Dr. Oluyomi Alarape (Phd) Email & Phone Number

Grand Rapids, Mi, Us

Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Ng

Responsible for the development of the organisation's short-, mid-, and long-term strategies.Grow the business in line with the company's goals and objectives.Motivate and provide strong leadership to the business practice areas and leaders.Design and implement systems that reward good staff performance and competence.Crafted the 2021 Quintuple vision, Quintuple overflow, and "More Than One" in 2022, which have led to major business transformation as they touch on strategic, tactical, and operational matters. Grow revenue by 515% YoY and increase the customer base by 100%.The first Microsoft Partner in sub-Saharan Africa to be an Azure Managed Service Provider (MSP) Expert across MCC.The first Microsoft Partner in MEA and one of the top 15 in the world to achieve the Data Platform (Analytics on Microsoft Azure) Advanced Specialization.Strategic Growth & Expansion Through differentiation and a focus strategy, Wragby has gained market share for its products and services, expanded its geographical reach to French-speaking West and East Africa, enhanced joint GTM strategies, and grown its managed services.Leadership in Artificial Intelligence: Leading the development Wragby AI-helper and other innovative natural language processing solutions on top of Microsoft Data Fabric. This platform empowers business and technical decision-makers to gain insights from their data without writing a single line of code, significantly cutting down the time to value for decision-making.Driving Technological Innovation: The development of Wragby's flagship products, smeproductivity.com, BIzManager, iBroka, Custody, and workpartnerAI, projected to generate substantial revenue in IP licensing and subscription fees.Fostering Partnerships and Collaboration: chaired strategic business launches and market offerings, focusing on advancing AI specialization across the continent, managed security services collaboration across Africa, and exploring opportunities in the African tech space

Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, Ng

Grow the business and increase market share, mindshare and wallet share by developing the dynamic capabilities that brings desired competitive advantage for the company through continuous scanning (within and without) and reconfiguring of organisational strategy and investments. This has Led WRAGBY to become: - First Microsoft Partner in Nigeria/West East & Central Africa to be recognized as Microsoft World Wide Competency Award Finalist (2017, 2018 & 2019).- Microsoft Partner of The Year 2019 & 2020 (Nigeria).-Microsoft Worldwide 2019 Application Innovation Finalist, 2018 Azure Compete & 2017 Enterprise Mobility & Security. -First Microsoft Partner in Nigeria-WECA to win a World Wide Competency Awards (Finalist WW Enterprise Mobility and Security Award Winner) - Implemented first 10,000 seats, 9,000 seats, 6,000 seats, 5,500 seats and 3,200 seats of Microsoft EMS Solution in FSI, Telco, Public Sector, etc.- First Hybrid Cloud 100% OSS Core Telco Platform Services and First Storsimple Implementation in FSI for compliance/regulatory and Public Sector for geo-maps etc.-First Microsoft Partner to build and develop SME Productivity Integrated Platform for Microsoft 4Afrika and First Bank of Nigeria (www.smeproductivity.com)-Responsible for the corporate strategy and disruptive initiatives and vision for the organisation.Lead Strategic Projection for the business based on current trends and future expectations.Put in-place metrics designed to track the effects of action plans and effectively with capabilities to swiftly adapt and develop new plans towards meeting the ever-moving business target.Build a workplace culture that is capable of executing change to meet business objectives.Birthing startups focused at regional transformation - employability, SME - retail focused, disruptive nature using cutting-edge technology.Industry thought-leader and consultant to world leading tech research consulting companies on industry-trends and market insight.

Maastricht, Limburg, Nl

- Content and material development for business leadership, digital transformation, entrepreneurship and management courses.- Lectures MBA Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurism and Family Business courses.-Author (Entrepreneurship, digital transformation, Sustainable Economic Development) and Green Innovation practice framework from ground-up.

* Incubating a disruptive startup business with focus on SMEs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise business in Nigeria leading strategic products growth at triple-digits, YoY growth at double digit in succession.•Design measurement processes to track efficacy of marketing programs for multiple products, channels, implement corrective actions and drive accountability for the Cloud & Enterprise Business Group•Constantly align business priorities and forecasts with resource allocation while driving adjustments to increase ROI.*Onboarded the first world-class Cloud OS Network Hosting Service Provider in the region.•Provide thought leadership in messaging, customer/partner advocacy, channel implementation, field readiness, and execution excellence for an integrated marketing plan.• Provide strategic market and compete insight to ensure healthy business growth and industry-leading solutions pioneer.

