Williams Tom-Ita
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Williams is a certified product manager with six years of experience delivering products for clients across different industries. He has led scrum teams in the development of multiple products, including SaaS products, personal income tax software, a health insurance product for a leading insurance company in Africa, and business process automation products for the state and federal governments. Williams seeks to build and manage products that will grow business revenue and delight users.
Project Highlights
Expertise
Work Experience
Team Lead
Sterling Bank
- Led the software efforts of our e-mobility solution seeking to drive the adoption of electric vehicles in Nigeria (Qoremobility.com).
- Guided and led a team of product managers building mobility solutions across travel finance, tourism, and last-mile logistics.
- Took responsibility for driving the team's product strategy and ensuring the success of our products.
Lead Product Manager
Prunedge
- Led a cross-functional team in the development and sale of a custom-built business process automation solution for the public sector to the tune of $1 million, which accounted for 45% of the organization's 2021 revenue.
- Documented product requirements and proposals that helped secure six enterprise deals for the organization in 2021.
- Managed the development of a bespoke corporate health portal for one of the largest insurance companies in Africa.
- Championed restructuring the product management team's recruitment process, which grew from three members in Q1 2021 to 11 members by Q4 2021.
- Directed the development of a program management platform targeted at non-government organizations (NGOs)–a project funded by Microsoft.
- Led user research and validation sessions for the development of a retail solution for the informal sector.
Product Manager | Volunteer
Give Food Stamps
- Oversaw the development and delivery of the administrative portal and settlement platform. With this platform, we have served 1+ million meals since its inception.
- Executed campaigns that resulted in more than 80,000 meals being served to society's most vulnerable in Lagos between April and May 2020, during the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Participated in the onboarding activities of over 4,000 local food vendors across Lagos State within three months.
Product Manager
Crown Interactive
- Coordinated cross-functional teams to successfully deliver the company's software as a service (SaaS) platform, which had over 8,000 businesses signed up in the first three months.
- Oversaw the integration of eight payment service providers to the firm's financial enterprise product built and deployed for the largest electricity distribution company in Nigeria.
- Led a team in delivering a direct assessment taxation software for a Nigerian state government's internal revenue service.
- Co-managed the restructuring, implementation, and adoption of the scrum agile processes in the organization.
Co-founder and Partner
Zeldot
- Co-facilitated the development and release of the first version of the product, an eCommerce platform that caters to the sale of African art.
- Provided financing for the development of the product.
- Worked alongside the CEO to establish partnerships with local art material distributors and wholesalers.
Project History
CICOD | Software as a Service (SaaS)
http://cicod.comServed as the product manager in the development of a software as a service solution (SaaS) that enables merchants to manage their end-to-end order fulfillment process.
It allows merchants to initiate orders via online channels or over the phone and complete the order via any of the integrated payment partner outlets. The rollout of the complete CICOD solution was made possible through strategic relationships driven by mutual benefit.
For this project, I was responsible for:
• documenting the product requirement document
• owning the vision
• driving the roadmap
• leading the development of the solution
• conducting the entire scrum agile process
During my tenure on the product, we onboarded over 8,000 businesses in the first three months.
Prowoks | Business Process Automation Software
Led the development and sale activities of a business process automation solution for the public sector.
I led the development of the first version of the solution and also engaged in sales activities. The project that involved deploying the solution across two states in Nigeria generated over $1 million, which accounted for 45% of the organization's 2021 revenue.
Corporate Health Portal for the Insurance Sector
Led the development of a bespoke health portal for one of the largest insurance companies in Africa.
The delivery of the corporate health platform consisted of three subcomponents:
• administrative platform that includes a global admin portal and business admin portal
• corporate portal
• enrollee self-registration form
The business admin portal is deployed as multi-tenant software and a SaaS solution. In contrast, the corporate admin platform is deployed as a routed service application and can only be accessed by authorized users via a web URL.
Nakise Beneficiary Program Management Platform
Led the envisioning and the delivery of the MVP of a program management system for a non-profit organization.
This lack of integration between the various stakeholders and processes gives rise to reduced inefficiency, long turnaround time, and possibly error within the process, all of which lead to failure or reduction in terms of the expected outcomes of the initiatives being implemented.
To solve this, I led the development of the MVP of Nakise, a work engagement platform with multiple modules to manage the entire program beneficiary lifecycle, starting from when an individual indicates interest in acquiring a digital skill for economic opportunity through to when they finally land a job within their desired career path as well long-term impact assessment of the initiatives within the organization.
Microsoft funded this project.
EIRS Self Assessment Taxation Software
Led the development and release of a self assessment taxation software for a state government in Nigeria.
My organization was contracted as a revenue service provider to build a direct assessment administration software that is cost-effective and supports efficient operations.
I led the delivery of this application and in doing so, we were able to improve the state's revenue collection of personal income tax.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Economics
Redeemer's University - Ede, Nigeria
Certifications
Certified Product Manager
Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM)
How to Work with Toptal
Toptal matches you directly with global industry experts from our network in hours—not weeks or months.
Share your needs
Choose your talent
Start your risk-free talent trial
Top talent is in high demand.
Start hiring