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Akibu - Project Manager PMP, CSM

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Location: Arlington, Texas, USA

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Akibu Oni Project Manager Phone: 636 312 8820 Email: [email protected] Key Qualifications: Expertise in designing and developing team alignment strategies, team management, strategic planning, and leadership skills. Demonstrated business and Product Development Expertise in an agile Environment, 15+ years of experience in facilitating stakeholders engagement and deployment of software and business technology to enhance a customer centric solution. Certified scrum master seeking to leverage scrum and Agile skills, and business analysis skills to ensure organizational success through improving team performance and raise efficiency in product delivery, Coaching Agile teams to selfmanage. A seasoned Senior Project Manager with a demonstrated track record of successfully leading and executing complex projects in the field of cyber security. Professional Experience: Data-driven Certified Project Manager (with knowledge in task prioritization, workflow optimization, risk, and stakeholder management. Over 15 years of experience in Agile, Scrum and Kanban processes and implementation. Five years experience in software and applications development management. Adept at ensuring compliance with industry standards, frameworks, and regulations such as ISO 27001, NIST, and GDPR, to maintain a strong security posture. Committed Agile practitioner with expertise facilitating, communication and collaboration, presenting information clearly and developing high performing teams. Passionate about continuous improvements and coaching/mentoring new Agile teams. Extensively experienced in identifying and mitigating potential cyber threats, ensuring robust protection of critical assets and sensitive information. Demonstrated proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining network security solutions to safeguard against unauthorized access and data breaches. Certificates: SAFe (6.0) Scaled Agile PSM (Professional scrum master) ITIL 4 Foundation PMP (Project management professional) CCSBB (Certified Six Sigma Black-Belt) CompTIA security + Skills: Leadership Skills: Excellent oral and written communication skills, strategic planning, team mentoring, effective decision making, excellent time management. Experience in Agile techniques: Customer centricity, Lean practice, continuous learning, Agility, community of practice (CoP). Knowledge of various Agile frameworks: Scrum, XP, Kanban, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework). Business skills: Business Analysis, Project coordination, Budget management, Risk Analysis, Planning, Meetings facilitation, Quality assurance, servant leadership. Tools and Technical Skills: Jira, SDLC, MS Excel, MS Project, Smart sheet, Power point. Telecommunication Domain, AWS, Infrastructure and Upgrades. Work Experience: Bank of America Texas United States (FEB) 2021 Date Senior Project Manager (Contract) Played a key role in designing and implementing robust security architectures, ensuring a multi-layered defense approach against evolving cyber threats. Conducted regular compliance audits, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements, and providing clear, accurate reports to relevant authorities. Actively promoted cyber security awareness through workshops, seminars, and internal communication campaigns, fostering a culture of vigilance and responsibility among employees. Facilitates Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Demo & Backlog Refinement. Facilitates communications within the agile team, product owner and stakeholders by focusing on the scrum values of openness, honesty, and respect. Uses Jira to monitor and track product development progress through different sprint. Successfully led cross-functional teams in the execution of security projects, resulting in a strengthened security posture and reduced vulnerabilities. Spearheaded the deployment of advanced IDS solutions, enhancing the organization's ability to detect and respond to potential threats in real-time. Ensure the effectiveness of product development processes by using the matrix to guide team communication and resolve impediments when necessary. Together with the scrum team, defines, builds, tests, and deploys products while facilitating the continuous improvement, cadence, and synchronization in the entire processes. Coaches the scrum team to adopt effective communication strategies and interpersonal skills, contributing to improve team performance. Nokia networks || (Stuttgart Germany) (Aug) 2017 (Dec) 2020 Senior Project Manager (Full Time) Coached Agile teams on embracing Agile culture using collaboration tools including MS teams, Zoom and confluence. Directed comprehensive vulnerability assessments to identify weaknesses in existing systems, leading to targeted improvements and a more resilient infrastructure. Orchestrated swift and effective incident response efforts in the event of security breaches, minimizing damage and ensuring swift recovery. Worked