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Work history
Education
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Certification
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Steven Olawale

Bournemouth,Dorset

Summary

An experienced product management professional well-versed in Agile and Scrum methodologies and the principles of product development. Comfortable with making key decisions for agile teams to move digital products efficiently from ideation to production. Eager to support a wide range of technology teams with leadership and guidance in the development of customer-centric products. In current role, reduced the delivery time by 20% and was able to coordinate 95% of product completion in line with the product roadmap and strategy.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Product Owner

Andela
Remote
11.2022 - Current
  • Led the product management efforts for an event management platform that offers end-to-end solutions for event planning, ticketing, registration, and attendee engagement.
  • Facilitated and worked with engineering, recruitment, revenue and data teams to help achieve business goals.
  • Managed automation flow development in assessment.
  • Design rubrics for PMs and manage product management talent development pipeline.
  • Led global team of product managers, product owners, project managers and scrum masters

Product Owner

Interswitch
Remote
01.2022 - 12.2022
  • Owned and managed the development of all B2B mobile financial banking products (Banking as a Service, White Label Nigeria and Africa Products, Glo PSB)
  • Responsible for prioritizing the backlog, creating and accepting user stories
  • Led a cross-functional team comprised of internal employees and external contractors
  • Led the building, maintenance and re/prioritizing the Program Backlog into stories for implementation based on user value and time
  • Responsible for communicating project status to business stakeholders
  • Gathered business requirements from various departments to ensure the data is migrated to work with the new systems and the downstream applications
  • Facilitated release planning, sprint planning, and retrospectives and responsible for creating tasks and writing stories in JIRA
  • Analyzed operating procedures and policies on an ongoing basis, recommended and implemented
  • Gathered user business requirements by meeting business users and generated business models and use cases.

Product Owner

ALAT by Wema
11.2018 - 01.2022
  • Owned and managed the digital banking platform for SMEs and Corporate (ALAT for Business) which currently has a portfolio of over 100k active users and turnover of 3 trillion annually
  • Oversaw entire product development and deployments from vision and ideation to rollout and delivery on web platform and mobile applications which reduced delivery time by 20%
  • Led and collaborated with a scrum team of engineers, designers, QA engineers to build and launch products/features across payments, onboarding, cards, and account maintenance using agile/scrum methodologies
  • Translated features into user stories within the team's backlog while managing, ranking, and prioritizing this backlog, create acceptance criteria and drive testing and delivery to reflect business and customer requirements
  • Drive and own backlog grooming and management, prioritize the iteration and drive acceptance testing and delivery of iterations
  • Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.

Education

Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

The University of Hull, Hull
09.2023 -

Bachelor of Technology - Geophysics

Federal University of Technology
10.2011 - 08.2016

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Product Ownership
  • Agile Methodology
  • User Experience
  • Wireframing and Prototyping
  • Requirement Gathering
  • Azure DevOps and Jira
  • User Stories
  • Product Strategy and Roadmaps

Accomplishments

    Onboarding

  • Digital Account Creation: Grew acquisition by 25% by leading the design and development of a fully digital onboarding channel for businesses and corporate customers whose business is registered but do not have corporate/business bank accounts and want to avoid the stress of walking into a bank branch
  • I led the design and development of a mobile banking-as-a-service application (myBanq) which currently has about 20 microfinance banks lined up for integration into the application.

    • Payments

  • Payroll Solution: Led the design and development a major payroll solution for salary and vendor payments which increased revenue by over 50%. Businesses could process instant payments to over 10,000 beneficiaries at once. This project also includes an automated reversal system which ensures all customers get same-day reversal for any failed transaction. The solution currently processes over 300 million naira in value every month
  • FX Payment: Digitized the foreign currency transfer for corporate customers, this project created an alternate source of income for the platform. The solution has processed over 30 million dollars in value since launch in 2020


    • PoS and Cards

  • Verve Card Integration: Led the verve debit card integration for the corporate customer which included features like debit card request, card hotlist, card control
  • PoS Terminal API Integration: Led the integration of PoS services for merchants on the platform, features deployed include terminal request, real time transaction monitoring, settlement records


    • Account Maintenance

  • Software Token Integration: Led the integration for the development of software token which replaced hardware token. The solution was deployed to the android and iOS stores. The project has raked in over 50 million naira in revenue in less than 3 months of deployment


Certification

  • AI Product Management - 2023
  • IBM Data Science - 2023
  • Advanced Product Management - 2022
  • Google Certified UI/UX Designer - 2021
  • Design Thinking for Innovation - 2021
  • Software Product Management - 2020
  • Agile Product Owner (foundations and Techniques) - 2019

Timeline

The University of Hull - Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
09.2023 -
Product Owner - Andela
11.2022 - Current
Product Owner - Interswitch
01.2022 - 12.2022
Product Owner - ALAT by Wema
11.2018 - 01.2022
Federal University of Technology - Bachelor of Technology, Geophysics
10.2011 - 08.2016

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