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RICHMOND ASANTE DANSO

ACCRA

Summary

I am a self-motivated and dedicated project manager, with extensive PMO experience. I have experience working with and managing onshore, offshore and 3rd party resources/contractors and engaging with both senior technical and nontechnical stakeholders and sponsors. I am solution oriented and have the technical acumen and practical expertise to manage and implement projects and thus contribute effectively to achieving the corporate objectives of an organisation.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

CALBANK PLC
ACCRA
08.2024 - Current
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of IT projects collaborating with technology teams, business stakeholders and vendor partners
  • Create detailed project plans and schedules with tasks, timelines, milestones, resources and budgets
  • Proactively identify, analyze and troubleshoot issues and delays to minimize risks
  • Monitor progress across all phases to ensure execution as per plans and take corrective actions
  • Manage third party vendors and outsourced development
  • Track key project metrics related to budgets, quality, changes and team productivity
  • Document lessons learned post project completion to guide future initiatives
  • Prepare status updates and present reports to senior management highlighting progress, roadblocks and next steps
  • Continuously identify opportunities for process improvement in IT project execution

Project Management Officer

FIRST ATLANTIC BANK
ACCRA
02.2021 - 07.2024

● Ensure the bank project fits with the overall programme and corporate strategy.

● Monitor project finance on behalf of the bank.

● Ensure the value-for-money solution is constantly reassessed.

● Monitor changes to the Project Plan to identify any impact on the needs of the business

● Monitor the Benefits Review Plan for alignment to management programme.

● Preparing Project Case and Memo

● Ensuring proper monitoring and controlling of projects

● Ensuring successful integration of new modules to already existing digital platforms.

● Act as resource to vendors in project implementation

● Ensure the provision of resources to third party vendors

Process Engineer- National Service Personel

ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI LIMITED-IDUAPRIEM
TARKWA
09.2018 - 07.2019

• Worked as a Shift Metallurgist

• Daily update of production information board for tactical meeting

• Monitoring and tracking of plant reagents consumption

• Daily plant performance and gold accounting reportage

• Conducting metallurgical laboratory tests and data analysis

• Daily monitoring of WAD cyanide in the plant

• Conducting monthly reconciliation of plant gold produced

• Monitoring and evaluating plant operating parameters to ensure production units operate efficiently to meet targets or better.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Metallurgical Engineering

KWAME KNRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Kumasi, GH, Ghana
07.2018

WASSCE -

EBENEZER SECONDARY SCHOOL
Accra, GH, Ghana
05.2013

Skills

I am literate in Microsoft Office suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Projects

Good organisational skills, time management and team leadership

Proficient in waterfall, agile and scrum project management methodologies

● Proficient in the use of Project Management tools such as Jira, Trello, Confluence and Asana

Certification

  • Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI, 02/2024
  • Master Project Management tools: Trello, Jira & Confluence, Udemy Education, 05/2024
  • Microsoft Project Course Complete, TIA Education (Udemy), 02/2024
  • Google Agile Project Management, Coursera, 10/2023
  • Data Science Certificate, Coursera, 08/2020
  • Excel Certificate, Coursera, 09/2020

Accomplishments

  • First Atlantic Internet Banking Application, I worked as the lead project manager to deliver an entirely new web internet banking application for FAB, coordinated end-user test and roll-out of the application to FAB customers.
  • ACL reconciliation tool Reconciliation, I worked as the project manager to develop an automation tool that does reconciliation between GL files from core banking against settlement files from FAB merchants.
  • Web Acquiring Platform for Merchants to receive online Payment, I worked as the project manager to develop an online payment platform for online shops and hotels to receive payments from their customers through mobile money and card payment.
  • Upgrade of Bank wide ATM from windows 7 operating system to Windows 10, I planned and managed the implementation of Windows 10 upgrade with our card scheme (Network International) on the entire FAB ATM estate.
  • Manager of the First Atlantic Mobile Banking Application, I worked as the project manager on the FAB mobile application, I coordinated the frequent updates on both frontend and backend of the application, planned routine feature release etc.
  • Ghana Link Card Acquiring on First Atlantic Bank ATMs, I worked as the Project manager to enable the Gh link card acquiring on the entire FAB estate.
  • Direct Debit portal for premium collections for Insurance companies, I coordinated the implementation of a portal to aid insurance customers pass premium debit request on the customers banking with FAB.
  • Retrofitting of the Bank’s Oracle CRM Application, I coordinated the implementation of a sales module for creation of sales pipelines for marketers and a service module to receive customers complaints for swift issue resolutions.
  • Vodafone Cash in-Cash Out Integration with FAB Bank, I worked as the lead project manager to integrate FAB api to Vodafone to enable FAB customers who are Vodafone users to perform wallet to Bank and bank to wallet transactions on Vodafone USSD mobile mode code.
  • Redesign of the Calbank Intranet, I worked as the lead project manger to rebrand and redesign the Calbank Intranet to a more user-friendly interface
  • I worked as the project lead to integrate Wakanow flight service onto mobile and Internet banking appication

References

  • ROBERT TAGOE, Project Manager, Fidelity Bank Ghana, Robert.tagoe@gmail.com, 0241188279
  • EMMANUEL NII ARYEE ARDAY, Head, Project Management, First Atlantic Bank, earday@firstatlanticbank.com.gh, 0244453870

Timeline

CALBANK PLC
08.2024 - Current

Project Management Officer

FIRST ATLANTIC BANK
02.2021 - 07.2024

Process Engineer- National Service Personel

ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI LIMITED-IDUAPRIEM
09.2018 - 07.2019
  • Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI, 02/2024
  • Master Project Management tools: Trello, Jira & Confluence, Udemy Education, 05/2024
  • Microsoft Project Course Complete, TIA Education (Udemy), 02/2024
  • Google Agile Project Management, Coursera, 10/2023
  • Data Science Certificate, Coursera, 08/2020
  • Excel Certificate, Coursera, 09/2020

Bachelor of Science - Metallurgical Engineering

KWAME KNRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

WASSCE -

EBENEZER SECONDARY SCHOOL
RICHMOND ASANTE DANSO