Resume

Founder/CIO, Hikestack | Global, 2013 – Present

Responsible for driving strategic vision, leading teams, and delivering cutting-edge solutions across product suits.

Director of Innovation and Technology, Beyond Limits | Global, 2023 – Present

Leads the Beyond Limits Consulting Innovation and Technology Solutions, practice division.
Design services and products that leverage emerging technologies to support business improvement for clients within the financial service, Banking, Telcom, oil & and gas, and manufacturing industries.

Co-founder/ Director of Product, Skilharvest | EMEA, 2022 – Present

Skilharvest, an Ed-Tech platform with a vision to raise 7,000,000 techno-crafts to meet growing global skills gaps
Oversees the development of all digital products, manages the Product-tech team, and ensures timely delivery of high-quality products in alignment with the organization’s overall business objectives and market demands.
Leading the product strategy and development of Skilharvest, working closely with the executive team to identify and implement new digital solutions that drive business growth. Hired & organized the build team (4 Engrs., 3 PM, & 4 Ops)

Software Engineering Product Coach, Multiverse.io | London, 2023 – 2023

Multiverse, #1 UK EdTech, creating a diverse group of future leaders by building an outstanding alternative to university and corporate training. With a Series D investment of $220 million and a valuation of $1.7 billion
Coached junior engineers from the top UK tech companies in strategy, design, and development of scalable enterprise technology products, empowering them with best practices to become the next generation of engineering leaders
Led on-boarding of 78 engineers and 50 Engineering managers across top technology organizations in the UK

Digital Innovation Leader, Chevening Scholar | London, 2021 – 2022

Co-led a 5-day intensive financial inclusion product solution for VISA payment UK, leveraged human-centered design thinking, and facilitated collaboration among cross-functional teams
Led ideation, design, and strategy for LUAY, an invitation-based-only restaurant review mobile application (think of close-network Google reviews from verifiable known individuals)

Head, Product Innovation, pcl. | EMEA, 2019 – 2021

Pioneered the Innovation division, and led the development of the firm’s owned digital products targeted at B2B/B2C
Led product strategy and development of a micro-learning EdTech product in partnerships with third parties, designed KPIs, and managed dependencies and scope; in 9 months, scaled average users to 80,000 and cumulative of 1.2 million+ users with monthly million in revenue MoM
Led a team of 10 in technical product development and evaluation of the fintech Industry sandbox platform scaled into over 2000 founders and partners and 30+ APIs
Built eight (8) digital products from conceptualization, design, product roadmap, development, prototypes, test, lunch, and scale, leading distributed engineering, marketing, research, and customer success teams.
Developed and tracked product KPIs through multiple data points across teams, and users to accelerate product growth and increased product market share by 20% in 9 months

Cyber Security Product Manager, 21st Century Technologies | Lagos Nigeria, 2017 – 2019

Led, designed, and deployed enterprise security products across the entire units and departments that position the business for partnership with international organizations like Amazon, MacAfee, Checkpoint, Nexus Guard, and VMware
Reduced cybersecurity vulnerabilities and Data loss, with a compliance rate of 90%, by deploying and managing “McAfee EPO Enterprise Endpoint security solutions on servers and workstations.”
Mitigated the likelihood of DoSS, DNS spoofing, and phishing attacks by leveraging on Next-generation Check Point Firewall, resulting in secure customer data assets on the company data center
Conducted vulnerability assessments on SIEM solutions, scanning logs review, and risk analyses with tools like Nessus Scan and AlienVault, resulting in a 20% increase in response against suspicious activities.
Conducted internal security product audits on ISO 27001 information security management systems, ISO 20000 service management systems, and payment card industry data security standard (PCI-DSS) across 4 business locations

Product Manager, Office for Nigerian Digital Innovation (ONDI) | Abuja, Nigeria, 2015 – 2017

Co-designed 20 entrepreneurship products and implemented 5 strategic products for startups in Africa
Developed a system for selecting the top 1% viable startups out of hundreds of applications for VC funding
Facilitated 6 sessions of StartUP Friday – a SMART gathering of about 3000 startups, mentors, successful entrepreneurs, investors, industry specialists, and hub operators to solve challenges faced by startups in Africa
Designed and built inventory management products and improved inventory management efficiency by up to 70%.
Built a Healthtech MVP solution that diagnoses HIV status through saliva samples in 2 minutes
Built Xchangewise, a FinTech startup focused on facilitating borderless payments and providing financial inclusion for immigrants, travellers, and students in foreign countries across Africa and beyond

Software Engineer, Adels Solution | Ilorin, Nigeria, 2013 – 2015

Designed and built a web-based expert system (Food recipe expert system) and a web-based project archival system
Trained 500 graduates in web design & development; tech stack: Asp.net MVC, C#, PHP, Python, and JavaScript
Designed and built web-based and enterprise applications; Lgossip (a social platform), Education portal system, Paperless application (digitalized processes), cloud-based repository archival systems for novel research
Trained over 1000 students in computer science, C# programming, PHP, web design, and coding class

OTHER TECH ECOSYSTEM WORK

Product Innovation Mentor, Mentorcolor | Global, 2022 – Present

Serves as one of the 600 mentors of global tech leaders supporting over 5,000+ mentees on the Mentorcolor platform

Lead Talent Developer, Hikestack (Zit Consult) | Nigeria, 2013 – 2021

Facilitated coding classes for students in programming languages like C#, Python, Basic, Scratch, etc.
Designed courses and trained over 1,000 network high school and undergraduate students in coding and web dev.
Equip students and youths with web development programming languages and frameworks, such as Asp.net, Asp.Net MVC, PHP/MSQL, Python, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Laravel, Bootstrap, Angular, and third-party technologies
Coordination and training for enterprise application development in Dot. Net programming language, C#, Asp.net, MVC, web applications, and website development such as portals, enterprise management applications, and networks.

Managing Director, Growthasset (Growthtank) | Global, 2017 – 2021

Built a digital platform that leverages technology to equip Africans to acquire technology competence skills
Conducted 50 online and onsite training sessions for over 7000 youths in the form of workshops, webinars, and boot camps in partnerships with NGOs, private sector businesses, and youth-led organizations.

Managing Director, Growthasset (Growthtank) | Global, 2017 – 2021

Built a digital platform that leverages technology to equip Africans to acquire technology competence skills
Conducted 50 online and onsite training sessions for over 7000 youths in the form of workshops, webinars, and boot camps in partnerships with NGOs, private sector businesses, and youth-led organizations.

Data and Tech. Director Adullam 200, Adullam Network | Global, 2019 – 2021

Led the Data and Tech. Director team (5 men’s team) to design and implement technology capacity development programs positioning 100 fellowship members for the fourth industrial revolution.

Product manager, Cybersafe Foundation | Nigeria, 2022 – 2020

Led the development of a Data protection toolkit for over 4,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the education of 11,000 employees, improving the cyber resilience of these businesses

Facilitator, Microsoft Cloud Program | Africa, 2020 – 2020

Facilitated/mentored at the Microsoft Cloud technology talent dev. for several cohorts, a total of 30,000 African youths.

Mentee Opportunities Manager, Mentor Africa Project (MAP) | Global, 2018 – 2020

Led and onboarded about 20 mentors and matched and managed over 500 mentees on the technology track as the Mentee Opportunity Manager and member of the founding team of the Map Africa Project (MAP)

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