Akinola Olasoji

Akinola Olasoji PMP, PMI-ACP, SASM, CSM, CSPO AGILE PROGRAM MANAGER Certified Project Management Professional with expertise in enhancing agile adoption and maturity at the team and enterprise level. Experience in Business Analysis, Project and Product development, and delivery in accordance with the road map while ensuring compliance with processes and business requirements. Over the years I have proven my leadership tenacity, implemented change, supported process improvement, managed multiple projects simultaneously to a successful conclusion by ensuring budget, timeline, scope, and quality are respected. Skills Summary • • • • • Stakeholders management • Systems integration, reporting and data analysis Agile, Iterative and Traditional delivery methodologies • Business Process Management ROI, Cost and Benefit Analysis • QA, UAT, Maintenance, Post Production Support Resource and Financial Forecast • Management of inter-teams’ dependencies Custom Software Development • Implementation of enterprise application JIRA, Confluence, MS Office Suite – Visio, MS Project, Slack, Asana, SharePoint, Salesforce, UX Tools – Balsamiq, InVision PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Agile Program Manager CarFax Canada, March 2019 – Present Overview: I enhance the adoption of Scrum in accordance with the framework's values and principles to the management of IT projects and product development. Support the management and redesign of a multimillion dollars project from ideation to postproduction launch. Facilitate all Scrum Ceremonies (Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective) and work with the product team in refining and maintaining a high-value product backlog. • Monitor and drive strategy around achieving results in compliance with established processes and procedures. • Guide the cross-functional team to self-organization and, continually coach the team on meeting the Sprint goal and find ways to accelerate better. • Create and continuously update detailed project plans, project documents, and project tools to support the timely delivery of the project. • Mentor and assist in resolving complex challenges, support skills, and knowledge development. • Identify and Initiate successful collaboration among teams to achieve Program goals. • Work across disciplines and teams to build structures that will support achieving the overall Product goal. • Collaborate with the Program and Project leadership to define the strategic and execution plans for the Program. • Lead the Scrum team from the planning stage through to the software release and ensure good collaboration with the build team (TechOps, Data management, and Development). Project (s): Vehicle History Report (VHR) Carfax Canada is the No 1 source of vehicle history report in Canada, and I am a part of the team that continually deliver transparency that the customer expects from our brand. I build and maintain a healthy relationship among all stakeholders and ensure we deliver a product that is modern, scalable, reliable, valuable and meets the needs of all stakeholders. I help remove impediments in the way of the development team to ensure we continually reduce our lead time Business Analyst Buckland Customs Brokers Ltd, April 2017 – March 2019 Overview: Strategized, built, and maintained products that supported the automotive industry in coordinating the shipments of Partners’ (OEM) parts/products/materials across the entire supply chain. • Identified and evaluated new business opportunities that provide values to partners and support the company’s strategic goals. • Refined, Advocated, and implemented features that supported the long-term vision of my product. • Write project documents like business requirement documents, user stories, test plans, test cases, and system’s manual • Translated business partner needs into the Product vision and created a well-defined requirement to support the product road map. • Worked closely with the build team to ensure product vision and objectives are achieved by consistently delivering MVP and demonstrated to stakeholders so that delivered product increments are within the expected quality and coordinated properly for commercialization. Akinola Olasoji PMP, PMI-ACP, SASM, CSM, CSPO • Oversaw creation of deliverables including market analysis, customer analysis, business cases, business requirements, test plans, procedures, audit remediation, and process/product documentation • Regular system analysis and improvement suggestions to ensure conformity with Government, Financial institutions, and other regulatory agencies’ requirements. • Coordinated Project Change Management and Product Releases. Determined the cost implications of required changes, supported the development and implementation of the changes. Project (s): Product Integrations to optimize value delivery I pioneered the integration of various disparate systems needed to enhance product capability. As the business analyst and product lead, getting the necessary buy-in from the build team was achieved and the integration was successful despite the tight deadline. I was involved in the end to end process, strategizing and management of product backlog, testing, API and web services requirements documentation, and coordination with relevant vendors and third party regarding the launch of the product update. Product’s reporting and analytics Enhancement To continually meet and exceed the need of our customer, I developed the business case for the feature based on the customer feedback, I championed the design, build of this new reporting, dashboard, and analytics feature. As the product owner, I supported the team to ensure data accuracy, data integrity and data mapping on any report generated. Partnered with Quality Assurance team to develop appropriate test strategy, and testing documents. Product increment brought excitement to sales and marketing team, and this increased the product adoption rate by 30%. Project Manager/Business Analyst CDPL, November 2012 – August 2014 Overview: Supported the finance team on their IT Programs/Projects that involves the transmission of monthly and yearly governmental payments in a consolidated manner. • Coordinated Product releases, training, documentation, and demos to support customers onboarding • Defined specifications, and prioritized requirements based on stakeholders’ feedback • Ensured and coordinated monthly financial status meetings with team leads to track their personnel usage, review current spend vs forecast, conduct variance analysis as required, and provide project financial status report. • Monitored and Supported Project cost, financial management process improvements, invoice validation, and account payable. • Acted as the point of contact between the business and IT units defining project business requirements • Analyzed and Identified potential risks in schedule and activity dependencies, with the aim of suggesting a mitigation plan. • Proactively assess risks and impacts on existing systems as new functions are added and identified potential technical problems or design flaws. Project (s): EDI Systems Integration with external parties The government regulation was changed on how payments should be made. As the Business Analyst on the project, I worked with the external party to understand the required changes to the EDI feed, the file format, assisted the development and quality team throughout the life cycle of the project. Maintained good relationship with both the internal and external stakeholders, which led to a successful project. Accountant • • • • Afe Babalola University, Analyzed student, vendor data to make a meaningful presentation for onward distribution to the management team Created reports, presentation, tracked invoices, and payment vouchers. Managed petty cash, cash float and cash retirement. Oversaw of asset registration. CERTIFICATIONS • • • • November 2011 – October 2012 Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification, Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) Certification, Project Management Institute SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM) Certification, Scaled Agile Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Certification, Scrum.org Akinola Olasoji PMP, PMI-ACP, SASM, CSM, CSPO • Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification, Scrum Alliance • Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification, Scrum Alliance • Salesforce Certified Administrator (SCA) Certification, Salesforce EDUCATION & TRAINING • University of Ottawa, MEBT Master of Electronic-Business Technologies June 2016 • Valley View University, BBA Accounting Nov 2011