This document summarizes Irewole Akande's background, interests, goals, engineering management studies, internship experience working on an Office 365 deployment project, and experience working for Emerson in Iowa and Missouri. It discusses his family background, languages spoken, hobbies including soccer and art, and goals of becoming an engineering manager, entrepreneur, and father. It provides details about his engineering management education focusing on business, technical, and leadership skills and his intern role testing and validating tenant provisioning and reporting on the Office 365 deployment.

1. Irewole Akande
MY EMERSON VOYAGE

2. IREWOLE ‘WOLE’ AKANDE BSc. Engineering Management
Illinois Institute of TechnologyService Transition Intern
• About Me
• Why Engineering Management?
• Service Transition – Office 365
• Emerson Experience

3. • Family
• 4 siblings
• 3 H’s - Hard work,
Humility, Honesty
• Hometown
• Farming village
• Confluence of rivers
ABOUT ME
BACKGROUND
Speak and understand 4 languages,
mummy’s boy, unofficial family cook

4. ABOUT ME Avid Reader, Soccer Addict, Art
Enthusiast, Creative Writer
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
- Gustave Flaubert
INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

5. ABOUT ME
GOALS
Engineering Manager, Economic
Development Specialist, Entrepreneur,
Philanthropist, Father, Happy
Short Term Goals
• Education
• Maza Maza Startup
• Emerson Engineers in
Leadership
Long Term Goals
• Entrepreneurship
• Bottom-Up economic
development in Nigeria
• Happiness

6. ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
ENGINEERING
MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS
TECHNICAL
LEADERSHIP
OPERATIONS
Specialization in Electrical Engineering

7. • Leverage world wide logistics
• Synchronize demand and supply
• Increase global performance
With proper management of
engineering processes:
ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
Masters in Public Administration

8. IT WORKFORCE PRODUCTIVITY
WFP Services: IT Service Desk, Endpoint Protection & Management,
Collaboration Services, such as: Jabber, WebEx, SharePoint, Office 365
Capability Requirement and Technology enablers
Business Technology Solutions
Change, Delivery, Adoption, Support & Lifecycle
Service and Project Delivery Process
Improving Speed, Cost, Agility & Productivity

9. WFP: SERVICE TRANSITION
Change, Delivery, Adoption, Support & Lifecycle
REPORT
VALIDATE
Outline project specifications and set goals
Test different methods for achieving set goals
Pick and choose best methods to proceedDeployment of services or software
Update on progress and look increase efficiency

10. OFFICE 365 PROJECT
Service Transition Intern
Internship Experience:
• Testing: Provisioning of
users in the Microsoft Tenant
• Validation: Results for
tenant provisioning
• Deployment: Maintenance
of Deployment Reports
• Reporting: PowerBI,
automation of data
collection

11. EMERSON EXPERIENCE
Automation Solutions - Fisher
• 7 months
• Marshalltown, Iowa
• IT Infrastructure Assistant
• IT Project Management &
Business Analysis
• Dynamics – Business Unit

12. • 3 months
• St. Louis, Missouri
• Service Transition - Data
Analyst
• Dynamic - Corporate
• Restructure of EMERSON
CONSIDER IT SOLVED
EMERSON EXPERIENCE
Emerson Corporate

13. • William Lehman
• Effie Foster
• Drea Ciarrochi
• Kojo Degraft-Hanson
• The MBA Interns
• The other Co-ops
• Members of the Workforce
Productivity team
Special Thanks to: