THE SPEAKERS

BENSON OLOWOMUKE

Benson Olowomuke has over 18 years of proven experience in enterprise network systems design, network systems infrastructure security, software and hardware design projects, complex network systems troubleshooting, and project planning. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from University of Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria and his graduate degree in Information Technologies and Services at New York University-SPS, New York. His professional experience stems from working for companies like IBM, CARQUEST (now Advanced Auto Inc.), Verizon Business, BB&T Bank and Cisco Systems while also providing consultation services for U.S Private and Public Sectors critical infrastructures. His primary interests are in solutions integration and emerging technologies. He holds several industry certifications including an active CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert #28645), and a member of several organizations like IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) to name a few.

CHRIS ASONYE

Chris Asonye is highly dedicated, disciplined and recognized as a team player. With over 10 years of mobility telecommunication experience, across different technologies (3G, 4G-LTE and 5G), and industry experience with four of the biggest telecommunication vendors (cisco, Affirmed, Ericson and Huawei) in the world. Chris has wide range of experiences covering major technologies.
Chris Asonye earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Michael Okpara University in Nigeria.  Chris left Nigeria before he could complete his Masters in Information Technology Management from the University of Lagos Nigeria in 2012 to the US.

GIDEON M. SEGBEFIA

Gideon M. Segbefia has over 20 years’ experience in Data Warehousing and business intelligence, developing and building data warehouses and business intelligence projects. He has combined Major degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Ghana, Legon and a master’s degree in Business Administration from North Carolina Central University. He spent Five years at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina as an ETL developer. He worked as an ETL consultant for South West Airlines for one year, and also at Fannie Mae also for a year as an Independent Consultant. He also spent 10 years at SAS Institute as a Data Warehouse Applications Developer. He took 18 months sabbatical leave from work to pursue private studies in Statistics and Calculus at UNC Chapel Hill, to refresh and upgrade his Data Analytical skills. He currently works for United States Postal Services as an ETL programmer providing Data Acquisition and Analytical services to the Enterprise Data Solutions team.
His Passion is using Data Science to solve real life problems. He is currently studying to become a Certified Enterprise Risk Analyst with the Society of Actuaries. His goal is to use Data Science to create competitive advantage for Insurance and Financial organizations.

JUMMY HARRY

Jummy Harry is a Software Upgrade Engineer with focus on Software Development, Networking and Data Science. She is imprinting her mark upgrading hospitals software across Unites States.
As an advocate for The Girl Child and Women in Tech, she is making her contributions to see more Female Tech Professionals. She started her career 11years ago in Client Relations before moving to Information Technology. She bags a Bachelors and Master’s degree including Information Technology trainings. Her study and work ethic is impeccably a benchmark.

IFE ALONGE

Ife Alonge is a graduating high school senior who will be attending UNC Chapel Hill in the fall.  He gained experience in Java by taking his school’s AP Computer Science course and gained experience in Python through self-teaching. He is also involved in several community service activities, including but not limited to: serving as the Teaching Assistant for my school’s APCS course; tutoring other students from his school as part of the National Honor Society; helping teach drum lessons to children in the community; packaging and distributing food, drinks, and Bibles to the homeless in downtown Raleigh; and serving in RCCG Victory Temple church’s audio/visual department; and helping to manage the church’s website. He plans to double major in Computer Science and Economics in college and plan to pursue a career in software development.

ADEBAYO ADEBIYI

Adebayo completed his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, M.Sc and Ph.D degree at the department of Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University. Adebayo has experience in transient multiphase flow modeling, fluid-structure interactions, biomedical applications,  Object Oriented Programming (OOP), fluid mechanics, thermal system analysis, traditional CFD and lattice Boltzmann method. As a postdoctoral associate at the Biomedical Engineering department , Duke University, he collaborated with medical doctors and biofluidic simulation software developers to advance the use of high resolution and massively parallel patient-specific blood flow simulations to study the development and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. In addition, Adebayo has 5 years full-time high school teaching experience teaching subjects that ranged from Algebra 1 to Single Variable Calculus and Physics and also held teaching assistant positions at Northeastern. At present, Adebayo is an engineer at the Applied Research Associate. He enjoys learning new technologies and tutoring.