for the client as well as for PwC’s Audit and Deals teams. The Tableau and Power BI dashboards pulled data from MS SQL Server tables and views.

Reviewed the work of the team and confirmed completeness of deliverables before distribution to client and/or other PwC internal teams.

Performed supervisory duties including mentoring junior staff.

Maintained multiple work tracking artifacts.

Managed a JIRA Dashboard and Kanban board for creating, managing and closing out epics, stories/product backlogs, subtasks, risks and issues.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) / (The Goal, Inc.) Arlington, VA

PMO Portfolio Analyst / Project Manager Jun 2016 – Jan 2020

Managed the FDIC’s CIO Council portfolio. Portfolio comprises of 15 -18 priority IT capital initiatives (projects) on an annual cycle. Portfolio’s annual budget is between $14 -19 million/annually.

Developed and generated a monthly Notification report detailing the current status of the CIO Council portfolio. Presented report to FDIC’s CIO and executives from Financial and Administration divisions at the monthly Council meeting.

Worked with the project managers in FDIC’s Delivery Management and Infrastructure Services branches, monitoring and reporting project progress, anticipated/pending roadblocks, value management, expense/schedule baselines (CPI/SPI), and budget burns.

Worked with the CIOO’s SFS (finance) section in reconciling monthly expenditure related to projects in the CIO Council portfolio.

Supported CIRC portfolio quarterly analysis. Led the reconciliation of CIRC portfolio project’s expenditure. Supported the generation of a quarterly CIRC report that is presented to the FDIC’s Board of Directors.

Member of the Work Group planning migration of the current MS Project Server/MS Project Professional PPM tool to a ServiceNow PPM tool. Inventorying current PMO capabilities, tools, and reports. Compiling requirements for the ServiceNow vendor. Worked on the development of standard enterprise project execution practices that followed the Agile methodology. Developed workflow process that began at demand intake and completed with architecture and portfolio review.

Utilizing a DevOps project management methodology (Azure DevOps Server), provided project management duties for the CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault engineering team.

oResponsibilities included supporting the Federal Product Owner with continuous delivery/continuous integration tasks; resource capacity planning and monitoring; and CIOO intersecting organization (I/O) coordination.

Delivered a SSRS reporting application (Quad Chart) utilizing a Waterfall/Hybrid project management methodology. Technologies included MS SSRS/MS SQL Server/MS Project technologies. The reports were generated weekly and summarized the current position of projects in terms of progression, sprint stories closed, new sprint stories, current risks/forecasted risks.

Part of the FDIC team that upgraded the Enterprise Portfolio Management Reporting Software (EPMRS). Managed the coordination between FDIC’s PMO, Release Management Services, Infrastructure Services and DBA teams in ensuring that the updated EPMRS application was released into FDIC’s “PROD” network.

Presented to the CIOO’s Change Control Board on details related to enterprise application updates such as the EPMRS update.

Provided training to project managers on utilizing MS Project/Project Server, Azure DevOps Server/MS Team Foundation Server (TFS) and MS SharePoint.

One of three administrators of the MS Project Server enterprise application. Provided general support for all users of MS Project Server/Project Professional application.

oRedesigned FDIC's MS Project Server based EPM system by creating and/or reconfiguring MS Project server/Project Web App views, custom fields, and field formulas.

oCreated Excel Macro files, Pivot tables and Tableau reports that pulled and filtered data from MS Project Server’s data tier (SQL database) and FDIC’s enterprise project financial tool – EPMRS, to create and customize charts, dashboards and reports with functionalities such as drilldowns and conditional formatting.

oCollaborated with different DIT teams (Security, SQL Cluster Admins, SharePoint Admins, Wintel, Release Management) to develop, install and implement system upgrades, enhancements, maintenance and recovery plans.

oDeveloped training plans and provide training for project managers and PWA users. Authored technical/administration documentation of all Project Server custom configurations for the Corporation's knowledge base library.

oResponded and resolved ServiceNow (SNOW) tickets related to Tier 3/4 incidents for the MS Project Professional/MS Project Server applications.

OROOCO Washington, D.C.

Project Manager Jan 2014 – Dec 2015

Managed projects for a manufacturing plant. Project size ranging from $75K - $750K.

Implemented lean manufacturing methodology throughout the organization to improve communications between production, engineering and administration teams. Acted as the Product Owner.

Promoted a training/upskilling culture within a team of seventeen resources.

Removed impediments and protected teams from external roadblocks to maximize productivity.

Facilitated retrospectives that resulted in continuous process/operating procedures improvements which in turn led to reduced operating expenses.

Utilized MS Project Pro for project planning (wbs, resource/schedule estimation).

Collaborated with department heads to define and develop customized reports based on project specifics to identify areas of inefficiency and improvements in resource leveling.

LIOBmedia Washington, D.C.

Project Manager / Database Specialist Jun 2002 – Jan 2014

Independently planned the management and execution of over 60 IT projects that included software design, development and/or deployments of interactive websites; design and production of multimedia products; the acquisition and deployment of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS); and design and deployment of bespoke software applications.

Managed multiple projects concurrently from initiation through to closure/O&M transition.

Utilized Delphi and nominal group techniques to gather data requirements and manage expectations.

Utilized agile (scrum), waterfall, and a hybrid of both PM methodologies to manage and deliver projects.

Clients included Department of Treasury, Food and Drug Administration, DC Government, Smithsonian Institution, National Association of Attorney Generals, Truth Initiative and Citibank.

Managed numerous contracts awarded through GSA, SBA and joint Federal government contracting vehicles.

Planned projects and maintained schedules, tasks and issues using MS Project, JIRA and Primavera.

Uploaded .mpp files from Project Standard/Professional into 2007/2010/2013 Project Server.

Worked with JIRA and Team Foundation Server on Agile projects updating product backlog items, sprint backlogs, builds, and Kanban boards.

Coordinated and managed database activities to support application development projects.

Performed installs, upgrades, configurations, migrations, administration, user training and documentation on SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL database instances.

Managed data warehouse projects from requirements to operations concentrating on synchronizing the design and development of data, technology and UI layer modules of data warehouse projects.

Created and altered databases, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and triggers. Assigned table constraints. Integrated CLR assemblies with stored procedures and functions.

Performed data exporting and importing across database systems. Replicated database objects across hardware infrastructure and partitioned tables for increased throughput.

Performed high velocity queries such as batch inserts.

Configured and administered SQL Server SAN and Oracle RAC & ASM environments.

Utilized Tableau, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Excel (macro) to connect to database to create customized visualization artifacts such as charts, dashboards and report.

Provided leadership in strategies for implementing policy-based management plans.

Created subscription schedules in SSRS to run updated reports automatically based on specified intervals.

Utilized Visual Studio (SSRS, SSIS, SSAS), Oracle BI to perform ETL, OLAP, and design developer.

TRAINING & CERTIFICATIONS

PMI Project Management Professional Certification, Expires – 2024 (1862860)

Scrum Alliance Scrum Master Certification, Expires – 2024 – (000500680)

Axelos ITIL v3 Certification

Oracle and Java Developer Master Certification

ServiceNow Systems Administrator Certification

SAFe Agilist 5.1

SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management LPM 5

EDUCATION

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, BIS Organizational Data Studies

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, MS AIT - Data Analytics and Intelligence Methods (Expected 2023)

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