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RaydaHead of Global Partnerships
Jan. 20251. Strategic Partnership Development: I identify and manage key partnerships to expand Rayda’s global presence, enhance service delivery, and drive business growth across Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and LATAM. 2. Team Leadership & Management: Providing strategic direction across my team and fostering a culture of inclusion , diversity and high-performance. 3.Cross-Functional Collaboration: I work closely with Growth, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to ensure seamless partner onboarding, integration, and execution of initiatives. 4.Performance Monitoring & Optimization: Track, analyze, and optimize the performance of partnerships using data-driven insights to drive informed decision-making and maximize impact.
MicrosoftProgram Manager, Talent and Ecosystem Development
Dec. 2021 - Jul. 2024Lagos1. Led and managed the execution of 3 of 7 engineering talent development programs across 10 universities in Nigeria & Ghana, producing self-driven communities, and demonstrating strong program governance skills. These involved program design and iteration, budgeting, stakeholder management, change management, adoption, and scaling. 2. Reviewed the software engineering/computer science curricula of universities and collaborated with software engineers, technical program managers, lecturers and professionals to design and benchmark Software Engineering Frameworks, and curate structured learning pathways and topics for student developers to improve their understanding and application of CS Fundamentals (Data structures and Algorithms, Networking, Databases, etc.,) and specialisations in product management, AI & ML, Security, Data Science, Data Engineering and Operating Systems. 3. Designed program playbooks, manuals, onboarding documents, operational templates, and learning guides for the Microsoft ADC Students League launched in December 2022. This initiative establishes and supports an increasing number of communities of students interested in building exceptional careers in software engineering with a strong understanding of computer science fundamentals and product management. 4. As a trusted advisor to government agencies, I provided key industry inputs on future-ready skilling, talent transformation roadmap, and STEM Education, leveraging my expertise to drive impactful change. These accomplishments demonstrate my ability to lead and manage complex projects, build and maintain strategic partnerships, provide trusted advisory services, build and nurture professional and business relationships, particularly within the public sector, and create effective program resources.
MicrosoftSuccess Manager, Modern Classrooms
Jul. 2019 - Dec. 2021MEA MCC- (Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, Botswana & Kenya)1. Led pre-sales enablement and post-sales adoption workstreams such as Microsoft Education Transformation Workshop for High school and University leaders, policymakers and decision makers across 6 state governments, advising on and supporting their digital transformation plans. 2. Designed and launched a country-wide skilling program that grew the community of Microsoft Innovative Educators (CMIEs) and Master Trainers across the country by +15,600 teachers in 2 years. 3. Achieved strategic wins and case studies across Ministries of Education in 2 states, delivering the training and certification of +28,000 teachers during the COVID-19 lockdown. 4. Grew the Education Partner ecosystem by leveraging regional managers to onboard and enable System Integrators, Cloud Solutions Providers, GTPs. Grew 4 Global Training Partners in 2 years, with a Nigerian partner, earning the FY20 Global Training Partner of the Year recognition across EMEA. 5. Drove the adoption of modern technology, including Microsoft Shape-The-Future (STF) program and Minecraft Education, continuously analysing problem-product gaps and providing feedback to marketing and engineering. 6. Facilitated customer and partner-facing demos and training sessions to remove adoption blockers grow usage and retention, collaborating with Account Executives, Technical Strategists and Specialists.
MicrosoftLearning Delivery Specialist
Oct. 2018 - Jun. 2019MEA MCC - (Nigeria)1. Developed strategies for schools to meet the performance development needs of their students by mapping learning processes to product capabilities and providing demo environments and sessions. 2. Empowered +30 education partners on Modern Classroom Solutions (M365, O365, Intune for Education, School Data Sync and Microsoft certification program (Imagine Academy). These ensured effective change management and project sustainability. 3. Reviewed accounts plans and organised demos, live events, workshops and speaking sessions on Industry Readiness to help IT decision-makers realise the need to choose Microsoft Teams for teaching and learning and migrating to M365 as an upscale motion, particularly in high-compete/target accounts. 4. Achieved 872% YoY increase across core metrics and workloads.
African Leadership AcademyEducator/ Camp Director- Global Scholars Program
May. 2015 - Jul. 2015Johannesburg Area, South Africaa) Facilitated immersive and experiential learning projects, and human-centred design thinking modules for scholars from 11 different countries b) Mentored students in real-life problem solving and project-based community service for the largest education non profit in Soweto for orphans and vulnerable minors c) Prepared advisory comments to aid guardians in making informed career decisions about their wards
Youth-Minds Alignment and Development CentreFounder
Jul. 2012Ibadana) Led the development of a 21st-Century curriculum for K-12 and HED after-school programmes, using localised contents and culturally tuned case studies to promote global competencies and 21st-century skills in youth. b) Efficiently managed +70 volunteer teachers in the space of 4 years to facilitate intensive community projects impacting +9800 young people from several private and government schools and orphanages. c) Designed and managed several bootcamps, leadership camps and skilling projects worth ~248,000 USD, focusing on transformational learning, stakeholder engagement, and smart investing techniques spanning over 3 months each. d) Guided the research and development of proprietary curricula and Intellectual Sellable Property. e) Grew the organisation through effective fundraising and project management. In 2018, I achieved a 37% increase in donations YoY.
Havilah Engineering LimitedData Centre Systems Integrator/Technical Trainer
Sep. 2008 - Jun. 2015Abuja, Lagos, Ibadana) Designed 50+ comprehensive network diagrams for multiple projects across State Governments and Universities, which helped to prevent Single Points of Failure and reduced implementation timeframe on metro projects worth +$1.3 Million. b) Facilitated Learning and Development/training sessions for Interns, external teams, and as a vendor for partner companies. c) Led the implementation and technical support of on-campus internet, WAN, Last-mile, RF Projects, Data Centre design and setup, and discrete surveillance projects across 10 states, 2 Government Houses in Nigeria, and for companies like Galaxy Backbone, NITEL, Phase 3 Telecom & Spectranet on contract. d) Led the deployment of Last-mile connectivity in complex geographical terrain. Increased Internet availability of the University from an average of 65.6% to 93.2% uptime. Achieved cost savings to the institution of ~20,000 USD in ARC
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