OJO OLUWASEUN SAMSON
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COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIST
~ Startups ~ Results Driven ~ Leading People ~ Design ~ Detail-Oriented SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Technology Solutions and Product Specialist with 11 years’ experience innovating and transforming companies into market leaders by combining technical skills, business acumen and design sensibilities. Consistent record of delivering extraordinary results in growth, revenue, operational performance, and profitability. 6+ year’s full-stack software development experience. Interested in helping businesses leverage technology and design thinking to solve problems CORE COMPETENCIES
Software Development
Product Development
Data Analysis and Visualization
Project Delivery/Management
Problem Solving
Mobile App Development
Strategy/Business Development
Design Thinking
UI/UX Design
Predictive Analysis
Account Management
Machine Learning
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ELEMENT INC – Product & Engineering Lead, Nigeria Jan. 2019 – Present
Spearheads all technical delivery programs in Nigeria including pre-sales, project management, partner’s solution development, solution architecture design, technical implementations and service support.
Discovers and documents the business and functional requirements of partners' preferred solution use cases.
Manages all stakeholders including developers, UX designers, project managers, business analysts, QA/testers.
Manages UX designers, developers and infrastructure engineers to deliver delightful UX experience, speed up technical integration, and design the right solution architecture.
Ensures quality and on-time implementation by collaborating with the New York-based research and engineering teams to customize Element’s solution for partners’ environment and use-cases. ONECYCLE TECHNOLOGIES Jan. 2015 – Dec. 2018
Product & Venture Development Consultant
Served as an early Advisor and Consultant to Paystack, a Fintech company, and provided business and product development support.
Served as an ICO Consultant to Venture Garden Group and provided their utility-focused subsidiary with strategic planning and program management services to leverage the blockchain platform.
Helped a Telco to strategically plan for their public API commercialization program, addressing platform strategy/goal,
API design, release road map, technology architecture (including API management & integration methods), team, delivery methodology (lean and scrum) and monetization options.
Led the technical business development and application development to help a new value-added (VAS) company set up VAS infrastructure, telco connectivity and initial product and services.
Advised the power subsidiary of a fintech holding company on setting up an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to raise funds to recover the power business and drive growth.
L5LAB – May. 2014 – Oct. 2014
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Hired to lead the design, development and execution of a new digital solution that helps small businesses easily and quickly convert accounts payable to cash.
Drove the minimum viable product development of a reverse-invoice finance platform with a team comprised of a developer, designer and CTO, using agile/scrum development methodology and DevOps practices.
Defined the key success metrics for the new venture and integrated market research and customer development insights into the product requirement and its continuous refinement
Spearheaded product development, business development and solution architecture; established initial financial, technical and corporate partnerships; and led customer development planning and development. MICROSOFT Oct. 2010 – Dec. 2012
Service Delivery Manager/Technical Account Manager
Led the conversion of a customer complaint into a new USD 1.5M consulting + support services project.
Improved customer satisfaction by 47% and achieved assigned support business portfolio growth of 300% above target by delivering world-class support service through effective delivery oversight.
Generated a sales lead and owned the conversion, yielding a new sale worth USD1.5M in a consulting and support contract.
Spearheaded service delivery planning, end-to-end service delivery management, incident management and escalations and proactive remediation service.
Managed 11 large enterprise accounts with a support portfolio worth about USD 700K.
Led profitability of Microsoft support services of assigned accounts through portfolio management, including contract consumption, operational expense management, account retention and growth.
Created a multi-year strategic support plan with customers and coordinated internally with various teams and resources to execute, while managing customer’s expectations and communicating progress periodically.
Served as a trusted advisor to both business and IT decision makers, helping to ensure each assigned account maximized their investment returns on Microsoft’s technology. STANBIC IBTC BANK Mar. 2008 – Oct. 2010
Application & Database Developer
Designed, developed and maintained application solutions for the different businesses within the wealth group that helped improve business efficiency and provide alternative channels to serve customers.
Spearheaded full stack development of each solution - front-end, back-end web services/code and database design and development – and integrations to external service providers where applicable. GTS-INFOTEL 2006, 2007 – 2008
Mobile & Web Engineer
Designed and developed several value-added services as voice (IVR), mobile (SMS) and web applications to meet client and business requirements.
Deployed solutions in PHP (open source) and ColdFusion programing languages using custom agile software development methodology and worked primarily on Linux/Unix based systems EDUCATION
INSEAD, France – MBA (Full-time) 2013
Babcock University, Nigeria – BSc Computer Technology, Second Class Upper 2006 ACHIEVEMENTS AWARDS & CERTIFICATE
edX DAT203x: Data Science and Machine Learning Essentials (Online course by Microsoft & edX) 2015
Microsoft Academy for College Hires, Technical Track, Graduate 2012
Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) 2012
ITIL (V3) 2010
•Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria, Qualified Member 2009
Certified Information Systems Auditor, Passed Graduate 2006 REFERENCES
Available Upon Request