
Chike Eduputa
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
London, United Kingdom
Toptal member since August 29, 2022
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
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Transformation
- Business Agility
- Business Analysis
- Business Consulting
- Digital Innovation
- Digital Strategy
- Digital Transformation
Work Experience
Director
Capgemini
- Directed strategic portfolios of AI, workplace transformation, and business technology programs worth millions of pounds, aligning executive priorities, investment decisions, and delivery outcomes across complex enterprise environments.
- Led large-scale banking automation transformation programs from strategy through execution, coordinating business, technology, and change workstreams to deliver measurable value, stakeholder alignment, and sustainable adoption.
- 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.
- Built and scaled high-performing consulting and delivery teams, creating the leadership structures, governance models, and talent pipelines required to support accelerated business growth and client demand.
- Trusted advisor to CIOs, CTOs, and executive sponsors, translating business objectives into executable transformation roadmaps while managing risk, dependencies, budgets, and benefits realization.
- Established program governance frameworks that improved visibility, decision-making, and delivery confidence across multi-vendor, multi-workstream initiatives spanning technology, operations, and organizational change.
- Led complex global delivery teams across onshore, nearshore, and offshore locations, successfully mobilizing programs, resolving delivery challenges, and maintaining focus on business outcomes.
- Orchestrated enterprise-wide Microsoft, AI, and automation portfolios, balancing strategic priorities, resource constraints, and stakeholder expectations to maximize value and delivery performance.
- Created and led centers of excellence that established delivery standards, governance practices, and operating models, enabling organizations to scale innovation while maintaining control and compliance.
- Delivered high-profile transformation programs in highly regulated and complex environments, combining strong program leadership, stakeholder engagement, and disciplined execution to achieve lasting change.
Principal Consultant
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
Master's Degree in International Health Management
Imperial College London - London, United Kingdom
Bachelor's Degree in Biomedical Science
King's College London - London, United Kingdom
Certifications
Digital Innovation & Transformation Executive Education Certificate
Cambridge Judge Business School
Certified Scrum Master
Scaled Agile
Certified SAFe Program Consultant
Scaled Agile
Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
Microsoft
Certified Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft
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, AI Project 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, Technical Program Management, 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, Program Management, Project Coordination, 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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