Wole Akeredolu
Executive Director and Research Consultant, Gannetcity Limited
Profile
AKEREDOLU, Oluwole Samuel
A creative, innovative and resourceful IT project Manager, business developer, computer-IT education provider and an entrepreneur. He started his professional ICT career in 1993 when he worked for MFI and Associates as the network administrator, Vicone Limted 1996 as the General Manager ICT, before he founded Global Access Network in 1997 as an IT support Service Company which later became Gannetcity Limited ( www.gannetcity.net ) in Akure 2001 which now has its head office in Lagos and branch offices at Ibadan and Port Harcourt.
He was appointed a consultant and adviser on ICT matters to the Cabinet office of the Ondo State Government in 2003. He consulted for the International Institutes Of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Akure between 2003 and 2005. He was also selected a Consultant by state governments of Ondo and Ekiti States between 2003 and 2006 to undertake some World bank sponsored ICT infrastructure deployment projects.
His love for R&D has distinguished him as a creative solution provider and a coach on virtually every Computer and Information Technology subjects. He is a technical report writer, motivational speaker a passionate leader. He owns Gannetcity Info-Tech Academy an IT education and business management eduction providing outfit.
He has designed and deployed many of his own brands of network devices like firewall, Router, Packet shaper, Web and mail servers nationwide. He is a UK trained VSAT installer, web portal and application developer with expertise spaning both Linux and Windows Operating systems, He is into business Process re-engineering, Software Testing, Quality Assurance, Office automation & Integration, Customer service Training, Human resource management and Research consultancy.
Wole is ever willing to share and impact his knowledge anywhere across the globe via training workshops/seminars, tradeshows and public speaking within a reasonable notice. He is also open to mutually benefiting networking and business opportunities.
10 contacts1997 - 2008Wole Akeredolu He is a relentless IT guru with friendly dispositions and a humanitarian spirit. His consultancy career has recently benefited many organizations of which a few are listed below:
Wesly University of Science and Technology Ondo (WUSTO)
CHAMS PLC, Lagos
African Tourism Organization (ATO), USA
SI Consulting, UK
Corporate Affairs Commission, Abuja
Center for the Defence of Human Rights and Democracy in Africa, Lagos and Lome
GIWA Project Defence Heaquaters, Lagos
HiTV Media Limited, Lagos
Titan Information Technology Ltd, Lagos
KKON Technologies Ltd., Lagos
The company provides broadband internet access via DSL, wireless and VSAT Infrastructure.We also provide web design, hosting and domain name services. We produce, setup and manage Web, RAS, mail,firewall, hotspot servers, bandwidth managers,etc.
Archievements:
The company pioneered internet services in Akure, Ondo state capital in the year 2000 till 2006. We provided quality and affordable services to over 90% of the internet users in the state which include cybercafes, institutions, government, non-government, private homes and offices.
Wole Akeredolu id the director of studies at Gannetcity Info-Tech academy, a subsidiary of Gannetcity Limited. This outfit was formed to breed competent IT experts required in the IT labour market today. At the academy a practical approach quality training is delivered to a wide range of audience through regular classroom, off-site, corporate, seminar and workshops arrangements on subjects like Microsoft Office applications, Windows and Linux operating systems, Desktop publishing, LAN, WLAN, VSAT, Fibre Infrastructure setup and maintenance, Cybersecurity, Router configurations, IT project Management, Software Testing, Quality Assurance, CISCO certifications and lots more.
Wole Akeredolu ICT consulting experience has contributed greatly to human capital development and business growth in the ICT sector. No wonder, the two times award for excellence in Trade and Services Merit award given to him in 2002 and 2003.
