Dennis Ibekwe

• Extensive quantitative & quantitative research which improved and made the platform 100% user centered.
• Prioritizing with T-shirt, weightiest shortest job first (WSJF), story points, technique and high-level collaboration.
• Constant ideation with external and internal stakeholders for constant improving of the platform.
• Collecting user and general requirements to Jira/ Confluence storage, prioritizing, Slack integration, Sprints, Reviews& Retrospective for general improvement of product life cycle.
• Competitive testing and usability testing with hot jar, user berry, Type form, usability hub and research interview.
• Using Design Method & process like Product development life cycle, Brainstorm, Define,Design(figma), & Test.
• Mapping and ideating according to the company vision & research on product strategy & mission.

Product Manager ( May 2020- March 2022)

• Prioritized Backlog, Defined sprint backlog, scope and goals. Planned sprint, and used concepts like T-shirt sizing, story point Fibonacci for backlog items estimations and sizing.
• Patterned with IT and product leadership to drive and manage the solution of developmental processes and ensure the developmental team understand the requirement and vision.
• Acted as liaison between IT, sales and business to refine the product and incorporate features that fits the market demands and customer feedbacks.
• Created and maintained the solution vision, roadmap and backlog of work through he project life cycle.
• Translated features into user stories with the team backlog while manage, ranking and prioritizing the backlog to reflect the stakeholders’ requirements.

Key achievement: Effectively negotiate sprint goals with team which resulted in slashing delivery time by 50% in a single quarter.

UI/UX Designer ( January 2019- May 2020)

• Design Methods used in solving various problems like user engagement and retention in the application are Double Diamond model, Design thinking, user-centered design & Design sprints.
• Updated, redesigned old site with pop-ups and slid shows showing beautiful housing deals. Customer engagement (60%).
• Designed a chat bot messenger and redesigned navigation system (customer support and programmers work was made so easy by 50%).
• Mentored the junior designers on quicker ways to wireframe(figma), do site maps, prototype and researches alternatives (increase in production of over 50%).

IT manager ( April 2017- September 2018)

• Worked closely with senior product management to turn company’s vision into an appealing vision and roadmap for the product.
• Analyze data, did market research, talked to customers & users to track performance of product and get inspiration for the roadmap.
• Worked closely with our customer success team and our customers to gather the most recent requirements for new features and to continuously improve existing features.
• Effective collaboration with a young and dynamic cross-functional team of Developers, Designers, Researchers, Product Analysts which resulted in 90% increase in customer engagement and usage.

Product design ( November 2016- April 2017)

• Design methodology used for usage quality and user centered design are understanding, specifying the user, design & validate.
• Collaborated with CTO and managed wide variety of cross-functional e-commerce projects involving branding, illustrations, deals & UI design.
• Integrated and designed social media, marketing content and monetized service to the e-commerce platform.
• Designed from user experience as it concerns our analytics “dashboard," adding voice over to it. It increased user satisfaction over 80%.

Agile Product owner ( July 2013 - August 2016)

• Collaborate with stockholders to understand the business problem statement and convert them into user stories.
• Articulate product vision and user stories in a way clearly understandable to the developmental team.
• Managed backlog for user stories for 2 products simultaneously and used Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) prioritization model.
• Established user story acceptance criteria and refined stories with scrum teams.
• Created sprint Release plans with input from development teams. Engaged in various scrum process like product backlog Refinement, sprint planning meetings, Daily standup's, sprint review and retrospective.
• Applied Agile methods and process to promote a discipline and transparent project management process.

Key achievement: planned and estimated 2 weeks sprint in a realistic, yet time-efficient manner that allow the team to deliver 98% of the MVP (minimum viable product) according the company roadmap.

UI/UX Designer ( May 2011 - July 2013)

• Designed and conceptualized new hot concepts in design like gamification and reminders (users’ engagement over 90%).
• Ideate with CTO( feasibility), CEO/Product manger(profitability) and designers(usability) for top level product.
• Review designs, collaborate with colleagues, interview users and ownership.
• Extensive research (comparative research/testing, usability testing, explorative testing, assessment testing) app usage and engagement was over 100%.
• Programmed with Html, css, JavaScript (react, vue.js, angular).
• Designed engagement concept like live share, Top 10 movies, what is new, in our app streaming app (Iroko tv app) for effective user engagements. Impact (over 60%).