Nigeria

Technical Product Management

Group Product Management

Technical writing

Business Transformation

Ayomikun Akinbobola

Technical Product Manager

Product analytics

Communication

Problem-solving

Organisation skills

Leadership

Database management

Information architecture

Product roadmap

Postman

Salesforce

Trello

Adobe XD

Axure

Balsamiq

Jira

Confluence

PowerBI

REST API

PostgreSQL

BambooHR

MongoDB

Docker

Monday

Stakeholder management

Time management

Team player

Customer service

Conflict resolution

Project management

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Business intelligence

Integration Testing

Prototyping

Product strategy

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

•  Support the integration of retailers during the onboarding process 
•  Design test scenarios specific to each integration.
•  Write SQL query Data for transaction record extraction 
•  Configuration and Testing on Salesforce, Magento, Woo Commerce and Big Commerce
• Documentation – Updating and enhancing documentation for all integration types (Confluence pages, test scenarios etc)
• Testing – provide support for Ongoing testing and validation of existing integrations, including BNPL, wallets, etc.
• Updating the Customer facing website at the code level
• Spin up instances on AWS to test implementation
• Monitoring of Transactions, Applications and Infrastructure using Grafana.
• troubleshooting transactions by checking the Logs on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Post-go-live support – first-line support, answering all queries from retailers, platform providers,
BNPLs etc. 
• Query the database using Big Query to get insight

•	Analyzing existing solutions to ensure they meet the market expectations and are competitive.
•	Driving Implementation of ongoing Projects within the CIO Organization
•	Managed a team of about 10 Software Developer to ensure solutions delivery
•	Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions. 
•	Providing Architectural guidance as regards implementation.
•	BRD, SRS Documentation Development
•	Scrum Ceremonies Facilitation
•	Assign tasks and Manage deliverables on Jira and Confluence.
•	Requirement gathering and engineering.
•	Stakeholder Management.
•	Implementation Prioritization. 
•	Documentation of New Project, Change Request, or a Solution Fix.

•	Designed and supported the Mobile Money Payment Service Bank (MoMo PSB) implementation for MTN Nigeria
•	Supported the Integration and Certification Process between NIBSS and MTN Nigeria
•	Backlog management and refinement	
•	API/USSD application designing	
•	Requirement gathering & elicitation with the Product owners/Technical Leads	
•	API/USSD application documentation (use cases, assumptions, acceptance criteria etc.) on Confluence and Jira	
•	Creation of BDD test cases for requirements	
•	Creation of API use case sequence diagrams and flow charts for requirement	
•	Participate in the design of the API specification document	
•	Facilitation of requirements to meet the Definition of Ready (DoR)	
•	Present Requirements to a team of Business Analysts (BA Forum) at the Group level for Approval
•	Present Requirements to a team of Software Architect (Arch Forum) at the Group level for Approval
•	Facilitate design refinement with the development team ahead of sprint planning 		
•	Participate/support all agile ceremonies and activities		
•	Support UAT with the QA engineers 	
•	Always Advocating Agile Scrum practice with the client	
•	Ensuring a digital transformation approach to all design solutions delivered	
•	Coordinate the Daily Stand up and Manage the Delivery Process for all FinTech Related implementations.
•	Support the (National Identification Number) NIN Implementation and Development processes

- Consulting and Driving Digital Transformation Initiative for Africa's Largest Mobile Network Operator
- Facilitating the cross-border FinTech Initiatives for Africa's Telecommunication giant which has generated millions of dollars.

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions for fintech solutions in Nigeria and beyound
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Articulating and documents business requirements 
• Provide Guidance to the Technical Team throughout the Development Lifecycle
•  Draw the High-Level and Low-Level Process flow for both the Client and the Software Development team respectively for FinTech Solutions
• Drive Change Management Process with both Internal and External client
• Performing requirements analysis. 
• Assess the risk of various solutions and prioritizes competing business demands 
• Translate and simplify requirements into a profitable solution
• Effectively communicating insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Gathering critical information from various stakeholders and producing useful reports. 
• Working closely with clients, Software Engineers, and managerial staff. 
• Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency. 
• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements. 
• Performing user acceptance testing. 
• Facilitate Demo session of Products to clients
• Draft User Story to guide implementation and Testing
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance. 
• Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users. 
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

•  Stakeholder Management
•  Product Management
• Carry out research and development activities
• Work with the technical team to design, develop and deploy software solutions.
• Engage in Markets research for business policies, procedures and decision making
• Manage business analysis activities
• Coordinate business process definition and re-engineering
• Meet with existing and prospective clients to identify business needs and solution requirements.
• Coordinate software documentation processes: Business requirements document, Software 
 requirement specifications, Product papers, Management reports, Business cases, Profitability analysis
• Software Prototype development (mock-ups using Adobe XD,Figma, balsamiq and other wire-framing tools)
• Software Quality Management. Requirements Management, Software testing and User acceptance testing.
• Solution go-to-market strategy mapping.
• Relationship management and external stakeholder management.
• Business process modelling and improvement
•Digital Transformation Implementation Lead.

• Facilitate Business Process and Product Development
• Develop Business Requirement Specifications (BRS) Document
• Co-ordinate/Document Process of product
• Develop Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) Document
• Develop user guide for IT Systems
• R and D secretariat

•	Overseeing and coordinating the unit 
•	Monitor the quantitative and qualitative result to be archived
•	Send weekly comprehensive report to the operations department
•	Analyzing the Remote Monitoring System equipment across board
•	Troubleshooting of the RMS equipment with issue remotely
•	Stating and Resolving the problem(s) detected remotely

•	Analyzing data generated by the Remote Monitoring System 
•	Troubleshooting of the RMS equipment with issue remotely
•	Stating and Resolving the problem(s) detected remotely
•	Sending weekly comprehensive report to the operations department
•Sending weekly report of the current status of all the sites to the top management staff fr decision making.

• Configuration of Remote Monitoring System(RMS) Equipments
• Alarms Tracking and Escalation
• Troubleshooting of RMS Device
• Communication Establishment and Configuration of Communication Parameters
• System Analysis

Comprehensive database management
Record Management

I monitor transmission via Local Area Network and and Wide Area Network. I also ensure that all the servers properly network. I also trouble shoot any faulty equipment in my unit. As an IT personnel here, i am also responsible for the archives of all the transmitted programs. editing of Sound On Tape (SOT) is also part of my duty.

Ayomikun Akinbobola🇳🇬

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