Jerome Obada       

Tel:+447774110453, +2348039792220

obadaj1@gmail.com

Job Titles

Education

Course: MSc Computer & Internet Technologies

School: University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

Grade: Distinction

Main Modules: E-Commerce Business Models, Internet Programming, Enterprise Architecture, Computer Security, Designing Usable Systems, Programming With Java, Software Construction, Information Retrieval.

MSc Projects

• A mobile phone based stock market data visualization application; retrieves real-time market data updates from the London Stock Exchange every 15 minutes and visualizes price changes in form of graphs (J2ME/CLDC/MIDP)

• Unix and Windows compatible Spell Checker application (Java)

• Website development of a Group Restaurant Recommender (PHP/MySQL/HTML/JavaScript/CSS)

•  Design and query of an Oracle database for an arts gallery

Course: B.Eng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering

School: University of Ilorin, Nigeria         

Grade: Second Class Upper (2:1)

B.Eng Project

Computer aided design and analysis of CAMS (Microsoft Visual Basic)

Certifications

MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional (Messaging)

MCC – Microsoft Certificate of Completion (Enterprise Systems Administration)

BCS – Professional Member, British Computer Society

Trainings

Microsoft - Enterprise Systems Administration

Microsoft (Hi Tech College, Israel) – Fundamentals of Network Security

Hi Tech College, Israel – Check Point Firewall Security Administration I &II NGX (R65)

Information Defense & Intelligence, Israel

·         Advanced Information Security & Fundamentals of Risk Analysis

·         From Offensive activity to defensive countermeasures

·         Information Security Networks

·         Computer Forensic

Skills

Enterprise Systems Administration – Enterprise Architect (Windows Platform), Enterprise Messaging (BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Microsoft Lynx & Microsoft Exchange) etc.

Software Development – UML Modelling, Data Models & Database Structures, Scenario Based Design, Prototyping Methodologies, Software lifecycle testing (Black box, White box, Regression, Integration and System/Usability tests).

Programming – J2ME (Java ME), CLDC/MIDP, Java, BlackBerry JDE, MySQL, SQLPlus, PHP, Oracle, AJAX, JavaScript, Web Development, Visual Basic, Windows Scripting.

Enterprise Architecture – TOGAF, Service Oriented Architecture, Zachman Framework.

Business Intelligence – Data warehousing, COGNOS BI, ORACLE, Bank BI Analytics etc

Information Security – System Intrusion Countermeasure, Computer Forensic, Information Security Networks, Check Point Security Administration II NGX (R65), Offensive to Defensive countermeasures, Fundamentals of Network Security.

Work Experience

United Bank for Africa                                                    November 2008-Till Date

Department: Group Information Management

Position: Head, Mgt Information Systems (MIS) Projects

I currently manage the Business Intelligence Platform for UBA Group which comprises OLTP database installations (MS SQL & Oracle) in 19 African countries (including offices in New York and London), a central repository middle-ware application and several interactive OLAP front-end for users. My team ensures data integrity, quality and mappings, carry out screen and business logic tests (COGNOS, Business Objects and Web) on completed modules, ensure the correctness of extractions queries from various Legal-Entity specific primes systems within the financial group and serve as IT/Business interface for the financial group.

Projects

• IFRS Implementation for UBA.
  • Deal Type Overview
  • Product Data Capture
  • ETL Checklist Mapping
  • Interface Implementation
  • Data Extraction Automation
  • Unit and Integration Testing
  • Entity Consolidation and Financial Statement development
• NUBAN Implementation for UBA – Unified Customer Account Numbering for all Nigerian Banks.
• Infopool Integration – The integration of the existing MIS reporting application with the Maxim. Maxim is the reporting platform currently being used by the Group (Nigeria, Bank and Non-Bank Subsidiaries) for the generation of Financial, Management and Regulatory reports.
• Member of the MIS team made up of local skills and expatriates that designed and developed the Business Intelligence platform for the 3 tier Financial and MIS system currently in use in UBAGROUP (Maxim - a 2 year project). The system receives daily data extractions from the financial systems of 19 countries (New York and 18 African countries) and processes it to create a single repository retrieval system of over 800 relational tables for the Financial Group.
• Configured and Deployed Unified Communication Infrastructure (Office Communications Server) for UBAGROUP which reduced yearly OPEX by approximately $3.3million. This project increased staff efficiency, reduced Group wide telephone call cost and need for physical meetings.

Aarajura Group (Edinburgh, UK)                                  September-October 2008

Position: Systems Engineer

In this role, I was in charge of the messaging infrastructure of the company (E-mail), backup & restore and general administration of the Windows network (Windows 2003 Server, Windows XP and Vista client work stations).

United Bank for Africa                                                    November 2005-Nov 2008

Positions: Enterprise Systems Engineer, Infrastructure Architect

Grade: Assistant Manager

In this role, I managed the Windows Infrastructure and IT HelpDesk escalation for UBAGROUP Plc (www.ubagroup.com - comprising about 8,000 desktop computers and 50 Enterprise Servers); my Systems Engineering team caters to approximately 10,000 users spread across 600 offices in Africa, London and New York. I was also involved in the formulation of Email and systems policies for UBAGROUP.

Projects

• Developed several BlackBerry based (J2ME, CLDC/MIDP) applications that allows staff to access applications remotely anywhere in the world.
• Configured various mobile Email services for UBA Nigeria and Ghana; this allows users to send/receive real-time corporate Emails via mobile phones and laptops anywhere in the world (ActiveSync mobile access via GPRS, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, Duality Push EMail and external OWA Access - 128 to 256 AES encryption).
• Member of the 2 man team that integrated the Microsoft Active Directory infrastructure of Standard Trust Bank (STB) and United Bank for Africa (UBA) during the bank consolidation process; this comprised 9,000 Active Directory accounts and involved the migration of 3,500 mailboxes.
• Designed and configured the Microsoft Windows Active Directory platform and messaging infrastructure for UBA Ghana which consisted of Active Directory Servers, Exchanger Servers, Outlook Web Access Servers (Front-End OWA Servers), Web proxy Servers, and Firewall Servers.

• Member of the 4 man team that designed the “best content” financial institution website (www.ubagroup.com - Phillips Consulting award, 2005). All members of the team were given commendation letters and cash award from UBAGROUP.

Standard Trust Bank                                                                                    June 2004 - 2005

Position: Enterprise Systems Administrator

In this role, I was in charge of 15 Windows 2000 and 2003 Enterprise Servers comprising Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS and Web Servers. I was also responsible for internet, intranet web development/updates and the IT helpdesk that caters to 3,500 users.

CA Consultants Ltd.                                                                                     Feb - June 2004

Position: HVAC Design Engineer

In this role, I was responsible for the design of heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems (HVAC) and plumbing/piped services for multi-storey and sky rise buildings. I was also involved in the preparation of budget estimates, technical specifications, site supervision and commissioning.

References:  Academic and work references available on request