Senior Agile Programme Manager with PMO Leadership

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May 19, 2026

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SAM OFI

Address: Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5NR, UK, Tel: +447*********, E-mail: *******@*****.**.** CAREER SYNOPSIS:

Sam is a highly experienced agile Senior Projects Program Manager with extensive and complex projects, programme, portfolio/PMO/TMO delivery, governance & leadership managing multi-party SI vendors, DevOps offshore teams across wide ranges of industry leading digital transformation programmes for multiple clients. Sam have been responsible for end-to-end full SDLC products, projects & programme lifecycle delivery from Business case development(PID), Discovery Phase(AS- IS, Gap Analysis, TO-BE, RFI/RFP/RFQ –Functional & Non-Functional Spec, Vendor Competitive Bidding & Selection), Project Planning/Scoping Phase, Build Phase, Implementation Phase: Configuration, Data Cleansing, Testing Phase: UAT/Integration testing, Release /Change Mgt, Business Readiness, Cutover, Go-Live, hand- over to BAU including licensing negotiation, post implementation SLA/Hypercare delivering value to business with strong stakeholder mgt at CxO level/Steering

/programme boards thereby championing agile delivery methodology, leading to new way of working, cost saving and benefits realization. CORE COMPETENCES:

Project/Programme Management/Portfolio Mgt/PMLC/SDLC/PMO/TMO Governance: Waterfall, Agile Scrum, Kanban, Confluence, Notion, Planview, Jira, Slack Business Solution Architecture, Analysis & Design/Requirement gathering: : Requirement gathering, Discovery Workshop facilitation, user story/Backlog items/User story wiring in Jira, PID, build, RAID log, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), AS-IS, Gap Analysis, TO-BE/Target Operating Model-TOM, RACI, SIPOC, MoSCoW, SWOT, Migration of Financial/Commodity/Energy Trading Markets Risk tools: Front office, Middle office, Back office portals:

Ion Group ETRM tools: Openlink Endur, Allegro, Aspect, RightAngle, TriplePoint; Orchestrate; Hitachi Energy TRMTracker; Carbon Zero(environmental

/ hedge certificates), Planlogic, EOS ETRM, Brady's PowerDesk solution, Plexos, Aurora, Trayport, Amphora, Commodity XL, SAP ETRM for PNL

ETRM/CTRM Configuration tools: Data factory, Databricks, SQL DB, Synapse, Stream Analytics, Glue, Airflow, Kinesis, Redshift, SonarQube, PyTest, SQL, C#, Python, .Net,: TensorFlow-TFS, JSON message structure, API integration: OpenComponents Connex, OpenJVS, SpecFlow, XML, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch. Microsoft technology stack:

Microsoft ERP family: D365 F&O, D365 Business Central, D365 CRM, EPM, M365(Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams on Azure cloud SharePoint)

Power Platform: [Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages. Agentic AI, Copilot AI:ML/LLM Studio ecosystem(SharePoint, Teams, M365 DCE)

Copilot) built of Metaverse], Identity & Microsoft Entra ID IAM/IDAM/Active Directory(IGA/PAM/RBAC/SSO/MFA)

