Ada Peace Onwudinjor
About Me
An Agile Product and Project manager with 16 years of experience in various facets of Information Technology software and Process automation engineering Product management and project delivery. Knowledgeable in applications of scrum, Kanban and waterfall delivery approaches; and skilled in developing processes that facilitate continual progress and team achievement. Previously coached teams ranging in size from 5 to 15 people and successfully delivered products and projects ranging in budgetary scale from 500,000 USD to 15 million USD. I’m driven to provide high quality services with a keen consideration on Business Objectives, Key results, time, cost, customer retention and quality.
I’m interested in opportunities around;
Strategic business initiatives and partnerships
Helping startups scale
Product Management and launch
Project Management
Helping Startups companies develop their company policies and procedures around Products and Projects
Education
University of Bradford - United Kingdom
Nnamdi Azikiwe University
Scrum Alliance USA
Scrum Alliance USA
Project Management Institute USA (PMI)
Work & Experience
Senior Product and Project Manager (Independent Contractor)
IntelCraft NG Ltd.
- Product Management - Project Management - Growth and Strategic Initiatives
Senior Project Manager (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Schneider Electric (Industrial Process Automation, Industry Business.)
• Developed relevant metrics that help the team see how they are progressing and provide management insight regarding the performance of the team • Provided leadership in the establishment and development of project base line budgets, resource allocation, and schedules in individual and group situations • Drove implementation of best agile practices: dynamic team collaboration, informative metrics, lean development, continuous improvement • Actively contributed to the continuous improvement of the project management framework and to the successful organization transition to Agile • Managed outsourced work, consultants, partners, vendors, and relationships • Proactively identified and tracked project risks and developed mitigation plans to manage risk • Served as a Scrum Master by conducting and effectively participating in sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospectives • Worked with Product / Solutions design team to understand priority features • Provided monthly metrics, reporting to management team on burn down progress, velocity and release updates • Helped the team self-organize & ensure it strives to make each increment of functionality potentially shippable on live environments • Fostered open communication across teams as well as cross-functionally within the organization to identify cross-team development dependencies and expose risks early and often • Actively partnered with customers to diagnose problems and identify business opportunities that increased revenues from the as-sold position and enhance the impact and success of the project
Senior Project Manager
SIEMENS Energy
• Managed work with sales, end to end solutions design and supply chain before project is sold in order to develop the scope of work and progress in a strategic direction • Managed and aligned people resources from multiple internal functions (e.g. Engineering, Services, Sales, Product Development, Finance and Supply Chain). • Improved cash flow by identifying issues with project budget, streamlining billing activities, and monitoring performance measures. • Managed projects throughout the project Life Cycle.
Senior Telecoms Project Manager
WECO Systems International
• Managed the deployment and delivery of Server infrastructures, Network security, Wireless Area Network, Local Area Network projects across financial and the oil and gas industries • Provided overall responsibility for Solution Delivery & Implementation from a Project Management perspective, POST Implementation Engineering Support, Contracts, Outsourcing. • Ensured that customers’ objectives are met with proper alignment with set SOWs and Project Implementation Plans, Technical Specification document at the right/budgeted cost, quality and time. • Partnered with various implementation teams to schedule fulfilment of customer project requirement. • Facilitated project quality control measures during site installations, terminations, setups • Ensured Project actual commissioning and sign-off • Ensured that customer projects are fulfilled in alignment with budgeted costs, quality and time. • Managed diverse teams of people including customers, internal staff, Engineers and Subcontractors. • Prompt follow-up on equipment delivery status and timelines, on-time mobilization of manpower and materials to project sites. • Ensured minimal complaints from customers and subcontractors across all projects handled. • Communicate, liaise and negotiate internally and externally using appropriate methods to facilitate the development of profitable business and sustainable relationships that will ensure repeat businesses and support SLA renewals
Product and Project Manager
PARKWAY (https://parkway.ng/)
Major Accomplishments: • I was actively involved in the Product development of Parkway's Flagship e-Payment Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution called PayZone. This involved development of Merchant/Contractor agreement, Product pricing setup negotiations, Merchant administration / monitoring. • I was fully involved in the product development, business development and strategic partnership development of the ReadyCash Mobile Money Service (www.readycash.com.ng) which was the second to be launched in Nigeria. These included but not limited to, Product roadmap, functional design specification, Pricing strategy, market analysis and strategy, Agent / Contractor management, functional software testing, user acceptance testing. • I organized and was held accountable for trainings such as functional product training for clients and team building trainings across Africa and India • Successfully managed the Product development and launch of 15 Fintech Products with Parkway Projects. • I was actively involved in the software design, development and deployment of Parkway's foremost and flagship e-payment products called InfoGrid Bank3D and PayXpress solution in 2006. • These IT software solutions gave a recurring profit of up to 50,000 USD per sale to Parkway and generated over USD10B revenue for clients it was deployed for. • I successfully managed over 30 projects worth over 950,000 USD during my stay in Parkway Projects
