Abdulwaheed Alayande
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since March 25, 2021
Abdulwaheed is a product manager with expertise across diverse sectors and startups developing and delivering high-quality user-focused products. He spearheaded the product discovery of a lightning isolator device for telecommunication towers that saved the client $1.8 million monthly. He was a contributor at Intel and Mozilla before co-founding a Facebook accelerator-backed biomedical startup. He also holds a patent for AI-powered IoT devices along with awards from Cisco and Microsoft.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Product Discovery
- Product Growth
- Product Management
- Product Vision
- Profit Optimization
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Team Development
- User Experience (UX)
Work Experience
Product
Triptease
- Managed the hotel industry-leading direct booking tools: targeted messages, insights, chat, and mobile booking experience.
- Introduced strategic and tactical continuous improvements which resulted in 2x conversion rates and significantly increased average booking value for hotels using Triptease Convert products.
- Pivoted the team from an output-driven to outcome-focused development cycle, encouraged experimentation and intense continuous discovery, 5x velocity, and accelerated release cycles.
- Led two independent product teams with different focuses, drove feature adoption rate to 43%, and improved retention rate by an additional 26%.
Product and Regulatory Consultant
RespiraWorks
- Aided the team in understating regulatory standards and readjusting the development process for ISO standard compliance.
- Established the quality assurance standard for over 40 countries to a adopt low-cost ventilator design.
- Worked cross-functionally to identify P100 filters that filtered out 99.97% incoming particles in our PAPR design.
Product Lead
TREP Labs
- Drove a major increase in performance by 23% through the efficient management of multiple key activities. Initiated the adoption of agile methodologies, beta testing, data analytics, and psychology-aided design.
- Escalated the average treatment response time from 16 hours to less than five minutes by heading successful development and market launch of a robust SaaS solution for medical infusion activity.
- Spearheaded the optimization of product lines and a reduction in development time by 36% through supervision and implementation of detailed product roadmaps.
- Oversaw the creation of a suite of medical solutions and filed for seven patents to improve point-of-care treatment.
- Secured four ethical and three clinical approvals within eight months against a standard timeframe of over two years.
- Co-developed the new standard for medical device regulatory standards in liaison with regulators across Nigeria.
- Created a product to potentially save 76,000 pregnant women and 500,000 babies from dying annually.
- Minimized blood transfusion costs by 98% from $5,000 to $100 through the design and launch of a new medical device.
- Raised over $300,000 pre-seed from angels and VC as well as grants from Facebook, Cisco, and Africa Capital Alliance.
Product Manager
Dev's District
- Directed the complete upgrade of product workflow with automation tools; this led to a 41% increase in delivery time.
- Supervised the initiation of four new products to achieve company recognition as one of the top innovators across the country.
- Boosted productivity by 12% by establishing regular dialogue with contractors.
Product Engineer
Sundouglas International Limited
- Upheld the concurrent responsibility of coding an eCommerce marketplace by utilizing PHP and WordPress for 300 supermarkets usage as well as led three developer interns.
- Developed an educational portal using Python, Django, and Material UI to facilitate a study exchange of over 500 students.
- Improved sales by 6% by overseeing the initiation of a real estate listing platform using Ruby on Rails, Haml, and Sass for development and Heroku for hosting.
Student Partner and AI Ambassador
Intel
- Coordinated 80% of student developers during undergraduate, organized workshops and training sessions, while conceiving seven hackathons and initiating 34 projects.
- Liaised with Intel Nervana AI Academy and coached 174 students in data science and machine learning.
- Enhanced growth by 8% by coaching, mentoring, and providing technical assistance and support to student enterprise in building a mobile hearing aid using natural language processing.
Student Ambassador
Mozilla
- Provided training to over 400 student developers and founded the largest student technology community on campus to win 13 awards for the university.
- Organized web literacy at the community level and visited 59 secondary schools to introduce kids to programming.
- Drove innovation and reduced product delivery time from 30 weeks to only four weeks by redeveloping the student enterprise team in adopting modern technology frameworks.
Project History
RealDrip
http://www.treplabs.coLed the development of a highly efficient medical platform with 98% cost reduction. The solution saves the lives of 76,000 women and 500,000 babies from dying annually.
LearnVisual
Oversaw the creation of a mobile app (Android and iOS) for learning via infographics with DAU 67,000+ and $4 million+ in annual revenue.
SurgeQue
Spearheaded the product discovery of SurgeQue, a lightning isolator device for telecommunication towers. The product saved client $1.8 million monthly from power surges and was deployed across 750 telecommunication towers.
VirMes
Supervised the design and development of a medical training simulator to offset complex medical training costs by 67%. The product became a medical standard in Nigeria within six months of launch.
Gbanjo
Coordinated the ideation to launch of Gbanjo, a self-checkout inventory management system for physical stores with cumulative monthly $340 million+ worth of processed goods.
Education
Credentials of Readiness (CORe) Program in Business Administration
Harvard Business School - Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Federal University of Technology - Akure, Nigeria
Certifications
Management Mathematics
Harvard Business Publishing
Finance
Harvard Business Publishing
Management Communication
Harvard Business Publishing
Product Marketing
Product School
Skills
Tools
Slack, Zoom, Asana, Skype, Pivotal Tracker, Jira, Google Docs, Roadmunk, Trello, Git, Google Analytics
Paradigms
Team Development, Agile Product Management, Scrum, Kanban, Design Thinking, Usability Testing, Agile Project Management, Requirements Analysis, B2C
Platforms
Mixpanel
Industry Expertise
Electronics, Financial Markets, Healthcare, Logistics, Real Estate
Other
Python, Embedded Software, IT Product Management, Economics, Business Analysis, Financial Accounting, Digital Communication, Writing & Editing, Presentations, Digital Marketing, Product Marketing, SEO Content, Finance, Corporate Finance, Mathematical Modeling, Statistical Data Analysis, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Product Vision, Teamwork, Software Development, Software Engineering, Community Growth, Quality Management Systems (QMS), Product Management, Amplitude, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Strategic Planning & Execution, Quality Control (QC), Profit Optimization, Notion, Microsoft Azure, FullStory, Ruby on Rails 5, Adobe Experience Design (XD), Product Roadmaps, Product Discovery, Product Planning, Roadmaps, Feature Prioritization, User Experience (UX), Product Growth, Complex Problem Solving, Creative Thinking, Hardware Development, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Process Testing, Go-to-market Plans, SQL, Product Strategy, Dashboards, Product Analytics, User Metrics, Mobile Apps, Lean Startups, Startups, Story Mapping, User Stories, User Interviews, Communication, Product Ownership, User Research, Market Research, Research, Product Development, Minimum Marketable Product (MMP), Quality Assurance (QA), Project Management, Hardware, Internet of Things (IoT), B2B, Web Applications, Customer Analysis, eCommerce, Program Management, Product Owner, Discovery, Discovery Workshops, Lean, Early-stage Startups, New Products, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Decision Trees, Lean Product Manager, User Journeys, Software as a Service (SaaS), Embedded Hardware, Management Consulting, Market Research & Analysis, Agile Product Delivery, Analytics, People Management, UX Design, Mobile UX, UX Wireframes, Business to Business (B2B), Knowledge Bases, Stakeholder Management, Global, Enterprise, Process Design, App Design
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