Microsoft technology Stack: MySQL, Dynamics D365 F&O/SCM, D365 Business Central, D365 CE CRM, EPM, SharePoint Online & M365/O365 Migration, D365 SCM, Azure DevOps, Power Platform: PowerApp, Power Automate, Power Portal, PowerBI. Cloud Technologies: Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, IBM Cloud, Data warehousing, and Data Lakes. ERPs: SAP HANA, SAPSuccessFactor, Ariba, Concur, Oracle eBusiness suite, Oracle Fusion, Concur, Certinia ERP/PSA, Workday Finance, Workday HCM, SmarRecruiter, Unit4, Personio, Workable Applicants Tracking System(ATS), Salesforce, Epicor, Sage Line50/Line 500/Sage X3, Netsuite, Documentum, OCR, IFS, Onesource, Infor, M3, Mulesoft, Yardi, Temenos-T24, IBM Maximo, Nuvolo, Omnicom, Axciom,Manufacturing Execution System (MES) ERPs, Abacus, Mosaic, Servicenow, Cornerstone, SmartRecruiter, Coupa, Maconomy, Maximo, Dynatrace, IAM: Saviynt, Sailpoint, Veza, Okta, CyberArk, Banking & Financial Services Payment System: Electronics Payment Gateway-EPG, UniPay, CHAPS, ACH, BAC, BANTAC, File Transfer-FTP, POS/ePOS, Swift Messaging Service, Electronics Payment Gateway-EPG, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Databases: MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, Informix, BigQuery, SQL/TSQL, NSQL. Programming languages: C, C#, C++, PL/pgSQL, PL/Python, PL/R, PL/Perl, PL/Ruby, PL/Proxy, PL/JS, PL/sh, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Perl, ASP.NET, HTML, JS REACT, Laravel ETL: Metadata/Exadata; SAS Analytics; Qlikview, Tableau, Adobe, ETL, PoweBI, Hadoop on Cloudera, Hortonworks; Informatica,Power Platform/ Power BI, Cyber Security Assessment and Control Framework, GRC/IRM/SOC/SOC2/SOX/SIEM/GDPR/DPIA/BIA/Data Protection/PECR/PCI DSS/ISO/ IEC:2700X/ISO/IEC 20000/COBIT High Cyber Risk Compliance, Identity and Access management: Sailpoint, Coforge, Saviynt(IAM/IGA/PAM/RBAC/SSO/MFA) Service Delivery Management, Product Development Lifecycle, RFI/RFP/RFQ, Cyber Security Management, Governance, Risk, & Compliance management. Emerging Technologies: IoT, Chapgpt, digitalisation, Digital Twin, Datafication, Smarter Devices, AR/VR, RPA, Edge, Emulation Prototyping. ACHIEVEMENTS / PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN IN RECENT TIME: 1. Led Dynamics ERP: D365 F&O, D365 Bus. Central, D365 CE/CRM, Power BI, Azure 2. ServiceNowx4: ITSM, ITBM, ITOM, ITAM, IRM, CMDB, Service Delivery Module 3. Led Oracle Fusion ERP: Financial: GL, AP, AR, Inv, Stock, SCM, Exp, Payroll, HR 4. Led Workday ERP (HCM, Finance, Expenses, Financial Planning, Revenue Mgt, AI Agent) 5. SalesforceX6: (Sales, CRM, Marketing, Slack, Data Cloud, Tableau for analytics) 6. Led SAP Concur: Expense, Travel, Invoice, Bill Stmt, Request, Budget, Audit, Payroll 7. SAP S/4HANA Finance: FI/CO/SD/Sales/SCM/CRM/EPM, Ariba,OCR, SuccessFactor 8. Led delivery of Sage(GL, Sales, Purchase, Bank, Invoicing, Stock, SCM, JC, BOM) 9. Azure Studio/DevOps: ADO Platform Software Dev/API Build, Power Platform 10. Delivery of Copilot Agentic AI Deployment/Publishing/Embedment/Operationalisation 11. Deployment of "Agentforce AI Conversational Assistant" from Einstein Copilot powered by the Atlas Reasoning Engine for Salesforce Customer 360. 12. Deployment of "Illuminate AI Agent assistant" for Workday built on the "Agent System of Record", Contract Intelligence Agent, Workday Sana Self-Service Agent. 13. Led delivery of AI tools across Claims, Actuarial, Underwriting, Algorithm, Risk, Legal 14.Netsuite -AF, AI, AOM, AP, CR, CPQ, DP, FP-P2P, OTC/O2C, R2R-R2R, O2O, M2L 15. Led delivery of SAP ECC Finance: FI/CO/SCM/HCM/SD/EWM/Payroll Ariba, Concur 16. Led Identity & Access Management: Saviynt, Entra ID, Sailpoint: PAM/IGA/RBAC 17. Data Centre IT Infrastructure, serverEOL Decom, upgrades,Cloud-PaaS/IaaS/SaaS 18. Led Sage X3 ERP: Financial: GL, Sales, Purchase, Bank, Invoicing, Stock, SCM,BOM,JC 19. ETRM/CTRM RFI: OpenLinkEndur/Aligne/Allegro/Aspect/ Trayport/Plexos/EOS 20. Energy Trading Data Platform build: Gas/LNG/Power/Electricity/Commodity 21. Led RFI/RFP/RFQ for Successfactor, Unit4, IFS, JD Edward, Maximo, Ariba, Coupa 22. Led Document Mgt: Documentum, SharePoint, data segregation, GDPR delivery 23. PI System: PI Server, PI Data Archive, PI Asset Framework, PI Data Collection 24. Digital rebranding/eCommerce web redesign(B2c,B2B/B2G) & Integrations 25. Energy: Veeva SmartPlant, Pi/PU/FW-WT, iLogistics for Tengiz FGP/SGI Chevron 26. Delivery of Sage & Epicor modules: Finance, Sales, Payable, Stock, HCM, CRM, EPM 27. Payment EPG: BANTAC, BAC, UniPay, CHAPS, ACH, Swift, File Transfer-FTP, ePOS 28. UK Central Govt: DDaT, GDS Projects-NHS, DHSC,UKHSA, BEIS, CPS, DVSA/DVLA,TFL EDUCATION :

