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Christi Akinwumi

AI Product Manager & Conversation Designer

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX ·christi.io ·[email protected] ·linkedin.com/in/christiakinwumi ·github.com/mrskinzo ·huggingface.co/christiakinwumi

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AI Product Management

Use this lens when the question is product strategy, rollout, and measurable value.

  • Led product strategy and conversation design for AI support experiences serving 20M+ users across 8+ markets.
  • Defined requirements, evaluation criteria, and launch decisions for routing, retrieval, and model changes.
  • Turned customer and operational evidence into roadmap priorities, experiments, and investment recommendations.

Conversation Design

Use this lens when the question is language, boundaries, trust, and failure handling.

  • Rebuilt a routing taxonomy from 50K real conversations into mutually exclusive intents that reduced misrouting 30%.
  • Designed self-service and escalation flows with localization, decision trees, and clearer customer language.
  • Built live tool-using flows that separate tentative states from confirmed actions.

Highlights

  • Led AI product strategy and conversation design for experiences serving 20M+ users across 8+ international markets.
  • Led product definition for LLM routing and grounded retrieval, reducing response time 25% and grounding answers in verified support content.
  • Built and operate a live booking agent that connects the Anthropic API, Microsoft Graph, and Twilio for a DFW service business.

Experience

Founder & Principal Consultant · Intelligent CX Consulting, LLC

Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (remote, US clients)

  • Serve as embedded conversational AI consultant to an enterprise client, leading conversation design, prompt design, and UX strategy for production AI experiences (ongoing since April 2026).
  • Run scoped conversational AI engagements focused on agent workflows, evaluation, intent taxonomies, and support architecture.
  • Designed and built Boothly, a tool-using Claude agent for a photo booth business. A completed website flow produces a sourced quote, a tentative Outlook hold, and an owner SMS in under 60 seconds.
  • Defined the product requirements, conversation flows, tool contracts, fallback behavior, and operating guardrails, then implemented the production system.

Conversation Designer · GoDaddy

  • Led product strategy and conversation design for AI support experiences serving 20M+ users across 8+ markets, working across product, engineering, data science, support, and operations.
  • Led product definition for an LLM routing system that reduced average response time 25%.
  • Defined the evaluation question, golden-set requirements, decision criteria, and recommendation for a six-week RAG comparison. The selected hybrid retrieval architecture later improved answer accuracy 45% against the pre-RAG baseline.
  • Led an intent taxonomy redesign based on 50K+ conversations, restructuring intents to be mutually exclusive and reducing misrouting 30%.
  • Contributed product, CX, and evaluation criteria to a comparison of OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock. Co-developed ROI recommendations that supported $500K+ in investment.

Workflow Author · Peloton

  • Rebuilt self-service for a connected fitness product across 8 international markets: information architecture, decision trees, localization, and a product gap feedback loop that fed the roadmap.
  • Resolution time down 40%, self-service adoption up 35%, support volume down 20%.

Selected projects

  • Boothly Booking Concierge. Live tool-use agent for a real business: Claude (Anthropic SDK), Microsoft Graph, Twilio. Case study at christi.io/work/boothly-booking-concierge.
  • RAG Pipeline Comparison. Public Python evaluation harness comparing three configurations across chunk size, overlap, cosine retrieval, and MMR. github.com/mrskinzo/rag-pipeline-comparison.
  • christi.io. This site: Astro, a custom build pipeline, and a Claude powered chatbot grounded in my published writing.

Education

  • M.S., Curriculum & Instruction
    Texas A&M International University
  • Post-Graduate Certification, Technical Communication
    University of North Texas
  • B.G.S., Business
    Texas Woman's University

Certifications

  • Building with the Claude API
    Anthropic · verify
  • Claude Code in Action
    Anthropic · verify
  • Introduction to Model Context Protocol
    Anthropic · verify
  • Introduction to Agent Skills
    Anthropic · verify
  • Google AI Essentials
    Google / Coursera · verify

Skills

  • Conversation design
  • Multi-agent orchestration
  • Prompt architecture
  • RAG evaluation
  • Eval harness design
  • Intent taxonomy
  • LangFuse
  • Dialogflow CX
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Claude (Anthropic)
  • JavaScript
  • Python

Open to full-time roles in conversational AI design, AI product, and applied AI. Consulting engagements run through Intelligent CX Consulting. The longer version of everything here lives in the case studies.