Directed internal operations to achieve budgeted results and other financial criteria, and to preserve the capital funds invested in the enterprise. Key achievements include:• Participated in the development and preparation of short-term and long-range plans and budgets based upon broad organization goals and objectives.• Steered the company to achieve (and surpass) sales, profitability, cash flow and business goals and objectives.• Developed and implemented a framework for the measurement and effectiveness of all processes internal and external which improved decision-making by the management.• Spearheaded the development, communication and implementation of effective growth strategies and processes, including developing and rolling out procedures and controls, to promote information flow and feedback from the senior management • Managed up to 15 employees to deliver on organizational goals and improved the efficiency of support services such as IT, HR, Accounts and Finance.• Collaborated with the management team to develop and implement plans for the operational infrastructure of systems, processes, and personnel designed to accommodate the rapid growth objectives of our organization.

Reporting to the Group Managing director, with responsibility to• Recovery of debt and loan for the Greenwich group• Monitoring of trade executing trades for loan clients• Reporting on court cases relating to loan clients

Directly reports to the Group Managing director, with responsibility to• Managed the asset remedial unit of the firm for 6 months by ensuring the recovery of debt and loan, tracking, and executing trades for loan clients, and reporting on court cases relating to loan clients. As the Group Executive/Head, Information & Communication Technology reporting to the Group Managing director, reached maximum IT Return on Investment (ROI) for capital expenses, and control costs, provided IT management support to over 40 users in five locations in Nigeria, and implemented standard IT framework and Governance with the firm. Key Achievements include:• Resolved power related challenges within third weeks on the job resulting in the firm’s ability to operate 24 hours daily. • Upgraded the head office’s service at 50% lesser than the existing service cost and with increased data bandwidth, improving the firm’s operations. • Fast tracked the implementation of a documentation management and workflow application, Laserfiche, by introducing proper project management within 6months of joining the firm, improving knowledge management • Implemented Virtual Private Network (VPN). connecting three out of the four branches to resources at head office at a reasonable cost using two different internet service providers• Implemented Backup Exec 2010 R3 as part of disaster recovery plan for the firm

SAP BASIS Consultant- Part timeHandled SAP Post implementation support at MRS Oil and gas, Apapa Lagos which currently run its business process on FI/CO, MM and SD module of SAP R/3. Duties include support for the four modules for users’ account creation and authorization, creation of G/L accounts, asset creation, depreciation run, and data cleanup for application migrated into SAP for audit purposes.SAP BASIS Consultant on Bankers Warehouse Limited R3 deployment.

SAP Functions include• Handled Transports request among the 3 sequential servers (DEVELOPMENT, QUALITY ASSURANCE, and PRODUCTION) during implementation.• Short dump analysis, managing lock entries, lock/unlock transaction codes, displaying and monitoring of Database and Application servers, managing user sessions.• Client administration which includes creation, deletion, export and import processes.• TMS configuration and Change request management.• Creating and testing RFC destinations, Spool and print management.• Database and application backup.• Managed the ABAP interface between Brokerage/Asset management application and SAP.• Provide 1st level support for users on MM, FI/CO, HR modules of SAP.

Head, IT Infrastructure and Support• Responsible for Service Level Agreement management with ICT vendors.• Deliver project management roles for the company’s ICT projects on different products (Microsoft, CISCO, and SAP business suit products).• Installation and configuration for high-end HP G- series servers and network devices.• Design and implementation of enterprise network security with Cisco A3300 firewall. • Derived and implement disaster recovery roadmap for IT department based on ITIL standards. • Deployment and management of Asset Management and Brokerage application (Fund Fusion, developed by Covenant Vision used to manage Afrinvest Equity Fund and the Stock Brokerage business – SQL 2005 based) .• Installation and configuration of Bloomberg terminal for Research department which provide global financial market data real-time through a dedicated port on company enterprise firewall.• Datacenter design and set up which makes the firm run its business activities on 24/7 network availability basis. • Deployment of MPLS Wide Area Network with Gateway Telecoms which connects all the 4 locations of the firm. • Evaluation and recommendation of ICT hardware product based on business benefits.• Developed a backup process and business resumption plan for the firm using Symantec BackupEXEC, HP 2024 Tape library and HP 4400 Scalable NAS File Service.• Prepare and presentation of annual IT Infrastructure unit budget to the Chief Information Officer.• Coordinates activities of IT infrastructure and application support team - 5 professionals responsible for managing Windows 2003/2008 running Active Directory, IIS, DHCP, ISA, Exchange 2007, MS SharePoint, MacAfee Enterprise antivirus as well as Helpdesk functions for over 120 users using SysAid software.

Senior Network EngineerAssistant Head of Technical Support with responsibility for the following;Installation of Vsat, both KU and C band using 1.2 to 2.4 meter dish on TDMA and SCPC. Modem use for SCPC includes IPSat Radyne ComStream Satellite modem, Shiron RG 384B modem.Configuration of VPN using both software solution and hardware solution. Worked on NetScreen VPN boxes.Configuration of VoIP equipment using Net2Phone products and other VoIP equipment.Installation and configuration of mailing solution using MDaemons.Configuration of Cisco routers/switches on client sites.In charge of training of all Direct ON PC engineers at Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt.Coordinate with site engineers to solve clients’ problems.Online and interactive technical support for Direct ON PC clients.Managing the local network in Direct ON PC Lagos office.