University of Cambridge-Business Innovation & Digital Transformation Mgt University of Oxford – Artificial Intelligence – Deep Machine Learning University of Oxford – Cyber Security, Threat Intelligence and Networks University of Oxford – Lean Six Sigma – Green Belt-Business Improvement University of Oxford – Advanced Project Management University of Oxford – Strategic Management, Leadership & Entrepreneur London School of Business & Finance-(MBA-Finance & Business Strategy)-2010 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (MSC–Information Technology)-2008 University of Nigeria, Nsukka-(MBA International Business Management)-2006 University of Nigeria, Nsukka – (BSc Computer Science with Statistics)- 2005 EMPLOYMENT RECORD:

Mar 2023 – Date Kinetic/Lloyds Group/Brit/Ki-Insurance Senior Projects Program Manager Projects Delivered:

o Global onshore & offshore DevOps/DevSecOps/XOps/AIOps/MLOps/DataOps/LLMOps/FinOps SDLC Projects: DevOps leadership on Adhoc software rapid developments and deployment(continuous delivery, CI/CD pipelines) on multiple platforms including Azure DevOps ADO project boards, Openshift to accelerate the development and deployment of applications, financial services platforms maintaining full development lifecycle. o Led delivery of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business central ERP (General Ledger, Acct payable, Acct Receivable, Cash&Bank, Inv), Payroll, O365/M365(Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams Azure cloud), Power Platform, Power Bi, Data Modelling), MS Entra ID Active Directory, ADO Platform DevOps. o Led delivery of Servicenow Service Delivery mgt(ITIL Framework): ITSM, ITHelpDesk, ITBM, ITOM, ITAM, IRM, CMDB, Now AI Agent & DevSec-GRC. o Led RFI/RFP/RFQ and delivery of WorkableATS/Personio/Workday HCM, and integrated it with Sage payroll, and Savinyt identity and Access Mgt System. o Led delivery of Identity and Access Management Saviynt and Entra ID Active Directory: (IDAM/IGA/PAM/RBAC) and integration with Servicenow/Freshservice. o Led delivery of Salesforce(Sales, CRM, Marketing, Slack, Data Cloud, Tableau for analytics, Experience Cloud, MuleSoft used to connect data & applications). o Led delivery of Concur(Expense, Travel, Invoice, Concur Bill Statement). Regulatory Compliance projects relating to Payments, and expense Claims. o Led huge Financial Divestment from parent companies, Merger & Acquisition(M&A), Post Merger & Acquisition data integrations, data migration, post-merger apps and data transition across Banking, Wealth Mgt, Risk, Claims, Re-insurance, Underwriting, Algorithm, Finance, Actuarial, Brokers,Legal, HR, Operations, & IT. o Led documentation of the Current Operating Model-COM(AS-IS), Gap Analysis, and the Target Operating Model-TOM(TO-BE) documentation and process review covering Claims, Policy Administration, Risk, Actuarial, Re-insurance, Underwriting Operations, developed detailed Transition Operating Model to inject efficiency and effectiveness leading to new ways of working and saving cost. o Migration of Energy Trading/Commodity Trading Markets Risk apps/portals including integration with banking/Risk portals: Front/Middle/Back Office. o Led huge Financial data analytics(ETL) produced all sorts of complex financial reports and dashboards. o Led delivery of Microsoft Copilot and customized Agentic AI Deployment/Publishing/Embedment/Adoption/Operationalisation via M365 Admin center. o Deployment of Agentforce AI Conversational Assistant from Einstein Copilot powered by the Atlas Reasoning Engine for Salesforce Customer 360. o Deployment of "Illuminate AI Agent assistant" for Workday built on the "Agent System of Record," including" Contract Intelligence Agent", Workday" Sana Self- Service AI Agent" to automate tasks.

