Joseph Onyema (Mba - Bgs) Email & Phone Number

Lagos State, Nigeria

Focused on improving the bottom line through our greatest resource - People, while leveraging data and a technology driven approach to achieve the company's strategy.I engage daily in personnel, strategy and operational business advisory with a view to continually keep the group performing optimally, while expanding and conquering new boundaries, to build a true Pan African brand.

Lagos, Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria

Lagos Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria

• Reduced total IT cost overhead by 15% within my first six months and another 28% within the year• Initiated and completed the migration and collocation of servers to a Tier III data-center, giving key customers facing application server a 24/7 up-time• Virtualized all key application servers within the Cordros Group (Capital,Securities & Asset Management) reducing server room power consumption cost by over 40% and enhancing server management• Initiated, managed and launched the Cordros TradeButton portal service enabling Live Trading by customers on the Nigerian Stock Exchange• Restructured and automated all key critical backup processes eliminating manual intervention and points of failure at no additional cost to the company• Managed the migration and upgrade of the key back office solution from a desktop solution to a faster intranet enabled solution accessible from branch location within my first six months• Designed an internal employee and application management portal - Cordros AppZone to aid inter-connectivity between employees and applications and create a neutral zone for data porting• Launched, managed and drove the companies Social Media platforms with a view to aggressively become customer facing.• Day to day supervision of the IT operations for all subsidiaries in the group• Oversee the operation and support all servers at the Data-Center collocation facility• Project management and supervision of all application and infrastructural projects, upgrades and change request within the organisation• Develop, maintain and review - in conjunction with the legal team, all Service Level Agreements for vendors pertaining to all IT related project implementation• Oversee all electrical, physical & virtual security and power installations, 24/5 Uninterrupted Power Supply systems in the server room, generators, fire systems, cooling systems and CCTV Camera.• Prepare, negotiate and administer contracts for specialized organisational maintenance work.

Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria

• Came up with, defended and started the development of the SSLCloud HRMS™ solution.• Pioneered, created and managed the Cloud Services (CS) development and support team• Technical pre-sales marketing drive with the sales team to close out sales for our cloud solution• Worked with and drove the customer ideation team to convert pre-sales request to actual products • Managed SSL’s Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Database backups, Network Security, Down/Uptime MTTR, Vertical/Horizontal Scale-Up as offering and customer base grow quarter on quarter• Draw up implementation/project execution plan, define scope and managed teams and resources on all Enterprise and Cloud delivery projects in and outside Nigeria• Drew up and modified team KPI within the core company’s KRA’s for both Enterprise and Cloud services delivery teams as well as managed dispute resolution before escalations.• Drew up, presented and managed annual Enterprise and Cloud team budget and forecast• Managed solution partners and vendors (OEM) on sales closure and project delivery• Reviewed SLA/MSA documents and engaged in customer negotiations to foster a win:win scenario before final project signoffs• Identified new development ideas and led the CS team to design and expand SSLClouds HRMS™ service offerings to enable selling vertically into existing accounts • Consulted for customers on ICT related HR and Payroll matters, baseline improvement and company-wide process drafting optimization, employee taxes and deductions• Involved in sales pricing negotiations on enterprise and cloud services related deals with C-Level customers• Developed strong working relationships with C-level customers and team members to better position SSL

Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria

Lead a team of developers, database administrators and implementersWeb & Windows application development, Web Services, SharePoint development and SupportSupport, data collection, gathering, analysis and evaluation of ERP systems to give better insight on business and customer management to enhance faster and better decision makingDeploy and manage Citrix (XenApp,-Desktop,-Server,-Center) installations for enterprise level clientsDeploy and manage enterprise wide backup/recovery/data management (CommVault-Simpana 9)Conduct Experience Center events to showcase latest innovative solutions in company portfolio as well as new upgrades to clients and prospective clientsDeploy and manage McAfee suite (Virus Scan, ePO, EndPoint Encryption, Device Lock Protection -DLP)

Ikoyi, Lagos Nigeria

• Design, patch and upgrade, manage and support new and existing software and intranet based solutions of clients in the banking, insurance and financial services sectors.• Design and develop solutions to meet clients’ needs and specification as may be assigned• Design and management of Microsoft SharePoint intranet portals in-house and for clients.• Support clients’ projects onsite / offsite and conduct training on applications as required.• Data collection, gathering, analysis and evaluation from ERP systems to give better insight on business and customer management to enhance faster and better decision making

Marina, Lagos Nigeria

• Expanded office network using CAT-6 to include the brokerage firm and bureau de change• Designed the company’s website with client access to end of day transaction history, cheque raised and collection history as well as buy/sell details and what-if scenarios• Design of the in-house market monitoring application for market analysis and daily customer notification of trades as well as price-list emailing automation• Installed and configured Active Directory and Domain Controller (AD/DC)• Managed the server room, SQL server database backup/recovery and user installations• User PC security and anti-virus management as well as printers management.

Executive Master Of Business Administration

Tef-2016, Entrepreneurial And Small Business Operations, Pass

B.Eng, Electronics Electronics Engineering

Wassce, Basic Sciences

Activities and Societies: Debating SocietyYou got a topic... I taught it, worked it and talked about it until we had all sides to it..

First School Leaving Certificate (Fscl), Basic Education