Olumade Akinsanya

· Oversee the development and maintenance of the IT strategic plan.

· Approve vendors used by the organization and monitors their financial condition.

· Approve and monitor major projects, IT budgets, priorities, standards, procedures, and overall IT performance.

· Coordinate priorities between the IT department and user departments.

· Review the adequacy and allocation of IT resources in terms of funding, personnel, equipment, and service levels.

· Running regular checks on network and data security.

· Identifying and acting on opportunities to improve and update software and systems.

· Developing and implementing IT policy and best practice guides for the organization.

· Designing training programs and workshops for staff.

· Conducting regular system audits.

· Running and sharing regular operation system reports with project managers.

· Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations and outages.

· Managing and reporting on allocation of IT budget.

· Providing direction for IT team members.

· Identifying opportunities for team training and skills advancement.

· Develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions.

· Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.

· Develops software solutions by studying information needs, conferring with users, and studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes.

· Investigates problem areas.

· Follows the software development lifecycle.

· Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.

· Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications, standards, and programming.

· Improves operations by conducting systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.

· Obtains and licenses software by obtaining required information from vendors, recommending purchases, and testing and approving products.

· Protects operations by keeping information confidential.

· Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service issues.

· Accomplishes engineering and organization mission by completing related results as needed.

· Maximize network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades and collaborating with network architects on network optimization.

· Undertake data network fault investigations in local and wide area environments using information from multiple sources.

· Secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies, and defining and monitoring access.

· Support and administer firewall environments in line with IT security policy.

· Report network operational status by gathering and prioritizing information and managing projects.

· Upgrade data network equipment to the latest stable firmware releases.

· Configure routing and switching equipment, hosted IP voice services and firewalls.

· Provide remote support to on-site engineers and end users/customers during installation and integration.

· Provide remote troubleshooting and fault finding if issues occur upon initial installation.

· Undertake capacity management and audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers.

· Liaise with project management teams, third-line engineers and service desk engineers on a regular basis.

· Network Documentation skills.

· TCP/IP network design and configuration.

· Sound knowledge of TCP/IP, IPv4.

· Basic understanding of network service: DHCP, DNS, etc.

· Hands-on experience in Enterprise wireless implementation.

· Hands-on knowledge of Cisco routers/switches, Nokia routers (7705 and 7750 series).

· Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.

· Good understanding of Voice over IP technology.

· Monitor performance and ensure System availability and reliability.

· Monitor System resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning.

· Provide Level-2/3 support and troubleshooting to resolve issues.

· Ability to demonstrate knowledge of IT security skills in Encryption, Endpoint protection, Email protection.

· Select and implement security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the company’s security team.

· Configure and install various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches,).

· Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hotfixes and security configurations.

· Basic knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory Infrastructure, Windows server operating system DNS, DHCP and Microsoft Exchange Servers.

· Work within the established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure.

· Establish the networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation and defining, documenting and enforcing system standards.

· Design and implement new solutions and improve the resilience of the current environment.