Oluwole Shokanlu

Oluwole Shokanlu has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and industries.

Oluwole currently works as a Network and IT Specialist at Pernix Group, Inc. where they are responsible for network administration, support, monitoring, firewall administration, and systems administration.

Prior to that, they worked at Union Bank of Nigeria, where they served as a Network Collaboration and Wireless Engineer. In this role, they handled daily network administration for Cisco unified communications manager, administered various collaboration applications, and managed Cisco access points and controllers. Oluwole also worked as a Team Member in Network Operations and Collaboration, providing support in networking, cybersecurity, Cisco routing and switching, access control, network load balancing, and network security. Additionally, they completed a Management Trainee Program.

Before joining Union Bank, Oluwole worked as a Graduate Trainee in the Network Field Support Engineer department at Tizeti Network Limited (wifi.com.ng), where they gained experience in network field support engineering.

Throughout their career, Oluwole has also held positions as an Information Technology Support Analyst at Real Energy up global LTD and as a Facility Manager at Clusters properties and Estate Manager.

Oluwole began their professional journey as an Engineering Intern at the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET).

Overall, Oluwole Shokanlu has a strong background in network administration, IT support, and collaboration, with experience in various industries.

Oluwole Shokanlu's education history is as follows:

Oluwole completed training in Palo Alto Networks at the Cybersecurity Academy in 2022. The field of study during this training was focused on Palo Alto networks.

In 2021, Oluwole received training in Network Security at NIL Consulting in South Africa.

During the same year, Oluwole also earned a Cisco systems (DCACI) certification from Fastlane computer consultancy, specializing in System, Networking, and LAN/WAN Management/Manager.

From 2018 to 2019, Oluwole pursued a Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Management at the International Strategic Management Institute.

Before that, Oluwole studied at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, where they obtained a B.Tech (Hons.) degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 2016.

Additionally, Oluwole has various certifications, including Official ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) Self-Paced Training - 1M from (ISC)² in 2023, a Diploma in Computer Networking from Alison in 2023, and Understanding Cisco Collaboration Foundations from Cisco in 2022.

Other certifications include CCNA, Agile Intro, Banking and Financial Markets Industry Intro, Cloud Intro, Cybersecurity Intro, Data Science & Analytics Intro, Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner, Internet of Things Intro, Artificial Intelligence Intro, and Blockchain Intro from IBM, obtained in 2021 and 2020.

Moreover, Oluwole holds the ICSI | CNSS Certified Network Security Specialist certification from ICSI (International CyberSecurity Institute), UK, obtained in 2020. Oluwole also completed Introduction to Cybersecurity from Cisco in 2020, and holds NSE 2 Network Security Associate and NSE 1 Network Security Associate certifications from Fortinet, obtained in 2020.

There is also a mention of Oluwole being a Certified International Strategic Manager. However, specific details regarding the institution and the month/year of certification are unavailable.