Omozuanfo Abdul Razaki

OMOZUANFO ABDUL-RAZAKI-,-. Leeds, United Kingdom PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Seasoned IT Delivery Manager with over a decade of experience in supervising simultaneous projects. Proven expertise inIT infrastructure management, and strategic alignment of business and IT needs, also to ensure delivery of project goals, managing project needs and critical dependencies. Highly experienced in managing cross-functional teams, bringing transparency in project execution and facilitating project events through Sprint Planning; Daily Scrum; Sprint Reviews; Retrospective and Product Backlog Refinements, delivering projects within budget. I also build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders with a focus on achieving key project deliverables in line with strategic objectives. CORE & TECHNICAL SKILLS Project Management Scrum / Agile Methodologies Product Backlog Management Stakeholder Management RACI RAID Management Strategy Analysis Waterfall / SDLC Ability to lead Risk mitigation Planning and Execution Project Scheduling Problem-Solving Story Mapping, Epics, Tasks Estimations / Team Velocity Networking Coaching & Mentoring Strategic Team Leadership Team Motivation throughout the project life cycle Communication Skills MS Products / SharePoint Confluence / Jira Vendor Management CAREER SUMMARY DIGITAL ECHOES AUG 2022 – PRESENT DELIVERY MANAGER Led a team of 8, in developing a digital Clarks File Management system (FMS) that will enable clients to store documents for easy access to their records, during financial statements for relevant bodies. Accountable for executing the Agile/scrum methodology by providing coaching, mentorship, and guidance to project teams implementing several digital transformation projects. Key Responsibilities:  Defining and reviewing the project deliverables and their technical and quality strategies, together with the benefits and their realization plan.  Strategically managing project conflicts, challenges, and dynamic business requirements with a focus on keepingoperations running at high performance and velocity.  To keep track of the team’s velocity and sprint progress using the Agile project management software Jira  Collaborating with the Product Owner to ensure the volume and flow of Product Backlog Items (user stories) towards the top of the Product Backlog Are Ready for the Sprint Backlog.  Coaching Business leads, Developers, Business Analysts, and Project Teams; and leading them to adopt new practicesby focusing on Agile Manifesto values and principles. Key Achievements:  Influencing and removed complex impediments that threatened the ability of the squad to deliver sprint goals; which resulted in meeting goals in 99% of sprints.  Clearly articulated project goals and scope, and contributed to the implementation of best practices and standardizedprocesses; resulting in completing the project 25% under budget. NEWWORKS INVESTMENT SOLUTION LIMITED) JULY 2014 – AUG 2022 DELIVERY MANAGER Oversaw the end-to-end daily activities of the projects as team lead (VOA)VISA ON ARRIVAL PROGRAM project, managed cross-functional teams and led planning, performance monitoring, resource management and stakeholder engagement activities. 1 Key Responsibilities:  Drove project execution; tracked delivery; monitored and controlled change management; with a focus on meeting agreed objectives and delivering high quality outcomes within budget.  Proven experience in risk management, issue resolution, and dependency management.  Managed relationships amongst stakeholders by building confidence and trust with clear professional communications and assured expectation management.  Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels.  Conducted reviews to assess project outcomes and to identify and capture lessons learned to enable continuous improvement; and proactively ensured good practice was disseminated throughout the organization.  Experience in managing project budgets, forecasting, and tracking actuals against forecasts. Key Achievements:  Ensuring visa on arrival payment/approval meets portal statutory requirement.  Observing proper checks on portal generated receipts to inhibit the proliferation of fraudulent manipulations.  Ensuring proper accountability of portal financial transactions within the ambit of operation  Providing day to day leadership in a complex environment and co-ordination of the team as the team lead.  Providing technical support to applicants processing visa on arrival application forms with the portal  Championed Agile ways of working by developing effective training material for teams to understand the Agile delivery methodology, principles, and values. SOCKETWORKS NIGERIA LIMITED DEC 2011 – JULY 2014 DELIVERY MANAGER Lead and supervised a diverse networking and technical team worth over $5milion world bank project in one of the largest provider of secure digital identity and online payment solution in Nigeria across some federal university in some selected states in Nigeria, whilst monitoring an aggressive schedule and budgetary constraints. Key Responsibilities:  Developed and analyzed project schedules to align with project scope and deadlines; including creating the WBS, allocating resources and integrating subcontract schedules with the project Master Schedule.  Strategically ensured that all contractual requirements were understood throughout the product life circle and complied with; in relation to projectplanning, resource planning, Risk mitigation, progress reporting and HSE measures.  Strong leadership and team management skills, with experience in leading cross-functional teams. Key Achievement:  Strategically prepared the project Schedule baseline and Cost baseline; and controlled deviation throughout the project life cycle; resulting in finishing the project ahead of schedule and under budget by 2%.  Motivated the team with a positive attitude throughout the product life circle. EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS  Agile Delivery Management and Business Analysis Training 2022  Change Manage, International Business Management Institute Berlin - Germany 2020  Risk Management, International Business Management Institute Berlin - Germany 2020  Leadership and Team Development, International Business Management Institute Berlin - Germany 2020  BSc (Hons) COMPUTER SCI, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma. Edo State, Nigeria 2006 REFERENCES 2