Joseph Fashola
About Candidate
A Problem-Solver skilled and knowledgeable in Business Analysis, Product & Project Management, Market Research, Operations and Consulting to identify problems, recommend and develop solutions while driving change in the business environment.
With over 3 years of progressive professional experience as a generalist BA working on projects converting the needs of stakeholders and users into functional requirements, products, and programs, Successfully managing small to medium-scale projects within the agriculture and technology sector, I am one of the very few young and promising Agribusiness Development and Management chaps in Nigeria.
•Interests:
Agriculture (Agribusiness and Agric. Development) | Business Development | Technology | Management Consulting | Insurance | Finance | Startup
•I am actively open to roles as a;
Business Analyst | Product Manager | Market Research Analyst | Strategy Analyst | Consultant | Scrum Master
Location
Education
Business Analysis
Business Process Modelling and Improvement, Mind Mapping, Work Flow Design, Business Analysis Tools and Techniques, Prototyping
Work & Experience
Business Analyst And Team Lead
Extensively engage with end users to make sure that their needs were appropriately recorded and communicated to the internal technical team in relation to the overall product offerings. Creating Business Cases, Updated Project Charters, Vision and Scope, Project Plans, WBS, and Communication plans. Performing risk assessment on proposed business models. Identified and define business requirements for determining roles, relationships, and data structures to meet business, security, privacy, training and operational requirements Performed gap analysis between requirements and product features by identifying customer requirements and defined solutions, created business analysis functional and non-functional requirements, traceability matrices, RACI matrices, Swimlane diagrams and Use Cases. Performing scheduled tasks for maintenance of business data and documentation Work closely with the support team on escalated issues, new business requirements and change requests Reviewing and defining data and information requirements needed to address business requirements for use by the data team responsible for developing logical and physical data models and/or analysis and designing class models to meet business requirements. Work with business clients and technical teams on the design, development and implementation of business applications. Executing duties in accordance with control processes, scheduled management, status reporting, issues, risks, and change management. Participated in requirements workshops to review schedule, status, issues, risk and change management Reviewed test plans, and supported QA to verify test output meets client requirements and expectations Developed post-implementation reviews through coordination with QA teams Vendor teams, and developers to document lessons learnt and benefit realization
Portfolio Development Officer And Business Analyst
Worked closely with stakeholders to ensure requirements were captured and communicated to the internal technical team and partners accurately as they relate to overall product offerings Responsible for the fund deck development and accelerator application vetting. Created Business Cases, Updated Project Charters, Project Plans, WBS, and Communication plans. Performed risk assessment on portfolio startups and those in the accelerator pipeline. Performed gap analysis between requirements and product features offered by startups, identified custom requirements and defined solutions, created business analysis functional and non-functional requirements, Swimlane diagrams and Use Cases. Executed duties in accordance with portfolio development, business analysis and development, strategy and operations management.
Operations Lead
Liaised with business stakeholders to understand the existing business problem by investigating the business needs using Root Cause Analysis, and identified areas of Improvement in operations. Ensured all operations were carried out in an appropriate, and cost-effective manner. Built rapport with key stakeholders and managed them based on interest and power as per the stakeholder matrix strategy. Conducted Requirement Gathering (Elicitation) meetings using techniques like Interviews, Questionnaires, Interface Analysis, Document Analysis, Brainstorming Sessions and Focus Group to understand the business needs. Performed quality groups control checks and monitored KPIs
Business Analyst And Product Manager
An automated Social Media Content Creation And Management Tool For SMEs and Startups enabling them to only focus on the day-to-day operations of their business and I; Conducted Requirement Gathering (Elicitation) meetings using techniques like Interviews, Questionnaires, Interface Analysis, Document Analysis, Brainstorming Sessions and Focus Group to understand the business needs. Extensively engage with end users to make sure that their needs were appropriately recorded and communicated to the internal technical team in relation to the overall product offerings. Reviewed and defined data and information requirements needed to address business requirements for use by the data team responsible for developing logical and physical data models and/or analysis and designing class models to meet business requirements. Worked with business clients and technical teams on the design, development and implementation of business applications while managing product backlog. Executed duties in accordance with business analysis, scheduled management, status reporting, product management, risks, and change management. Participated in requirements workshops to review schedule, status, issues, risk and change management Reviewed test plans, and supported QA to verify test output meets client requirements and expectations Developed post-implementation reviews through coordination with QA teams Vendor teams, and developers to document lessons learnt and benefit realization