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Jonas Ekobe

Senior Product Manager

PROFILE

Dynamic Senior Product Manager with 12 years of experience in defining and driving new product initiatives that delight customers. Technical fluency and business insight, including the ability to lead, influence cross-functional teams of engineers and build consensus with senior executives. Prior experience provided opportunity to deliver cloud-based solutions as well as to modernize analytics and enterprise level data management systems.

EXPERIENCE

Senior Product Manager / Freddie Mac, Virginia

2018 to Present

•Led several product teams to rearchitect legacy core systems to be compatible with cloud-based technologies, resulting in lower latencies, better experience for customers and shortened time to market for new business applications.

•Successfully completed 18 deployments to ingest near-real time data from 8 SORs that spanned across legacy mainframes, relational and non-relational systems with ~ 700 tables and +14bn records.

•Led the creation of innovative financial solutions to provide an early view of credit risk assessment and fraud checks; collaborating with technical stakeholders and translating proposed solutions into user stories, and prioritizing product backlog to proactively plan for future development and release schedules.

•Pioneered the path to deliver data movement patterns from legacy applications to cloud-native environments, in support of machine learning and data analytics use cases.

•Achieved a monumental first by building a cloud-native transaction processing application to support the origination compliance and investment quality of loans. Used modern design, microservices and container-based architectural approach.

•Persevered through challenges and excelled in problem solving, adopting new technologies while transitioning from legacy mainframes, to ensure the company maintains a world class operating platform.

•Managed technical design sessions and agile development with cross-functional teams of over 20 software engineers, solution architects, analysts, operations, internal customers to ensure continuous delivery. This resulted in an average of 6 features released per quarter and an annual average of 20 releases including several new backend systems.

•Effectively communicated with all levels of staff, including executive level customers, prioritizing requests, responding to change in the form of priority shifts and leading multiple projects through aggressive timelines from concept to UAT and delivery.

•Identified and resolved inefficiencies in tools and streamlined complex workflows in support of key business initiatives.

•Assisted in data analysis to drive proactive product analytics, including usage and access patterns, production volume; defined and analyzed metrics (OKR) to drive products' success.

Senior IT Project Manager / Element Financial Corporation

2017 - 2018

•Created and managed a fleet management software providing intelligence for over 1 million vehicles and connecting drivers, operations, and mechanics around important daily vehicle information, including faults and defects flagged in real-time.

•Managed three distributed and collocated cross-functional teams of over 30+ members with diverse technical skills (Solution architects, Business analysts, Developers, Testers, etc.) and project budgets of over $700k.

•Followed the Agile development framework including, test-driven development and continuous integration, daily stand-up, demos, retrospectives, refinement, PI planning, etc.

•As product owner, collaborated with stakeholders and executives on product vision, release planning, trade-off decisions and defining priorities by economic value.

•Responsible for all phases of projects execution from the development of technical requirements, cost and resource estimates, vendor management, liaising between business and technical teams.

•Tracked metrics and risks through Jira and Confluence to report status by end of each sprint and resolved impediments.

•Enabled significant savings in development costs while increasing teams’ agility and velocity.

•Formulated plans and recommended effective strategies for AWS infrastructure and data platform upgrade.

•Assessed security gaps for IT General Controls on four financial management applications and recommended mitigation strategies leading to a more secure and resilient platform.

•Coached teams on Agile Scrum processes and shielded them from gratuitous disruptions.

Senior IT Project Manager / Fintech Innovative Solutions for Finance

2010 - 2016

•Grew team from 3 to 25 people to create and manage financial applications including innovative mobile centric payment systems to increase financial inclusion.

•Managed multiple competing priorities across all phases of the system development life cycle (SDLC) for multiple releases within the constraints of the scope, resources, time, and budget.

•Assisted Product owners in translating complex business needs into deliverable features/user stories on behalf of stakeholders and identified ways to deliver minimum viable products in alignment with product epics.

•Planned and executed User Acceptance Testing as well as post Implementation validations to ensure successful releases of projects.

•Regularly tracked and published metrics to enable senior executives and business users to monitor progress.

•Provided leadership in writing test scripts, managing UAT and DevOps teams, tracking defects and change request in application tracking software such as Rally, Jira and Confluence.

•Achieved seamless migrations and integrations that were transparent to clients and accomplished with no unscheduled downtime.

IT Project Manager / Mecene Investment

2009 - 2010

•Worked with numerous stakeholders to analyze existing systems and application needs.

•Determined and evaluated potential solutions, developed system specifications and requirements and designed applications to meet the requirements.

•Led Agile/Scrum teams in configuring and implementing complex COTS banking solutions, assuming full accountability over the project life cycle.

•Developed and maintained systems and processes facilitating the integration of multiple data sources, including SQL and Oracle based systems.

•Managed and mitigated project risks/issues, constantly monitoring the health of projects, critical path items and impact to timelines. Reported project status regularly to Senior Management.

•1650 Silver Hill Drive

Tysons, VA 22102. USA

•+1-571-***-****

•adya0t@r.postjobfree.com

•End-to-end Product Delivery

•Decision Making and Prioritization

•Human Centered Design

•Cloud Architecture

•Big Data Technologies (Collibra, Presto, Apache, Okera, ETL Hadoop, Snowflake,

Informatica, Attunity, etc)

•Business Intelligence and Governance Models

•AI/Machine Learning

•Data Analytics

•Dashboards and BI Reporting

HIGHLIGHTS

EDUCATION

•MBA - Master of Business Administration, University of Cumbria, UK

•MSc (with Distinction) - Master of Science in Project Management, University of Wales, UK

•PMP® - Project Management Professional

•AWS-SAP® - Certified Solution Architect Professional

•AWS-SAA® - Certified Solution Architect Associate

•AWS-CCP® - Certified Cloud Practitioner

•ITL® 4 - Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

•ACSM® - Advanced Certified ScrumMaster

•CSM® - Certified Scrum Master

•A-CSPO® - Advanced Certified Scrum Product Owner

•CSPO® - Certified Scrum Product Owner

•SAFe® 5 Agilist

•SAFe® POPM - Product Owner/Product Manager

•PMC® - Product Management Certificate

•Python for Machine Learning & Data Modeling

•Advanced SQL & Database Management

•Product Management: Building a Product Roadmap – LinkedIn Learning

•Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques – LinkedIn Learning

•Applied Curiosity – LinkedIn Learning

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