VIVIAN EBO, PMP PSM
Irvine, CA ***** LinkedIn URL ****@***.*** 647-***-****
EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine, The Paul Merage School of Business, Irvine, CA 06/2024 Master of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada 12/2016
Bachelor of Science, Biology
Project Management Professional (PMP).
Professional Scrum Master (PSM).
EXPERIENCE
LAURENTIAN BANK, Toronto, ON 11/2023 – Present
Project Manager / PCO
• Facilitated and drove the planning, execution, and delivery of projects specific to ePMO to achieve strategic business goals, operational objectives, and project-level requirements. Maintained detailed project plans, including scope, objectives, timelines, and resource allocation.
• Collaborated with key stakeholders, vendors, and project teams to gather requirements and ensure alignment and objectives are met.
• Developed key project artifacts (project charters, financial trackers, timelines, risk plans), presenting regular project status reports to stakeholders and senior management, communicating project progress, issues, and risks effectively.
• Analyzed business processes, identifying improvement areas, create process maps and workflows for current and future states, and creating dashboards to present findings. CIBC BANK, Toronto, ON 06/2021 – 09/2023
Project Manager
• Led multiple initiatives within the Information Security PMO, overseeing projects such as Endpoint Security Stack Consolidation, Secure Access Modernization, and Cybersecurity Risk Management. Managed these projects through all phases from initiation, implementation to closure.
• Developed project charter, project plans, financial tracker, RACI and key artifacts to maintain tracked progress, and communicated key updates to stakeholders.
• Drove the delivery of large cross-team programs, ensuring on time and quality completion.
• Facilitated project initiation, milestone tracking, risk resolution, and dependency management from development through release.
• Managed change request process by evaluating deliverable changes and determine their impact on related and interdependent tasks and projects. Performed analysis of change in schedule, regarding resources, costs, and task completion.
• Maintained and monitored Action, Risk, Decisions and Issues Log on Planview by ensuring timely updates. Assessed project risks and issues and provide solutions where necessary. Took Meeting Minutes for each call weekly.
• Managed overall integration of project budget; managing consolidated financial workbooks for all work-streams, reconciled and analyzed Actual against Forecast, ensure accuracy of the monthly financial reporting using excel.
• Prepared documentation in PowerPoint decks capturing high level updates from project team, presenting these key updates to the Project Steering Committee (PSC), Advisory Board for awareness - in a timely manner. SCOTIABANK, Toronto, ON 02/2018 – 06/2021
Project Administrator
• Worked within the Commercial Banking PMO to ensure utilization of standard templates and ensured PMO Guidebook process compliance adhered to by Project Team members.
• Provided support with meeting agenda preparation and other project documents for ad hoc and recurring meetings & trainings. Produced meeting minutes and meeting slides. Backed-up Project Managers in their absence.
• Organized the SharePoint central repository, managed access to project status, and project plan, deliverables, technical specification documents, and change management documents.
• Facilitated monthly financial status meetings with team leads to review current spend vs forecast, conducting variance analysis (when required), and produced project financial status report presentations with excel dashboards. BMO BANK, Toronto, ON 12/2017 – 02/2018
Analyst
• Analyzed and processed global banking transactions, ensuring accuracy and compliance; managed cash deposits/withdrawals/foreign exchange.
• Identified business opportunities for process optimization and continuous improvement to achieve long- term plans.
• Worked with operations team to define and conduct best business practices supporting sales and client mandates. SKILLS
Strengths: Problem-solving skills, Stakeholder Management, Risk Management, Schedule Management, Financial
forecasting, Actuals tracking & Variance analysis. Technical: Proficient in JIRA, PowerBI, Clarity, SharePoint, Confluence, Planview and MS Office (Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Outlook & Project).