User:Okonekpo

Okon Koko Ekpo (born June 6th 1981) is a Web Applications Developer currently residing in Boca Raton, Florida. He lived in Miami, Florida between November 1999 and May 2006 before moving to Boca Raton, Florida.

On April 29th, 2006, Okon Ekpo became the first Web Applications Developer from Miami-Dade County to become a Zend Certified Engineer. He is also one of the first Nigerians to receive the Zend Certification from Zend Technologies Ltd.

His father Dr. Koko Okon Ekpo is a professor of Education at the Polytechnic Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. His mother is currently a retired midwife and health educator. Ekpo was born in Denton, Texas to Nigerian parents who where currently studying in the United States at the time and were in the country on student visas but his parents moved to Nigeria when Ekpo was only about 2 years old. He grew up in Nigeria in the South Eastern state of Akwa Ibom before returning to the United States in November 1999 to continue with his post-secondary education.

He reads, speaks and writes English, Ibibio, Efik fluently.

References:

(1) http://www.zend.com/store/education/certification/yellow-pages.php

(2) http://www.perfectvista.net/resume.php