I ask questions. Lots of them.
How does the team work today? What are you trying to deliver? What has been the hardest part? What I do not do is walk in with a fix in my pocket.
PETER OKERE / PROJECT DELIVERY EXPERT
I work inside the difficult part of delivery.
PMP-CERTIFIED / MBA, FINTECH & BLOCKCHAINSTRATEGY → DELIVERY
All my life, it turns out, I have been a project manager.
My career as a project manager started as a civil engineering student on internships, supervising building projects, from housing to commercial buildings.
Then came Xiaomi. The job was supposed to be a brand ambassador role. I ended up managing programmes and events and growing the community. On the side I was freelancing, running marketing briefs and strategy for clients.
Then I wanted to be in tech, and that took me to Tr1pp in the UK. We were building a super app, with fintech alongside it. I started in product marketing first, then did a bit of product management, and eventually project management. That fintech exposure is what opened the door to fintech at Zone.
I joined Zone as a Project Manager in March 2023. Six months later I was Lead Project Manager, and by June 2024 I was Senior Manager, Solutions Delivery. Along the way we took ZonePay from idea to live pilot in under three months, my team’s appraisal average went from 45% to 90%, and I picked up a Zone Crusader award in 2024.
Somewhere along the way in my career, being a project manager stopped being an accident. It became my life. It felt natural to own it and say: this is what I want to do for a living. I have always excelled in roles where strategy, operations and risk management are at the forefront, and that is why project management felt like home.
0110+
YEARS IN DELIVERY
02100+
PROJECTS DELIVERED ACROSS MY CAREER
0350+
PROJECT MANAGERS LED DIRECTLY
0430+
BANKS & FINTECHS ONBOARDED
Questions first.
Fixes second.
Then the blockers start waving at me.
After enough questions, the gaps become obvious. Years of this gives you the eye for it.
Next, the root cause.
Why is it stuck, and where in the process? What does this team have to work with: people, budget, tools? Sometimes the answer is a better tool. Sometimes it is an AI agent. Sometimes we build something ourselves.
By the end of month one, there is clarity.
The team knows where they have been slipping, how they will get better, and where they are heading. That clarity is the first real win.
I use AI to change how work gets done.
I am AI-native. I start with the team and the problem. I work out where the process is broken, redesign it, automate what can be automated, and deliver it as something people actually use: agents, AI workflows and automations that simplify processes and simplify people’s lives.
I have done it at both ends. At a personal scale, with agents that work as personal assistants. At a corporate scale, with agents and workflows that whole teams use every day.
The work changed.
The learning continued.
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01MAR 2023 — PRESENT
LAGOS / AFRICA
Zone Payments Network
Senior Manager, Solutions DeliveryJUN 2024 — PRESENTLead Project ManagerSEP 2023 — MAY 2024Project ManagerMAR 2023 — AUG 2023
Progressed through three delivery roles to lead solutions delivery across a portfolio of blockchain-powered payment implementations.
01Designed and directed an autonomous AI delivery agent and its React, TypeScript, FastAPI, PostgreSQL and Redis control dashboard.
02Led ZonePay from initiation to pilot in under three months—the fastest product delivery in the company’s history.
03Delivered blockchain solutions to more than 30 clients and led the first blockchain-powered PTSA implementation for NIBSS.
04Introduced process improvements that moved average team performance from 45% to 90%, and received the 2024 Zone Crusader award.
05Contributed to Zone V2 reaching 99.5% network uptime and to ZonePOS onboarding 20 additional financial institutions in its first year.
06Achieved 50% faster UAT completion and helped reduce stakeholder response time from one week to a maximum of two hours.
022025
EDUCATION / MBA
Nexford University
MBA, Fintech & Blockchain2025
Completed an MBA focused on financial technology and blockchain.
03SEP 2020 — MAR 2023
UNITED KINGDOM
Tr1pp Technologies Ltd.
Project ManagerSEP 2020 — MAR 2023
Managed delivery across the Tr1pp Super Apps ecosystem on two mobile platforms.
01Helped take a UK debit-card feature from ideation through development and testing.
02Took ownership of and built the ride-sharing feature for the Tr1pp Android applications.
04OCT 2019 — APR 2020
FREELANCE
Independent
Digital StrategistOCT 2019 — APR 2020
Delivered independent digital-strategy work alongside an expanding project-management practice.
05AUG 2019 — AUG 2020
NIGERIA
Xiaomi Nigeria
Project ManagerAUG 2019 — AUG 2020
Worked in project management during Xiaomi’s continued growth in the Nigerian market.
06NOV 2017 — OCT 2018
NIGERIA
Chengyuang Import & Export Ltd.
Project ManagerNOV 2017 — OCT 2018
Built practical project-management experience within an import and export organisation.
072017
EDUCATION / HND
Federal Polytechnic Nekede
HND, Civil Engineering2017
Completed a Higher National Diploma in Civil Engineering.
08MAR 2015 — SEP 2015
NIGERIA
De-Vertican Concerns Ltd.
Project Manager, InternMAR 2015 — SEP 2015
Began the professional delivery journey through a project-management internship.
092014
EDUCATION / OND
Federal Polytechnic Nekede
OND, Civil Engineering2014
Completed an Ordinary National Diploma in Civil Engineering.
THE PERSON / INSIDE THE SYSTEM
If something important is stuck, let’s talk.
Clear thinking. Useful motion.