Hi, I’m
Gabriel Eze
Innovation Manager
Bari
Summary
Focused Project Manager adept at planning, directing and maintaining continuous operations in various departments. Experienced in directing manufacturing employees and keeping efficient production in accordance with quality standards. Applying creative and analytical approach to operations for continuous process improvement. Skilled at identifying or anticipating problems and providing solutions. Excels through mentoring, training and empowering team to excel in performance.
Overview
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Instructor
01.2021
Job overview
- Orange Digital Center (in partnership with GIZ, Cambrian Futures, andthe French Telecom) (Remote)
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School
Guest Speaker
01.2020
HULT International Business School
Guest Speaker
01.2019
GRIT Systems Engineering LtdLagos
Design consultant
01.2015
Planetek ItaliaBari
Business Advisor
04.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Analyse the business opportunities in the Earth Observation procurementsissued by the European Space Agency, especially those related to Africa;
- Perform all the necessary investigation useful to understand the winningpossibility for Planetek;
- Scout for all possible partners both as prime contractor and subcontractors;develop the right consortia requisite to bid for specific tenders;
- Participate in the writing of different phases of the proposals; followup withexisting projects in the vest of the customer's account.
Rural Farmers Hub
Head of Innovation & COO
08.2019 - Current
Job overview
- Ideate and develop innovative digital solutions and ICT strategies, solutions,and applications for agriculture; Identifying sustainable channels for scalingtools to farmers and institutional partners;
- Shape the corporate direction of the company through policies & programs;
- Organize the company's major departments & associated senior staff positions
- Allocate material, human and financial resources to implement companypolicies and programs, and approve overall personnel planning
- Develop and implement multi-year strategic plans for the organization, incollaboration with key members of the senior leadership team and Board
- Translate the vision and broad organizational objectives into tangiblestrategies and actionable tactics, supported by manageable processes
- Identify, shape, and optimize systems and processes to enable Rural Farmers
- Hub to scale, utilizing the most sustainable business model and products
- Ensure compliance with company's culture across all branches and department
Venture Building
01.2018 - Current
Job overview
- A decentralized real estate and rental startupusing blockchain technology to make buying, selling and rental process ofproperties less costly and more convenient and secure
- Facilitated their firstround on corporate partnership and investment of $20K to pilot the product;they went ahead to raise $500K for further growth
- Incubated SoiLens Project (Algeria), an app for high-resolution soilinformation with spatial visualization of nutrient heterogeneity at quantitativescale
- The user can access precise, expert-level and site-specificrecommendations on fertilization strategy and timing
- They are on the verge ofraising €30,000 and working with ICARDA to further validate the product idea
Timac Agro ItaliaBarletta
Innovation Manager (Intern)
01.2022 - 07.2022
Job overview
- Using design thinking methodology to develop a system for valorizing dairywastes processed by Giovani Putignano and figli S.r.l
- To create new biofertilizer enriching Time Agro Italia product range;
- This work involves two (2) companies; the latter supplied the dairy wastes forextracting fertilizer raw materials while the former will valorize them intouseful bio fertilizer.
Touchabl Pictures LimitedHarcourt
CEO
10.2015 - 05.2021
Job overview
- Planning and implementing AI systems for customers
- Supervising the preparation and annotation of the training data
- Selecting the right ML techniques and methods to be used
- Developing and tuning the Machine Learning (ML) model, collaborating withsoftware developers in creating AI tools that were used by over 2,500 smallbusinesses and users; e.g
- A personal styling app
- Evaluating the model architecture as the use-case evolves
- Coordinating specific interventions in the fashion design and garmentmanufacturing sector; facilitating a stakeholder forum for over 200 businessowners on leveraging AI in 8 major cities
- Supporting small business owners, especially those with literacy challenges,with AI-powered productivity tools for managing inventory and online sales(i.e
- Seamless migration of brick-and-mortar stores to the open onlinemarketplace)
- Developed a voice AI project (a Siri-like tutor) for delivering quality educationfrom MOOCs to school kids in remote villages in Nigeria
- Formulating key narratives on the impact of automation/AI on jobs; assistingthe policy manager in disseminating these narratives at policy events indesignated local government areas
- Other co-operations
- Planning specific interventions, developing work-plans and providing supportto policy managers in drawing intervention specific budgets
- Mobilizing, organizing, and facilitating key stakeholders' engagements withpolicy actors on specific issues
- Facilitating a forum of 50 participants on fashion technology for small- andmedium-scale enterprises in Nigeria.
NANTS / ECOWAS
Independent Consultant
09.2019 - 11.2019
Job overview
- Facilitating workshops on agricultural development for growing small-scaleagricultural enterprise conducted in Abuja plus a workshop at Ouagadougou
- A joint study with socio-professional organizations for a regional strategy onyouth employability in agriculture in West Africa.
Yelocode Systems Limited
Managing Director
01.2016 - 01.2017
Job overview
- Harcourt), a tech hub fortrainings, software development, co-working space, and startup incubation
Institute of Mechanical Engineering
Ambassador
01.2006 - 01.2010
Education
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Master from Open Innovation
National Open University of Nigeria
Master of Business Administration
01.2013 - 04.2014
Federal University of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering from Automotive Technology
01.2005 - 04.2010
Skills
Interdisciplinary collaboration
Training and mentoring
Proposal creation
Goal-setting
Verbal and written communication
Research
Forecasting ability
Project planning and development
Business process re-engineering
Advanced problem solving
Software Development Lifecycle
Story planning
Agile frameworks
Stakeholder relationship management
Accomplishments
- Nanodegree in AI Programming – Udacity (Online)Certificate in Data Science – IBM/Coursera (Online)
- PERSONAL SKILLS
- Mother Tongue (s) Igbo, Hausa
- Other languages English
- Authored articles
- Synergy for Enhanced Crop Productivity — A Technological Paradigm for
- Improved Smallholder Farming (Ag & Remote Sensing)
- Soil Water Information in Farmers' Hand (Ag & Remote Sensing)
- Nigeria through the eye of disruptive machines
- (Software/AI)
- Software is eating common jobs in Nigeria
- (Software/AI)
- Not all startups can be lean
- (Startup)
- Does a business idea have an expiry date
- (Startup)
- A new concept of engine combustion chamber design
- (Engineering)
- A new approach to drive system design for renewable energy
- (Energy)
Timeline
Business Advisor
Planetek Italia
04.2023 - Current
Innovation Manager (Intern)
Timac Agro Italia
01.2022 - 07.2022
Instructor
01.2021
Guest Speaker
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School
01.2020
Independent Consultant
NANTS / ECOWAS
09.2019 - 11.2019
Head of Innovation & COO
Rural Farmers Hub
08.2019 - Current
Guest Speaker
HULT International Business School
01.2019
Venture Building
01.2018 - Current
Managing Director
Yelocode Systems Limited
01.2016 - 01.2017
CEO
Touchabl Pictures Limited
10.2015 - 05.2021
Design consultant
GRIT Systems Engineering Ltd
01.2015
National Open University of Nigeria
Master of Business Administration
01.2013 - 04.2014
Ambassador
Institute of Mechanical Engineering
01.2006 - 01.2010
Federal University of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering from Automotive Technology
01.2005 - 04.2010
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Master from Open Innovation
04.2022