Years of cross functional delivery
Addis Ababa · Open to technical project management and web development roles
I lead technology projects and build for the web.
Dawit Feleke · Technical Project Manager & Web Developer
I lead cross functional delivery across AI operations, digital products, internal systems, and client technology projects. I also design and deploy responsive websites, with media production as an additional creative discipline.
01 / Technical project manager
02 / Web developer
03 / Media production
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Portfolio / 2026
TikTok likes after active EthioBallers management
EthioBallers followers reached in about one month
Documentary presented at the U.S. Embassy
Major Pinnacle AI client projects
Students placed internationally
02 / Media & production
Stories built with production discipline.
Documentary, short film, branded content, and social growth work spanning story development, production planning, filming, editing, and distribution.
Documentary
18 minutes
01
20 Years of Excellence
Youth development through basketball, produced for a room of international sport leaders.
- Role
- Owned the production end to end, covering story development, planning, filming, sound, editing, and final delivery.
- Partners
- Developed through work involving the Ethiopian Basketball Federation and FIBA.
- Presentation
- The completed 18 minute documentary was presented at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa to NBA Africa representatives.
02
From written idea to final cut.
Building visual stories around music, identity, creative process, and personal growth.
- Credits
- Owned one production end to end and contributed production, filming, and editing across three additional releases written by Bana Records artist Ebenehakim.
- Stories
- Beyond the Beat: The Bana Records Music Camp, Behind the Mountain, Studio Confessions, and Empty Pages.
- Craft
- Developed two stories for production, built visual plans and shot structures, filmed on Sony FX3, and edited in DaVinci Resolve.
Behind the frame
Story and shot planning
Event organization
Production team lead
03
AFAR
A remote location production built through story, logistics, and hands on filmmaking.
- Credit
- Event Organizer and Video Production Team Head.
- Delivery
- Led story development, travel logistics with Michael Feleke, filming, sound, editing, and color.
- Collaboration
- Worked with travel creator and Visit Oromia ambassador Michael Feleke. Seven videos produced together became notable performers across his social channels.
Social growth / 2025 to early 2026
EthioBallers
Returned to the Carlos Thornton organization to lead TikTok content strategy, filming, editing, page management, and analytics with a three person team spanning editing, creative direction, and digital marketing.
Visit EthioBallers20+Starting followers
6K+Followers in about one month
50K+TikTok likes after active management
3Creative team members coordinated
01 / Technology & digital delivery
Technology, systems and teams, made real.
Project management across AI operations, client technology delivery, digital products, business systems, and hands on website deployment.
03
Headway
Building a profitable service business around reliable delivery.
- Context
- Concurrent student applications, visa processing, and preparation before departure across 3–6 month delivery windows.
- Approach
- Google Workspace KPI dashboards and Agile sprint planning for peak intake seasons.
- Outcome
- 100+ students placed, 20+ repeat institutional clients, profitable from year one, and a team scaled from one to seven.
02
Future Quest
Turning an office based student service into a platform people can use from anywhere.
- Context
- Students needed a simpler way to discover suitable scholarships, education pathways, and work opportunities without travelling to the Headway office.
- Role
- Led the product project with the Headway team from early development in 2022 through platform deployment in 2024.
- Product
- A searchable platform for opportunities, destination filters, remote application flows, study materials, consultations, and free resources.
- Outcome
- Launched in 2024 and has remained active since, expanding how students can access Headway services remotely.
Development began / 2022
Platform launched / 2024
200+ athletes / event
20 coaches
04
Programs that moved.
Aligning funders, partners, coaches and athletes around one delivery plan.
- Challenge
- Simultaneous partner expectations across branding, funding, event logistics, and youth program delivery.
- Approach
- Structured project tracking in Notion and Trello, rolling sprint cycles, and complete program design.
- Outcome
- Five institutional partnerships, full program funding, fully booked camps, and zero missed program deadlines.
01
Three client tracks.
Maintaining delivery focus across demanding client work during an intensive period of overlapping responsibility.
- Context
- Pinnacle AI brings development, design, and business consulting together in one delivery team.
- Portfolio
- Worked across three major client projects for RIDE, beU Delivery, and Solar 23.
- Role
- Supported project execution across three concurrent client engagements, balancing priorities, timelines, and cross functional coordination.
- Outcome
- Contributed to effective client delivery and improved commercial returns during a demanding period of overlapping responsibility.
Also built / 2026
Frame by Frame
Designed and deployed a full company website for a media production company, end to end from build through launch. Sustained an average of 40–80 visits per month after launch, with client feedback specifically praising ease of navigation and usability.
03 / Profile
I work where technology and delivery meet, translating complex ideas into systems, digital products, and web experiences that people can use.
Technical Project Manager and Web Developer with 4+ years leading cross functional delivery across AI operations, digital products, business systems, education, and client technology projects.
My technology background includes AI data operations and internal systems at Eagle Point AI, concurrent client delivery at Pinnacle AI, and leading Future Quest from early development through platform launch.
My media work spans story development, production planning, Sony FX3 shooting, sound, editing, color, and distribution in DaVinci Resolve. Selected work includes 20 Years of Excellence, AFAR, and four Bana Records productions.
Comfortable owning the full chain from scope, budget, schedule, and stakeholder alignment through filming, editing, publishing, and final handoff. Native Amharic, C2 English.
Start with clarity
Translate ambiguous briefs into scope, owners, milestones, and a shared definition of done.
Make work visible
Build simple systems that surface progress, risk, and blockers early.
Align the room
Keep partners, teams, and decision makers moving toward the same outcome.
Own the last mile
Stay with the work through execution, handoff, and close.
Adapt without losing control
Use Agile and Kanban practices to respond to reality while protecting the outcome.
