Ola Oduwaiye

A PMO Analyst with 8 years experience 

PMO LEAD                                                                                                                                                   JULY 2021 – Present

Tritek Consultancy – (An information technology consulting company that delivers digital transformation and consulting services, also specializes in providing state-of-the-art career development training and certifications on a wide range of career transitions) (Programmes delivered: Digital solutions & digital transformation projects) 

Duties:

• Work alongside delivery teams to understand status, issues, risks and putting in place mitigation and management plans.
• Created programme / projects repository and implemented folder system in MS teams and SharePoint for document filing and versioning to enhance easy access for all project work streams.
• Providing/granting access to tools to appropriate project team members and stakeholders. 
• Ensuring that strict project management guidelines/procedures are adhered to.
• Facilitating governance processes ensuring all project team members adhere to the governance structure in place.
• Providing all necessary reports to senior management and wider stakeholders.
• Management of finance and resource by tracking the Actuals against Forecast on monthly basis, and review of variance with finance team. 
• Monitoring of timesheet to ensure resource used the right project code.
• Raising of purchase order/ request.
• Producing reports for weekly management and executive management meetings to facilitate fact-based decision making.
• Producing portfolio reports to senior executives, stakeholders and sponsors that will be utilised in the Programme board and steering group meetings.
• Work alongside the delivery team to create concise and achievable project plans capturing key activities and deliverables to meet the project’s objectives while adhering to budget, timeline and scope.
• Creating/maintaining baseline project plans while setting key milestones, RAIDS and action log and dependency management.
• Taking proactive measures to identify and mitigate risks and issues, escalating as required.
• Develop, maintain and update schedules and baselined project plans.
• Create different schedules at different hierarchal levels by consolidating schedules and creating schedules; reporting on critical path and key milestones.
• Providing support with change request and facilitating the session.
• Responsible for developing and management of budget and cost estimation.
• Responsible for onboarding and off boarding of resource.
• Providing coaching and mentoring to project team members when a new process has been established. 
• Facilitate lessons learnt reviews and actively support to the continuous improvement forum.

Planner / PMO Analyst                                                                                                                                 March 2020 – July 2021

Tritek Consultancy – (An information technology consulting company that delivers digital transformation and consulting services, also specializes in providing state-of-the-art career development training and certifications on a wide range of career transitions) (Projects delivered: Digital solutions, data migration programmes & customer experience improvement projects)

Duties:

• Work alongside the delivery team to create concise and achievable project plans capturing key activities and deliverables to meet the project’s objectives while adhering to the project budget, timeline, and scope. 
• Responsible for resource planning, activity Planning and Sequencing.
• Develop, maintain, and update schedules and baselined project plans using P6 or MS project in agreement with project managers.
• Updating projects risk registers, identifying, analyse and act as subject matter expert at the project review, audits and for contractor’s submissions.
• Monthly updating of the programme to ensure progress are captured and measured against the baseline by implementing the Earned Value Analysis (EVA) to support the project team in assessing achieved and predicted performance against time and budget
• Providing Monthly EVM reports to stakeholders.
• Producing periodic performance progress reports for the capital investment delivery portfolio: reports include earned value analysis (CPI, SPI, EAC), milestones, slippage / delay analysis, variance, expenditure/cash-flow & critical path analysis.
• Acting as point of contact for project Control enquires, including resource management.
• Create different schedules at different hierarchal levels by consolidating schedules and creating aster schedules, reporting on critical path and key milestones.
• Leading on schedule Risk Analysis and management and engaging with cost controllers.
• Responsible for developing budget, cost estimation and management by devising a budget and sticking closing to it. 
• Responsible for developing effective ways to measure and analyse the project’s progress. Ensuring accurate documentation which include data collection, verbal and written status reports, highlight reports and daily logs. In addition, ensuring all relevant actions are approved and documents are archived in the repository for future reference.
• Responsible for Risk Analysis by planning for and identifying potential risk, performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, and planning mitigation strategies. In addition, I ensure all issues identified during the project are closely monitored.
• Production of and updating weekly and periodic reports e.g. RAIDs, Highlight report, status report, Lesson learnt etc.
• Production of monthly board pack reports for steering group meetings.
• Tracking of project activities, monitoring and reporting Progress by producing variance report to PMs.
• Supporting the Project manager and project team members to plan, organise and execute the project in an effective manner by providing critical data support. 
• Managing project controls, reporting to the Project Manager about the project status and developing project performance reports
• Managing and engaging with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and planning for stakeholder expectations
• Managing project spend and contributing to the compilation of budgets
• Contributing to the project business case
• Leading potential risk areas, working with risk manager and escalating as appropriate.
• Establishing best practices and project governance that helps proper mitigation of risks and ensures on-time project delivery within a specified budget/scope.
• Providing support in project evaluation and scoping through project preparation and review of cost schedules, budget and forecast returns.
• Facilitate lessons learnt reviews and actively support to the continuous improvement forum.
• Evaluate and monitor project progress by supporting the project manager during evaluation process in establishing performance indicators.
• Performs data analysis by handling data which I have researched, monitored and analysed to produce business insights and action recommendations. 
• Accountable for creating and maintaining project documentation, which includes timelines, resource plans, and meeting minutes.

PMO Lead                                                                                                                                                       Oct 2019 – FEB 2020

Fletchers Solicitor – (A leading national Law firm specialising in medical negligence, serious injury and motorbike accidents) (Projects delivered: AI diagnostic tool, big data to predict litigation pricing, rebranding, Saas decision support system, mobile app)

Duties:

• Setting up of programme management office in order to build and define the organisation PMO.
• Putting in place and maintaining the adoption of project management tools, standards and methodology.
• Providing portfolio management service to the digital transformation unit to support the Project manager and other workstream leads on ongoing projects.
• Creating all project management templates used during project lifecycle and providing coaching and mentoring sessions on how to use.
• Managing risks across all programmes and at a portfolio level.
• Providing all necessary reports to senior management and wider stakeholders.
• Producing status reports for weekly management and executive management meetings to facilitate fact-based decision making.
• Track deliverables, budget and benefit realisation.
• Work alongside delivery teams to understand status, issues, risks and putting in place mitigation and management plans.
• Facilitate lessons learnt reviews and actively support to the continuous improvement forum.
• Producing portfolio reports to senior executives, stakeholders and sponsors that will be utilised in the Programme board and steering group meetings.
• Perform data analytics using relevant tooling set.
• Facilitating governance processes ensuring all project team members adhere to the governance structure in place.
• Creating/maintaining baseline project plans while setting key milestones, RAIDS and action log and dependency management.
• Using Microsoft tools such as SharePoint, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoints, Visio, Word etc. during project Administration.
• Liaising with stakeholders of various seniority levels, sponsor, developer, product owner and assisting with contract management.
• Coordination of meetings and other Project administration duties.
• Coach and develop new team members to ensure they are capable and motivated.
• Created programme repository and implemented folder system in MS teams and SharePoint for document filing and versioning to enhance easy access for all project work streams.
• Ensuring the repositories is tidied and up to date.
• Ensuring that strict project management guidelines/procedures are adhered to, by programme team (version control, documentation repository).
• Taking proactive measures to identify and mitigate risks and issues, escalating as required.
• Taking minutes during meetings and ensuring key actions and decisions are noted and published to members of the meetings.
• Producing regular management information including weekly highlight reports with Programme board pack.
• Providing guidance and acting as a point of contact for the whole programme & Portfolio team members, in term of the use of standard project management tools.

Oxford Brooks University, UK – MSc Public Health  

Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun, Nig – BSc Hons. Biochemistry

Prince 2 Agile certification in view