Seyi M.

Provide a vision and mission and set strategic goals for the organization. Identify and evaluate challenges and opportunities. Oversee various teams, functions, and day-to-day operations and ensure continual business growth. Manage investor and key stakeholder relations. Represent the company at various exhibitions and tradeshows. Successfully covered 100% of the initial funding for market research and product development and pushed the company past the break-even point. • Conceptualized and implemented strategic marketing and business development based on market research, which allowed the organization to grow by 20% in its first two years of operations. • Devised new procedures on designing, prototyping, and product development to reduce the time taken to go live without compromising the quality of the end product. • Championed a B2B SaaS business leadership position, oversaw the growth of products involving network applications and cloud solutions, and supervised all technical aspects of operational management.

Analyzed existing processes and procedures and made recommendations to the senior management on minimizing cost overruns and mitigate risk levels. Assessed technical and business requirements and recommended new solutions and strategies. Managed a team of engineers responsible for the Lightspeed DC and monitored their performance. Led the Lightspeed Network Emulator product design, development, and implementation and created a 100% operations-ready constellation digital twin solution. Oversaw the scaling of POC activities and development team for end-to-end network design validation. Utilized new solutions to increase scalability and uptime by 99%. • Spearheaded the design and implementation of Management & Control Network for Lightspeed Constellation, which allowed the organization to comply with its agreed-upon system requirements by 100%. • Revamped design operations to reduce costs by 15% and ensure the development of quality-assured products within allocated budgets.

Demonstrated exemplary team management skills in an engineering leadership position. Built and managed a team of specialists and supervised their training. Mentored young engineers and provided on-job training. Collaborated with C-suite executives to create new growth programs and incentives for teams. Researched industry best practices for backups and configurations and created new policies on data protection. Enabled 100% compliance with cybersecurity protocols by implementing a zero-trust firewall policy. Navigated through complex negotiations with vendors, partners, and stakeholders. Identified and removed all barriers to service delivery and reduced process inefficiencies to almost 0%. • Streamlined operations by developing Python scripts for process automation, network device upgrades and maintenance, and full lifecycle management of customer network projects. • Accelerated process optimizations that empowered the company to increase its efficiency by 25% and enabled team members to better manage their tasks.

Documented system solutions by studying customer requirements. Modelled new solutions and translated observations into detailed work instructions that reduced product configuration time by 85%. Tested cloud provisioning software and evaluated its accuracy to meet organizational goals. Investigated defects, performed system diagnostics, and prepared instructions for team members that boosted solution fidelity to 100%. • Championed the design, modelling, documentation, development, and implementation for Cisco Network Automation Provisioner (CNAP) worth $3M. • Utilized Puppet, Chef, and Ansible for configuring virtual environments and leveraged Vagrant for virtual machine resource control, which resulted in an efficiency increase of 30%.

Managed Service Desk, Network, and Infrastructure operations. Partnered with senior leadership to design a strategic vision for the company. Eliminated bottlenecks to boost efficiency by 20%. Established a 24x7 Network Operations Center for supporting production systems. Ensured full migration to Cisco equipment, which resulted in cost savings of up to 25%.

Reviewed all operations involving the management of a hybrid IT environment with on-premises infrastructure. Deployed and managed business applications and boosted services availability to 99.95%. Assisted the leadership team in devising a comprehensive IT strategy for the organization, along with a long-term roadmap for infrastructure development. Prepared various budgets, project reports, and management policies. Determined stakeholders' expectations and devised solutions that met and exceeded their expectations. • Consolidated various reports, patterns, and insights to develop new key performance indexes for employees and aligned day-to-day activities with the organization's strategic goals. • Overhauled budget preparation and variance analysis procedures to ensure zero tolerance to non-compliance and remove any adverse variances. • Closely monitored network security standards to prevent system compromise and reviewed servers for IP application and implementation.

Steered complex projects towards completion and in alignment with corporate objectives. Improved existing operations and efficiencies to push the service availability rate to 99.99%. Revamped the hybrid network infrastructure by utilizing new techniques and solutions that increased scalability and reliability across the board. • Strengthened the organization's disaster management protocols by designing a new and improved Disaster Recovery Center against a budget of $4M. • Enabled adequate resource utilization within the service infrastructure by utilizing hardware load balancers, multi-homed BGP implementation, and policy-based routing. • Boosted network performance by 20% by identifying, exploring, and implementing creative and cutting-edge solutions in consultation with the senior management.

