Abdullah Olaniyan

• Led the end-to-end delivery of a payment gateway solution for a telco firm using agile methodology, ensuring compliance with quality, scope, and schedule requirements.
• Collaborated with the product owner, the engineering team, and the telco firm stakeholders to define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the payment gateway solution.
• Managed the product backlog, prioritized the features and enhancements, and planned and executed the sprints and releases.
• Created and maintained the product specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes, and prototypes for the payment gateway solution.
• Coordinated the testing, validation, and deployment of the payment gateway solution, and monitored the performance and feedback of the product.
• Resolved any issues, risks, or conflicts that arose during the project lifecycle, and communicated the progress and status of the project to all the stakeholders.
• Streamlined internal processes to enhance team efficiency and improve overall project outcomes.
• Provided ongoing support to clients post-implementation, ensuring long-term success of implemented solutions.

• Channel VAS is the premium Fin-tech provider of Mobile Financial Services, Airtime Credit & Airtime Advance Services, Handset Loans and Big Data Analytics, all through cutting edge proprietary analytics tools As a Project Delivery Manager, I am responsible for End-to-End Delivery of Financial Services products in clients' environment, ensuring compliance to quality, scope and schedule requirements towards achieving maximum ROI This role required me to travel to various countries experiencing and managing diverse stakeholder cultures Key Responsibilities
• Achievements - Delivered the 1st ChannelVAS Airtime Credit Service in Cameroon by navigating technical and cultural bottlenecks to deliver value to business stakeholders
• Increased customer satisfaction by resolving requirements misalignment issues
• Take full ownership of the project delivery
• This includes requirements gathering & design, technical delivery, quality assurance and go to market activities
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and budget
• Assist product management team in developing service description and project scope
• Create and maintain a high level and detailed level project plan in line with company standards
• Perform pro-active risk management, to identify and remediate risks in early stage
• Clear and accurate reporting to all stakeholders throughout the project, reporting progress against project plan
• Ensure company processes and best practices are enforced during project execution
• Manage and support multiple internal and external departments during project lifecycle
• Provide First-line Technical troubleshooting
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
• Mentoring and participating in the development of the project delivery team Key Achievements
• Quick resolution of long-standing design issues - delaying completion of LLD - by strong collaboration across various client-side teams
• Ongoing Projects - MTN XtraTime DR Site Implementation, MTN Handset Loans

• Outline Reporting to Head, PPM&BA, providing Project Management and Business Analysis support to the enterprise as a Specialist, with projects including CRM and billing, Service Delivery Platform, etc
• Key Responsibilities
• Produced regular status and performance reports to evaluate performance, adjust strategies and maintain agile, sustainable operations
• Lead project teams and efficiently utilize organization resources to deliver projects on time and within budget to achieve strategic business goals
• Support Organization growth as a Business Analyst by engaging business stakeholders to understand AS-IS business practices (rules, processes, etc.), determine pain points and derive TO-BE solutions
• Provide Business Analysis function in the delivery of projects to ensure the adequacy and quality of business requirements
• Support the prioritization and alignment of the project portfolio to the organization's strategic objectives through the compilation and validation of the necessary data/information required to support the process
• Support the enhancement of the organization's project management to maturity by facilitating project management training sessions for project stakeholders
• Carry out quality assurance of projects by reviewing audits to ensure conformance to approved enterprise project management processes and framework
• Support the continuous improvement of the project management framework by documenting and updating the project processes based on recommendations from process review exercises

Key Achievements

• Managed business requirements - including gathering, prioritisation and traceability - for the Convergent Billing System project
• Managed UAT on the CRM and billing program, managing and reporting testing of over 30 testers on about 19K test cases

• Outline Working with the ITO Transformation Director, I was responsible for delivery of the SIM Registration Program to Etisalat, managing multiple stakeholders within the delivery and client organization, coordinating testing and deployment nationwide
• Deployment was completed on schedule Key Responsibilities
• Communicate timely to customer (internal & external) to make sure their expectations are being properly managed and quality requirements are fulfilled as part of project delivery
• Lead strategic planning sessions involving key delivery and user team stakeholders to ensure stakeholder alignment and drive on project
• Provide detailed and accurate report for regular scheduled review with stakeholders
• Participate in project review sessions with other project managers to review enterprise wide projects Key Achievements
• Delivered the SIM Registration Application, including testing and nationwide deployment on time and within budget
• Planned and coordinated application deployment across over 6000 touch points nationwide

• EMTS|9Mobile (Formerly, Etisalat Nigeria, Outline Telepresence Project OPEX reduction initiative, cutting over 60% of travel expenses by deploying a Telepresence and WebEx Solutions in Lagos and Abuja and linking with the Abu Dhabi Opco
• Delivered the project within schedule while managing external project constraints
• Solution was able to achieve the promised OPEX efficiency by reducing travel cost
• Utilized proactive issue management to track and resolve all technical/management issues to avoid delays in project
• Ensured quality of solution by organizing site survey pre-implementation & submitting survey report for appropriate implementation and all necessary project documentation are prepared for approval to align all stakeholders' expectations and conformed project quality is maintained
• Ensured timely reporting to key stakeholders to ensure alignment of stakeholders' expectations with project delivery approach
• Delivered project management support on the Network Monitoring System for ET Telco
• Coordinated server relocation effort and restore connectivity with minimal downtime and training
• Coordinated requirements session for TeMIP - SM integration implementation, testing efforts and obtained key stakeholders sign-off on test execution