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Hi, I’m Toju Fakankun, a results-driven Senior Project Manager and Program Manager with 9+ years leading enterprise IT programs, digital transformation, cloud migrations, and data-driven initiatives across healthcare, government, financial services, telecom, and education. I’m PMP, PSM, CSM, and CompTIA Project+ certified, with hands-on experience in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMI PMBOK, Waterfall and Hybrid approaches. I translate complex technical details for executives and drive measurable delivery outcomes. I’m proficient with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, cloud services, data tooling, and release orchestration, and I enjoy mentoring teams and building governance templates that improve predictability and compliance.…Hi, I’m Toju Fakankun, a results-driven Senior Project Manager and Program Manager with 9+ years leading enterprise IT programs, digital transformation, cloud migrations, and data-driven initiatives across healthcare, government, financial services, telecom, and education. I’m PMP, PSM, CSM, and CompTIA Project+ certified, with hands-on experience in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMI PMBOK, Waterfall and Hybrid approaches. I translate complex technical details for executives and drive measurable delivery outcomes. I’m proficient with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, cloud services, data tooling, and release orchestration, and I enjoy mentoring teams and building governance templates that improve predictability and compliance.

Toju Fakankun

Project Manager, Production Manager, Production Coordinator, +2

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Hi, I’m Toju Fakankun, a results-driven Senior Project Manager and Program Manager with 9+ years leading enterprise IT programs, digital transformation, cloud migrations, and data-driven initiatives across healthcare, government, financial services, telecom, and education. I’m PMP, PSM, CSM, and CompTIA Project+ certified, with hands-on experience in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMI PMBOK, Waterfall and Hybrid approaches. I translate complex technical details for executives and drive measurable delivery outcomes. I’m proficient with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, cloud services, data tooling, and release orchestration, and I enjoy mentoring teams and building governance templates that improve predictability and compliance.…Hi, I’m Toju Fakankun, a results-driven Senior Project Manager and Program Manager with 9+ years leading enterprise IT programs, digital transformation, cloud migrations, and data-driven initiatives across healthcare, government, financial services, telecom, and education. I’m PMP, PSM, CSM, and CompTIA Project+ certified, with hands-on experience in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMI PMBOK, Waterfall and Hybrid approaches. I translate complex technical details for executives and drive measurable delivery outcomes. I’m proficient with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, cloud services, data tooling, and release orchestration, and I enjoy mentoring teams and building governance templates that improve predictability and compliance.

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Hi, I’m Toju Fakankun, a results-driven Senior Project Manager and Program Manager with 9+ years leading enterprise IT programs, digital transformation, cloud migrations, and data-driven initiatives across healthcare, government, financial services, telecom, and education.

I’m PMP, PSM, CSM, and CompTIA Project+ certified, with hands-on experience in Agile, Scrum, SAFe, PMI PMBOK, Waterfall and Hybrid approaches. I translate complex technical details for executives and drive measurable delivery outcomes. I’m proficient with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, cloud services, data tooling, and release orchestration, and I enjoy mentoring teams and building governance templates that improve predictability and compliance.

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Work Experience

Project Manager and Technical Business Analyst at Department of Homeland Security

May 1, 2022 - Present

Directed cybersecurity and infrastructure modernization initiatives aligned with NIST and FISMA controls. Partnered with ISSO to track remediation and pass quarterly security reviews. Wrote and prioritized user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira and ADO. Ran backlog grooming, sprint planning, and release planning with distributed teams. Coordinated legacy to React migration, defining feature-by-feature migration plan and regression testing. Managed release orchestration across dev, QA and production environments, including CI/CD handoffs, release windows, rollback plans, and post-release validation. Implemented performance dashboards for executive reporting and led stakeholder workshops to map business rules, produce data flow diagrams, and define audit trails for compliance. Mentored junior PMs and BAs and established standard templates for BRD, user story hygiene, test case mapping and risk logs. Performed data validation and SQL queries during migrations to reconcile records.

Senior Project Manager at SaidaTech Consulting

October 1, 2019 - May 1, 2022

Managed multi-system financial programs including prepaid cards, e-commerce, and international remittances. Created integrated program roadmap and tracked interdependent deliverables across vendors. Led a full EDW implementation, defined source-to-target mappings, supervised ETL design, validated data quality, and performed reconciliation. Executed vendor selection, drafted RFPs, scored responses, conducted reference checks, and negotiated SOWs and SLAs. Embedded PCI DSS requirements into application design and runbooks. Implemented automated deployment practices with DevOps to reduce manual deployments. Created executive scorecards and weekly risk heatmaps, driving corrective actions that reduced schedule variance by 20%. Served as primary escalation point for cross-functional executive reviews and coached teams on INVEST user stories and Definition of Done.

Senior Project Manager at Health Data Mover

August 1, 2018 - October 1, 2019

End-to-end responsibility for Medicaid Child Health IT systems. Piloted Agile and Scrum, introduced two-week sprint cadence, story point estimation, and retrospectives to improve predictability and reduce carryover. Built SharePoint portals and automated workflows to centralize requirements, release artifacts, test cases, and training materials. Led cross-discipline UAT workshops with clinicians to validate workflows and acceptance criteria. Conducted data lineage and reconciliation testing during migrations and developed SQL scripts to ensure Medicaid reporting data accuracy. Designed training curriculum and runbooks, negotiated scope tradeoffs, and maintained governance documents.

Project Manager at Physicians Technology Partners

August 1, 2016 - August 1, 2018

Managed EHR and EMR implementations and system integrations. Created cutover plans, patient-record migration strategies, and contingency/rollback procedures. Owned project plans in MS Project, tracked critical path, dependencies, and maintained risk and issue logs. Coordinated UAT and integration testing with clinical stakeholders. Led vendor governance and managed deliverable acceptance, milestone payments, and punch-list remediation. Implemented weekly PMO cadence and KPI dashboards to reduce executive escalations.

Agile Project Manager at K-Force Healthcare

April 1, 2015 - August 1, 2016

Led a 25-person matrixed team delivering over 20 web systems using Agile, CMM and PMBOK practices. Facilitated JAD sessions, defined requirements, and translated business needs into epics and stories. Drove continuous improvement with shared services architecture, release automation, and standardized environment provisioning to reduce cycle time. Published monthly portfolio dashboards for executives and mentored Scrum Masters and PMs on stakeholder communication and metrics-driven reporting.