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Agile Evangelist
Olufemi Ode
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Dublin, Ireland
Experience
Other titles
Skills
I'm offering
Can do attitude
Markets
United Kingdom
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Ongoing relation / part-time
Available
My experience
2018 - ?
job
Senior Associate II
IFDS.
• Managing complex, business-facing projects of both IT and non-IT, leading to significant business changes.
• Encouraging Agile Practice in the offshore teams and overseeing the full projects cycle.
• Leading presentations and proposals for medium to high complex projects and providing subject matter insight to bids
and proposals in relevant areas.
• Creating innovative commercial insights for clients, adapting methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural
needs, and contributing to thought leadership.
• Driving improvements by taking responsibility for engagement / account level Quality & Risk Management (QRM)
initiatives, ensuring that project teams understand and comply with our Q&RM requirements.
• Proactively assessing project issues and facilitating mitigation plan to ensure project success which so far, has resulted in a 45% increase in success rate.
• Encouraging Agile Practice in the offshore teams and overseeing the full projects cycle.
• Leading presentations and proposals for medium to high complex projects and providing subject matter insight to bids
and proposals in relevant areas.
• Creating innovative commercial insights for clients, adapting methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural
needs, and contributing to thought leadership.
• Driving improvements by taking responsibility for engagement / account level Quality & Risk Management (QRM)
initiatives, ensuring that project teams understand and comply with our Q&RM requirements.
• Proactively assessing project issues and facilitating mitigation plan to ensure project success which so far, has resulted in a 45% increase in success rate.
Agile, Risk Management, Leadership, Management, Offshore, It
2017 - 2017
job
Associate
Yapstone.
• Planned and executed projects with key partners across the business (marketing, sales, finance)
• Managed complex product led projects that spanned one or multiple lines of business and regions.
• Delivered to timelines, quality level, budget, while addressing issues and risks associated with client application requests
for the electronic payment processing services.
• Served as a leader in cross functional activities with team members within and outside of the product organization.
• Used KPIs to demonstrate progress and ensured that projects realized benefits. Fully responsible for the budget,
benefits realisation, and change control of the projects.
• Provided status reporting regarding project milestones, success criteria results, metrics, deliverables, dependencies,
risks and issues, communicating across leadership and to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIOs and key stakeholders.
• Managed complex product led projects that spanned one or multiple lines of business and regions.
• Delivered to timelines, quality level, budget, while addressing issues and risks associated with client application requests
for the electronic payment processing services.
• Served as a leader in cross functional activities with team members within and outside of the product organization.
• Used KPIs to demonstrate progress and ensured that projects realized benefits. Fully responsible for the budget,
benefits realisation, and change control of the projects.
• Provided status reporting regarding project milestones, success criteria results, metrics, deliverables, dependencies,
risks and issues, communicating across leadership and to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIOs and key stakeholders.
Marketing, Budget, Leadership, Finance, Sales, Processing, LED
2014 - 2017
job
Senior Project Manager
Oxter.
• Managed the set-up and successful delivery of a number of projects for Oxter business to time, cost and quality.
• Led and managed a project team of 12 from initiation through go-live and transition to Business-as-Usual with programme activities such as business process design, testing and end user training involving multiple cross functional
stakeholders.
• Early identified the key performance measures to manage projects and instilled a rigorous set of interim checkpoints to ensure 100% successful project outcomes.
• Built valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and developed a portfolio of business by focusing on
high impact opportunities.
• Created and managed project plans ensuring appropriate feedback and buy-in from all functional groups.
• Presented status updates and reports on potential issues and mitigation plans to steering group.
• Led and managed a project team of 12 from initiation through go-live and transition to Business-as-Usual with programme activities such as business process design, testing and end user training involving multiple cross functional
stakeholders.
• Early identified the key performance measures to manage projects and instilled a rigorous set of interim checkpoints to ensure 100% successful project outcomes.
• Built valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and developed a portfolio of business by focusing on
high impact opportunities.
• Created and managed project plans ensuring appropriate feedback and buy-in from all functional groups.
• Presented status updates and reports on potential issues and mitigation plans to steering group.
Design, Project Manager, Training, Testing, Process design, Interim, Go, UP, Manager, LED
2013 - 2014
job
Portfolio Manager
Stanbic.
Planned and led Quarterly strategic planning for multiple scrum teams to translate the business vision to executable
delivery plan for each sprint in upcoming quarters.
• Managed sales projects from concept to completion while maintaining routine communication with customers to assess
their overall satisfaction, resolve complaints and promote new offerings.