• Administered disaster recovery management, and implementation of recovery procedure • Played a key role in Change Management Board to de-risk changes to environment • Investigated network performance, monitored and evaluated Quality of Service in order to achieve daily network KPIs • Executed the configuration management and integration of new services with operating procedures in order to avoid down time and service interference • Coordinated a team of 15 engineers to provide, first, second and third level support to customers • Organized and coordinated field Engineers and partners to ensure prompt resolution of faults according to set standard and quality • Coordinated Service level Agreement Review Meetings with the customer’s IT • Delivered technical inputs to the marketing/planning department during network dimensioning • Reviewed operating policy and design techniques to ensure implementation of standard industry practice • Managed ALLOT for QOS, deep packet inspection and firewall. Company Projects: • Integration of 8Ghz Harris stratex Radio for reinforcement of EM West Africa backbone • Implementation of multi-home BGP pair with Multiple Upstream providers and Traffic Engineering • Integration of fiber link on EM West Africa Network Nationwide and auto fail over to VSAT Backup • Involved in the installation and integration of Vidyo router and portal on EM West Africa network for video conference. • Coordinate design, implementation and infrastructure upgrade for MPLS VPN, network wide on EM West Africa • Implementation of Cisco Access Control Server 4.2 for EM West Africa Infrastructure • Coordinate the integration of EM West Africa Metro via fiber at Abuja, Port Harcourt and Ibadan POP Technologies Used: ASA 5520, 5540, Pix Cisco Switching/Routing 6506, 3745, 2800, 1800, 1700, 802.1Q, VLANs, VRRP, Multicast, HRSP, GLBP, static routing, dynamic routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP), MPLS, GRE Tunnels, TACACS+, Radius

• Designed and implemented secure ACS TACACS+ server, and firewall using ACS 4.2 for Mikrotik OS and Cisco Routers/Switches • Developed and maintained a SIP server based on a Linux operating system used to offer VOIP solutions • Implemented VOIP using voice gateways (Mediatrix, Quintum) and CISCO Routers. • Coordinated a team of 5 engineers, 80+ Cisco routers (6506, 3745, 2800, 1800, 1700), layer 3 switches/ routing serving over 150 corporate clients • Performed Traffic and bandwidth Engineering using allot bandwidth manager, Mikrotik OS built on the Linux kernel, Access Control Lists (ACL), etc. • Designed and implemented automatic failover for backhaul and metropolitan network using dynamic routing protocols, RTR protocols and HSRP • Managed and implemented WAN edge policy, which involves multi-homed BGP pairing, traffic path manipulation, quality of service implementation, DMZ etc. Technologies Used: VOIP gateways (Mediatrix, Quintum), Cisco 6506, 3745, 2800, 1800, 1700, layer 3 switches/ routing ACS TACACS+ 802.1Q, VLANs, VRRP, Multicast, HRSP, GLBP, static routing, dynamic routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP),

Administered client services operations by troubleshooting and deploying solutions and resolving IP-related faults. Increased customer satisfaction to 90%. Designed and operated Syslog platform and incident management platform using Nagios, Solarwinds & MRTG. Increased service uptime to 99.99% by leveraging new software tools. Maintained the company’s virtualization platform. • Designed and implemented Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), and IPSec VPN • Provisioned new IP services/client on the network as well as resolved network and service emergency • Administered client services by troubleshooting and deployment for clients as well as resolving IP related faults • Configured routers and switches and implemented change request on CE router Technologies Used: Solarwind, Nagios, Mrtg IPsec VPN, VSAT, fiber and microwave backbone links, Cisco 6509, 3745, 2800, 1800, 1700, layer 3 switches/ routing 802.1Q, VLANs, VRRP, Multicast, HRSP, GLBP, static routing, dynamic routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP),

Managed and administered Cisco UCS to achieve 98% voice service delivery based on agreed customer equipment. Installed firewall for the company. Offered offline support and second-level troubleshooting services. Configured and installed Cisco switches, routers, and wireless APs to meet SLAs.

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