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Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Ng

Senegal

New York, United States

Community volunteer

Conducted comprehensive usability testing for an IRC-funded educational technology project in Maiduguri, involving children aged 9-12. Implemented ethical recruitment practices and created an engaging testing environment to gather authentic feedback.Designed and facilitated structured testing sessions, providing clear instructions and closely observing user interactions. Analyzed feedback to significantly enhance product usability and community impact.Led design thinking workshops and ideation sessions, fostering innovation for community and client projects.Executed qualitative usability testing for an IRC-funded learning management system using Figma prototypes. Gathered crucial insights to improve user-centricity and overall application usability.Developed and presented comprehensive reports detailing research findings and actionable recommendations, effectively communicating key insights to support informed decision-making.Managed client meetings, facilitating productive discussions and aligning stakeholders to achieve project objectives successfully.Client Included: IRC

South Africa

Collaborated closely with stakeholders to conduct research studies across three countries. I utilized specialized software to capture valuable data and quotes from user interviews and focus groups, and documented insights to develop actionable recommendations. Through debrief sessions, I communicated critical insights to clients, highlighting key findings and their implications for product design and development. I also conducted a comprehensive literature review on agritech in 25 African countries, staying updated with industry trends and collaborating with project managers to align research goals.Clients includes-Meta-Google-Standard Bank- Bill & Melinda Gates-

Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

-Led end-to-end UX research studies independently, from research design to analysis and reporting.-Managed and organized participant recruitment and scheduling for user research, including recruiting users and coordinating logistics for research studies.-Synthesized research findings to deliver actionable insights to cross-functional teams, including product managers, UX designers, and stakeholders.-Developed and implemented comprehensive research plans, setting clear timelines and milestones to ensure successful execution of research studies.-Led the creation of personas, empathy maps, and customer journeys to deepen the team’s understanding of the product target users.-Led and collaborated with UX designers, UX writers, and other stakeholders to generate prototype concepts based on user research insights.-Facilitated cross-functional team workshops to ensure alignment on user needs and design decisions.Leveraged research findings to recommend improvements to product features and design decisions.-Maintained a keen awareness of industry trends and emerging technologies that could impact the user experience and shared relevant insights with the team.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

- Determined appropriate UX research strategies in line with product and business objectives and performed detailed UX research for the new products from scratch, ensuring the products become truly user-centric.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams including design, engineering, and business analysis units, alongside other stakeholders, to identify business and product needs. - Designed and planned custom UX research for products using qualitative methodologies, and applying a variety of tools, methodologies includes semi-structured interviews, surveys, and focus groups discussions, to execute diverse research studies.- Oversaw creation of personas, empathy maps and user journeys, and contributed to prototype concepts, development, testing and refinement. - Coordinated user-recruitment for research and testing purposes and closely engaged participants to elicit detailed and useful responses to research and test questions. - Harmonized and distilled research findings into compelling, relatable, and actionable user-focused insights to enhance intelligent decision making for design and user experience.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

- Defined research strategy, developed detailed research plan and led research team on a new car care mobile application project. - Determined research budgets and managed resources, ensuring delivery of research objectives within allotted budget. - Built right persona of target users based on identified needs, pain-points, and motivations, and used insights derived from research to enable user-focused design. - Created sketches, wireframes, mockups and maps to illustrate research insights and facilitate UI designer’s work in creating user flow and user-centered interface.- Conducted quick prototype session for users, captured feedback from users and stakeholders, and led process of incorporating feedback on mobile app.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

- Researched and gathered information about community mental health needs and relevant resources required for use in conducting therapy.- Provided support to Counselling Psychologist in observing patients and carrying out research.- Designed, organized and led program team to implement variety of structured programs, including counselling, work, study, recreation and social activities for clients. - Filled out and maintained client-related paperwork, including federal and state-mandated forms, client diagnostic records and progress notes. Ensured proper storage of all records and related documents.- Performed crisis interventions to help ensure safety of patients and others. Guided clients in development of skills or strategies for dealing with problems.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

- Conducted case research and client interviews, delivered reports to partners & senior associates, and discussed case details. - Investigated facts and laws of cases and searched various resources to prepare cases and determine causes of action.- Represented clients in court for civil and criminal cases. Prepared motions, case brief, arbitration brief, bail, and applications. - Performed mediation and negotiation on client’s behalf, prepared and reviewed series of agreements including lease, sale of land, and maritime agreements.- Collated and analysed statutes, decisions, legal articles, codes, documents and other data.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

- Prepared affidavits, legal correspondence and other documents for attorneys. Organized and maintained documents in paper or electronic filing system.- Provided support to lawyers in briefing and tracking current legislations.- Handled note taking during client interviews, provided detailed notes from interviews to attorneys for reference purposes. - Filed pleadings with court, helped preparations for trials, and interfaced with case witnesses. Participated in trials, hearings, and depositions, and provided lawyers with transcripts of proceedings upon request.

Bachelor Of Laws - Llb, Law, High Honors

Barrister At Law, Law

High School Diploma

Junior High School Diploma

Visual And Performing Arts

Activities and Societies: Acting Script writing Stage play Production