Olalekan Olamiju Stephen
15, Ughali Street, Ire Akari Estate, Isolo, Lagos, Nigeria | - |-
TECHNICAL PROGRAM MANAGER
Skills Summary
Agile: Scrum, Kanban, JIRA, Portfolio, Bamboo,
Management: Release, Capacity & Theme Planning;
Confluence, Trello, Slack, Google App, Skype
Integration Management; Reporting & Process
Programming: Fullstack {Lravel, Meteor & Django}, CSS,
Improvement
HTML, Bootstrap, WordPress, Joomla, Moodle
Tooling: JIRA, Confluence, Trello, Moqups, Slack, Google
Data Stores: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
App, Bamboo, Git, Postman
UI/UX: Figma
Cloud: AWS (Opsworks, EC2, S3), Heroku, Firebase
Key Achievements
12% reduction in development cost through better requirement gathering and client collaboration strategies at Qrios
Networks.
42% decrease in bug to feature deployment ratio at Konga Online Shopping by re-engineering requirement gathering,
and implementing test management solution in addition to DevOps practices.
Saved 90% recruitment and training cost by developing web applications for electronic recruitment, knowledge
management, compliance training system and customer service SOPs at Capital Express.
94% decrease in change error rate through the implementation playbooks, shared test matrix and process checklist at
Konga Online Shopping
Increased team velocity cumulatively by 28% at Konga Online Shopping by introducing Portfolio for JIRA, a plugin used for
collaborative release planning.
5% decrease in Mean time to repair (MTTR) by facilitating knowledge transfer initiatives such as Go see & role rotation
program, peer programming, demo Day, and Dev / Ops session.
20% increase in project completed within schedule through velocity and capacity reconciliation, backlog refinement and
improved “blockers” elimination strategies at Qrios
Increased by 25% increase in velocity through re-engineering of requirement gathering at Qrios
8% velocity increase through release, capacity and theme planning at Konga
Increase deployment frequency from 5/week to 22.57/day through automation & process improvement at Konga
94% decrease in deployment incident rates implementation playbooks, shared test matrix and process checklist at Konga
Increase online leads by 800% by integrating website with third-party core insurance application, and social media
marketing at Capital Express
120% jump in e-business channel revenue through integration of our web application with e-payment platforms at Capital
Express.
Career Progression
Program Manager / Scrum Master
02/2018 to Till Date
Qrios Networks Limited – Lagos, Nigeria
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Advance and coach team members in agile best practices
Facilitate and drive key agile ceremonies
Drive collaboration between 10-member development team in 2 European countries and 5-member product/business team
in Nigeria.
Owning adaptive reporting to drive process improvement
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Consult with Product Owners on prioritization and maintaining backlog health
Assess engineering and process risk, driving and implementing mitigation plans
Assist clients with initiatives to better drive their objectives
01/2015 to 11/2017
Release Manager
Konga Online Shopping Limited – Lagos, Nigeria
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Leading engineering transformation for teams across different countries through the adoption of 'DevOps'
Improve engineering quality and efficiency through improved workflow, code review, testing strategies
Collaborate with cross-functional peers and leaders to deliver projects
Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists
Use adaptive reporting to drive process improvement in engineering and product development pipelines
Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
Produce deployment playbooks and implementation plans
Clarified release process to IT and business through work sessions, presentations, and formal documentation.
Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and
notification lists.
08/2014 to 12/2014
Controller, Digital Platform
BusinessDay Media Ltd. – Lagos, Nigeria
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Led team of 4 outsourced software development engineers and project managers to redevelop BusinessDay's news portal
with the integration content subscription, benchmarking FT.
Partnered effectively with the outside vendors, technology, and the business to manage risk and minimize solution impact
Reorganized the team, established and implemented efficient SDLC processes and fostered the transition to an agile
methodology.
Supervised the team in multiple locations to successfully deploy releases into Production across all business areas. Owned
release process throughout SDLC.
10/2011 to 12/2014
E-Business Data Manager
Capital Express Assurance Ltd. – Lagos, Nigeria
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Led a team responsible for online presence re-engineering process that involves:
o Building web applications including corporate website, recruitment system, knowledge management and training
portal,
o implementing E-Commerce integration, Integration with core insurance application, Development of the
Handles competitor analysis and providing recommendations on e-business initiatives;
Design online survey for marketing research, client data mining, and analysis;
Interfaces with e-business service providers such as Interswitch and E-transact for e-payments integration
Define Social Media strategies and tactical plans for business and content management to increase brand visibility
Education
PROFESSIONAL
CERTIFCATION
Agile Certified Practitioner
Certified Information
System Auditor
Certified Ethical Hacker
Certified E-Commerce
Specialist
INST.
Project Management Institute
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DATE
2016
ISACA
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2013
EC-COUNCIL
Certified Internet Web
Professional (CIW)
981073
2013
554205
2012
ACADEMIC
Master of Science: Information Systems Management
University of Roehampton - London, England
05/2018
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science
Lagos State University – Lagos, Nigeria.
09/2011
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