Ifeoma Anomneze
Calgary,AB
Summary
Accomplished Project Manager with a distinguished career in planning, directing, and optimizing operations across diverse industries such as government, higher education, oil and gas, and construction. I bring exceptional problem-solving skills to the table, consistently anticipating and resolving challenges with strategic solutions. My leadership style is marked by a strong, guiding presence, fostering team excellence through mentorship and collaboration. I am recognized for reliability, organizational prowess, and a positive attitude while effectively managing multiple priorities.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
Thesis Systems
01.2022 - Current
- Managing a cross-functional team of developers, architects, BAs and functional consultants to develop go-live critical integrations for the Student Information System (SIS) which have received positive feedback from users and stakeholders
- Serving as the primary point of contact for all customer PMO inquiries, requests, and escalations
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, including executives, decision-makers, and end-users, to understand their business need to align technical and functional solutions
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Product, R&D, and Support, to ensure seamless communication and delivery of solutions to meet customer needs
- Managing project resources, including budget, timeline, and personnel, to optimize project efficiency and effectiveness
- Conducting risk assessments and developing mitigation strategies to address potential project risks and ensure successful project outcomes
- Communicating project progress, milestones, and issues to stakeholders through regular status updates, presentations, and reports
- Implementing project management best practices and methodologies to improve project delivery processes and increase team productivity
- Managing SIS implementation projects with multiple clients with different contractual requirements and obligations i.e
- Fixed Price and Time and Materials
- Developing and maintaining the SIS Implementation Project Schedule for all workstreams such as Functional/Configurations, Testing, Data Migration, Product and Integrations for all project phases such as Familiarize, Personalize, IST, UAT, Deploy and Close
- Maintaining the Project RAID and Tracking Logs in Smartsheet
- Chairing the weekly Integration Status Review Call with Stakeholders where the workstream dashboard and risks to development completion are reviewed
- Preparing the biweekly Steering Committee deck to inform the Client of Workstream Progress and reporting on key project governance items such as Scope, Budget, Schedule, Resources while highlighting recent accomplishments, key upcoming and in-progress activities, risks, issues and decisions
- Facilitation of Joint Planning, Mid Cycle Checkpoints and Cycle Retrospectives with Clients
- Preparing Phase Entry/Exit Documents
- Facilitating Phase-End lessons learned sessions with all stakeholders
- To improve implementation efficiency, reduce risks across EMEA and NA implementation projects
- Working with the internal and OCM Team Leads to determine training outline, requirements and schedule
- Maintaining and updating internal and external project dashboards
- Facilitating solution proposal review sessions, reviewing and updating BRDs, TRDs, Implementation Go-Live Checklist, Architecture Diagrams
- Carrying out Environment Management and Upgrades, providing clients with release notes.
Senior Portfolio Coordinator
City of Calgary
09.2021 - 11.2021
- Prepared the Assess, Adjust & Sustain plan to guide cross-functional departments on the activities within each phase
- Promoted the sustainment of the Organization's realignment and collaborated with Communication and Change Management leads to drive and manage stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, impact analysis, organizational change communications, and organizational readiness
- Prepared and distributed minutes of meetings to the portfolio team and followed up on action items to ensure completion
- Updated the Risk Register, assessed risk responses, and assigned risk owners
- Maintained and updated the Project Schedule; Ensured the project dashboard was updated weekly with progress updates from all project workstreams and overall portfolio status
- Prepared comprehensive reports summarizing the performance of individual portfolios over time, highlighting areas of success and potential areas of improvement.
Project Manager
Dorex Engineering
03.2016 - 05.2021
Education
MSc Oil and Gas Enterprise Management -
University of Aberdeen
BSc. Chemical Engineering -
University of Lagos
Skills
- Risk Management
- Schedule Management
- Stakeholder Engagement & Communications
- Cross-Functional Coordination & Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution & Management
- Process Improvement
- Critical Thinking & Analytical Skills
- Problem Solving
- Attention to Detail & Accuracy
- Leadership, Training & Team Motivation
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (CLSSBB)
- ITIL 4 Foundation
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Project Manager
Thesis Systems
01.2022 - Current
Senior Portfolio Coordinator
City of Calgary
09.2021 - 11.2021
Project Manager
Dorex Engineering
03.2016 - 05.2021
MSc Oil and Gas Enterprise Management -
University of Aberdeen
BSc. Chemical Engineering -
University of Lagos
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