Redmond, Washington, Us

• I led the Microsoft Datacenter-Cloud business in the Commercial, Public Sector and the Small-Medium Scale – Partners across English speaking West East Central African (WECA) countries. • I was responsible for the platform sales of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, System Center-ECI, and Windows Azure. Within 3 months, my understanding of the marketplace and experience led to tremendous growth of the business and wins against competition – The 1st Enrollment for Core Infrastructure (ECI) and Azure Solutions Sales in WECA. •Developed a healthy pipeline and grew the Microsoft Datacenter Solutions business double-digit with Partners and Services attach. •Drove the Datacenter business through effective Account Management, Account Planning, Opportunity Management and Business Management Excellence (Pipeline health & accuracy).•Led strategic platform wins against competition in Nigeria and Ghana through in-depth insight of the marketplace, the technology and connecting this with business needs of top customers.• Built a solid partner ecosystem from ground-up which provided the runway to scale and grow the business. • Responsible for opportunity generation plans for the Datacenter and Cloud products by contributing to the overall Account Planning and upselling Microsoft Datacenter Products.

Redmond, Washington, Us

•Drove Executive Satisfaction through measurable approaches to ROI evaluation, REJ, etc.•Lead Architect-Leading O&G Enterprise Windows 2003 AD Upgrade to Windows 2008 R2, Exchange 2003 to 2010 & Microsoft Lync 2010 Architectural Design and Planning. •Lead Architect-First Enterprise Design and Deployment of Microsoft UC Lync 2010 Solution for Sonangol Petroleum Angola spanning geographical locations for 6,000 Enterprise users.•Lead Architect – Design of Windows 2008R2 AD, Messaging and Unified Communications Solution for MOFA Ghana.•Lead Services Architect Presales and technical engagements that have led to closing top big deployment deals like Enterprise Systems deployment and UC initiatives, NNPC Enterprise Upgrade Sonangol Lync 2010 implementation, First Bank Collaboration Migration from Lotus Notes, UBN Enterprise Collaboration from Sendmail and several others.•Lead Architect (designed and implementation) of the NNPC Forest and Domain Upgrade (Win 2003 to Win 2008 R2) and consolidation of the current PPMC Child domain hosting over 10,000 resources to the CHQ domain using Microsoft ADMT 3.2.•Led the first WECA Enterprise Zero-Touch OS Deployment and Image Engineering Project for NLNG Plant in Bonny standardising on a single image from previous 18-images.•Led the first Windows 7 and Office 2007 Desktop Deployment Planning Services (Architectural Design, Infrastructure Design & Remediation, Image Engineering, ACT, MDT, Security hardening using Advanced Group Policies, etc.) in MEA at FCMB Lagos, Nigeria•Design and Implementation of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 Image Engineering and Deployment for Microsoft OEM Partners using Microsoft Deployment Workbench 2010 and Windows Deployment Services (WDS) for Lite-Touch and Zero-Touch Operating Systems Deployment.•Technical guidance for Microsoft Partner on the Enterprise deployment of OCS 2007 R2 (IM, Presence, Voice, Conferencing) for NNPC Corporation. Corporate Pilot for about 4,000 users.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Security Lead - provided leadership on Information Security across WECATrain and build security experts across operations in Africa and actively contribute to development of Security Service Offerings.Conduct Security Assessments and Risk Assessments for customers with in-depth analysis of defense-in-depth implementations against their business risk profile (BRP) and recommendations.Senior Consultant to NLNG for Email Risk Assessment & RemediationSenior Consultant to MTN Cote D’Ivoire on end-to-end enterprise security assessment and remediation.Provide technical leadership for MCS on big projects (Infrastructure, Systems Management and security)Lead for Union Bank Messaging & Collaboration Projects covering key technologies like MS Exchange 2007, SCCM/SCOM 2007, RMS/MOSS 2007.Project Lead for the First Bank of Nigeria Systems Management and Asset Intelligence project based on MS SCCM 2007.Responsible for Microsoft Premier Service Delivery for the FGN, NNPC, top financial institutions and big operations outside Nigeria in WECA & IOIResponsible for the provision of technical advisory services to Microsoft Premier Customers by developing an understanding of the end-customer’s computing needs, building and maintaining strong working relationships, and managing the customers’ accounts effectively in terms of support and services delivery and operational issues . Responsible for Microsoft Premier Service Delivery for the Federal Government of Nigeria, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, top financial institutions and big operations outside Nigeria in the West East Central Africa and Indian Oceans.Ensure Premier customers receive responses to their requests within guaranteed response times, as specified and agreed in contractual and service level agreements.Interface with top Executives to understand their business needs, pain points and develop a service delivery plan addressing these challenges.

Lead technical designer of Intel/Unix infrastructure project of MTN UAE Data Center. This entails providing leadership, training, product installation and documentationDesigner and project manager for the enterprise wide deployment of over 60 HP servers integration with HP EVA 8000 for Windows 2003 64-bit Enterprise clustering SQL 2005 64-bit and Exchange 2003 clusters. MOM, ISA 2004,Secure publishing RPC over http(s)Directly responsible for systems integration, identify functional requirements and business needs and implement best solutions. My present involvement in the BCP/DR architecture has saved the company over $15millionWindows 2003 AD rollout across geographical spread of MTN Group operations. Enterprise Certificate Authority deployed to support business requirement for secure communication Deployment of WSUS, Mcafee ePO, Sybari, Infromation Right Management & SMS 2003Company-wide deployment of Citrix (Access Suite 4,2) solution for applications publishing

Designed the MS Infrastructure/ Citrix Farm for MTN Nigeria. Citrix FR3 with SAM2.2 configured for over 1000 users Implement 2TB Storage requirement on Win 2003 by integrating HP DL 760 Servers with Hitachi 9990 Storage. Designed Intranet on MS SharePoint Server 2003. This is a two-node Win2003 Cluster with SQL 2000Designed and Project-Lead for the DRP Windows 2003/SQL 2000 Cluster for MTN N Remote Interactive Calls/TWIST VAS Application.Installation and support of Compaq, Dell servers(over 200 nation-wide), HP Open View/IDS systems design & admin of Exchange Servers across the nationExperienced with Peregrine and Remedy Software as ITIL toolsDesigned and Implemented Veritas Storage Central AD 5.2 EditionIntegration of MS RADIUS Server, email compression and transfer to mobile devices/authentication with LDAP on SUN OS 5.9Real-time monitoring via BMC Patrol and automation of system processes via CONTROL-M.

• Manages the messaging/security infrastructure team, Inspire and motivate them and Oversee the work of the Intranet, Support & Messaging Administrators.• Responsible for projects like software rollouts (security and messaging), new hardware installation. e.g. Implementation of Lotus Domino Enterprise Collaboration Solution•Customer support, preventive maintenance and ensuring success of the backup on the network. Administration of High-End Servers Compaq, Sun Microsystems, IBM AIX RS 6000 and Domino Enterprise Application.Checkpoint Firewall,ISA Server 2000 and Proxy. • Security Audit and Risk Assessment of the Bank’s Security Architecture and on-line transaction pipeline.• Designed new Intranet for the Bank. Automate major Facility Process and also Implemented a co-existence and Migration modality from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000 to Lotus Domino 5.0.10 Enterprise version. • Manage product selection process and also liaise with vendors.

Sold into and maintain a comprehensive list of decision makers with leading enterprise accounts, financial institutions, Govt. agencies and look to bring this value to my next employerSuccessfully negotiated sales contracts with all these customersAbility to quickly assess a sales situation and make accurate and objective judgment calls regarding sales channel and account management issuesProviding both pre and post sales support to prospective client on Enterprise solutionsProviding high technical advisory, developing and maintaining customer service delivery plan, assisting customer in understanding and Managing the TCO associated with their distributing environment by leveraging on key features and integration from Microsoft technology. The key companies I provided these services to are the Central Bank of Nigeria Capital Alliance SME Managers UBALead consultant to CBN on MS System Services: Redesigned CBN Win2K AD & System Services Value in excess of $10 MillionLead Consultant to CBN on Microsoft Systems Services/Infrastructure design, Messaging and Security implementation of Project EAGLES.

Plainpalais, Geneva, Ch

• Administration and maintenance of the company’s wide Area network and internet gateway and also responsible for the regional support of Cotecna offices in West African region.• Administration and troubleshooting of any radio-link and VSAT related problem. Responsible for the smooth operation of the radio link remote station at Marble House and Access Point at NCR building ensuring standard signal strength and frequency control of the satellite modem via Swisscom to Geneva Office • Planning, installation and configuration of a solid backup strategy and disaster recovery for NT and Exchange (using ArcserveIT 6.61 for NT and backup agent for exchange. • Administration of Microsoft Exchange Server.(Monitoring the global exchange link of the organization for intra/inter-site mails through a satellite link on which a site connector is implemented in a VPN and the routing of external through radio link via internet mail service connector facility in Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5• Administration of the network routers (Nortel Passport), satellite modem, D-Link switches and 3Com switches configuration for network management.• Implemented base-line level for optimal operation by monitoring TCP/IP Packets, collisions, jabbed packets and Server RAM and processor usage.• Implemented a cascaded Internet access via the satellite to the head office in Geneva, and the administration of the VSAT• Migration of a Network of 300 computers and over 350 user from Novell Netware 4.11 to Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 operating system and the coding of the user’s Log-in scripts to the domain controllers

• Administration and maintenance of the Company’s Windows NT Wide Area Network.• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Microsoft Exchange Server and Proxy Server.• Administration of the Company’s Internet Gateway• Oracle 8 Database Administration running on Windows NT4.0 platform• Administration and Maintenance of the multi-platform environment (Linux, Novell Netware 4.11 and Microsoft Enterprise NT Domain Structure).

• Dell PCs, Dell Latitude notebooks & Dell PowerEdge servers repairs and maintenance• Supporting, maintenance and administration of Ethernet-based Windows NT network.• Administration of Microsoft Exchange server and proxy server.• Working in a team supporting; Nestle Food Plc., Dunlop Plc., National Oil & Chemicals Marketing Plc., Tetra Pak West Africa, Total Plc., Niger Insurance Plc Installed and configured Microsoft Windows operating systems (Microsoft Windows 3.11/95, MS DOS,) and Microsoft Windows compatible software applications, utilities and hardware drivers

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