I first met him when I put out a project on Elance looking to update my blog and Facebook page. His response started along the lines of “Hello, I’m Peter Aikude, and I come from a background of 6 years spent differentiating offers and winning hearts online, in difficult markets…”.
After doing a quick check to be sure I hadn’t submitted a web project in the sales and marketing section, it dawned on me that there was more to this one than the usual techie types I’ve had work for me.
While I didn’t quite get round to awarding that particular job, I still remember that day as one that stood out a little for me, in a few ways.
Now you need to know I’m not new to hiring freelancers online. Running a solo shop like mine, infact means that I eat, sleep and breath freelancers for every outstanding task if I don’t want to be bogged in 15 hour work days.
What struck me at the time was that his work profile (Geosentry Enterprises) had the Top 5% skill mark for the web’s most popular programming language, PHP. I hadn’t seen that on other developers I’d worked with.
Now, while I’m racially blind, I’ll admit, I’d initially balked a bit at the geographical origin of this proposal. But now after seeing the provider’s skill class and presentation style, I was only curious to find out more about him. So I search up Elance a bit, and also email-interviewed Peter a bit. The results, for me, were unexpected.
It turns out Peter is skill-ranked as the best web programmer in Africa. Also turns out he’s a book author and an amazing guy who sells a good argument, has been an Internet behavior Leader of some sort in his region, and owns great blog about Nigerian Celebs in Hollywood movies – many of whom I’d known before, but didn’t know were Nigerian!
During our interview, I gather that Peter is quite convinced that his country’s current reputation abroad is entirely undeserved, and in his words, he’s “out to prove it”. He goes ahead to sell a good summary of his life commitment to use his tech skills for what he calls “a step-wise mass-evolving of our population” using planned “non-stressing” entertainment programs.
Serves me right for making out my afternoon to be a journalist!
After this thoughtful encounter, I learnt 2 important lessons:
1. Don’t judge a book by its whereabouts.
2. Coffee and keyboards don’t mix (there was a small incident as I typed…).
Generally, I’m impressed, so I’ll let you check out Peter’s Nigeria news website right here.
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