Abdul Ibiyeye
Agile Digital Product Manager
Summary
A seasoned digital product professional with a broad experience in leading and delivering B2B and B2C products for almost a decade. Expert in product engineering, marketing, operations, and agile and waterfall mobile and web development. I am a highly organized team-player who can fill any role as a generalist, and at the same time, dive deep to formulate innovative solutions to specific challenges. Proficient in market research, analysis, and problem-solving techniques.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Digital Product Owner
Invesco
03.2022 - 01.2025
- Company Overview: Environment: SAFe, AI & Blockchain Integration, B2B & B2C Cloud & Web Applications
- Led AI & Web3 integration for financial products, driving adoption of decentralized identity solutions, tokenization, and AI-driven customer insights
- Defined quarterly AI & blockchain strategy goals, breaking them down into Agile epics, features and user stories
- Led cross-functional teams in the adoption of MLOps pipelines and blockchain integrations
- Led AI-driven automation for investment research, integrating ML models for predictive analytics
- Evaluated and implemented Web3 strategies, including tokenization of assets and DeFi solutions
- Conducted client strategy workshops on AI ethics, data governance, and regulatory compliance
- Advocated for user-centric AI and blockchain-powered solutions, enhancing the investor experience
- Spearheaded cloud-native architecture migration from ATG to Rancher and GCP for high-scale enterprise API services
- Designed AI/ML deployment pipelines ensuring real-time inference and compliance with SOC 2, AML, and GDPR regulations
- Supported user testing sessions, gathered feedback, and worked with UX/UI designers to iterate designs based on user insights and ensure usability standards
- Environment: SAFe, AI & Blockchain Integration, B2B & B2C Cloud & Web Applications
Digital Product Owner
AMEX
07.2021 - 02.2022
- Company Overview: Environment: SAFe, AI-Enhanced Cloud Applications, B2B & B2C Payments
- Led AI and blockchain adoption in B2B/B2C payment applications, improving fraud detection and compliance workflows
- Drove AI automation within payment processing workflows, optimizing transaction approvals using machine learning models
- Explored decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions, advising on smart contract implementations and blockchain interoperability for payments
- Collaborated on cloud security strategies across AWS and GCP, ensuring scalable deployment of AI-driven risk models
- Worked with compliance teams to align AI and blockchain implementations with KYC, AML, and GDPR regulations
- Environment: SAFe, AI-Enhanced Cloud Applications, B2B & B2C Payments
Digital Product Management Consultant
Hitachi
01.2021 - 07.2021
- Company Overview: Environment: SAFe and B2B cloud-based applications
- Multi-million-dollar project to replace legacy application with an intuitive web-based application for trade processing and enrichment
- Actively contributed to the product roadmap to outline key milestones and deliverables, ensuring the project was delivered on time
- Collaborated with executive stakeholders to ensure alignment on project scope and timelines
- Supported UX/UI teams in reviewing wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to ensure alignment with user and business requirements
- Worked with internal teams and third-party vendors to document functional and non-functional requirements and ensure smooth content migration, preserving existing content structure and SEO considerations
- Environment: SAFe and B2B cloud-based applications
Digital Product Management Consultant (Digital and API Platforms)
Wells Fargo
01.2021 - 07.2021
- Company Overview: Environment: SAFe, B2B & B2C cloud-based web applications
- Incremental renewal of mission-critical credit card processing application and integration with loan origination and leveraging Loan IQ
- Led the development of project charters and business cases across solution groups for the initiative
- Conducted Feasibility analysis to solidify the scope and timeline of the Incremental plan
- Presented findings and recommendations to 7 product team using quantitative and qualitative data with a focus on new feature development
- Developed 12+ different features which resulted in increased productivity and reduce staff time by 22%
- Directed Vendor relationship including 30% of contracts, including execution and financial payments
- Validated 1500+ test cases (from user stories) to verify features worked as designed
- Environment: SAFe, B2B & B2C cloud-based web applications
Snr. Business Analyst/Digital Product Specialist
First Data
01.2014 - 07.2014
- Company Overview: Environment: Waterfall and B2C cloud-based web applications
- Multi-million project to design and develop a secure and convenient web-application way for State of New York taxpayers to schedule tax payments and respond to tax notices
- Worked with product, end-users, and SMEs to fully understand the goals, objectives, and success criteria
- Conducted GAP analysis on current IT tools for CSB stakeholders and identify pain point to be eliminated to improve program performance, enhance communication, and increase efficiency
- Leveraged waterfall methodology, created Business Requirement Documents, conducted user sessions and interviews
- Identified data sources, analyzed data, identified transformation rules, conducted gap analysis, and documented missing attributes
- Worked with developers for creating mockup screens and POC to reduce ambiguity thereby clarifying and identifying gaps within the requirements
- Conducted UAT and system demos
- Environment: Waterfall and B2C cloud-based web applications
Business Systems Consultant
Deloitte/State of Indiana
07.2012 - 12.2013
- Company Overview: Environment: Waterfall and B2C cloud-based web applications
- Business process transformation of State of Indiana Child Support Enforcement Network
- Completed in-depth analyses for business-optimization projects, reporting tools, back-office programs, and payment-processing apps
- Collaborated with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment
- Proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs
- Drafted Business Requirement Documents that fully captured functional, non-functional, and supplementary specifications
- Performed quality assurance, system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating on-time, on-budget and acclaimed 'go-live' of enterprise implementations for up to 12,000 national users
- Environment: Waterfall and B2C cloud-based web applications
Business Analyst
PNC Bank
01.2012 - 06.2012
- Worked on SQL tools for data extraction and analysis
- Worked with risk group to gather the requirements for establishing the linkage between the applications for trade risk analysis
- Created requirement document, use cases, flow diagrams and sequential diagrams by using UML tools and techniques in MS Visio
- Worked with developers during entire development sprints and provided all necessary guidance with respect to requirement specifications
- Assisted the QA team to develop the test plans and test cases and performed Functional and User Acceptance Testing
- Responsible for defect management and worked with QA and development teams to prioritize, testing, and resolving defects
Jnr. Business Analyst
Cendant Mortgage
05.2011 - 12.2011
- Elicited, analyzed, reviewed, and evaluate business requirements and user needs
- Collaborated with Consultants, Sr
- Consultants, and Directors to design and implement systems that parallel overall client business objectives
- Worked under the immediate supervision of the Project Manager, and exercise independent judgment on small engagements or as a part of the team on enterprise projects
Education
MBA - undefined
Ashland University
B.sc - Accounting
University of Maiduguri
Skills
Product Engineering & Management
undefinedCertification
Certified SAFe 4 Practitioner – Scaled Agile
Timeline
Digital Product Owner
Invesco
03.2022 - 01.2025
Digital Product Owner
AMEX
07.2021 - 02.2022
Digital Product Management Consultant
Hitachi
01.2021 - 07.2021
Digital Product Management Consultant (Digital and API Platforms)
Wells Fargo
01.2021 - 07.2021
Snr. Business Analyst/Digital Product Specialist
First Data
01.2014 - 07.2014
Business Systems Consultant
Deloitte/State of Indiana
07.2012 - 12.2013
Business Analyst
PNC Bank
01.2012 - 06.2012
Jnr. Business Analyst
Cendant Mortgage
05.2011 - 12.2011
MBA - undefined
Ashland University
B.sc - Accounting
University of Maiduguri
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