Martin Ajagu

Experience

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  Thinkboxx Creative

  Jul 2009 - Oct 2009

  Web design assistant

  Responsibilities include:• Using a specific workflow in the design of Web pages (PHP/HTML)• Design and modification of back-end databases (MySQL)• Re-vamping live websites to meet evolving customer requirements

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  IpNX Nigeria Limited

  Feb 2010 - Jul 2010

  Network Administrator

  Responsibilities Include:• Network monitoring in order to initiate responsive control procedures• Remote troubleshooting for initial isolation of specific problem• Escalation and report compilation for analysis and documentation

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  Niger Garden City Property Company Limited

  Jun 2015 - Dec 2018

  Project Manager

  Major Responsibilities1. Attached to the Project Management Office and carried out the following controlling duties: • Supporting Engineering and construction team leads in Project Management Processes •. Ensuring projects adhere to NGPCL's standard PM processes •. Creating relevant templates for project documentation across board • Ensuring consistency in performance reporting across projects •. Assisting in project prioritization and resource allocation •. Analyzing change requests as part of the CCP •. Enterprise Risk Management support.2. Ownership and management of digital implementations, customizations ranging from: Wordpress CMS, SAP ERP Implementation and customized CI Portals and Databases. Duties Include: • Creating Project SOWs from Business cases •Creating and maintaining project timelines •Drafting budgets and resource requirements for each project •Documenting solution requirements and associated success criteria •Leading discovery sessions between dev teams and process owners •Ensuring proper collaboration between both in-house and external resources •Weekly reporting on progress and status •Identifying risks and determining appropriate responses •Facilitating User testing and production migration Show less

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  Abstractivity Media

  Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

  Creative Project Manager

  Drafting treatment / moodboards for clientsIdentification of key risks from technical, client and creative perspectivesFacilitating brainstorming sessionsSequencing and scheduling of production activities.End-to-end client engagement.Developing project budgetsFacilitation (and direction) of content productionVideo editing of produced contentColor correction of video content

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  Waje Smart Solutions Limited

  Aug 2020 - Oct 2022

  Project Manager

  A majorly customer-facing role in several digital transformation initiatives such as:Software developmentD365CRM Customization and ImplementationRobotic Process Automation Responsibilities and TasksDevelopment and iteration of company wide Project Management process assets for tailored use on client ProjectsTranslated Business Requirement Documents into Use Case and Functional Requirement Documents for use by delivery streams.Development and grooming of Project Management Plans.Proper documentation of Requirements with their relevant acceptance criteria.Facilitation of design and review sessions between domain SMEs and Implementation SMEsDevelopment of implementation Schedules, Project Budgets and Requirement DocumentsEnsuring Implementation Schedules are integrated with Client's Over-arching timelines.Integrating Vendor timelines into implementation timeline.Providing Change management support on client Digital Transformation initiatives.Baseline Schedule and Budget for appropriate tracking during execution.Spearheading of Customer engagement during the life cycle of client projects.Use of informal team building/motivation techniques to optimize resource productivity.Translation of functional requirements into User Stories for Agile Project delivery.Organized implementation into sprints.Facilitated sprint planning and sprint review sessionsFacilitation of user story estimationPrioritization and grooming of user stories for solution delivery.Coaching and encouraging Dev teams on the implementation of SCRUMTranslation of Functional requirements (or User Stories)Spearheading the identification, analysis and response planning of Project Risks.Managing internal and external project communications.Identification and inclusion of relevant stakeholders from the client's end.Ensuring that all documented and undocumented stakeholder requirements are included in project plans.Provision of weekly Project Status and Progress report. Show less

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  Nordia Inc.

  Nov 2022 - Nov 2023

  Project Manager

  Internal customer facing role spearheading process improvement initiatives driven by quarterly service performance.Responsibilities and Tasks:• Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with stakeholders and team members.•.Development of project plans (i.e Estimates, Schedule, Resourcing, control protocol etc)• Facilitation of project ceremonies such as: Project kick-off, sprint planning, discovery sessions, brainstorming sessions, daily huddles, weekly reviews, close-out demonstrations• Creating, grooming and monitoring of project items on the task-board• Presentation and documentation of status report to management on a bi-weekly basisManaging project expenses (i.e resource usage)• Facilitation of free-flowing communication and collaboration between core project stakeholders• Conduct post project reviews and process improvement points Show less

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  CEATI

  Nov 2023 - now

  Associate Project Manager