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Summary
Effective communication & presentation skills.
Team leadership & motivation techniques.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Aggressive go-getter.
Strong Analytical/numerical skills and good business exposure.
Self-motivated individual with good attention to details.
Easy going, highly determined and goal focused.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy Director Data Management Services
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2012 - Current
Responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Data Management team to ensure data integrity and accessibility to enable informed decision-making;
Provided platform for data collation, analysis and validation to ensure the accuracy and reliability of information;
Developed protocols for the protection of personal and corporate information to avoid data/information misuse;
Periodically sensitized staff to encourage proper data management and fair use of information;
Development and provision of data driven reports for management decision making.
Ensured compliance with data privacy regulations – NDPR/NDPC;
Deputy Director Research
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2022 - 01.2023
Responsible for team building and motivation of the Research team.
Collaborated with the departments, units and zones in carry out research in new areas of knowledge.
Overseeing the implementation of research projects from inception to completion, ensuring that adherence to the scope, time and budget.
Responsible for Implementation of standards, best practices, policies, and procedures to ensure the highest quality management of research, protections of human subjects, and data integrity.
Assistant Director, Internal Compliance
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2020 - 01.2021
Responsible for compliance activities of the department, adherence to internal policies and procedure and ensuring high quality delivery on the departmental functions;
Assisted in the development, documentation, review and communication of internal compliance policies and procedures;
Ensuring that new policies are properly communicated, implemented and value driven;
Carried out periodic risk assessments to identify vulnerabilities and also put measures in place to mitigate future occurrence;
Reported incidents and vulnerabilities for Management action.
Assistant Director ICT (HQ)
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2017 - 01.2020
Responsible for development, deployment and managing of ICT resources;
Responsible for high availability of ICT resources across the Agency;
Actively involved in vendor contract negotiation with respect to acquisition, maintenance and upgrade of computer information system;
Liaised with other departments and units in development of IT/IS strategy for the Agency;
Prepared ICT budgets, monitored performance and ensured compliance;
Developed and directed ICT policies and procedures;
Trained and mentored both ICT Staff and users across the Agency;
Supervised Information Systems and Network Communications across the Agency;
Managed ICT projects including Visitors Management System, Electronic Data Management System and E-procurement System;
Managed the process of requirements gathering and UAT;
Motivated and supervised staff to ensure compliance and quality delivery;
Implemented Sage X3 ERP.
Chief Information Technology Officer Eastern Zone
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2012 - 01.2016
Responsible for the implementation of ICT Projects in all the locations in Eastern Zone;
Responsible for high availability of ICT resources in the four (4) states of Eastern Zone;
Provided technical guidance to the users of the in the zone;
Responsible for the development of ICT strategy for the zone;
Liaised with the ICT Director in preparation of the Agency’s ICT budget;
Senior Manager IT/Operations
Central Securities Clearing System Limited (NIG)
01.2008 - 01.2012
Responsible for IT/Operations budgeting, assignment of jobs and supervision of the departmental functions;
Managed the CSCS Clearing and Settlement Platform;
Developed Data Exchange System which enabled market-wide paperless transactions;
Responsible for high availability of network connectivity;
Managed several of IT projects;
Developed and implemented Departmental policies and procedures;
Managed CSCS consultants and vendors to ensure high quality service delivery;
Actively involved in System Analysis, Design, Testing and Implementation;
Evaluated, reviewed and upgraded of network protocols and the associated hardware;
Worked with the stakeholders in developing new products and services for the market;
Vetted/ approved outgoing correspondences including Special reports for NDLEA, EFCC, SEC, NPF and CBN;
Authorized/Supervised the processing of special accounts;
Investigated/resolved Inter-Member and Settlement Issues among Market Participants;
Headed various in-house committees;
Represented CSCS in Market-Wide committees, including the nations vision 2015/2020.