04 / Experience
A career built through ownership.
Eight chapters across technology, entrepreneurship, media production, sports, and international community work.
Jan 2024 – Jun 2026
AI training data & evaluation
01 / 08
Project Manager
Eagle Point AI
Data operations, project intake, and internal systems supporting a team that scaled to around 40 employees.
- Directed dataset collection operations and led intake analysis for projects from incoming client companies, defining scope and delivery requirements at kickoff.
- Managed employee performance against daily achievement quotas across the operations team, supporting consistent output and clearer accountability.
- Contributed to the product design and codebase of an internal workflow monitoring tool, then helped deploy it to track project status and employee performance in real time.
- Improved daily quota attainment and management efficiency as the team grew to around 40 employees at its peak.
Technology project delivery
Project management role
02 / 08
Project Manager
Pinnacle AI
Three major client projects managed during an intensive period of overlapping responsibility.
- Contributed to delivery across major client projects for RIDE, beU Delivery, and Solar 23.
- Supported execution across concurrent engagements within an integrated development, design, and consulting environment.
- Balanced priorities across three concurrent client projects through disciplined planning and delivery focus.
- Contributed to improved commercial returns through effective project execution during a demanding period of overlapping responsibility.
2025 – Early 2026
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
04 / 08
Media Producer & TikTok Content Lead
Coach Carlos / EthioBallers
6K+ followers and 50K+ likes reached in about one month of active page management and production.
- Returned to the Carlos Thornton organization to lead TikTok content strategy, filming, editing, page management, and analytics.
- Produced a consistent stream of basketball content built around coaches, athletes, training, and youth development.
- Coordinated a three person creative team spanning editing, creative direction, and digital marketing.
- Helped grow the account from just over 20 followers to more than 6,000, while passing 50,000 TikTok likes.
2023 – 2024
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
05 / 08
Head of Content & Communications
Bana Records
A repeatable release system in place of rushed production.
- Rebuilt the label's content pipeline, introducing Kanban workflows and release schedules that eliminated rushed production and grew international streaming reach.
- Directed a cross functional creative team of 3 across concurrent release cycles, setting up quality gates and approval workflows that reduced revision cycles.
- Owned all content OKRs, including stream targets, release frequency, and audience growth, moving output from unplanned drops to a consistent release cadence.
2022 – 2024
Headway Travel Firm digital product
03 / 08
Product Project Lead
Future Quest
A remote opportunity platform taken from early development to launch.
- Started developing the platform with the Headway team in 2022 to make services accessible without requiring students to visit the office.
- Led delivery toward a 2024 launch, aligning the platform with real student discovery, consultation, and application workflows.
- Helped shape a product covering searchable opportunities, destination filters, application flows, study materials, consultations, and open resources.
- Deployed the platform in 2024, and it has remained active since launch.
2022 – 2023
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
06 / 08
Special Project Manager
Carlos Thornten Sports Enrichment Center
Five funded partnerships and fully booked camps with zero missed deadlines.
- Negotiated and closed 5 institutional partnerships with schools, embassies, and NBA Africa, securing full program funding and delivering fully booked training camps for 200+ youth athletes.
- Led cross functional stakeholder management across all active partners simultaneously, aligning branding, event logistics, and delivery on rolling sprint cycles with zero missed program deadlines.
- Designed complete programs from proposal writing to final execution, coordinating 200 athletes and 20 coaches per event through structured project tracking in Notion and Trello.
- Directed all external communications and content production, building the academy into a trusted international youth sports partner in Addis Ababa.
Jul 2021 – Present
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
07 / 08
Founder & Managing Director
Headway Travel Firm
A profitable consultancy built from zero, then scaled to a team of seven.
- Built a profitable education consultancy from zero, placing 100+ students across 20+ repeat institutional clients, profitable from year one with zero external investment.
- Managed complete project delivery across visa processing, application timelines, and preparation before departure, handling concurrent active cases within a 3–6 month delivery window per student.
- Defined and tracked client KPIs, including admission rates, processing timelines, and satisfaction scores, via Google Workspace dashboards to ensure timely milestone completion.
- Scaled from solo founder to a team of 7 by implementing Agile sprint planning to manage peak intake seasons and eliminate bottlenecks.
2019 – 2021
Bydgoszcz, Poland
08 / 08
Group Leader & Project Coordinator
Wyzsza Szkola Gospodarki
Eight people, six countries, and no shared native language.
- Led a cross cultural team of 8 people from 6 countries through a community health outreach program, planning workshops, coordinating with local clinics, and delivering public health education with no shared native language.
- Developed backward planning and scope control instincts under real operational pressure that now underpin every project run since.
05 / Multidisciplinary toolkit
Enough range to move the whole system.
Project systems and hands on production craft, from the planning room to the camera, edit, launch, and final delivery.
Delivery & programs
Plan it. Align it. Ship it.
Agile
Kanban
Sprint planning
OKR/KPI tracking
Stakeholder management
Risk mitigation
Product delivery
Media production
Build the story.
Story development
Production planning
Sony FX3
Cinematography
Sound
DaVinci Resolve
Editing
Color
Partnerships & communications
Bring different interests into one plan.
Tools & digital execution
From workspace to website.
Notion
Trello
Slack
Google Workspace
Dropbox
Microsoft Office
Website design & deployment
Remote service platforms
TikTok
Instagram
Content analytics
Languages & culture
Native
Amharic
C2
English
06 / Field notes
The work also happens outside the boardroom.
Documentary, music, sports, international programs, and the visual practice that keeps observation at the center of how I work.
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07 / Start a conversation
Technology project or digital product?
Bring it here.
I’m open to technical project management, technology operations, product delivery, and web development roles. I also bring professional media production experience.
Location
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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