BUSAYO ADEPOJU
Los Angeles,CA
Summary
Innovative data-driven manager with over 7 years of experience optimizing media workflows in entertainment and sports. Specialized in entertainment technology and operations supply chain, emphasizing asset management and encoding across AVOD, SVOD, TVOD, and live TV. Adept at identifying operational inefficiencies and implementing AI initiatives that leverage LLMs and machine learning to enhance efficiency and automate workflows.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Program Manager, Content Publishing Operations
Amazon Prime Video
Los Angeles
07.2021 - Current
- Launched AI-enabled content release calendar and localization intelligence tools for Prime Video, optimizing localized release timing by 32% across tier-1 territories and driving a 28% increase in Paid Prime Active Rates (PPAR) through cross-functional collaboration with Data Science, Localization and Programming teams.
- Deployed a machine learning model to forecast media supply chain bottlenecks, enabling auto-scaling of encoding clusters, reducing processing delays by 9 hours, and improving on-time publishing by 25% weekly
- Improved publishing readiness by 15% by developing predictive media supply chain telemetry, enabling transitioning from manual publishing readiness checks to exception-based workflow (system alerts on missing asset, localization defects, and more) saving 300 hours per week across 60 operators.
- Deprecated 12 manual SOPs through optimized support operations by partnering with Data Science to build a scalable ML model that categorized partner and customer support tickets (e.g., billing, content availability, missing assets), resulting in a 30% reduction in mean time to resolution (MTTR).
- Developed a Global Slate Visualization tool tracking 10,000+ titles daily, built on consumer insights and ML model incorporating competitor intelligence and cultural events; achieved 21.2% annual improvement in customer engagement against a 22% projection through optimized release timing.
- Architected a sentiment analysis pipeline using Amazon Comprehend to transform customer feedback & reviews into actionable insights, directing data-driven feature prioritization through validated customer feedback and trend analysis.
- Managed team of 3 business analysts to implement data quality improvements in KPI metrics reporting, achieving 97% data precision rate and reducing manual data validation by 10 hours weekly.
- Executed queries to detect bottlenecks in video processing pipelines, identifying failed transcoding jobs and analyzing logs, resulting in 30% reduction in error rates and 40% improvement in processing times post-resolution.
Product Manager
Heliogen
Los Angeles
07.2018 - 07.2021
- Spearheaded first research and demonstration project, defining project scope, developing product prototype, creating communication strategy, and establishing schedule, achieved a $39M grant from the US department of Energy (DOE).
- Led end-to-end product lifecycle for cloud-based offerings, aligning with market needs and achieving 95% alignment in customer modeling.
- Collaborated with engineering on the redesign and relaunch of the web application, resulting in a 40% increase in user engagement and a 25% boost in subscription renewals.
Technical Product Manager
Wema Bank
08.2014 - 09.2016
- Defined project requirements and validation, managed project lifecycle from planning to closing, ensuring on-time delivery and maintaining a 98% project success rate.
- Outlined project epics, managed backlog and roadmap, coordinated sprint planning and resource allocation using JIRA to streamline project execution.
- Conducted a detailed tooling analysis to assess trade-offs between transaction processing tools, communicated recommendations to leadership, resulting in a 35% increase in workflow efficiency and optimized tool adoption.
Education
Master of Science - Engineering Management/ System Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
05-2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Petroleum Engineering
Covenant University
06-2014
Skills
- AI/ML Implementation
- Project management
- Process Optimization
- Sentiment Analysis
- Telemetry
- Data orchestration
- SQL
- Asset Management
- Redshift
- Tableau
- QlikView
- Jira
- MS Project
- Alation
Accomplishments
• Operations & Analytics (variable headcount savings): Delivered a 7-FTE headcount reduction by implementing an anomaly-detection ML model to continuously monitor operational signals and flag only statistically significant deviations. This enabled transition from manual workflow to an exception-based workflow, reducing manual validation, accelerating issue resolution, and improving accuracy while lowering operating costs and risk.
• Boosted Subscriber Growth via AI-Powered Release Calendar, Led end-to-end development of Amazon’s global AI-powered release planning platform, aligning product, engineering, UX, and analytics teams, overseeing UI/UX design, data ingestion, development, and resource allocation. Enabled data-driven release planning, resulting in a 25% boost in on-time releases and a 15% monthly increase in paid active users.
• Boosted Subscriber Growth via AI-Powered Release Calendar, Led end-to-end development of Amazon’s global AI-powered release planning platform, aligning product, engineering, UX, and analytics teams, overseeing UI/UX design, data ingestion, development, and resource allocation. Enabled data-driven release planning, resulting in a 25% boost in on-time releases and a 15% monthly increase in paid active users.
Certification
- AWS AI Practitioner
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Data Analysis (Tableau, SQL)
Timeline
Program Manager, Content Publishing Operations
Amazon Prime Video
07.2021 - Current
Product Manager
Heliogen
07.2018 - 07.2021
Technical Product Manager
Wema Bank
08.2014 - 09.2016
Master of Science - Engineering Management/ System Engineering
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Bachelor of Engineering - Petroleum Engineering
Covenant University