Bunmi is a transformational IT Consultant with over two decades leading change in business enterprise environments. His background spans Banking, Pharmaceuticals, Innovation, Governance and Leadership roles in Middleware Infrastructure in many engagements such as at IBM, XO communications Citizens bank, Bank of America, Collabera, SureNet Technologies and Infosys
Bunmi has also played policy advisory roles, in the Executive Council of Ogun State, Nigeria as Special Adviser ICT to the State Governor in the recent past. An alumnus of the then University of Ife Nigeria(Now OAU), University of Missouri-Columbia MO, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ, and HarvardX, Harvard Business school. He was recently appointed in 2021 to the Advisory board of the Cybersecurity Executive Program of Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.
In his quest to contribute his own quota in bridging the divide between Africans, and other cultures on one hand, and with other Africans in other parts if the world, he authored this book: Dictionary of African Names, Meanings, Pronunciations, and origin.
Bunmi Adebayo a.k.a “OPJ” or “Opeji”, a Nigerian-American is an alumnus of both the University of Ife, (Now OAU) Ile- Ife Nigeria, and University of Missouri- Columbia, Graduate School, in the United States where he graduated in International relations and New Media respectively. He’s also taken Project management courses at the Rutgers University-New Brunswick NJ, in the United States. ‘OPJ, as he’s fondly called attended the prestigious Abeokuta Grammar School and Ogun State Polytechnic both in Abeokuta Nigeria, in the mid-’70s and early ’80s for his High school and “A” levels education respectively.
Bunmi, currently based in New Jersey in the United States was born in his native hometown of Abeokuta, Ogun state Nigeria in the mid 60,s to a family of seven in which he is the second child. The author is married to his friend, ‘Remi, (nee Macjob), and currently blessed with three children Temilade, Oyinade, and Omolade.
Bunmi has been working in Information technology as Web Administrator since the late 90,s with a stint at the Journal of Commerce (then, a subsidiary of London Economist) and XO communications, both in the United States. His challenges in his days at the University of Ife on race and International relations culminated in his study of the history of the Africans in diasporas, especially North, South, and Central America, and the attendant effect on their country’s international relations with Africa. This publication “Dictionary of African names” is his contribution to the closure of the divide created by the middle passage and an eventual culturally connected committee of African nations both in the homeland and diasporas.
Bunmi adores Chief Obafemi Awolowo (Late Nigerian Nationalist), and especially his popular saying “After darkness comes glorious dawn”.
Bunmi is married with 3 children.
Bunmi is a transformational IT Consultant with over two decades of leading change in business enterprise environments.