Mr. Olatunji has a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Economics from the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University. He has served in different leadership positions that span many fields and industries among which are project management, banking, and software development industry. He started his career as a project development consultant, from where he joined Chartered Bank in 1990. While with the bank, he served in various capacities, starting as an officer with the credit and marketing department responsible for multilateral lending and special projects. He left the bank as a branch manager in 1996.
He moved to the United States of America in 1996, where he started his career in information technology as a software engineer, and later as a certified oracle database consultant working on different projects and for different organizations. Some of the organizations he worked with include Kellogg Worldwide, Black and Decker, T-Mobile, UCB, Time Warner Cable, Cingular, BellSouth, AT&T, City of New York, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport among others. His accomplishments in the industry include the design and implementation of the Common User Terminal Interface (CUTI) at the Hartsfield-Jackson airport, architectural re-design of the IMedium mobile workforce application to enhance and manage exchange of data between mobile workforce and dispatch centers for Nextel Communications, design and development of high availability database systems, and efficient backup and fault tolerant data systems. He has also managed and administered and implemented numerous applications among which are Oracle Financials, Oracle Clinicals, Siebel CRM, Granite, Citytime, and OPTICS among others.
Ola started his professional career as a programmer with the Illinois Dept of Public Aid, where he pioneered the development of an online Medicare and Medicaid applications to enable real-time verification of dependents of the government funded program. He has also being involved in research, development, and implementation of billing and CRM applications to major telecommunication firms like T- Mobile, AT&T, Cox Communications, EMC among others. His expertise and problem solving abilities have been recognized many times by clients and partners for successful prosecution of projects, and for this, he has received many awards.