Systems Test Analyst
William Hill Plc. (UK)
01.2006 - 03.2008
Created and executed test scripts;
Reported and tracked defects using HP Quality Centre 9.2;
Analysed test scripts and summary matrix;
Reviewed coverage and approach for testing financial components;
Re-tested for bugs that have been fixed by developers (Regression Testing);
Performed functional, end to end, regression and user acceptance testing on the gaming systems;
Tested the integration of various modules such as winnings, payouts, bonuses and commissions using SB Client and Pit Boss Solutions, on online betting platforms;
Collated, scoped, planned requirements and ran tests on the organization’s e-commerce sites to ensure accuracy and consistency;
Manager – IT Retail Services
Ladbrokes Plc. (UK)
07.2002 - 12.2005
Responsible for setting up and updating computer systems in the Central London;
Carried out routine maintenance and troubleshooting of systems;
Responsible leadership, motivation, supervision and training of members of staff;
Updated customer details in the database;
Generated periodic management reports;
Prepared periodic business/Software reviews to enhance turnover and profitability.
Trainee Business Analyst (One-year Placement)
Lynx Computing & Consulting (UK)
08.2001 - 07.2002
Assisted in the provision of business analysis functions for many key clients;
Conducted fact-finding activities & feasibility studies on client projects;
Liaised with key clients to establish system requirements and specifications;
Created, Use Cases, Class Diagrams and Object interaction diagrams;
Complied & created lists or catalogues of system & client requirements;
Developed specific documentation on gap analysis to assist system analysis;
Developed and maintained strong working relationships with all key clients;
Reviewed internal and external documentation to ensure accuracy;
Prepared presentations and reports for senior level management teams;
Planned and presented logical models of the new systems to end users.
Deputy Manager Operations
Ladbrokes Plc. (UK)
10.1999 - 07.2001
Responsible for Market Analysis to determine the company’s market share;
Carried out bank transactions and reconciliations;
Monitored the departmental budgets to ensure compliance;
Managed and maintained imprests for the retail outlets;
Provided frontline customer service;
Trained Cashiers for their daily retail roles;
Generated monthly operations reports for the management;
Branch Accountant
ABC Transport Ltd (Lagos)
01.1997 - 01.1999
Analysed revenue& gross profit margin drivers;
Developed weekly, monthly and quarterly reports showing the business trend;
Analysed variances to determine their causes which enabled remedial actions;
Supervised and motivated subordinates to ensure compliance;
Co-ordinated the departmental functions to ensure accuracy & reliability of records;
Carried out other finance functions of the branch;
Liaised with the operations manager to ensure the smooth running of the branch.
Area Representative/Technical Assistant to CEO
Marshal International Contractors Ltd (Lagos)
01.1994 - 01.1997
Represented the company in downstream activities in the associated oil companies;
Assisted the CEO in the procurement activities/decisions;
Liaised between the community chief/youths and the 3rd party contractors during the NPDC Oredo Project;
Acted as site Accountant to ensure the timely payment of wages during NPDC Oredo Project;
Attended meetings with procurement officer’s/user departments to ensure that the technical specifications of LPOs were accurate;
Ensured that LPOs were properly coordinated and services delivered on time.
Internal Audit Assistant
Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Ltd (PPMC-NNPC, Warri)
01.1993 - 01.1994
Vouched transactions by following the audit trail;
Attested to materials/equipment supplied by contractors;
Carried out prepayment audit to ensure accuracy and compliance;
Carried out period Systems Audit;
Monitored the registration documents of contractors;
Carried out Internal Audit Review;
Sales Assistant (One-year Industrial Training)
Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Ltd (PPMC-NNPC, Aba)
01.1990 - 01.1991
Prepared Sales Ledgers;
Assisted in products allocation management;
Reviewed the Marketers Bulk Purchase Agreement for the Depot;
Prepared daily, weekly and monthly sales figures.
Education
MSc Hons - Electronic Commerce
Middlesex University
01.2006
BSc Hons - Business Information Systems
Middlesex University
01.2003
Diploma - Computer Data Processing
Fulham Computer Studies Ltd
01.1996
HND - Accounting
Federal Polytechnic Nekede
01.1993
OND - Accounting
Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic
01.1990
WASC/GCE O’Level - Credits (Including English & Maths)
Nguru Secondary Commercial School
01.1985
Skills
Software Development and Testing Skills
Business Analysis Skills
Data Analysis
Project Management Skills
Accounting Skills
Object-Oriented Analysis
Structured Analysis
Component Based Development
C
SQL
XML
SSADM
UML
RUP
Visual Basic
MS Office
Sage Line 50
Sage X3 ERP
PMP
ISTQB
Various in-house & external training programmes
Hobbies and Interests
Interests include poetry, football, cycling, travelling, music, and meeting people.
