Master in Business Administration

Full Time MBA course with an Internship. Skilled in good understanding in business dynamics, business diagnostics and modelling using excel, product & service development, and entrepreneurship.

Bachelors In Medical Laboratory Sciences

Trained in the research institute with specialisation in Histopathology/Cytology. I\'m skilled in microscopy, animal model testing, epidemiology and research amongst other skills.

Customer acquisition, marketing & sales, and logistics manager

I started this business with my wife in late 2018 at home as a small business until 2019, when it was registered. My role includes
• Develop and implemented comprehensive marketing strategies, including tracking product success sustainability.
• Plan and implement customer location identification and engagement.
• Met all monthly sales targets, especially for bread. These include follow-up calls, professional sales calls, event planning, and monthly lead banking mailings.
• Regularly meet with retailers to brainstorm on best approaches in addressing barriers in meeting
• each customers\’ goals.
• Strengthen the Naomi Foods brand communication with our locality.

Farm Manager/Director

I started this integrated vegetable-farm farming in late 2017 on 2-acre farmland (selling fruits and leafy vegetables and dried fish). I Had to close the farm due to covid-19 lockdown and threat of possible kidnapping ravaging the country. My role included,
• Develop and implemented comprehensive market strategies that included capturing the market/shopping list of would-be customers and creating shopper bag items with 70-80% of the shopping list.
• Manage the sales and marketing for the following categories of customers (individual, institution or schools, hospitality, and corporate.
• Strengthen the brand image of products on offer using WhatsApp and word of mouth.

Independent Consultant

Feasibility Study & Business Plan for Establishing Cybersecurity Company (Feb – Mar. 2020)

 To provide information for the basis of investment decisions in cybersecurity solutions in sub-Sahara Africa.
 To provide documentation that captured the different aspects of cybersecurity solutions and possibly investments potentials of individual solutions.
 Furnish clients with information on the financial outlay required for startups to provide cybersecurity solution service and business management strategies.
 Provide documentation that highlights all possible risks and assessments of the risks regarding the future of cybersecurity in sub-Sahara Africa.

Research Partner and External Consultant

NIRSAL capacity strengthening project aimed at providing support for the commencement of “Pilot Agribusiness Clinic for Sokoto, Adamawa, Delta and Imo states for Project Monitoring Reporting and Remediation Offices (PMROs).
 Provided technical support and strategic direction on the operations for each of the agribusiness clinics
 I ensured that all relations with PMROs were professional and strategically planned to address the learning from previous agribusiness clinics.
 Provided a template on how to use the clinics as criteria for finance disbursements.
 I developed a data capturing sheet for assessing the productivity of the agribusiness clinics\’ operations in the individual states.
 Accomplishments:
 The pilot agribusiness clinic was a success.
 The mode of operation template is efficient and cost-effective.

Independent Consultant

The developmental project by the federal government of Nigeria to empower qualified beneficiaries between the ages of 18-45 years with grant cash between N1-10 million.
 Monitoring and evaluation of 40 new and existing agriculture, manufacturing, and retail businesses
 Analysis of awardees\’ businesses to inform project office of the status o each business for funds disbursement.
 Provided business-specific relevant advisory services to awardees in the areas of technical guidance, product quality, management experience in sales and marketing
 Engaged individual business owners to capture requisite market information that later served to improve products acceptance in the market.
Major Accomplishments:
 I provided the needed baseline feedback of beneficiaries\’ businesses in the southwest of Nigeria. These served as quality control data for funds disbursement and sector data development.

Lead Consultant for Ogun State YouWiN Project

Part of the object of this project is to provide strategic planning and technical support for youth development in Nigeria by the federal government to educate, empower and finance small and medium businesses to the tune of N10 million naira for rural development.
 I visited agribusiness sites to provide real-time information that served as baseline data required by the secretariat.
 Visited and monitored 40 awardees in Ogun State for this period with 25 new businesses that were started and running successfully during the M&E period.
 Provision of business solution advisory services to awardees in business strategy, operations, administration, and sales.
Major Accomplishments:
Developed the framework for determining and designing a business structure for agribusiness that made them more competitive with better understanding their cost structure.

