Nero Okwa Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

• Kedro-Viz enables you to visualise your data science pipelines and datasets in your Kedro project. You can debug and monitor the status of your Machine Learning (ML) project, preview datasets, and perform ML experiment.
• Owned the strategy, execution, and delivery of the product.
• Actively engaged in continuous product discovery through polls, user interviews, competitive analysis, and weekly user feedback sessions.
• Led execution through successful collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders (software engineers, designers, researchers, data scientist, and machine learning engineer) to deliver product iteratively.
• Managed and prioritized the product backlog, ensuring requirements are well defined and understood by the (engineering and design) team.
• Product marketing through demos, blog posts, and video tutorials.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Kedro is an open-source machine-learning (ML) engineering framework that provides the structure for data practitioners to build complex data and ML pipelines through data science best practices. It makes it easy to.
• Led user research and interviewed (Data Scientist, Data Engineer, and Machine Learning Engineer) users to gather user feedback and improve the product.
• Collaborated with stakeholders and engineering team to deliver solutions iteratively, leveraging agile principles.
• Adoption: 9,400 GitHub stars, and 12 million downloads.

Over the last 3 years, I write a newsletter about my lifelong learning journey and work experiences across my interests: Business, Technology (Product Management), Career Development, and Africa.The goal is to draw out the practical lessons/framework that anyone can apply.

Nigeria

• Responsible for product positioning company’s aviation solution to new types of clients and organisations
• Took initiative on user research which led to solutions that increased bookings by 25%
• Charter planner: actively engage in the logistics and planning of charter flights

Abuja Municipal, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

• Developed and implemented company's technology driven value proposition, whilst identifying new opportunities to add value and reach a wider customer base.
• Partnered with private jet and helicopter operators, which has provided several reliable and safe jets and helicopters and an active jet shuttle service between the major cities in Nigeria
• Grew flight service to 4 flights/day and over 200 corporate customers

Nigeria

• Successfully developed the Jetseta mobile app that enables clients to share the cost of a private jet, from concept to scaled growth of 200 corporate customers/10 partners.
• Actively led the team to define our value proposition, interview users and create initial wireframes.
• Led a team of developers to meet user requirements and deliver incrementally, using Agile methodologies.
• Successfully delivered on the app go-to-market strategy resulting in 900 downloads on launch day.

Lagos, Nigeria

• Eroton is an independent oil and gas producer in Nigeria operating the OML18 field with peak production of 65kbpd and a gas reserve of 5tcf.
• Worked closely with the MD/CEO during the strategic planning and budget planning process.
• Actively engaged with internal and external stakeholders to achieve company's targets (production and ongoing projects).
• Investigated issues from daily reports, liaised with the team lead on next actions, representing the MD/CEO.
• Prepared investment committee materials, internal memoranda and other C-suite level documents for external meetings/events and the quarterly board meeting.

Lagos, Nigeria

• Developed technical operating manuals for the $16bn TOTAL Egina FPSO Oil & Gas project.
• Produced engineering drawings of the key FPSO systems in line with the technical specifications.
• Collaborated with diverse project and technical teams to complete the project ahead of schedule.
• Prepared safety procedure documentation for the $6m TOTAL AKPO Full Field Shutdown project.
• Training completed: TOTAL Operguild Methodology, Health and Safety, and Entrepreneurship.

Essex, England, United Kingdom

• Improved overall product quality and ensured customer satisfaction by actively reviewing and monitoring warranty claim data metrics to identify potential quality issues.
• Products include Diesel turbochargers and fuel injection system across the European market.
• Implemented corrective quality actions that resulted in $600k year on year warranty save.
• Planned and implemented new team process: The Parts Recall Process that achieved $72k quarterly warranty savings.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Mechanical Engineering

Activities and Societies: UCL Business Society UCL Economic & Financial Society Afro-Caribbean Society Projects Completed: Designed a.

Msc Management

Product Manager Nanodegree Program

Product Managers are responsible for designing and delivering a profitable product or feature into the market. In this program, I learnt.

A Levels, Mathematics, Physics, Further Mathematics And Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Member of the 2nd XV Rugby team