Olanike Omolehin, PhD, PMP

Experience

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  Cocoa Research Insearch Institute of Nigeria (CRIN)

  Aug 2009 - Feb 2010

  Agronomy/ Breeding (Intern)

  👍🏽Cocoa Research👍🏽Bagging and Pollination 👍🏽Pathology and Entomology of Cocoa👍🏽Utilization of Cocoa Bye-Products 👍🏽Rapid propagation of Cocoa seedlings via tissue culture👍🏽Cashew Growth and Maintenance 👍🏽Coffee Growth and Maintenance

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  National Youth Service Corps

  Feb 2012 - Nov 2012

  Agronomist

  👍🏽Rapid Multiplication of Banana/ Plantain👍🏽Rice Production 👍🏽Poultry Management👍🏽Cucumber Production 👍🏽Fertilizer Recommendation and Distribution

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  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

  Jun 2012 - Oct 2014

  Plant Breeding Research Fellow

  👍🏽Project Management 👍🏽Hybrid Maize Production 👍🏽Multi-Locational Field Trials👍🏽Genotype by Environment Analysis 👍🏽Seed Preparation, Packaging and Storage Post-Harvest👍🏽Herbicide Seed Coating👍🏽Maize Breeding For Herbicide Resistance 👍🏽Data Collection, Cleaning, Analyses and Presentation 👍🏽People Management👍🏽Extension and Field Outreaches 👍🏽Grant Application

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  Allied Atlantic Distilleries Limited

  Feb 2014 - Jan 2015

  Ag Extensionist and Raw Material Procurement Manager

  👍🏽Agricultural Extension 👍🏽Agricultural Business Analysis 👍🏽Gap Analysis 👍🏽Market Research/Evaluation 👍🏽Competition Analysis 👍🏽Procurement and Logistics of Agricultural Raw Materials👍🏽Grower and Company Price Deliberations 👍🏽Cassava and Sorghum Procurement 👍🏽High Ethanol Content Cassava Selection and Evaluation 👍🏽Book-Keeping, and Account Reconciliation 👍🏽70% Traveling across Nigeria

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  LSU AgCenter

  Jan 2015 - Dec 2020

  Researcher and Product Manager

  👍🏽Agile Ag Backlog Refinement, Kanban, Planning Interactions, Reviews, Retrospectives, and Presentation of Deliverables👍🏽Fungal Gene Silencing/RNAi👍🏽Biological FungicidesDemonstrated advanced technical expertise. Contributed to the optimization of existing methods and rapidly adapted new methods. Kept lab notes/Summarized data👍🏽Corn Production/Pollination-HybridSet up complex experiments, interpret, analyze and summarize experimental data.👍🏽Plant Disease Management Contributed to the optimization of existing methods and rapidly adapted new methods. 👍🏽Sample Evaluation for Aflatoxin using HPLC👍🏽Host (Corn) Induced Gene Silencing👍🏽Product Design/Trait IntegrationAccomplished short- and long-term experiments successfully.👍🏽Gene-edited Corn Field/Green house Evaluation👍🏽Haploid Corn Production 👍🏽Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization Carried out analysis of various data types independently.👍🏽Agronomy Carried out experiments independently with advanced technical expertise in a variety of methods.👍🏽Experimental Project DesignDisplayed a positive attitude that supported overall scientific progress of the team displaying effective communication and organization skills.👍🏽APHIS Regulations/Compliance Led permit application procedures and adhered to protocols of microbes and transgenic plant releases. 👍🏽Journal Article Contribution and Review👍🏽Oral/Poster Presentation Analyzed and synthesized evidence, conducted literature reviews, and authored manuscripts.👍🏽Lab Resource Management Participated in carrying out routine lab functions including but not limited to, biohazards waste containment and removal, inventory, cleaning of lab equipment and supplies, preparing reagents, and collecting and disposing of transgenic tissues.👍🏽Teaching/trainingTaught Plant Pathology 4000 and 7000 level courses. Show less

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  TechaVilly LLC

  Dec 2019 - May 2022

  Business Analyst/Scrum Master

  👍🏽User-centric product management from planning to release. Managed the entire requirement lifecycle of software products liaising between developers, and clients👍🏽Functional and non-functional requirements elicitation👍🏽Management of the Software Development Life Cycle of numerous features in different sprint successions 👍🏽Met one on one with team members to coach them on important aspect of agile methodology to improve individual performance and sprint health👍🏽Guide the development team through the critical process of user story estimation👍🏽Stakeholder management 👍🏽Risk and Impediment Management 👍🏽Facilitation of scrum ceremonies such as daily stand up, backlog refinement, retro and reviews👍🏽Coaching cross-functional team on agile mindset👍🏽Collaborate with Product Owner and Testers to write INVEST criteria compliant user stories and acceptance criteria👍🏽Coordinate successful Go-live planning 👍🏽Facilitate User Acceptance Testing Show less

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  Virginia Tech

  Apr 2021 - Oct 2022

  👍🏽Olanike serves as liaison between stakeholders of a life-science $4 million grant from USDA-NIFA at Virginia Tech👍🏽Project consists of biotechnology, microbiome, epidemiology, biological, chemical research and extension facets👍🏽Establishes, maintains, and strengthens relationship among the project directors, project leaders, stakeholders, and associates👍🏽Facilitates meetings similar to stand-ups, sprint planning and retrospective (in a scrum-agile setting)👍🏽Negotiates with growers and state inspectors on guidelines and scope of project👍🏽She elicits requirements for the evaluation and testing of products under field conditions👍🏽Acts as contact person for business owners, project directors, project leaders, stakeholders, and associates 👍🏽Communicates meeting agenda and minutes using MailChimp👍🏽Trains and supports personnel in order to meet/foster transitional requirements👍🏽Communicates progress of the project by editing and distributing quarterly and monthly publications summarizing products/innovation releases👍🏽Utilizes Microsoft Teams for communication among all stakeholders👍🏽Sets deadlines and meet target for quarterly milestones👍🏽Collaborates with highly cross-functional teams to conduct data analysis using Excel, PowerBI, and Tableau to understand project progress👍🏽Presentation of Project and Product milestones to different types of audience including growers, academics, industry, and students👍🏽Website content creation and update Show less 👍🏽Utilize Biological Control Agents and Anti-desiccants for boxwood blight management👍🏽Work with growers to test/evaluate possible innovations to combat a box plant disease present in 30 states across the U.S 👍🏽True test of products prior to release/shipping for industry evaluation👍🏽Proficient use of Data analytics skills/tools in life science, consumer science, business and research data gathering, cleaning, analyses and presentation 👍🏽Proficient use of market research, business analysis and ag agile skills Show less

  • Project Manager

    Nov 2021 - Oct 2022

  • Applied Plant Pathologist

    Apr 2021 - Sept 2022