I was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. As the third of nine children, and the first to attend college in my family, I had big dreams and I have spent the last 10 years of my life seeking out opportunities to lead, grow and develop in engineering and in business.

I graduated high school at the age of 14, and immediately started working as an accountant for a multi-chain restaurant in Nigeria. In 2005, I moved to the U.S to attend the University of Florida (UF) and graduated with a Chemical Engineering degree. During my five years at UF, I worked 30 hours per week, paid my own full-time out-of-state tuition, and interned every summer starting my freshman year at large Fortune 100 companies like PepsiCo and Cargill.

Post-UF, I joined DuPont in 2010. I started as a Capital Project Team Leader where I managed a team of 50+ designers in executing designs and constructability of multi-million dollars capital and cost projects across six business units. After a successful two years at DuPont, I decided to explore operations, as a Process Engineer. I led high-hazard process and technical operations of Fluorination-Extrusion systems in the FluoroPolymer unit. During my 4 years at Parkersburg, I launched a Women's Network in the plant, a move that enabled 400+ women to speak up about their career and work-life balance. I led these women to conferences such as the Pennyslvania Women Conference, and Society of Women Engineers Conference.

In 2014, I was transferred to the DuPont's headquarters in Delaware to expand my knowledge in business and engineering. I joined the Consulting team where I became a Global Energy Consultant and traveled to large manufacturing industries across Africa, Europe and the Middle East where I single-handedly delivered technical and management solutions. My role expanded to preparing technical framework and proposals for Capability Building, Production System and Operational Excellence which enabled me to develop platforms for these new offerings at DuPont. In January 2015, I accepted a job offer at BASF as a Lead Project Engineer for a new Shale Gas Pipeline.

I am currently finishing up my Master's degree in Energy Management from the New York Institute of Technology in May 2016. The rest of my time is spent encouraging my first-grader in STEM, swimming, piano and public speaking.

I look forward to joining the class of 2018 at UT-Houston