About Us
Who We Are?
Olokun LLC is an SBA Certified Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE) located in Norfolk, Virginia. We provide consulting, engineering, information technology, and logistics solutions for local, state, and federal government organizations, military, private industry, and public entities.
Olokun, LLC (UEID: M7JSB8E7KB73, Cage Code: 95V71) is registered in the System of Award Management (SAM) under primary NAICS 541330 for Engineering Services and various secondary NAICS codes associated with Consulting, Management, Professional, and Technical services.
Since our founding on June 10, 2021, Olokun is uniquely situated to leverage our management expertise and professional talents related to Maritime Industry Modernization, Engineering, Capture Management, Strategic Teaming, and Life-Cycle Logistics to provide a quality, cost effective solution to our customers. Based on the past two (2) years of customer feedback, Olokun is disciplined by process and adaptive to customer needs.
Vernon Hall founded Olokun LLC in 2021 with the mindset of creating a diverse company with the technical capability to provide innovative and process-driven solutions in the form of products and services to our clients. With over 18 years of experience, Vernon has served as an outside machinist, designer, engineer, project manager, program manager, division manager, and business developer. At Olokun, he manages the business, including but not limited to financial operations, business development, and program or account manager. He has been responsible for numerous contracts for NAVSEA, NAVAIR, NAWCs, NSWCs, NNSY, and MSC. Before Olokun, Vernon worked in AIT environments and Engineering & Design environments. His experience in both environments includes shipyards, small design firms, and large design firm support serving in the abovementioned roles. Vernon's design experience is in mechanical systems and equipment spanning across many vessels. His technical expertise includes mechanical engineering, weight engineering, 3-D ship design, 2-D ship design, ship integration, research and development, and new construction design. Vernon believes in collaboration with Olokun's team, teammates, and customers to provide the best solutions to government and commercial clients.
Meet our Board of Advisors
A senior aviation and shipboard management professional, Bert retired as a Commander from the U.S. Navy after a 31-year career and started AVMAC in 2009 with Don Buzard, a shipmate and a 30-year U.S. Navy retired Commander. Bert has extensive aircraft and shipboard management, maintenance, acquisition, logistics, operations and safety experience that both he and Don leveraged to provide aviation and maritime support services to both the Government and private industry. Bert has incrementally grown AVMAC every year into a multimillion-dollar award-winning company. Nationally, AVMAC has been recognized as a Inc. Magazine Private Titan in 2020 and has made the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing businesses the past two years with over 500 employees and revenues exceeding $50M.
“With over four decades of experience in carrier and amphibious aviation, Don Buzard and I recognize the value and innovative potential of Olokun LLC in the maritime industry. As established founders of AVMAC LLC, a leading national aviation and maritime company, we are excited for the future of Olokun LLC.”
A 30-year Navy Veteran Aviation Maintenance Officer, Don brought the same leadership and management strategies that made him successful during his Navy career to AVMAC, and AVMAC too has been successful over the past 12 years. Don and his business partner, Bert Ortiz, have built AVMAC into a highly successful company from a start-up. AVMAC is an SBA 8(a) Business Development Program success story, a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, and a Small Disadvantaged Owned Business who specializes in aviation and ship modernization technical support services. AVMAC has leveraged procurement program opportunities made available through the SBA to propel AVMAC from a start-up to a 60-million-dollar company in 12 years. AVMAC owners' corporate experiences is invaluable, which is why Olokun has asked Don to be on the Board of Advisors.
"AVMAC has mutually benefitted from our Mentor/Protégé relationship with Olokun over the past two years due to the exceptional professional experience of Olokun's CEO in the Ship Modernization business sector."
Business manager and leader with over 37 years' experience as a Surface Warfare Naval Officer, civil service electronics engineer, engineering and design manager, business consultant, and business developer. Bill has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and an MBA with a focus on strategy development. He maintains the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Practitioner certification from the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP). He uses his expertise in these areas as a coach and mentor to help others develop as managers, leaders.
Who We Serve
Government
As a small business, Olokun provides subject matter expertise, specializing in marine engineering, design, information technology, logistics, planning & maintenance, planning & modernization, and system engineering support to the Department of Defense and commercial businesses supporting the Maritime industry. Olokun's process driven, and innovative approach allows our customers to yield benefits in performance and quality at a reasonable cost.
Commercial
With subject matter experts in government and commercial business, Olokun's services provide small and large businesses flexible solutions to align people, processes, assets, and technology to develop organizationally and build strong business development strategies. Olokun provides proven processes and innovative solutions with strategies that target clients' needs for business growth.
What We Stand For
Vision
A place where ingenuity and innovation is analyzed in every solution.
Mission
Promote ingenuity and innovation in every product, service, and solution.
Core Values
- Accountable
- Ethical
- Flexible
- Integrity
- Innovative
Guiding Principles
Own The Outcome
Our staff takes responsibility for achieving customer goals regardless of circumstances. Our reporting relationships and responsibilities are clear; we have oversight procecures in place to ensure follow-through at all levels.
Drive To Certainty
Disciplined planning: concise, complete communications to eliminate confusion; and follow up to ensure actions are understood and completed on time. Olokun employees focus on making sure everything they can control to complete a task gets done correctly, on time, and on budget.
Manage Risk
Every task has elements that can't be driven to certainty. To manage uncertainty our staff engages in ongoing programs or project risk management at all levels.
Attributes That Set Us Apart
Efficiency
Olokun operates with highly qualified personnel filling key positions. Our professional team has the requisite experience, formal education, and technical skills to elevate our customer's projects to a winning level.
Affordability
We deliver well-qualified personnel and facilities at highly competitive rates.
Support
We support organizations who are commited to the success of government and private industry contracts. Olokun is committed to maximizing your success while minimizing your stress.