Experience

Vatebra Limited

• Nigeria
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Regional Sales Director

  • Jun 2016 - Present

  Responsible for sales increase and repositioning of the company’s standing with other competitors in the Public sector. Responsible for driving the actualization of the company's ultimate vision of becoming the foremost provider of Information technology Solutions in Africa. Responsible for building brand awareness in the Public Sector in Africa Responsible for increase sales by 30-50% every quarter Responsible for growing the market share considerably every quarter Responsible for creating innovative ways of increasing sales turnover Responsible for identifying new market opportunities monthly within the Public Sector Responsible for improve stakeholder relations Responsible for enhance customer relationships Responsible for the Achievement of a sustainable recurrent revenue of $5m in order to achieve profit across the sector. Show less



Computer Warehouse Group Plc

• Regional Manager North

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2016

  Accounts Management: Responsible for managing key accounts in public sector e.g CBN, FIRS, NNPC, NUC and NDIC and the region in general to showcase organization’s goods and services to prospective clients and highlighting their benefits Business Management: Responsible for driving all business meetings B2B and B2C, including product and business plan development, company partnership, scouting and negotiations. Strategic analysis: Responsible for Strategizing, implementing and executing ideas to meet objectives of the group. Drive the definition of the business model in the country, including partnerships with OEMs and negotiations, company & legal structure and product concept and pricing Operations Management: Manage all operations of the company within the region. This involves taking responsibility for profit, revenue, cash and quality targets. Manage day-to-day running of the operation. Agree on annual budgets and produce a detailed annual business operating plan as well as delivering monthly, quarterly or annual targets for revenue, profits and cash Reporting: Produce business performance reports, which could be on a monthly or quarterly basis; Send regular periodic feed back to the group. Human Resource Management:Involved in the recruitment and management of staff, including performance management, and possibly mentoring and training. Ensures all the team members are carried along and contribute immensely towards achieving the goal of the group. Show less



Center Point Networks

• Technology, Information and Internet

• Group Sales Manager

  • Aug 2008 - Jul 2013

  Ensure relationship with Key Public sector business Coordinate the Sales activities of the country Ensure the implementation of Advance selling strategies. Coordinate Weekly Business Review Meetings and strategic account plan Great team management strength and a good team player High Impact Decision making (ASPIRE) Territory Sales Management Ensure relationship with Key Public sector business Coordinate the Sales activities of the country Ensure the implementation of Advance selling strategies. Coordinate Weekly Business Review Meetings and strategic account plan Great team management strength and a good team player High Impact Decision making (ASPIRE) Territory Sales Management



City Business computers CBC

• Senior Presales Engineer

  • Oct 2006 - Jun 2008

  •Administering Storage Area Network based of Central Bank of Nigeria operating network nationwide (over 6000 nodes) •Implementing 24x7 supports for Storage Area Network components (EMC/Netapp) and all servers running the following applications: • Configuring all servers and workstations to Enterprise Installation Services (EIS) standards • Additionally offer remote support telephone and internet to on-site support personnel at accounts •Directly accessing EMC/Netapp disk arrays for routine checks (local volumes, snap mirrored volumes and snapshots), volume and LUN creation, mapping initiator group and assigning LUN ID, configure snap mirrored volumes • Faults isolation, diagnoses and initiating action plans for problem resolution or spare ordering • Periodic update of Solaris patch cluster and SAN patch cluster • Periodic upgrade of EMC and Netapp dataONTAP software • Accessing servers for routine checks on file systems and system logs UNIX) • Fine-tuning system performance • NFS sharing and mounting of file systems • Developing and testing scripts • Creating trust relationship between servers • Installing SUN Solaris 7, 8, 9 Operating System Environment • Backup and restoration of data from tape cartridge • Configuring and administering Solaris Volume Manager on file-systems • Maintaining storage and server hardware periodically • Writing monthly report to customers/clients in the represented accounts Key Achievements • Successfully delivered Central Bank of Nigeria project EAGLES within tight deadlines • Spearheaded strategy to share resources across the team so that all members could become “product specialists” across a broad range of issues. Newly-pooled knowledge ensured that “rookie” staffs were productive quickly—boosting the entire team’s performance in achieving SLAs which invariably led to high Return on Investment. PUBLICATION/PROJECTS: • Implementation of projects eagles in Central Bank of Nigeria Show less