o Led huge Financial & Insurance Data migration(ETL), data separation, technology transition, integrations due to M&A, PMI, Divestment from parent companies. o Huge applications upgrades, IT Infrastructure EoL decommissioning, On-prem to cloud transition, Banking/Insurance Portal and Platform upgrades. Duties:

Full end-to-end agile product, project programme portfolio SDLC technology TMO/PMO delivery & Governance: Led end-to-end complex agile SDLC technology programme and PMO governance comprising large scale software developments, adhoc plugin, DevOps, ERP implementation, data migration, financial services portal services transition, change management, complex TSA/SLA with multi-party vendors, leading new technology merger, acquisition, apps/data separation and business change reporting progress to CXO level management, Steering Committees, Programme Sponsors ensuring team cohesion, delivery-focus and KPI are met.

Leading end-to-end SDLC full Agile/WAgile programme lifecycle from Business Case development(PID), Discovery Phase(AS-IS/Current Operating Model, Gap Analysis, Target Operating Model-TOM, Transition Operating Model), RFI/RFP/RFQ(Technical & Non-Functional Requirements, Vendor Competitive bidding process, Vendor Demo and Vendor Selection Process), Planning /Scoping Phase, Build Phase, Implementation Phase: Data Cleansing, Testing Phase: UAT/Integration testing, Release/Change Management, Business Readiness, Cutover, Go-Live, hand-over to BAU.

Agile project/Programme leadership: Led team of onshore/offshore Agile Sprint planning, Backlog prioritization, User Stories/Epic/Theme/Tasks validation, Daily standup Scrumming, work package estimations, Team Velocity, Sprint Retrospect, and iterative MVP build at end of sprints including release management.

Global onshore & offshore DevOps/DevSecOps/XOps/AIOps/MLOps/DataOps/LLMOps/FinOps/SDLC Projects: DevOps leadership on Adhoc software rapid developments and deployment (continuous delivery, CI/CD pipelines) on Azure DevOps ADO project boards to accelerate the development and deployment of applications maintaining full development lifecycle.

Applications Migration & Transition-TSA: Led huge number of applications and data transition, separations, data migration, testing(UAT/SIT), contract negotiation, and infrastructure transition-to-service covering Risk, Claims, Underwriting, Algorithm, Finance, Actuarial, Asset management, Wealth management, Credit & Risk Management, Broking, Reinsurance, Compliance, Syndicates, Legal, HR, Operations, and IT.

Worked with cross-functional teams, multiple vendors and SI to deliver the following tools: M365/O365, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business central, Servicenow, Workday, Entra ID Active Directory/Veza, Saviynt IAM, Salesforce CRM & Case management, Concur for expense mgt, Data Anlytics tooling–Power BI.

Led delivery of numerous integration landscape with ERPs and many third-party applications.

Implementation of Microsoft technology stacks including Dynamics ERP 365 Business Central Implementation(Ledger, Acct payable, Acct Receivable, Cash&Bank, Inv), Dynamics365 Customer Engagement/CRM/EPM, O365/M365(OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams on Azure cloud SharePoint ), Power BI, Power Platform: PowerApps for data integration/adhoc built on dataserve, Microsoft Entra ID for Active Directory integration with Saviynt for Identity and Access Management-IAM.

Led end-to-end delivery and integration of Concur Expense management with Financial ERP comprising Expense, Travel, Concur Invoice, Concur Request, Budget, Intelligent Audit, Concur Detect, Concur ExpenseIt, and Concur Bill Statement.

Led end-to-end delivery& integration of Salesforce-: Salesforce Sales, CRM-CPQ, Marketing, Slack, Data Cloud, Tableau for analytics, Experience Cloud, MuleSoft used to connect data & applications and configuration of Salesforce chatbots, Agentforce agents suite of autonomous AI agents built on Einstein 1 Platform

Salesforce CRM/CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) delivery: Worked with multi-vendor SME in the configuration of CRM/CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) as the tam drove the quote-to-cash revenue process by automating how sales teams configure products, applying pricing, and generate quotes.

