Oladayo Akinola

An IT Project Management, Governance, Risk, and Service management Professional focused on delivering successful business outcomes with Information Systems through setting direction, prioritization, monitoring of performance and compliance in line with strategic business objectives to maximize technology investment and deliver programs that yields multiple business values through cost and resource optimization, improved efficiencies, benefits realization, and risk avoidance

I am a seasoned technologist with 15+ years of experience in planning, scheduling, implementing, and enabling enterprise systems that facilitate business processes and strategic imperatives. 

Ernst & Young Global (EYG)                                                                                                                                               September 2022  – Date

Project Risk Manager, Technology Consulting

Responsible for providing guidance on establishment of risk management strategy and framework, maintaining standards, policies and procedures for managing technology risks and safeguarding information assets.

• Project Risk Manager, review of Application Risk & Control Matrix (RCM) for various software implementations.
  • Review and evaluation of IT General Controls (ITGCs) and IT Application Controls (ITACs) across Microsoft Dynamics and SAGE ERP Systems.
  • Review and evaluation of IT Processes around Change, Access, and Operations management
  • Review and evaluation of Design, Implementation and Operating Effectiveness of controls on Converge and SUN applications
  • Implementation of Third Party risk management framework

 First Bank Nigeria Ltd                                                                                                                                                  April 2018 – August 2022 

Team Lead, IT Programs & Value Management

Responsible for ensuring benefits realization from people, processes and technologies, and monitoring alignment of Enterprise ICT Projects and services with Strategic imperatives while establishing governance frameworks to eliminate risk of non-compliance.

• Program Manager, Implementation of Software Asset Management (SAM) solution and SAM optimization model (Flexera Columbus and Spider SAM solution)
  • Environment review and completion of worksheet for Oracle, Redhat, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Vmware
  • Entitlement and generation of license inventory (OMA, IPLA, IPAA)
  • Generate Active Directory baseline last logon report
  • SAM System implementation, ILMT setup, Spider Application server and data collector configuration, Columbus inventory server and datacenter appliance setup
  • Deployment of Columbus inventory agents and datacenter agents
  • Data import and data quality review, license metric report configuration, 
• Project Manager, software license remediation and risk avoidance
  • Lead for all IT contract management (SLA, SOW, Implementation, addendum, annexure, and appendixes) and license management reviews and advisory services
  • Lead for administrative activities concerning Project Steering Committee (PSC) and Group IT Steering committee (GITSC) meetings with Executive Management
  • Involvement in Price Monitoring Committee (PMC) negotiations with 6 major OEMs – Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Redhat, DellEMC, Vmware and over 60 3rd party vendors at point of renewal
  • Responsible for defining KPIs for Vendor performance evaluation which forms the basis for charge-back as a cost optimization strategy.

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc                                                                                                                                           July 2015 – April 2018      

Head, IT Projects, and Programs

• Program Manager, Upgrade of the Processmaker workflow application (Business Process Management)
  • Preparation, migration of production DB and mounting of Application core files into new servers
  • Restoration of connection to the new DB server
  • Downgrade of php from 5.5 to 5.3, running of app upgrade procedure from 2.0 to 2.5.2
  • Php upgrade back to 5.5, app upgrade to 3.0
  • Rebuild of indexes and workspaces, cleanup of duplicated app_number cases.
• Project Manager, Implementation of the SAP Successfactor HR solution
  • Implementation of Core HR Cloud – Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll using HR Data objects.
  • Implementation of Performance Cloud – Performance & Goals, Compensation, Succession & Devt. Modules.
  • Implementation of Learning Cloud and Recruitment Cloud
  • Separation of Schema configuration, Integration of web server, app server, DB instances and XML abstraction.
• Project Manager, Implementation of the Video Banking and Customer management solution
  • Hardware and O/S installation with SSL certificate, LAN TCP and UDP port opening
  • Vidyo software integration with MS Dynamics CRM (for logging of interaction), LDAP and Core Banking App
  • Vidyo software integration with E-mail and SMS gateway to enable authentication of customers through OTP
  • Vidyo software integration with website and internet banking site
  • Rank mobile app integration with GTBank mobile app through library SDK.
• Project Manager, Implementation of SAS Data analytics solution.
  • Setup and configuration of dashboard Datasources – Sql, Oracle, Datawarehouse
  • Configuration of CEO and Executive management on desktop and tablets.
  • Design and implementation of iterations (daily, weekly, monthly), charts, KPI tiles and geomaps
  • Filtering and Alignment of dashboard figures with OBIEE
  • Periodic approval and refresh of metrics relating to ERM, HR, Technology, Digital banking and other business functions. 
• Project Governance
  • Responsible for coordinating all IT related programs by aligning them with business objectives
  • Responsible for design of the IT Portfolio, Program and Project management framework 
  • Responsible for design and standardization of project management processes through implementation of project governance frameworks: IT PPP, Scrum, OPM. 
  • Developed the Benefit Management Strategy for IT through the benefit realization framework. 
  • Improved the Bank’s Project Management System through Scrum Framework, 
  • Responsible for management of all subsidiaries IT related projects through subsidiary request workshops. 
  • Responsible for design of the IT Project Governance Framework for optimizing resources and time to market
  • Responsible for coordinating all IT Steering Committee and Project Review Meetings
  • Responsible for conducting Post-implementation Review (PIR) on deployed internal projects to measure usability

Guaranty Trust Bank Plc                                                                                                                                               June 2009 – July 2015

Project Expeditor, Regional Help Desk & Project delivery

• Project Lead, implementation, and transition of Mcafee to Symantec endpoint Bankwide
• Project Lead, migration of Zimbra domain environment to MS Office 365 Bankwide
• Managed service desk ensuring that support calls are logged and handled effectively and efficiently
• Project Lead, design, and implementation of Consumable Management Application (CMAP) and Hardware Request and Maintenance Application (HRMAP) using C# and XML

National Open University of Nigeria                                                                                                    2022   MSc Information technology

University of Ibadan, Oyo state                                                                                                            2007     BSc Computer Science (2nd Class Upper)