ExxonMobil

• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Customer Support Engineer

  • Mar 2005 - Sep 2006

  • Replaced the current HSME & HSE (WINDOWS NT 4.0) workstations with new XME (WINDOWS XP) workstations environment in QIT, EKET, ONNE, PORT HARCOURT, BONNY, OFFSHORE LOCATIONS. • Upgrade e-mail and collaboration environment from IBM Lotus Notes 5.0 to IBM Lotus Notes 6.5. Solve domino server problems • Load new computers (Desktops and Notebooks) with XME load (WINDOWS XP) for QIT, EKET, ONNE, PORT HARCOURT, BONNY, AND ALL OFFSHORE LOCATIONS (PLATFORMS & OIL RIGS) ship them to these locations and install them. • Perform manual installation of XME on workstations that failed during Over-The-Wire (OTW) XME migrations. • Arrange shipping of XME loaded Notebooks to Clinic for training of Employees and final handover and retrieval of former HSE Notebooks. • XME loading and memory upgrade installation of all retrieved HSE workstations to be re-used. • Offer ONSITE HELPDESK solutions remotely to users after XME migration. • Offer ONSITE Support to SAP users and use CITRICS Server support for users, where the local server is not accessible • Configure users to use VPN from remote locations with a Token • Attach SMARTCARD READER to each XME workstation and deploy SMARTCARDS to all users. • Arrange handover of un-useable PCs, and send weekly inventory of PCs in staging room to ASSETS TEAM. Key Achievements • Maintained a stable operation in the new account PUBLICATION/PROJECTS • Implementation of the Global Upgrade Program (GO-UP) in Exxon Mobil QIT Show less



Zinox Technology LTD (The Nigeria IT Identity) (2004-2005)

• System Support Engineer

  • Mar 2004 - Mar 2005

  • Responsible for Installation/maintainane of zinox products for clients • Migrate CBN users from Win 2000 to XP and from Outlook express to Central Bank mail, replace obsolete PCs with P4 PCs that can match this changes without loosing data • Maintaining and Repairing PCs, Troubleshooting PC problems and installing Software, e.g. Operating System and other related application. • Handling of all hardware related problems, cloning of systems, assembling, running Of set-up and configuration, Preventive maintenance of pc, Data processing, Files transfer, Data migration and Ghost, Anti virus installations and system connectivity. • Networking and printer sharing, printers and ups installation and maintenance. PUBLICATION/PROJECTS • Computerization and Networking of Federal Civil Service Commission Roll Out of 1000 pc’s and Migration of Data for a buy back project in Central Bank Nationwide. Show less



Allied Computers

• System Engineer

  • Apr 2003 - Apr 2004

  Despite limited resources and greater demands for increased performance from end users, satisfied the user community through careful attention to service delivery and rapid problem resolution. • Installations, support and Maintenance/Repairs of PC • Installations and support of Tally printers • Installation of VSAT and PABX • Implementation and Administration of LAN &WAN • Configuration of Routers and Switches • Resolving problem through phone as a first level of support. • Troubleshooting hardware/software issues in line with SLAs • Configuring all servers and workstations to standards • Faults isolation, diagnoses and initiating action plans for problem resolution or spare ordering • Fine-tuning system performance • Maintaining server hardware monthly • Replacing failed/faulty hardware components, and Initial contact for reporting hardware failures through phone and e-mail • Writing monthly report to customers/clients in the represented accounts PUBLICATION/PROJECTS • Implementation of IT Work Tools for Central Bank Show less



Central Bank of Nigeria

• Nigeria
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Support Engineer

  • Jan 2001 - Jan 2002

  Operating Systems: SUN Solaris 7, 8, 9 Network Appliance – Netapp Base Operating System (DataONTAP) Red Hat Linux Korn Shell (ksh) Borne Shell Windows 2003/2000/NT/XP/ME/98,95, 3.11 Hardware: Sun Ultra SPARC Enterprise Servers (High-End -, Mid-Range and Entry-Level),Intel Boxes Network Appliance – Netapp Enterprise Storage Arrays Brocade and McData Switches Emulex and Qlogic Host Bus Adapter installation and configuration (HBAs) Fibre Channel Architecture Network Zoning IBM X-Series Servers DELL Power Edge servers HP Servers Applications: Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Netbackup Oracle 9i, 10G Microsoft Server/Office Applications Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, C++, C, Pascal and Fortran Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, TFTP, ARP, RARP, UDP,DHCP, DNS, SNMP, SSH, RSH, TELNET AND RPC Show less