Chike Eduputa, Project Manager in London, United Kingdom
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Chike Eduputa

Verified Expert  in Project Management

Bio

Chike is a certified agile project manager and scrum master successful at helping hybrid and multidisciplinary teams embrace agile. He has a pragmatic work ethic, reinforcing scrum, kanban, metrics, and agile-lean practices. Chike leads teams, improves performance, facilitates events, and works on projects by supporting product, business, and technical stakeholders, removing blockers, clarifying risks and dependencies, improving deliverables, and helping the broader organization adopt agile.

Project Highlights

Cloud Analytics Transformation
Built a shared understanding of how to scale local analytics initiatives using cloud technology.

Expertise

  • Agile
  • Agile Transformation
  • Business Agility
  • Business Analysis
  • Business Consulting
  • Digital Innovation
  • Digital Strategy
  • Digital Transformation

Work Experience

Senior Manager

2021 - PRESENT
Capgemini
  • Acted as the agile project manager for a government agency and led a 10-person team to design a customer portal.
  • Defined user personas, needs, journey maps, user stories, and non-functional requirements and facilitated team agile events and stakeholder workshops.
  • Coached the program director and core team on agile practices, applied lean portfolio management to drive operational efficiencies, and facilitated problem-solving workshops to identify improvement opportunities for a global bank.
  • Managed a 12-person team to develop and grow the customer proposition, recruit talent, and grow the capability across the organization through a community of practice by applying agile methods. Acted as the low-code apps lead for a tech consultancy.

Principal Consultant

2013 - 2021
PA Consulting
  • Led agile organization design transformation for a 650-person global medtech firm. Designed an agile target operating model combining Scrum, SAFe, and Spotify and scaled viable practices with experiments to deliver value early.
  • Refined work breakdown structure for a water utility CX organization, translated requirements into user stories, transferred stories into Azure DevOps, coached teams on work estimation, and facilitated their first PI planning event.
  • Acted as the agile project manager for a food retailer and supervised three technical teams using agile practices to develop a customer data platform and engagement solution.
  • Led the customer release of a captive portal solution across all stores in a record eight weeks.

Project History

Cloud Analytics Transformation

Built a shared understanding of how to scale local analytics initiatives using cloud technology.

I engaged data leaders across Europe and Asia to draft a compelling vision, understand user needs, and define requirements bringing together data analytics, insurance experts, designers and developers, and Microsoft Azure experts. We created a framework comprising reusable building blocks and data user journeys and piloted best-of-breed technologies able to operationalize the company's next-gen vision.

Vaccine Hesitancy Insights Tool

Developed a proof-of-concept insights tool to monitor and report on vaccine hesitancy.

I managed a 4-person team to identify vaccine hesitancy influencers on social media platforms, determine false claims, and match them to appropriate counterclaim content through sentiment analytics, content discovery and tagging, and dashboard reporting.

Miro Implementation

Set up, launched, and managed user adoption of Miro for remote, collaborative design across global teams.

I led the implementation and scaleout across the US and Europe of Miro, a visual collaboration platform, supporting at the peak 3,000+ active internal and external, 9,000+ digital whiteboards, and zero adverse events. Key activities included market horizon scanning of online whiteboard technologies, managing vendor relationships, running demo workshops, and developing an investment case, governance, and use case security documentation to ensure data and security compliance. I also created a best practice playbook for remote working, led team webinars to showcase applications, managed user queries, resolved issues, and oversaw billing and user access management.

Education

2011 - 2012

Master's Degree in International Health Management

Imperial College London - London, United Kingdom

2008 - 2011

Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Science

King's College London - London, United Kingdom

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2022 - PRESENT

Digital Innovation & Transformation Executive Education Certificate

Cambridge Judge Business School

AUGUST 2022 - PRESENT

Certified Scrum Master

Scaled Agile

JUNE 2022 - PRESENT

Certified SAFe Program Consultant

Scaled Agile

AUGUST 2021 - PRESENT

Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate

Microsoft

MAY 2020 - PRESENT

Certified Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

APRIL 2016 - PRESENT

Certified Agilist

Scaled Agile

Skills

Tools

Microsoft Excel, Project Management & Work Tracking Tools, Asana, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Power Apps

Paradigms

Agile, Requirements Analysis, Agile Leadership, UX Design, Management, Change Management, Design Thinking, Agile Delivery, Agile Workflow, Lean, Kanban, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Agile Product Management, Azure DevOps, Iterative Delivery, Continuous Delivery (CD), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Industry Expertise

Technology

Platforms

Azure, Microsoft Power Automate

Other

Business Design, Business Consulting, Agile Transformation, Digital Strategy, Project Management, Business Agility, Backlog Management, Business Analysis, Business Strategy, Needs Analysis, Digital Innovation, Digital Transformation, Project Planning, Discovery Workshops, Data Analysis, Technical Project Management, Training, Technology Trends, Software Implementation, Communication, Product Roadmaps, Budgeting, Executive Presentations, Sprint Planning, Project Scheduling, Resource Management, User Interface (UI), Roadmaps, Reporting, Planning, Best Practices, Hybrid Project Management, Consulting, Workflow, Team Mentoring, Mentorship & Coaching, Process Optimization, Project Tracking, Strategy, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Digital Health, Project Finance, Health IT, Team Leadership, Analytics, Data Transformation, Business Transformation, User Adoption, Scrum Master, Distributed Team Management, Life Science, Stakeholder Engagement, Agile Practices, Agile Sprints, Agile Coaching, Scrum Coaching, Scrumban, Data Modeling, User Experience (UX), Business Intelligence (BI), Business Cases, Customer Experience, Data Analytics, Data Management, Data Quality Analysis, Estimation & Planning, Project Timelines, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Cost Estimation, Product Management, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Cross-functional Collaboration, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Data Quality, Proof of Concept (POC), Feature Prioritization, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Web Applications, Mobile Apps, Automation, Scorecard Development, Creative Thinking, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Stakeholder Management, Managerial Economics, Coaching, Business Development, Cloud, Product Transformation, Sentiment Analysis, Analytical Dashboards, User Personas, User Needs, Agile Release Training, Lean Portfolio Management, Business Process Flow (BPF), Process Analysis, Security, Cloud Storage, Capability Build-out, Competitive Intelligence, Airtable, Database-driven Web App Development, Integration, Platforms

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