Led end-to-end delivery and Integration of Servicenow/Freshservice full service delivery management covering ITSM-(ITServiceDesk, Service provisioning, CMDB, Service Catalogue, Service Transition), GRC, IRM, & ITBM Operations and integration with Microsoft Entra ID, and Saviynt/veza.

Led RFI/RFP/RFQ, vendor selection and end-to-end delivery & integration of Personio/Workable/Workday(Human Resource Management, Talent management, Workforce planning and Analytics, Recruiting, Time tracking/Absence management, Time tracking/Absence management, HR Help Desk, Payroll, Benefits administration, and Learning mgt).

Led IAM/IDAM/IGA/PAM/RBAC implementation of Veza/Saviynt and integration with Workable/Personio HCM: Led the POC delivery of Identity and Access management: Saviynt, Veza POC and integration with Microsoft Entra ID.

Led review of current access portfolio of existing user identities from Brit to Ki-Insurance, leading to identity provisioning, de-provisioning, employee access audit, employee onboarding and offboarding for new joiners and leavers to prevent unauthorized access to information technology infrastructures-(Network, Software, Data, Email) for Microsoft Entra ID for Active Directory, and others, leading to IAM risk assessments, audits, IAM roles, access policies, culminating into identity and access framework.

Led deployment of Microsoft Copilot and delivery of customised Agentic AI Deployment/Publishing/Embedment/Operationalisation via M365 Admin center: Worked with multi-party teams to operationalise AI, defined the AI Agent Objectives/Use cases definition, Data governance(Security roles definition, data access permissions), Defined and validated Compliance/Responsible AI (RAI) requirements, Agent creation using Copilot Studio Agent builder on natural language(NL/LLM), Agent connection to defined data sources(SharePoint, Microsoft Graph, 3rd party CRMs & Apps), Agent configuration for conversational flow via Power Automate, integration with Code Interpreter, image generator, etc; AI Agent testing to improve prompting, performances, and response validation to measure KPI leading to AI Agent pilot Deployment/ Publishing/Embedment/Operationalisation via M365 Admin center.

Led Technical team on multiple cloud technology delivery AWS/Azure studio environment, Azure migrate, Microsoft Power Platform Technology stack: Managed highly onshore/offshore technical team delivering niche technologies, championing DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), VSTS, PowerApps Dev, Power Automate, Power Portal, C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, MySQL Server, ASP.NET, PHP, Python, XML, XSLT, WSDL, XSD, JSON, JS REACT, ML.NET on Azure DevOps and Openshift rapid development/roll-out.

Global onshore & offshore DevOps/DevSecOps/ XOps/AIOps/MLOps/DataOps/LLMOps/FinOps/Openshift Platform SDLC Projects: DevOps leadership on Adhoc software rapid developments and deployment (continuous delivery, CI/CD pipelines) on ADO project boards to accelerate the development and deployment of applications maintaining full development lifecycle.

Led delivery of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central Finance, Salesforce migration, Servicenow-ITSM, MS Entra ID Active Directory and Saviynt IAM tool.

Worked with Technology partners/SI leading Periodic Architecture Review Board participation, Change Advisory Board review, Technical architecture approval board review and other committees and business change forums ensuring architectural standards, data governance, cyber security policies and regulatory frameworks standard compliance are met.

Produced weekly and monthly reports to senior stakeholders and programme committees and project sponsors based on agreed KPI(detailed project dashboard report & POAP),, produces project dashboard, accountable for budget utilization, Risk, Dependencies, Assumptions, Release, change management, cost control, issue resolution, team velocity, and dependency tracking across the portfolio, change management, etc.

Stakeholder Management: Worked closely with Claims, Portfolio Underwriting, Risk, Actuarial, Finance, Legal, Algorithm, HR, IT, Operations, & Marketing and external vendors to align project goals and expectations to deliver value and benefit realisation.

Vendor Coordination: Collaborated with multiple technology providers and third-party vendors to ensure timely delivery, configuration, and integration of the new system.

Risk & Issue Management: Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation strategies to ensure smooth implementation.

Budget & Resource Management: Monitored project budgets, resources, and ensure cost-effective solutions.

Change Management/Release Management: Developed training materials with vendors, conduct workshops, and support end-users during the transition.

Data Migration & System Integration: Oversee data mapping, migration, and system integration, ensuring accuracy and security.