Monitoring & Evaluation Consultant

Developmental project by the federal government of Nigeria to empower youths between the ages of 18-45 years and qualified and designated as awardees. Forty Awardees would receive grants between N1-10 million after being evaluated before funds disbursements for over 40 agribusinesses.

 Monitoring and evaluation of 48 awardees in Lagos and Ogun state, across sectors and included agriculture and manufacturing.
 Provided support and market information was necessary to the awardees.
 Provision of business solution advisory services to awardees in the areas of business strategy, operations, and sales and marketing
Major Accomplishments:
Develop a strategic marketing analysis guide that enabled the awardees better plan and implements resource deployment and control.

Project Delivery Manager

It was a developmental project focused on empowering 1000 entrepreneurs under the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)m titled “Entrepreneurship Training Programme\” (ETP).
 I developed best-fit selection criteria which met the client\’s approval.
 I Tapped into the versatility of the entries received to create clusters around sectors and the value chain that supported the various clustered by taking advantage of the core competencies of the individual state.
 Ensured the integrity of the process by creating multimedia data capturing during individual agribusiness visits.
 Collaborated with other consultants in developing the written communication materials in PowerPoint format that was both uniform and easy to understood training content for Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Entrepreneurship Training Programme (ETP)
Major Accomplishments:
Designed the strategic work plan for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Entrepreneurship Training Programme (ETP) for the 1000 Entrepreneurs Project in nine (9) states that maximized both the cost more effectively and timely.

Team Lead Junior Researcher

 I coordinated the interviews with participants in a timely and cost-efficient fashion in Nigeria.
 Ensured that data captured met the highest quality standards.
 Compilation of management training institutions data as an input to a marketing research study
Major Accomplishments:
I developed and executed a project management strategy that ensured the timely completion of the project within budget.

Consultant Assessors

 Ensured that grading of the participants\’ concept notes was compliant according to the stated standards in the idea generation phase of the YouWin Competition
 Final stage Business Plan assessment for potential candidates for the YouWin project
Major Accomplishments:
Developed the training manual and curriculum in collaboration with other team members, used for capacity building of successful YouWin candidates

Technical Consultant

Key Responsibilities:
 Business diagnostics and product development packages for SMEs
 Training of small and medium scale enterprises staff on business process management, marketing, service management, and operations
 Provision of human resources advisory services
Major Accomplishments:
Part of the team that developed a performance management strategy that improved sales for a beverage company.
Proffered best-in-class solutions from catastrophic loss and trained the sales team (for manufacturing and distribution of company with over N2 billion annual sales in 2012).
Developed tools and criteria, screened and trained successful sales executives for a real estate company in Lagos.

Chief of Party A GEMS4 Women Economic Empowerment (WEE) Project)

Key Responsibilities:
 Conducted Training Needs Assessment (TNA) for the Beneficiaries
 Provided strategic direction on the format for Train-The-Trainer (ToT) for team/leaders
 Member of the team that develop the training materials used for the project
Major Accomplishments:
Developed the training manual and curriculum in collaboration with other team members, used for capacity building for beneficiaries

Independent Consultant

Key Responsibilities:
 Coordinated the staff recruitment process for a new firm
 Training of small and medium scale enterprises staff on business process management, marketing, service management, and operations
 Provision of human resources advisory services
Major Accomplishments:
Developed tools and criteria, screened and trained successful sales executives for a real estate company in Lagos.

Independent Consultant

 I excelled in the vendor selection process through coordinated teamwork.
 Criteria development for vendor and contractor assessment
Major Accomplishments:
Led the team that appraised candidates for compliance and suitability to be contractors and vendors for two (2) multinational banks in Nigeria.

Intern

• Evaluated and created a process flow chart for the movement/control of merchandise central store/logistics department
• Evaluated and developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for the outlets and central store/logistics
• Facilitated the training of key staff on the importance and use of SOPs
• Designed document templates for the smooth running of the business processes
• Develop job description template for members of the organization
• As part of the five-member interview panel of which two candidates I recommended were hired.
Achievements:
Improved productivity through improved process management of the sales delivery