Wese Obiabaka

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MICROSOFT EXCEL EXPERT

Summary:

• A Master of Business Administration (MBA) 19years post graduation and a Project Manager by prac- tice with 14years cooperate experience handling high profile strategic projects for Foreign Missions, Embassies, Multinational and Multilateral Agencies and Organisations..

• Projects handled include digital transformations, strategic financial and banking relationship man- agement, enterprise solution Integration and management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Risk Manage- ment solution, financial inclusion initiatives, last mile operations for United Nation Agencies like UN- OPS, World Food Program (WFP), UNICEF

• Have the understanding of PMI best practices and scrum methodologies in handling several of my projects.

• Have worked with and led teams in various Geographies including United Kingdom, New York, France, 8 African Countries and Germany

• Skilled in liaising with Development Organisations, Regulatory agencies, Departments of Governments and necessary global and national stakeholders.

• Possessing excellent communication, leadership, problem-solving, and analytical capabilities. Skills

• Agile and Scrum Methodologies * Productivity Improvement

• Stakeholder Relations * Financial Administration

• Customer Relations Specialist * Conflict Management

• International Business * Root Cause Analysis

• Donor Relations * Staff Training and Motivation

• Community Partnerships * Schedule Management

• Govt Agency Contract Negotiation * Data Review

• Account Development and Networking * Project Management

• Strategic Account Development and Management * Sales force

• Customer Relationship Management * Verbal and Written Communication

• Risk Management * Work Planning and Prioritization

• Staff Training and Mentoring * Budgeting, Cost Engineering

• Purchasing and Procurement * Project Development and Lifecycle Education And Training:

MBA Business Administration University of Calabar, Calabar April 2004 Bachelor of Arts Agricultural Economics Enugu State University, Enugu August 2000 MSc International Business and Law, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom Associate of Applied Science ICyberSecurity, Northern Virginia University, Virginia United States Certifications:

• Transformational Leadership

• Strategic Thinking

• Microsoft Office Suite (Excel Expert)

Professional Experience:

Project Manager, NanoSoft Inc Cleveland, Ohio Jun 2022 - currently Partnerships & Donor, Global Co-ordinator

• Translated on-premise IT strategic goals, roadmaps, business process of 27 SMEs ($15mm annual rev- enue) to digital architectures within 7 months against an expectation of 15 SMEs

• Planned, executed, and finalized projects according to pre-defined timelines and within the allocat- ed budget.

• Review of POs and PFI’s and negotiation of service, milestone payments and delivery terms.

• Vendor selection for the procurement of the IT software to support the infrastructural framework

• Milestone based implementation of schedule activities, crisis escalation to executive management, crisis mitigation techniques, project baseline determination, and adherence, using appropriate project management, reporting, tools and templates

• Operating with guidelines by the Conference of State Banking Supervisors (CSBS), DFI.

• Initiating and managing personnel and vendor relationships across the OIT, developing a requisite un- derstanding of core business functions, and according align project milestones

• Strong background in Cloud computing, and Cloud Migrations and leading meetings with IT Consul- tants, Cloud Solution Architects, Cloud engineers, contractors Ingressive for Good, Houston, Texas Jan 2022 - April 2022 Partnerships & Donor, Global Co-ordinator

• Co-ordinating donor database and maintaining these relationships for sustainable partnerships

• Administering oversight on grant and partnership applications, sourcing and reviewing grant and donor opportunities for the organisation

• Liaison with counterparts in the United Nations and other global development organisations

• Reporting and formulation of strategic initiatives to forge strong community partnerships. World Reliance Dec 2020 - Dec 2021

Director, Partnerships & Programs

• Identified and organised global partnership summits with the view of aligning sustainable and strate- gic synergies for the implementation of education and food drives in lacking communities across the organisations catchment.

• Implementing the roadmap to attaining consultative status with the United Nations and organising attendance to UN assemblies and summits, WEF (World Economic Forum) in Europe and US.

• Planned and discussed the scope of work with relevant stakeholders tying together the overall trans- formation objectives.

• Scheduled the WBS having clearly defined and understood the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC with clear milestones where possible and baselines.

• Ensure projects are driven successfully to completion and on schedule while maintaining scheduled project processes, timelines, and standards.

• Assess risks, identify mitigations techniques associated with threats to the project UBA GROUP (West Africa, USA, UK & France), New York, NY Feb 2019 - Sep 2020 Senior Project Manager

• Managed budgets for project, tracked expenses and timelines and communicated with key stakehold- ers on milestones.

• Managed multiple project teams (EPC, contractors, Software developers, vendors) and cross-func- tional teams to meet project timelines

• Vendor Management and engagements and ensuring budgets maintain a 10% exception rule

• Applied Agile and Scrum methodologies in translating the business development mandates

• Implemented digital change and enhancement management processes when issues arose to keep project moving forward and adjust to shifted priorities.

• Ensured processes complied with guidelines of CSBS, DFI, FRS, OCC leading the team on regulato- ry expectations and requirements.

• Direct procurement of equipment from offshore suppliers, monitoring the entire cycle of mile- stone payments and manufacturing specifications, shipment duration, letters of credit terms, and actual shipment

• Translated RFP terms to guide procurement, vendor engagement, contractor engagement, project milestone scheduling

• Defining team annual budgets, cost management, cost engineering,

• Worked with teams in Ghana, Republic of Benin, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Mali, and Cote d'Ivoire with a specialised focus on Embassies, Multilateral & Development Organisations to translate transformation initiatives across subsidiaries

Program Manager, Power&Energy, Ecobank PLC Aug 2012 - Jan 2019

• Translated transaction RFP to an operational document for ease of adoption and PFI reviews

• Forecasted, scheduled and monitored project timelines, personnel performance and cost efficiency.

• Monitor daily tasks following the WBS to enable a smooth run.

• Managed business processes during the implementation of work specifications for Multinational Cor- porations MNCs and Multilaterals such as UNICEF, WFP (World Food Program), 7Up, all updates on processes and transactions including shipping logistics to identify and escalate reflags for quick repa- ration.

• Made changes to project scope and cost and implemented most effective change management processes to keep project on schedule

• Reviewed, Screened and engaged qualifying vendors, contractors and offshore manufacturers (where necessary)

• Monitoring timelines, competition roll-out, and rolling out according to program guidelines.

• Maintained thorough, accurate and confidential transaction documentation in electronic records.

• Trained and mentored new associates on best practices, regulatory policies and professional ethics

• Efficient management of cross-functional teams and their operations to ensure seamless alignment with project goals

• Ensure adequate people process management and accountability Earlier Work Experience:

• Business Development - Retail, Personal and commercial Banking

• Associate Program Manager

• Program Management Officer

• Executive Banking Assistant

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