Data solutions alignment: Ensured alignment of data solutions with London Market regulatory and operational standards.

Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborated with IT and business teams to ensure successful implementation of data platforms and tools.

Integration Management with leading third-party parties: Led numerous global integration with downstream third-party applications.

Oversee data integration, migration, and transformation projects.

Testing & Quality Assurance: Led TMO team to conduct system testing, troubleshoot issues, and validate performance before go-live.

Business Readiness preparation: Defined business readiness entry and exit criteria, managed stage gate, including pre-go-live cut-over, readiness assessments and full contract signing, licensing agreement, hand-over to BAU, SLA and Hypercare.

Post-Implementation Support: Led pot-implementation/Hypercare/Service transition discussions including Service Level Agreements providing ongoing support and continuous improvement initiatives post-launch.

Transitioned the following applications into services from Lloyds/Brit/Ki- insurance:

Claims: TRAX, OPUS,Touchstone, IMR (Insurers' Market Repository), Lloyds Account Enquiry (LAE), Lloyd Data System, Lloyds CRS, Lloyd's Insights Hub, Lloyds Secure share.

Portfolio Underwriting: Bordereaux (reporting of delegated authority), MGA/MGU Workbench, SSP, Send Technology, S&P Capital IQ, ECF2(Electronic Claims File), IHS-Markit, Broker Portals: GCMarketplace (GCMP), Risk Ledger, Whitespace, WebCon, Lexis Nexis.

Actuarial: Refinitiv, Spire, Atlas, CDL, Acturis, Whitespace, Alteryx, CatRadar, Anaplan, Duck Creek Underwriting Workbench.

Algorithm: Vitesse, Diligent Boardbooks, Diligent Entity, vertex AI.

Risk: Touchstone, IFRS17: Moody's Risk Integrity, Insite Pro, LegalX, Kiteworks, TYCHE, KatRisk, ARC GIS (ESRI), Blue Voyant, Eclipse.

Policy administration systems: Guidewire & Policy Documents management System, Duck Creek, Oracle, BriteCore,Majesco, Applied Epic, INSTANDA, EZLynx, Ebix, FINEOS.

Finance/IT/Legal/Marketing: D365 Business Central, Findur, vault Core, Google Athos, Apigee, Sage, IRIS, Concur Salesforce, Saviynt, Okta, Servicenow, Nintex, AlphaVat, Salesforce, Tableau, Bloomberg, Power Platforms(Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint)., ADO platform.

HR: Workable/PersonioHR/HCM, Document management, Workable- Application Tracking System-ATS May 2022 – Mar 2023 British Airways - Contract Senior Projects Program Manager Projects Delivered:

o Led delivery of Oracle Fusion ERP(General Ledger, Acct payable, Acct Receivable, Cash & Bank, Invoicing, Inventory, Supply Chain Mgt,) o Led Successfactor project delivery from RFI/RFP/RFQ. o Delivery of huge process optimisation and data migration from Oracle eBusiness and SAP o IT Infrastructure End of Life(EoL) decommissioning of servers, network infrastructures, Storage systems, etc o RFI/RFP/RFQ of Salesforce-(Sales, CRM, Leads, order, Invoicing, Case management, Slack, Data Cloud, Tableau for analytics, MuleSoft connect data & apps) DUTIES:

Worked with large stakeholders and multiple vendors and technology partners on the delivery of Oracle Fusion.

Led extensive workshop to determine requirements and data migration from SAP and Oracle eBusiness Suite R12.2.14 to Oracle Fusion.

Full Project/Programme Portfolio/TMO/PMO Governance leadership: Led end-to-end programme and programme governance reporting progress to CXO level management, Steering Committees, Programme Sponsors ensuring team cohesion, delivery-focus and KPI are met.

Produced weekly and monthly reports to senior stakeholders and programme committees and project sponsors based on agreed KPI, produces project dashboard, accountable for budget utilization, Risk, Dependencies, Assumptions, cost control, issue resolution, and dependency tracking across the portfolio, change management, etc.

Agile project/Programme leadership: Led Backlog prioritization, Sprint planning, User Stories/Epic/Theme/Tasks validation, Daily standup Scrumming, work package estimations, Team Velocity, Sprint Retrospect, and iterative MVP build at end of sprints including release management.

