Oluwatosin Inadagbo
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Lagos, Nigeria
Toptal member since September 28, 2020
Oluwatosin is a certified project manager whose experience spans a variety of roles within the IT sector as well as project management itself. She has managed remote international teams to deliver multiple small and large projects, and her experience cuts across various industries such as social investment and education. At an online freelance agency, she managed more than 100 remote engineers across five African countries and implemented programs that improved their productivity and retention.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Project Management
- IT Business Analysis
- Jira
- Project Management
- Remote Team Leadership
- Requirements Analysis
- Scrum Master
- Software QA
Work Experience
Program Manager
Online Freelance Agency
- Led a team of project managers and coordinators to design and execute recognition and mentorship programs, which positively impacted 250 junior engineers and 100 senior engineers.
- Designed strategic programs and initiatives to improve engineer retention and performance across 70 accounts with 216 engineers and six engineering managers.
- Managed escalations relating to the engineers within the accounts in my purview.
- Managed the assessment tool selection project and the test creation project while paying attention to time, budget, and quality. These projects led to the successful hiring of over 50 senior engineers within a year.
Technology Project Manager
Venture Garden Group | Garden Social Venture
- Coordinated a team of seven that designed, implemented, and managed the digital transformation roadmap of the Government Enterprise Empowerment Program (GEEP).
- Managed the teams that designed and implemented the self-service loan application portal, which was instrumental in growing the program by 300% in six months.
- Onboarded, integrated, and managed 15 partners to the program, including vendors, financial partners, and third-party service providers.
- Drove technology innovation and process improvement, which helped solve operational and process issues on the program.
- Coordinated the support for over 5,000 system users across the country.
- Directed stakeholder and client management activities and recorded a client satisfaction rating of 4.5 out of 5.
Project Manager
Venture Garden Group
- Spearheaded the company-wide adoption of Scrum, groomed three scrum masters, and coached five teams on Agile practices within the organization.
- Improved project delivery by 20% by leveraging Agile practices.
- Managed the design, development, and deployment of a billing application used to process transactions of over five million dollars within a year.
- Designed the frameworks for identifying and mitigating project risks, and actively tracking the mitigation of such risks.
Project History
Self-service Loan Application Portal
Led a team of five engineers to design and develop a self-service loan application portal built for the fastest growing microlending scheme in Africa.
I was involved in the following activities to drive the successful execution of the project:
• Participated in the recruitment of the engineering team.
• Contributed to the requirements documentation.
• Designed the wireframes.
• Facilitated the team's scrum meetings.
• Managed project delivery.
• Provided the stakeholders with updates and managed the stakeholders' expectations.
• Communicated changes to users.
• Configured Google Analytics and gained insights to improve the portal.
• Coordinated the support team for fast turnaround time on issue resolution.
Implementation of an API Manager
Managed a team of engineers using the Agile project management (APM) framework to design and implement a middleware used to manage all the services and third-party service requests on the fastest-growing microlending scheme in Africa.
• Analyzed, documented, and refined requirements.
• Designed the wireframes for the application.
• Leveraged Scrum to manage my team and to drive project deliverables.
• Managed the communication between my team, third-party service providers, and users.
• Managed the expectations of my stakeholders and provided frequent project updates.
• Tested the APIs to ensure compliance with our quality standards.
• Provided second level support to users
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree (BSc) in Computer Engineering
Obafemi Awolowo University - Ife, Nigeria
Certifications
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute, Inc.
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute, Inc.
Skills
Tools
Jira, Google Hangouts, Trello, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Asana, Postman, Skype, Google Analytics
Paradigms
Agile Project Management, Change Management, Kanban, Design Thinking, Agile Product Management, Requirements Analysis
Other
Google Meet, Scrum Master, Agile Product Delivery, Stakeholder Management, Issue Management, Remote Team Leadership, Communication, IT Project Management, Technical Project Management, Project Management, Project Planning, Risk Management, Agile Coaching, Software QA, IT Business Analysis, Creative Problem Solving, Gliffy, Wireframing, Technical Requirements, Technical Documentation, Vendor Management, Vendor Selection, Program Management, People Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Performance Management, Digital Communication, User Research, REST APIs, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Python 3, C++, System Design, Cloud Computing, API Integration, Software Engineering, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
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