Mike Oragwa
CERTIFIED AGILE PRACTITIONER | PRODUCT LEADER
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About
Certified Agile Practitioner and Product Manager with over 7 years of experience leading cross-functional teams across FinTech, HealthTech, RegTech and EdTech. Skilled in scaling Agile frameworks, driving product discovery, product delivery, and embedding a culture of continuous improvement.
Experience
Agile Lead / Lead Scrum Master - Hydrogen (Subsidiary of Access Corporation) - Nigeria
(2023-05)
- Led Agile transformation across five product teams and 15 Agile teams, achieving over 25% improvement in efficiency and product delivery.
- Established Agile performance metrics and dashboards that drove transparency, accountability and a culture of continuous improvement.
Product Manager - Topflight Apps - USA
(2022-05 - 2023-04)
- Led the product discovery and delivery of a multi-dimensional platform that reduced the execution timeline for new product lines by over 40%.
- Managed design and development of three telemedicine applications, ensuring all products were user-centred and met client requirements.
Product Manager Consultant - United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) - Italy / Kenya
(2022-05 - 2022-08)
- Managed product development of CODA 2.0, a digital nutrition tool deployed across several African countries to address malnutrition at scale, particularly in low and middle-income countries.
- Coordinated delivery across distributed, international stakeholders in a complex, mission-critical environment.
Lead Product Manager - Emergency Response Africa - Nigeria
(2021-11 - 2022-04)
- Led the product team that built Signal, Nigeria's first emergency response application, achieving an average response time of under 10 minutes.
- Managed the full product lifecycle from discovery through to launch, coordinating cross-functional teams across design, engineering and operations.
Product Manager - Youverify Inc. - Nigeria
(2020-10 - 2021-11)
- Took a digital identity wallet from concept to launch, reaching over 100,000 users with a 99% crash-free rate within the target timeframe.
- Delivered a comprehensive improvement to an address verification product, increasing data entry accuracy and user experience by 90%.
Product / Program Manager - Decagon - Nigeria
(2019-04 - 2020-09)
- Managed discovery and development of an internal recruiting software solution for the Decagon Program, achieving a streamlined recruitment process with efficiency gains exceeding 60%.
- Oversaw the comprehensive overhaul of the Decagon curriculum and program delivery methodology for software engineering training, significantly enhancing the proficiency of technology talents and leading to a notable surge in job placement rates by more than 30%.
Education
Executive Master of Business Administration - EMBA - Quantic School of Business and Technology
Bachelor of Engineering - BEng - Nnamdi Azikiwe University