• Contributed to team success by exceeding team sales goals by 25% while maintaining a healthy relationship.
• Identified and qualified the needs of customers, developed sales strategies, negotiated and then closed profitable
projects with an 85% success rate.
• Reinvented how the team interacted with prospective customers by developing innovative and creative sales pitch that
was implemented into sales team strategy in 2014.
• Assessed & evaluated credit scenarios based on application of soundly based credit principles as regards a distressed
Credit environment.
• Ensured full client engagement & forecasted accurately throughout the debt recovery stages and processes.
delivery plan for each sprint in upcoming quarters.
• Managed sales projects from concept to completion while maintaining routine communication with customers to assess
their overall satisfaction, resolve complaints and promote new offerings.
• Contributed to team success by exceeding team sales goals by 25% while maintaining a healthy relationship.
• Identified and qualified the needs of customers, developed sales strategies, negotiated and then closed profitable
projects with an 85% success rate.
• Reinvented how the team interacted with prospective customers by developing innovative and creative sales pitch that
was implemented into sales team strategy in 2014.
• Assessed & evaluated credit scenarios based on application of soundly based credit principles as regards a distressed
Credit environment.
• Ensured full client engagement & forecasted accurately throughout the debt recovery stages and processes.
Scrum, Strategic Planning, Sales, Processes, Manager, LED
2011 - 2013
job
Portfolio Manager / Scrum Master
Standard Chartered Bank.
Managed and controlled all matters relating to delinquent Commercial Banking accounts (Unsecured, Secured & Staff Loans) by constantly executing collection & recovery procedures and ensuring appropriate actions were taken to ensure
a full recovery.
• Utilized team feedback, analysed data, and reported on team quality, delivery rate, throughput, productivity, velocity,
and so on to identify areas of opportunity.
• Streamlined planning process by 50%, expedited framework centred on Agile methodologies and vastly improved team
performance, productivity and efficiency.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies and provided coaching to further mature the teams (daily scrum, retrospectives, sprint planning, demonstrations)
• Ensured team maintained focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value. Coached the team to improve
collaboration and self-organization.
• Represented team in daily or scrum of scrums (s2) meeting and clearly communicated team accomplishments,
impediments, and downstream impacts.
• Helped team pro-actively identify impediments, recommended solutions, and in some cases removed impediments
myself.
a full recovery.
• Utilized team feedback, analysed data, and reported on team quality, delivery rate, throughput, productivity, velocity,
and so on to identify areas of opportunity.
• Streamlined planning process by 50%, expedited framework centred on Agile methodologies and vastly improved team
performance, productivity and efficiency.
• Facilitated scrum ceremonies and provided coaching to further mature the teams (daily scrum, retrospectives, sprint planning, demonstrations)
• Ensured team maintained focus on quality and continuous delivery of business value. Coached the team to improve
collaboration and self-organization.
• Represented team in daily or scrum of scrums (s2) meeting and clearly communicated team accomplishments,
impediments, and downstream impacts.
• Helped team pro-actively identify impediments, recommended solutions, and in some cases removed impediments
myself.
Coaching, Scrum, Scrum master, Agile, Agile methodologies, SoMe, Banking, Continuous delivery, Framework, Manager
2006 - 2011
job
Scrum Master
Ecobank.
• Organised and facilitated Scrum ceremonies (planning meetings, daily scrums, demos and retrospectives).
• Tracked the progress of the Sprint on a daily basis in order to be able to take proactive measures ahead of time where
required to help the team to achieve the sprint goal.
• Monitored and communicated team velocity and release progress.
• Ensured the team were being as effective and productive as they could by protecting them from external distractions
and actively removing impediments to their progression.
• Worked with the Product Owner to prepare the scrum backlog and liaised with other Scrum teams including external
teams to address or resolve cross team issues, conflicts and dependencies.
• Tracked the progress of the Sprint on a daily basis in order to be able to take proactive measures ahead of time where
required to help the team to achieve the sprint goal.
• Monitored and communicated team velocity and release progress.
• Ensured the team were being as effective and productive as they could by protecting them from external distractions
and actively removing impediments to their progression.
• Worked with the Product Owner to prepare the scrum backlog and liaised with other Scrum teams including external
teams to address or resolve cross team issues, conflicts and dependencies.
Scrum, Scrum master, Product owner
My education
2015
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2017
University College Dublin SAFE
N/a, EDUCATION
N/a, EDUCATION
2002
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2006
Olabisi Onabanjo University
N/a, Project Management
N/a, Project Management
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