Kole Akinti
Abuja
Summary
Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing and Switching with experience in Telecommunications and Fintech, good business acumen and over 5+ years’ experience in deploying IT infrastructure, disaster recovery (DR), and network security, knowledge in cloud infrastructure, broad knowledge in Information Management and Data Governance. Core professional strengths: Network structure cabling, routing, switching, network security, cloud infrastructure, VOIP, WLan, problem solving, good communication skills, stakeholder management, negotiation, product management, risk management.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IT Specialist
Energy Services Limited
Abuja
09.2021 - Current
- Assisting with the deployment of various networks infrastructures
- Maintenance and support of various network infrastructure
- Assisted in provisioning of VMware for virtualization of Landmark applications
- Assisted in the deployment of Landmark Earth Appliance
- Deployment, maintenance and support of VoIP system
- Deployment, maintenance and support of WLAN
- Structure cabling and maintenance
- Provision of Data storage for Seismic acquisition Data
- Maintaining RAID (Risk, Action, Issues and Decision) logs, following up on action items, supporting issues resolution across teams, stakeholders and other lines of business
- Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers
- Departmental Data management
IT Field Engineer
Alfa O&O Networks Ventures Limited
10.2014 - 08.2021
- Project: Nigeria Gas Company – BSS (Radio network: P2P Intranet and Internet) network rollout)
- Undertake data network fault investigations in local and wide area environments using information from multiple sources
- Establish the networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation and defining, documenting and enforcing system standard
- Design and implement new solutions and improve resilience of the current environment
- Installation and configuration of PTP, PTM Microwave radios
- Maximize network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages and scheduling upgrades
- Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access
- Upgrade data network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases
- Provide remote support to on-site engineers and end user/customers during installation
- Provide remote troubleshooting and fault finding if issues occur upon initial installation
- Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers
- Maintaining good power supply and operating environment for base stations
- Maintaining adequate tools and spare equipment for timely clearing of faults
- Faults resolution on Transmission radios
- Monitor and rectify all environmental radio transmission and internal alarm triggers
- Installation and configuration of Vsat C band microwave radio
System Administrator
Akiavic Hotel
Ondo
02.2012 - 03.2014
- Implementation of a scalable and reliable network infrastructure
- Optimized network performance at all times
- Provide guest Wifi with captive portal
- Implementation of firewalls on the network infrastructure to prioritize network security
- Procure and installation of wireless routers
Education
Postgraduate Diploma - Computer Science
University of Benin
Nigeria12.2013
B.Sc - Computer Science
Olabisi Onabanjo University
Ago Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria04.2009
Skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Microsoft Office 365
- Microsoft Visio
- Network troubleshooting
- VMware provisioning
- WLAN deployment
- Data management
- Fault investigation
- Performance monitoring
- Firewall implementation
- Network installation
- Effective communication
- Capacity management
- Team collaboration
- Problem solving
- Adaptable thinking
- IT troubleshooting
- Application installations
- Virtualization technologies
- Information security
- LAN/WAN
- DHCP/DNS ethernet and firewall proficient
- Conflict resolution
- Decision making
- Project coordination
- Attention to detail
- Project tracking software
- MS Project
- Jira
- Cisco Routers
- Cisco Switches
- Virtualization
- VMware
- VoIP
- Unified Communication
- MS Teams
- MS Windows
- Linux
- Network administration
Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
- Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing and Switching
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Security CCNA
- Polycom Video Endpoints Technical Certification RPEOT 200
- Certificate of achievement Studio Manager - Petrel
- Certificate of achievement; Introduction to Information Management and Data Governance in E & P Industry (RILS).
Other Experience
- Very good in Procurement and installation of smart homes.
- Very good in deployment of access control system and CCTV.
Languages
English
First Language
Timeline
IT Specialist
Energy Services Limited
09.2021 - Current
IT Field Engineer
Alfa O&O Networks Ventures Limited
10.2014 - 08.2021
System Administrator
Akiavic Hotel
02.2012 - 03.2014
Postgraduate Diploma - Computer Science
University of Benin
B.Sc - Computer Science
Olabisi Onabanjo University
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