closely with security analysts to evaluate and enhance the effectiveness of security protocols, ensuring continuous improvement in cyber security measures. Identified and removed impediments and coached team members in effective root cause analysis such as 5-whys technique, Fish bone technique and open Sprint retrospective discussion to foster team alignment. Monitor conflicts in applied effective problem-solving techniques to address them when the need arises. Supported the implementation of the product roadmap and release planning to ensure timely delivery of increment. Facilitated communication and collaboration to support team performance. Promoted continuous learning culture through the Scrum master Community of practice (CoP). Support team to achieve complex migration from database to cloud infrastructure. Facilitate release planning meeting and support product owner discussion with DevOps team. CLIENT: Alcatel-Lucent Network || (Nigeria, Lagos) (Dec) 2013 (Jun) 2017 ROLE: Senior Project Manager /Scrum master Metadata migrations, refactoring and upgrades across database and AWS cloud Expertise in end-to-end project management Oversee several stages of network High-level and low-level design (HLD/LLD), documentation, Infrastructure built, commissioning, NMS integration, Migration, and post migration support. I am working today with a team of security and compliance, basically what we are doing to check quality, compliance, and security in a product. I have written UAT for clients in the past and these tests are targeted towards revealing the quality of the product, ensuring all functional features are perfect and recommending a fix. Facilitates Scrum Events including Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Demo & Backlog Refinement. Responsible for the delivery of project goals (revenue, delivery cost rate, ITO, Total billing amount, long term unbilled AR, Network security). Enhance the operation maturity of delivery project through delivery project monitoring and problem. Responsible for delivery resources management routines, including workload forecast, requirement forecast, planning, and allocation of delivery resources. Dynamic performance management for all team members. CLIENT: Alcatel Lucent || (Lagos, Nigeria) (JUN) 2010 - (Nov) 2013 IT PROJECT MANAGER End to end project management responsibilities in the project includes resource sourcing in a timely manner at a low cost according to the business strategy of the accounts or contract requirements, take responsibilities of program management, contract management and resource management responsible for delivery management customer satisfaction and delivery financial target of the project. Provide customers with timely, accurate, high quality, and efficient program management, contract management. Responsible for the delivery of project goals (revenue, delivery cost rate, ITO, Total billing amount, long term unbilled AR, Network security). Enhance the operation maturity of delivery project through delivery project monitoring and problem. managed series of manual tests to ascertain the quality of products in this project along with QA, QC and tests engineer for quality porcess, quality assurance and UAT. Managed Wi-Fi project in Kenya, Niger Republic, Gabon, Zambia, Tanzania, Deployed Mobile Numbering Portability (MNP) across Globacom network in Nigeria and other OPCOS (Ghana, the Benin Republic, etc). Working knowledge of smoke testing, unit testing, component testing, system testing and regression testing. Provided PM Support on Ghana LTE support and planning for Globacom LTE in advance. Managed the NGN 2G&3G deployment project in Nigeria, Ghana, and the Republic of Benin. Consolidated charging platform for both prepaid GSM mobile subscribers and the fixed network prepaid subscribers while handling the Fixed-Mobile Convergence project. General Telephone & Electronics (GTE) || (NIGERIA) (JAN) 2007 - (May) 2010 Project manager Oversaw the rollout elements of acquisition, design and build as well as conducted site survey on all project s sites. Developed a high-level strategic long-term plan for installation/implementation of NGN WCS, MGW, IN/charging system, VAS, service layers, core network (GPRS/MPBN) and mediation/provisioning nodes in a green field network. Increased network efficiency by driving continuous improvements and optimizing operation and maintenance tasks. Provided consultancy and recommendations to engineering and design teams to optimize new project implementation. Participated in various major PPS upgrades including new features, functionality testing, database migration and integration testing of new nodes. Identified problems and known errors as well as ensured that all the issues are resolved with appropriate procedure. Educational Qualifications: MBA | Lagos State University-Nigeria| Dec 2009 Mar 2011 Electricals and Electronics Engineering| Federal University of Akure| Oct 2001 Nov 2003 Electricals and Electronics Engineering | HND | The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Nigeria| Mar 1993 Jul 1996 Keywords: quality analyst access management information technology microsoft Arkansas Wisconsin