Seyi Makanjuola

•Maintains my organization’s effectiveness and competence by defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technology projects. •Successfully managed and closed series of IT/Telecoms projects in a service provider environment. •Responsible to meticulously understand and communicate customer requirements to appropriate team members and manage all requirements accordingly. •Ensure cost effective solution design for all customers. •Conduct UAT to certify deployment according to customer requirement as documented in the PID. •Conduct quality assurance on projects to ensure required quality standards are met. •Coordinate and facilitate delivery of project objectives. Track progress and review project tasks to make sure certain deadlines are met appropriately and provide timely feedback. •Ensure revenue targets are met according to defined project milestones as well as organization forecast within approved budget/profitability matrix. Minimal TAT on conversion of sales order into revenue. •Define the objectives, deliverables, resource requirements and work plan for projects, and manage their development and delivery. •Coordinate the efforts of team members and third-party suppliers, contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects on time, to meet quality specifications and within Budget. •Manage, monitor and motivate cross functional team assigned to projects. •Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning and efficiently identifies and solves project issues. •Maintain technical and project documentation. Manage change requests across project life cycle. •Proactively and effectively manage and communicate project expectations to team members and stakeholders. •Draft, submit budget proposals and obtain approval, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary. •Manages difficult or emotional customer situations. •Organize customer training and align training with customer goals.

•Plan, initiate, control and manage information technology projects. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects. Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage. Monitor progress to assure deadlines, quality standards, and cost targets are met. •Technical proposal writing and relationship management. Developing sales and support plans to ensure high levels of client satisfaction and leading technical sale meetings to discuss and design strategies to meet targeted revenue objectives. •Manage day to day running of the branch office. Generate, manage and document new opportunities and prospects in line with organizational objectives. •Proactively drove customer dialogue on long, medium and short-term topics to establish trust, built business partnership, and generated and qualified new leads. •Acted as the technical lead for various solutions. Conducted team building activities.

Rendering expertise in network infrastructure & TCP/IP, network documentation, architecture diagram formulation. IP Network Planning & designing, performing connectivity troubleshooting. Integrated Systems and storage solutions. Effective and efficient design, installation, integration, maintenance and support of Data center and enterprise infrastructure solutions.

IP Network Planning and Designing. Voice and Data solutions using CISCO Routers and Switches. Wireless solution using Cisco Access Points. Avaya Voice Solution. Voice and Data solutions using RADWIN wireless Radio. VoIP solutions using QUINTUM. Wi-Fi solution using RADWIN radio for backhauling and WiFi AP for hotspots. Network monitoring solution using CRANNOG Netflow Tracker. Instructing Cisco Academy students on the entire CCNA curriculum (semester 1-4) and taking them through intensive Lab. Providing comprehensive documentation for all site visits and other billable work.

Deployment of MPLS/VPN core backbone network for MTN-Nigeria across 12 locations in Nigeria (fiber linked with Huawei DWDM technology). Installation and configuration of Cisco 12000 GSR series routers to enable MPLS-VPN traffic using IS-IS and BGP routing protocols with MD5 Authentication whilst CEF is enabled globally on each LSR. Configuration of Cisco 7206 VXR routers as route reflectors to solve the scaling problems that occur with large iBGP meshes. 10 Gigabit and 1Gigabit fiber optic interfaces with redundant links are used for the provider core and provider edge respectively. Installation and configuration of 6509 switches with VLANS using HSRP, FWM and IDS modules for security. Service migration strategies. Provide support for network issues. Prepare and maintain documentations of network configuration.

Implementing and maintaining simple LAN. Perform initial configuration on routers and switches. Configuration of IP addresses subnet masks and gateway on routers, LAN and simple WAN troubleshooting.