SUMMARY OF DUTIES

• Facilitate Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Posses knowledge of non-traditional project management methods as critical chain, and AGILE
• Carry out full cycle project management on Information Technology Software and GIS projects.
• Review Statements of Work SOW and Project charter to confirm high level assumptions, issues, risks and constraints.
• Gather requirements and define scope of project according to project charter and client's needs.
• Develop Project plans and project documents to guide project implementation.
• Obtain approval for project plan from key stakeholders and carry out project kick off meeting
• Create Work Breakdown Structure WBS , schedules, project budgets, communication plans, risk registers, status reports, lessons learned and several other project artifacts.
• Develop cost estimate and procurement requirements.
• Build project team, assign resources and provide leadership and cohesiveness to offshore and onshore teams.
• Monitor and manage identified project risk, respond to risks as planned.
• Ensure that all deliverables conform to product quality as described in quality management plan
• Manage and control change during project execution.
• Review and apply lessons from historical project data where available
• Carry out project closure processes.
• Build and maintain a database of project artifacts to ensure basis for success of future projects
• Develop winning proposals in response to customer RFPs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

Tasks: Project Manager on an effort to modernize the in-house subsidy management system. This Project involves the development of a web application based on three-tier Service Oriented Architecture SOA to replace two legacy systems. Part of the implementation included the installation and configuration of a rules engine IBM's Operational Decision Manager ODM formerly iLog , a massive Data Clean-up and Conversion ETL effort, Quality Assurance and Integration with Tivoli Federated Security. On this project the AGILE / Scrum framework is being adopted. My duties included Facilitating Daily Scrums, Sprint Planning, Backlog grooming, Sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Schedule maintenance and Project documentation was done using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server TFS as the tool of choice. TFS was also used for source control, continuous integration, build and release management. I customized a few features on TFS to meet the team's preferences.

Highlights: Delivery of new bits of working software every Sprint.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

• Tasks: Carried out tasks according to industry standard PMI methodology for this project funded by several international agencies including the World Bank and the UN. Developed scope, schedule, cost, and quality management plans. Also developed the communication, risk and human resources management plans. Executed a communication strategy for diversely located stakeholders and resources that ensured the successful implementation of this prototype. Performed product acceptance and carried out project closure process.
• Highlights: Directed the on-time and on-budget production of a dialect map prototype.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

• Tasks: Responsible for the overall delivery of this high visibility project. Developed project management plan to carry out the final cleanup of the geographical layers of the GIS map comprising 910 zoning polygons. Carried out risk management by constantly monitoring known risks and risk triggers. Closed project successfully.
• Highlights: Successfully launched new Zoning Map and retired the old BAIST Books, the previous reference for zoning information.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

• Tasks: Developed Project Management Plan and defined requirements. Created workflow for execution of a process to verify, correct and update 13,000 theoretical address ranges and remove duplicates, overlaps and gaps. Supervised GIS technicians and data collection team. Carried out field verification of actual ranges and closed project according to PMI methodology.
• Highlights: Wrote T-SQL cursors to check for address range errors. Successfully cleaned up the theoretical address range database. Provided project documentation.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

• Tasks: Managed this project using an adaptive SDLC approach. Developed Project Management Plan, elicited requirements, produced functional specifications and managed the implementation of a web based Oil Concession Mapping Application. Constantly communicated with stakeholders in France, Nigeria and the US.
• Highlights: Utilization of web technology to communicate with diversely located stakeholders and eliminate travel expenses. Successfully launched the online Oil Concession Map.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

• Tasks: Carried out full cycle project management for the establishment of a GIS core for a transportation enterprise asset management system using PMI PMBOK approach. Developed project management plans, executed communication plans and documented lessons learned and other project artifacts. Managed change requests and product configuration.
• Highlights: Functional specifications and use-cases were so accurately communicated that the sub-contractor completed their tasks ahead of schedule. This Prototype tool was demonstrated at a GIS conference in San Diego in 2004.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

• Tasks: Carried full cycle project management for two main phases of the effort using SDLC and CMMI level 2 approach. Established scope, prepared project management plans and carried out procurement of data collection hardware. Managed data collection effort and established data quality measures. Planned risk management. Managed the development of the Polling Unit GIS Application. Produced project documents and artifacts.
• Highlights: Successfully managed resources located abroad by utilizing modern communication technologies WebEx, Web conferencing, VPN etc. . Project meetings were held three times a week.

Confidential

Role: Project Manager

• Tasks: Developed a project management plan for the addition of three new functionalities to the SMART system. Carried out requirements analysis documented functional specifications for this parolee record tracking system. Managed the development of a routing module to intelligently route Case workers to visit their offender caseload. Routing module was developed as a customization of commercial off-the shelf COTS solution. Project management was carried out using a progressively elaborated approach and constant communication with stakeholders.
• Highlights: Successfully managed technical resources to bring project to a successful roll out.