Project Updates Reporting: Responsible for end-to-end detailed Project governance and KPI delivery(detailed project dashboard report & POAP), regularly presenting project status updates to project Steering Committees, Senior Stakeholders and project Sponsors.

Risk & Issue Management-(RAID log): Identify Risks, Dependencies, Assumptions, Issues, and mitigation strategies to ensure smooth implementation.

Budget & Resource Management: Monitoring project budgets, resources, and ensure cost-effective solutions.

Change Management: Developed training materials with vendors, conduct workshops, and support end-users during the transition.

Data Migration & System Integration: Oversee data mapping, migration, and system integration, ensuring accuracy and security.

Data solutions alignment: Ensure alignment of data solutions with London Market regulatory and operational standards.

Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with IT and business teams to ensure successful implementation of data platforms and tools.

Integration Management with leading third-party parties: Led numerous global integration with downstream third-party applications.

Oversee data integration, migration, and transformation projects.

Testing & Quality Assurance: Led DevOps team to conduct extensive testing, troubleshoot issues, and validate software quality before go-live.

Cutover, Go-live and Hypercare: Leading pot-implementation/Hypercare/Service transition discussions including Service Level Agreements. Sept 2020 – May 2022 Microsoft Senior Technical Program Manager Projects Delivered:

Helped Microsoft clients establish TMO from PMO governance as part of business reorganisation & process decentralises in readiness of MS technology

Led delivery of Microsoft ERP technology Stack: D365 F&O, D365 HR, D365 payroll, D365 Business Central, D365 Customer Engagement-CE/CRM, O365/M365.

Champion adoption and use of Power Platform: Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages,M365 Purview Adaptive Protection/Purview Data Map & Unified Data Catalog/Risk Policies compliance(ISO42001/EU AI Act/NIST)

Champion adoption of Azure Data Studio/Visual Studio Code: A cross-platform database tool for working with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Azure Data Explorer: SQL, PowerShell, and Python.

Champion adoption and usage of Visual Studio Code (VS Code): integration with GitHub Copilot designed for building applications for Azure.

Champion adoption and usage of AI and application services:Championed adoption and usage of Azure AI Foundry: AI models and agents development

Champion usage of Azure App Service: web applications hosting, mobile backends, RESTful APIs, MS programming languages like .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, and PHP.

Delivery of MS technology stacks for numerous clients including: Ahold, University of Cambridge, Dept of Transport, DVLA, DVSA, NHS, DHSC, NHS Digital, UKHSA, PHE, Dept of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy-BEIS, TSI, Dept of Justice and Crown Prosecution Service, Vodafone, Validis, etc)

Implementation of Cyber Security Assessment and Control Framework, GRC/IRM/SOC/SOC2/SOX/SIEM/GDPR/DPIA/BIA/Data Privacy/Data Protection/PECR/PCI DSS/ISO/ IEC:2700X/ISO/IEC 20000/COBIT High Cyber Risk Compliance.

Led delivery of Journey to Cloud-Azure-PaaS/IaaS/SaaS. Huge Data migration using Azure Migrate from on-prem and multiple cloud to Azure. API build Integrations

Led RFI/RFP/RFQ process for Microsoft technology stacks.

GDPR Implementation: Data Privacy, DPIA, DSAR, Data Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability-(CIA), SOC/SOX/COBIT framework/Sarbanes Oxley IT General Controls Design framework

Worked with global Microsoft Clients and teams across Microsoft Technology Stacks to deliver the following technologies: DUTIES:

Microsoft client-focused technology delivery through Microsoft partner coordination and deployment support for numerous clients globally managing multi-party technology Partners, doing vendor assurance/SLA, delivery management, focusing on delivery ensuring customer benefits realisation.

Agile project/Programme leadership: Led Microsoft Agile delivery methodology-Agile flavours- Scrum, Kanban, Agile SaFe, Sportify, TDD/BDD, Backlog prioritization, Sprint planning, User Stories/Epic/Theme/Tasks validation, Daily standup Scrumming, work package estimations, Team Velocity, Sprint Retrospect, and iterative MVP build at end of sprints including release management.

Led projects through all phases of implementation from Build, Configuration/Setup, implementation/Integration, Data Migration, Testing, Change Management, Business Readiness, Cutover, Go-Live and hypercare.

Stakeholder Management: Work closely across

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