
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
Senior Manager
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
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.
Vaccine Hesitancy Insights Tool
Developed a proof-of-concept insights tool to monitor and report on vaccine hesitancy.
Miro Implementation
Set up, launched, and managed user adoption of Miro for remote, collaborative design across global teams.
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, 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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