Senior Product Owner / Program Manager · Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
I turn regulated, high-stakes programs into compliant, shipped platforms.
Founder turned enterprise operator. I co-founded and exited VoteGuard, then spent 10+ years delivering cloud, compliance and SecOps programs at Microsoft, Options Clearing Corporation, Cencora and TD Bank.
MBA · SAFe 6.0 POPM · A-CSPO · Open to remote, hybrid and on-site roles
My delivery lens
Every roadmap item traces back to a risk it retires.
Founder first. VoteGuard called Nigeria's 2015 election four hours early.
Co-founded 2011 · ±0.73% error vs. official results · 2.3M SMS processed · Exited 2015
$24T
Annual notional value on the Options Clearing Corporation platform
1st
SEC cloud approval for a systemically important market utility
85%
Compliance at TD Bank, up from 38%
$23M
Annual savings vs. a 200-analyst model
Selected work
Programs built for scrutiny.
Figures are generalized to protect confidential information. Every card follows the same shape: the problem, what I owned, the result.
85% compliance with five people, not 200 analysts
- Problem
- After a $3.09B penalty the bank added 200 analysts. Six months later compliance sat at 38% and fixes took 120 days.
- My role
- Senior Product Owner / Program Manager across seven Vulnerability & Threat Management systems.
- How I led
- One integrated platform: Splunk for intelligence, ServiceNow for action, executive dashboards for trust.
Result: 85% compliance, 45-day remediation, $23M saved a year.
Read case study →Rebuilding the platform behind every U.S. options trade
- Problem
- ENCORE, a 20-year-old monolith, took 6 to 12 months to ship any change and had no precedent for cloud.
- My role
- Program Manager / Technical Product Owner across four product streams of 40+ people.
- How I led
- Treated SEC approval as a product milestone and ran 50+ member interviews before design.
Result: First SEC cloud approval for a systemically important utility. Zero critical defects in initial testing.
Read case study →Called Nigeria’s 2015 election four hours early
- Problem
- Official results took 48 to 72 hours, internet reached under 30% of polling units, and most agents had feature phones.
- My role
- Co-Founder and Product Lead, 2011 to 2015.
- How I led
- SMS-first design, three-telco failover and real-time fraud detection.
Result: ±0.73% error vs. official results across 119,973 polling units. Successful exit.
Read case study →Enterprise Compliance Intelligence Platform
- Problem
- Six siloed reporting systems, 200+ analysts emailing reports, and one weekly PDF for every audience.
- My role
- Product Owner for the intelligence layer and four audience-specific dashboards.
- How I led
- Strategic, analytical, interactive and operational dashboards, each built for one audience.
Result: 380% annual ROI. Log4j fixed across 2,847 assets in 72 hours.
Read case study →Governance architecture: why good tools still fail compliance
- Problem
- Every security tool was in place, yet compliance sat at 38%. Nobody owned remediation, exceptions or escalation.
- My role
- Senior Product Owner / Program Manager for the governance operating model.
- How I led
- Defined owners, SLAs and escalation on paper first, then enforced them with workflow and consequence models.
Result: SLA adherence up from 68% to 99.2%. Seven stakeholder groups on one operating model.
Read case study →Azure data pipelines for an oil and gas client
- Problem
- Legacy fracking platform data sat in manual, siloed systems inside a $50M+ portfolio of top global engagements.
- My role
- Program Manager / Technical Product Owner.
- How I led
- Moved the data into automated Azure pipelines, protected by service virtualization and test data management.
Result: 15% lift in advanced analytics adoption across a $50M+ portfolio.
Read case study →Secure data exchange for 2,500+ life science products
- Problem
- Life science companies and healthcare decision makers had no secure channel for clinical and economic data.
- My role
- Technical Product Owner for the UX/UI redesign and the move from Google Cloud to Azure.
- How I led
- Owned the roadmap, requirements and backlog, and turned voice-of-customer insight into stories.
Result: User confidence up 95%, renewals up 20%, launch efficiency up 35%.
Read case study →How I operate
Not a status-report PM. A governance engine that ships.
01
Frame the risk
Start from the audit finding, the regulator or the outage, then define what done looks like.
02
Build the backlog
Turn controls and requirements into epics engineers can estimate and ship.
03
Run the cadence
Intake, release governance and steering, one rhythm across every team and vendor.
04
Prove compliance
Executive dashboards that show the number moving, not slides that say it will.
AI in regulated delivery
Moving AI from demo to defensible practice.
In a bank, an AI feature that can't pass an audit is a liability. I bring AI into delivery the same way I bring in any control: scoped, measured and owned.
Useful
Tied to a real backlog item, not a headline.
Governed
Risk-reviewed and traceable before it ships.
Adopted
Measured by usage, not by launch date.
Training and consulting
Helping the next wave of POs, BAs and PMs get hired and get good.
01
Live bootcamps
Saturday training for new Product Owners, Business Analysts, Project and Program Managers.
02
The Field Guides
Practical books for Product Owners, Business Analysts and Program Managers.
03
Team training
Private workshops for delivery teams, plus the Caladium Lagos SME Bootcamp.
04
Fractional delivery
PMO setup, compliance roadmaps and ServiceNow product ownership.
References
What colleagues say.
"OLU is a technical thinker that is able to pull together multiple layers of data and business inputs…"
Chief of Staff, Cross Solution Customer Success, Microsoft
"Olu directly collaborated with my CSE PMO team at Microsoft. He shows curiosity and asks insightful questions…"
Business Program Director, Microsoft
"Olu's superpower is in his adaptability. He can take complex situations and break them into simple and clear solutions."
Vice President, LPL Financial
About
Technical product owner with a founder's instinct for what matters.
Dallas-based. I built and sold a company before I ever joined one, so I run programs like the budget is my own. Also a photographer, which explains the eye for clean layouts.
Full story →- Education
- MBA, Finance and Strategy, MIVA Open University
Product Strategy, Northwestern Kellogg
BSc, Archaeology and Geography, University of Ibadan
UX/UI Design, BloomTech - Credentials
- SAFe 6.0 POPM · A-CSPO · CSPO · CSM · AI for Product Owners
- Platforms
- ServiceNow · Splunk · AWS · Azure · GCP · Qualys · Power BI · Tableau
- Tools
- Jira · Confluence · Azure DevOps · Figma · Visio · Lucidchart
If it cannot afford to fail, let's talk.
Open to senior Product Owner, Program Manager and TPM roles, plus consulting, training and live bootcamps.