NE New Mexico News

From March 2, 2023 post.

The Center on Rural innovation & UNM-Taos HIVE recognize Bob Okeke, from UNM-Taos IT, highlighting Black Tech Professionals in Rural America!

We are proud of you Bob!

Okeke moved from Kansas, where he had been studying at Kansas State, to northern New Mexico four years ago. He brought with him an educational background that included Russian, biotechnology, and political science — and the sort of curiosity that seems to be in any technologist’s DNA.

“I’ve always been, you know, the guy that opens everything up to see how it works,” Okeke said. “And then it just transformed into trying to get things fixed.”

That move the southwest also brought about a career change that began to channel his interest in technology. And then last year, that path led Okeke to a job in IT with the University of New Mexico, a position that he hopes sets him up to achieve bigger things in tech down the road.

“It’s given me more insight and is building the knowledge of becoming a better and more technical person,” Okeke said. “Because I also have my visions of founding a tech company someday, but I’m really getting what I think is a good, general grounding in selling to customers, working with different technologies, and, you know, debunking some of the things in my head. … It’s basically pulling me into an ecosystem that gives me the ability to learn and build my repertoire.”

Original source can be found here.