References
Excellent references available on request.
Timeline
Deputy Director Research
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2022 - 01.2023
Assistant Director, Internal Compliance
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2020 - 01.2021
Assistant Director ICT (HQ)
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2017 - 01.2020
Deputy Director Data Management Services
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2012 - Current
Chief Information Technology Officer Eastern Zone
Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA)
01.2012 - 01.2016
Senior Manager IT/Operations
Central Securities Clearing System Limited (NIG)
01.2008 - 01.2012
Systems Test Analyst
William Hill Plc. (UK)
01.2006 - 03.2008
Manager – IT Retail Services
Ladbrokes Plc. (UK)
07.2002 - 12.2005
Trainee Business Analyst (One-year Placement)
Lynx Computing & Consulting (UK)
08.2001 - 07.2002
Deputy Manager Operations
Ladbrokes Plc. (UK)
10.1999 - 07.2001
Branch Accountant
ABC Transport Ltd (Lagos)
01.1997 - 01.1999
Area Representative/Technical Assistant to CEO
Marshal International Contractors Ltd (Lagos)
01.1994 - 01.1997
Internal Audit Assistant
Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Ltd (PPMC-NNPC, Warri)
01.1993 - 01.1994
Sales Assistant (One-year Industrial Training)
Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Ltd (PPMC-NNPC, Aba)
01.1990 - 01.1991
MSc Hons - Electronic Commerce
Middlesex University
BSc Hons - Business Information Systems
Middlesex University
Diploma - Computer Data Processing
Fulham Computer Studies Ltd
HND - Accounting
Federal Polytechnic Nekede
OND - Accounting
Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic
WASC/GCE O’Level - Credits (Including English & Maths)
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform
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<li>Managed and prioritized service requests to meet customer deadlines and expectations. Maintain detailed written records, and provide audit reports on customer equipment. Update asset databases and other internal systems. Rack and stack customer equipment in data center environments, and install circuits requiring advanced fiber terminations using a fusion splicer. Set up telecom cabinets, fiber trays, and cage wiring for customer equipment. Perform installation, testing, and modification of cross-connects, including coax, fiber, twisted pair copper, and other cabling, according to SOPs. Support standard data center cross-connect work orders (installs, terminations, modifications). Install 'across-connect' circuits, such as switched or multiplexed circuits. Troubleshoot fiber and copper circuits, and collaborate with the networking team as needed. Work with customers to resolve issues, supporting standard testing and installations of their assets. Regularly communicate with customers, providing updates and troubleshooting support. Deliver exceptional customer service, and raise any issues to the appropriate teams. Provide on-site support, including access control, and escorting services for customers. Support customers with inbound and outbound shipments, including inventory management, and staging.</li>
</ul> at Equinix Data Center<ul>
<li>Managed and prioritized service requests to meet customer deadlines and expectations. Maintain detailed written records, and provide audit reports on customer equipment. Update asset databases and other internal systems. Rack and stack customer equipment in data center environments, and install circuits requiring advanced fiber terminations using a fusion splicer. Set up telecom cabinets, fiber trays, and cage wiring for customer equipment. Perform installation, testing, and modification of cross-connects, including coax, fiber, twisted pair copper, and other cabling, according to SOPs. Support standard data center cross-connect work orders (installs, terminations, modifications). Install 'across-connect' circuits, such as switched or multiplexed circuits. Troubleshoot fiber and copper circuits, and collaborate with the networking team as needed. Work with customers to resolve issues, supporting standard testing and installations of their assets. Regularly communicate with customers, providing updates and troubleshooting support. Deliver exceptional customer service, and raise any issues to the appropriate teams. Provide on-site support, including access control, and escorting services for customers. Support customers with inbound and outbound shipments, including inventory management, and staging.</li>
</ul> at Equinix Data Center
Assistant Manager - Professional Services and Product Development, Infrastructure and network management at Tata Communications Payment Solution Ltd.Assistant Manager - Professional Services and Product Development, Infrastructure and network management at Tata Communications Payment Solution Ltd.