Experience

Fourteen roles since 2000, from NHS IT support to programme IT for UKAID, USAID, UNICEF and the Gates Foundation, plus consultancy assignments and the infrastructure projects I led.

Work experience

Every hop on the route

Fourteen roles, newest first. Open any role for the detail.

Consultancy and projects

Consultancy and project leadership

Education data and planning assignments for state ministries, UNICEF and the Federal Ministry of Education, alongside the infrastructure projects I led.

Consultancy assignments 9

  • Nov 2014

    Technical Support Consultant

    Education data projection and simulation with EPSSim for State Education Sector Operational Plan (SESOP) development

    Rivers and Borno States
  • Jul 2014

    EMIS Consultant, Phase 2

    Bauchi State Ministry of Education: data drive for the Local Education Strategies Operational Plan (LESOP), College of Education, Azare

    Bauchi State
  • Apr to May 2014

    EMIS Consultant, Phase 3

    Bauchi State Ministry of Education: LESOP data drive, College of Education, Azare

    Bauchi State
  • Mar 2013

    EMIS Consultant, Phase 1

    Education Management Information System support for Local Education Sector Operational Plan development

    Bauchi State
  • 2011 to 2012

    EMIS Consultant and core technical team

    UNICEF, NIEPA and Federal Ministry of Education: EMIS for education sector plan and operational plan development

    Kogi State
  • 2011

    Core technical team

    Development of the 2007/2008 Annual School Census indicators for Nigeria

    National
  • 2011

    Federal Ministry of Education representative

    Monitoring of the 2010/2011 Annual School Census

    Ekiti State
  • 2010

    Core technical team, EMIS

    UNICEF, NIEPA and Federal Ministry of Education: education sector plan and operational plan development

    FCT Abuja
  • 2008

    Core technical team, EMIS

    UNICEF, NIEPA and Federal Ministry of Education: education sector plan and operational plan development

    Jigawa State

Projects led 6

  • 2011 to 2013

    Project Manager, Moodle e-learning portal

    Implemented the Moodle-based e-learning portal for the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration

    NIEPA, Ondo
  • 2011 to 2013

    Project Manager, cabling and VSAT

    Structured cabling and VSAT equipment installation across three annual phases

    NIEPA, Ondo
  • 2007

    Designer, examination data centre

    Scoped and designed the Ondo State Ministry of Education examination data centre

    Ondo State
  • 2006 to 2007

    Project Manager, statewide PC rollout

    Annual rollout of up to 1,000 PCs from inception to completion, with project planning and day-to-day consultancy

    Ondo State Computer Education Project
  • 2006

    Designer and Project Manager, campus network

    Wireless campus network, fibre optic backbone, structured cabling and ICT centre

    NIEPA, Ondo
  • 2004 to 2006

    Project Manager, state examinations

    Software installation and testing, PC checks, data entry supervision, validation, merging and backups, result processing and certificate printing

    Ondo State
Projects

Systems I have designed and delivered

From strategy documents to cable runs, a sample of the projects behind the job titles.

Digital transformation · EFInA

A full IT operating model for a Gates and UKAID funded organisation

Designed EFInA's future technology state around applications, infrastructure, governance and IT organisation. Wrote the IT policy and disaster recovery plan, then delivered an ERP for finance, HR and procurement, a grants management system, a SharePoint intranet and knowledge base, a risk register application, e-learning and an AI powered searchable document archive.

2020 to 2021 · strategy, ERP, SharePoint, DR/BCP
Assessment infrastructure

JAMB UTME computer-based testing centre

Deployed and supervised the networking and installation of 450 thin clients for national computer-based examinations.

NIEPA, Ondo · networking, thin clients
Data systems

LGEA Education Database

Conceptualised and designed the Local Government Education Authority database for the UKAID Teacher Development Programme, then trained state staff in SQL and MS Access to run it.

2018 · SQL, MS Access
Data systems

Girls' Education Project analytics

Built web-based data collection and analysis software for UNICEF's Girls' Education Project (GEP3) and trained teams on data and database management.

2013 · UNICEF Abuja
EdTech

Moodle e-learning for colleges

Project managed NIEPA's Moodle portal, then rolled Moodle e-portfolios out to six Colleges of Education across northern Nigeria with admin and course-creation training.

2011 to 2017 · Moodle, OER
Field data

Mobile data collection at scale

Digitised paper surveys into KoboCollect and ODK, configured FastField flagging and set up real-time tracking of field data collectors for the USAID Nigeria Monitoring Project.

2016 to 2020 · Kobo, ODK, FastField
Campus networking

Wireless campus, fibre and structured cabling at NIEPA

Designed and project managed the institute's wireless campus network, fibre optic backbone, structured cabling and ICT centre, followed by VSAT installations. Built and hosted the NIEPA website from 2006, plus a helpdesk portal, online survey portal, Koha library system and ePrints repository.

2006 to 2015 · LAN/WAN, VSAT, web