Product Manager Portfolio
Emelda Daka
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Innovate| Lead| Impact | Google UX Design Certification

I investigate user pain points through user experience research and use design thinking strategies to effectively match business Goals with user needs. I am highly interested in social entrepreneurship and creating impactful products. I have a demonstrated history of working both in the corporate and social sector. I have worked with cross-functional teams and continue to drive product deliverables using clearly defined product requirements. My skills include #Data Analytics #Social Research #UX Research #Agile Scrum Master #Product Management #Design Thinking 

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Career Quiz Design

  • Information Technology
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Experience

Product Manager

  • RadicalX
  • Internship
  • New York - Remote
  • September 2022 - Present

 

I am involved with the following assignments:

(Group Internship) Product Manager: design a Career Quiz for students and early career professionals looking to launch their careers in the tech industry.

  • Use Agile methods to manage a cross-functional team, create research and product strategy, conduct user research, create prototypes, test and iterate.
  • Draft hypothesis and problem statement.
  • Estimate user story points and drive project deliverables.
  • Define business value proposition.
  • Create user journeys and user personas
  • Conduct user research and usability tests on hi-fi prototype

Atompoint Advanced UX Design

  • RadicalX
  • Internship
  • New York - Remote
  • July 2022 - August 2022

Redesign the E7 bank app to make onboarding shorter.

  • Conduct heuristic evaluation, competitive Analysis and create proto-personas, wireframes, responsive hi-fi prototypes

Skills: UX Research · Wireframing · Balsamiq · UXR · User Experience Design (UED) Figma

Social Impact Blogger

  • ShineAfrican
  • Full-Time
  • Online
  • Nov 2018 - Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

» Desktop Research, creative content designing and blogging using Canva and Blogger
» Building the organization’s brand and optimizing social media accounts across social media such as Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter
» Lead generation and marketing campaign creation using MailChimp
» Engaging with project beneficiaries sourced from lead generating campaigns
» Managing, growing and hosting the online community, H-TAG
»Masterminding the organization’s vision, mission & values

Project Pakati ChangeMaker

  • African Leadership Institute
  • Full-Time
  • Africa
  • Feb 2018 - Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Representing African youth on development issues that lead to sustainable change and youth inclusive leadership on the African continent through collaboration on a continental platform.

» Selected from 600 outstanding applicants, from across Africa, to be a part of Project Pakati.
» Strategizing to ensure that young people do not continue to be marginalised in decision-making and shaping Africa’s leadership.
» Deliberating on sustainable youth inclusive leadership structures for African countries
» Leading a team of 13 changemakers in research on the viability of the Minesterial Council of Young Sector Experts leadership structure as a form of youth inclusive governance.
» Engaging with teammates on the various issues that affect youths in Africa to create innovative solutions to those problems.

Founder

  • The African Gusto Hub (H-TAG)
  • Full-Time
  • Jan 2018 - Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos

»Social Impact strategy
»Masterminding organization’s mission, vision and values.
»Managing volunteers
»Coordinating start-up team activities

Human Resources Recruitment Consultant

  • RETRO HEALTHCARE LIMITED
  • Full-Time
  • London, England, United Kingdom
  • Jan 2021 - Jun 2021 · 6 mos

Assistant Payroll & Office Administrator

  • Liquid Dynamics
  • Full-Time
  • Johannesburg Area, South Africa
  • Sep 2009 - May 2015 · 5 yrs 9 mos

» Assisting the finance manager with clearing the 4 year bank reconciliation back log within 7 months through accurate and timeous data capturing
» Managing telephone and email communication between the company and its clients or suppliers
» Processing and reconciliation of monthly payroll of 200 staff complement in a timeous and accurate manner
» Supporting the financial director with processing invoices, VAT expenditure for tax submissions and cash flow spreadsheets for banking
» Reconciliation of creditors statements and invoices
» Managing and operating office equipment as well as supporting the finance team with ad hoc duties

Research Assistant

  • Centre of Applied Social Sciences
  • Full-Time
  • Honde Valley
  • Jun 2008 - Dec 2008 · 7 mos

» Aiding with Project Research Topic: Effectiveness of HIV Anti-retroviral Therapy on restoring rural livelihoods

» Applying qualitative and quantitative research skills for project monitoring and evaluation

» Developing an M & E framework and compiling written reports for feedback

» Investigating issues of gender, poverty and institutions supporting HIV and AIDS treatment programs

» Facilitating the development of a research methodology for a social research study on the impacts of anti-retroviral treatment on the livelihoods of patients

» Engaging in field research and observation, compiling questionnaires, data gathering and analysis

Degree Programs

Google UX Design Professional Certification

  • Coursera
  • Jul 2022 - Dec 2022

certificate, Global Social Entrepreneurship

  • University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
  • 2019 - 2019

Bachelor of Social Science, Sociology & Environmental Studies

  • Africa University
  • Sociology
  • 2005 - 2008

Quantitative Research

Qualitative Research

Human Behavior Theories

Ethnography

 

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

  • Startup School Online
  • May 2022

Licenses and Certifications

Product Analytics Micro-Certification (PAC)™

Product-Led Growth Micro-Certification (PLGC)™?

Agile Scrum Master

Design a Low Fidelity Prototype in Figma

Enterprise Design Thinking Co-creator

Business Analysis and Process Management

Foundations of User Experience (UX) Design

Business Models for Innovative Care for Older People

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner