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Strong communication profile specializing in Infographics Design and Data Visualization
Blaise Aboh
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Blaise is a leading analytics consultant and trainer with over 6 years of verifiable experience in Data Visualization and Analytics. He is a confident and independent self-starter who is able to hit the ground running; he has successfully trained organizations on how to effectively analyze and interpret data from a variety of domains covering; Finance, Telecommunications, the Third Sector, Education, Health, Security, and Economies in general. Blaise has reformed organizational structures with his ability to transfer data literacy and proficiency in statistical analysis.
With excellent communication and interpersonal skills, Blaise has helped organizations to improve their analytical capabilities through end-to-end maturity assessments, market research, designing analytic centres of excellence, and ground-up reporting suites. His experience of full end-to-end data journeys where Blaise optimized various performance reporting architectures, infrastructures, and systems to enable effective business planning and service design.
Blaise has excellent planning and organizational skill. He understands leadership and strategic direction and is able to work to agreed deadlines. Blaise is capable of setting and propelling progressive change through business planning, hands-on training, and capacity development. He is currently seeking his next engagement where he can utilize his skills and experience to contribute to data-driven business decisions.
With excellent communication and interpersonal skills, Blaise has helped organizations to improve their analytical capabilities through end-to-end maturity assessments, market research, designing analytic centres of excellence, and ground-up reporting suites. His experience of full end-to-end data journeys where Blaise optimized various performance reporting architectures, infrastructures, and systems to enable effective business planning and service design.
Blaise has excellent planning and organizational skill. He understands leadership and strategic direction and is able to work to agreed deadlines. Blaise is capable of setting and propelling progressive change through business planning, hands-on training, and capacity development. He is currently seeking his next engagement where he can utilize his skills and experience to contribute to data-driven business decisions.
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2016 - 2021
job
Director of Data
ORODATA HQ.
Orodata HQ is a data analytics company that conducts detailed statistical analyses, including working with diverse and complex information and intelligence, to produce insights and focused outputs for
clients in Business, Recruitment, Non-government, and Government Organizations.
Responsibilities:
● Ensuring the production of timely, accurate, and insightful reports using graphical representations and data visualizations.
● Interpreting requirements and presenting data in a clear and compelling way using visualizations
● Leveraging open or publicly available data environments to research information for client needs
● Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, business leaders, managers
● Identifying trends and insights and ensuring good presentation of the information found
● Providing guidance and training for internal staff through knowledge sharing sessions to ensure they are
confident and up to date with industry best practices and standards.
● Providing leadership and expert advice to senior leaders, staff, and external agencies
● Manipulating large volumes of structured and unstructured data, identify trends and insights
● Identifying limits of data, drawing a conclusion, and ensuring overall data governance by conducting
data quality assurance, validation, and checks.
Technologies & Tools: Qlik Sense, Flourish Studio, Google Data Studio, Trello, Slack
clients in Business, Recruitment, Non-government, and Government Organizations.
Responsibilities:
● Ensuring the production of timely, accurate, and insightful reports using graphical representations and data visualizations.
● Interpreting requirements and presenting data in a clear and compelling way using visualizations
● Leveraging open or publicly available data environments to research information for client needs
● Building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, business leaders, managers
● Identifying trends and insights and ensuring good presentation of the information found
● Providing guidance and training for internal staff through knowledge sharing sessions to ensure they are
confident and up to date with industry best practices and standards.
● Providing leadership and expert advice to senior leaders, staff, and external agencies
● Manipulating large volumes of structured and unstructured data, identify trends and insights
● Identifying limits of data, drawing a conclusion, and ensuring overall data governance by conducting
data quality assurance, validation, and checks.
Technologies & Tools: Qlik Sense, Flourish Studio, Google Data Studio, Trello, Slack
Google Data studio, Qliksense, Research, PowerBI, Training, Leadership, Recruitment, Analytics, Data quality, Trello, Presentation of insights / data, Presentation Design, Courses & training, Communication training, Communication Consulting, Communication strategy
2019 - 2021
project
Co-designer, Mozilla Festival
MOZILLA FOUNDATION.
Responsibilities:
● Develop and implement design strategies to transform physical spaces at the Festival
● Define the festival's theme and narratives
● Reach out and spread the word about the festival to their communities and beyond
● Curate a program of "sessions"-- workshops, activities, and experiences for their space
● Develop and manage the schedule of all activities related to their space
● Provide advice and coaching to session facilitators
● Serve as on-site support for facilitators and participants
Technologies & Tools: Zendesk, Figma, Google Sheet, Slack, Zoom
● Develop and implement design strategies to transform physical spaces at the Festival
● Define the festival's theme and narratives
● Reach out and spread the word about the festival to their communities and beyond
● Curate a program of "sessions"-- workshops, activities, and experiences for their space
● Develop and manage the schedule of all activities related to their space
● Provide advice and coaching to session facilitators
● Serve as on-site support for facilitators and participants
Technologies & Tools: Zendesk, Figma, Google Sheet, Slack, Zoom
Coaching, Workshops, Presentation Design, Team coaching, Team Leadership, Management, Training Program
2017 - 2019
freelance
Data Trainer, Lead Consultant
AFRICA (CFA).
Responsibilities:
● Expand the geographic footprint of CFA's cross-country award-winning StoryLab digital data
journalism lab African hubs.
● Managed the Lab's 4 programs; Newsroom Partnerships, Mass Open Online Course (MOOC), Public
Workshops, University Partnerships.
● Worked with partners and the team to understand learning needs while developing curricula and learning outcomes.
● Led the physical training of over 3,000 reporters across multiple newsrooms and hundreds of students
across 4 Universities.
● Exponentially increased the adoption of data across 6 major newsrooms by 75% while ensuring the publication of over 100 data-driven and investigative reports
● Managed a group of African female journalists working to bring greater gender diversity and inclusion
to the media tech community.
● Supported in increasing the production of data-enhanced news coverage while inspiring transnational
data-driven reporting projects through cross-country collaboration.
● Ensured the creation of data stories on health and development across major newsrooms including
Daily Trust, The Nation, PUNCH, Vanguard, The Cable. Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria,
Al-Jazeera, and Voice of America.
Technologies & Tools: Google Data Studio, Google Public Data, Qz Atlas, Mapbox, Google Maps, Google
Fusion, Google Street view, Google Timelapse, Time Lapse, Google Advanced Search, Google Trends
Tool, Google Analytics
● Expand the geographic footprint of CFA's cross-country award-winning StoryLab digital data
journalism lab African hubs.
● Managed the Lab's 4 programs; Newsroom Partnerships, Mass Open Online Course (MOOC), Public
Workshops, University Partnerships.
● Worked with partners and the team to understand learning needs while developing curricula and learning outcomes.
● Led the physical training of over 3,000 reporters across multiple newsrooms and hundreds of students
across 4 Universities.
● Exponentially increased the adoption of data across 6 major newsrooms by 75% while ensuring the publication of over 100 data-driven and investigative reports
● Managed a group of African female journalists working to bring greater gender diversity and inclusion
to the media tech community.
● Supported in increasing the production of data-enhanced news coverage while inspiring transnational
data-driven reporting projects through cross-country collaboration.
● Ensured the creation of data stories on health and development across major newsrooms including
Daily Trust, The Nation, PUNCH, Vanguard, The Cable. Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria,
Al-Jazeera, and Voice of America.
Technologies & Tools: Google Data Studio, Google Public Data, Qz Atlas, Mapbox, Google Maps, Google
Fusion, Google Street view, Google Timelapse, Time Lapse, Google Advanced Search, Google Trends
Tool, Google Analytics
Capacity development, Google Data studio, Training, Google analytics, Google maps, Workshops, Analytics, People management, Coaching
My education
2019
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2020
University of Lagos
Advanced Diploma, Human Resources Management
Advanced Diploma, Human Resources Management
2019
University of Texas
Certificate, Automated content production and news algorithm
Certificate, Automated content production and news algorithm
2016
Stanford University
Certificate, Technology for Accountability, Lab
Certificate, Technology for Accountability, Lab
2003
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2008
Nnamdi Azikwe University
BSc, Materials Engineering
BSc, Materials Engineering
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