Lawrence Odunsi

I am an Engineering professional 

  I manage a team of implementation professionals that are responsible for the preparation of implementation, establishing project success criteria, & plan the project scope including schedules, risk mitigation, communications, and overall project guidelines.

1. Handles telecommunications and Energy project engineering services.

2. Ensures efficient monitoring of project documentation.

3. keep knowledge and information flowing seamlessly.

4. Provides technical support on all moderately complex project plan issues and concerns.

5. Finally to Ensure customer satisfaction at last.

 I am an Electrical/Electronics & Computer Engineering Bachelor of Science degree holder with strong numerical and analytical skills seeking a challenging career opportunity strictly in the Oil & Gas, Power, Energy, and Telecommunications industry.

    Am amiable, hardworking, and able to properly deliver worthwhile skills with Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of maintaining a high level of discipline, discretion, and confidentiality, also capable of managing due process and procedures when necessary, am computer literate with possession of a worth team player.

   l have worked in various multinationals establishments which I strongly believe will enhance my expertise in the newly expected role and as trained certified advanced professional facility management & safety Manager, in which, am so confident would boost strong contributions towards the development of the organization projects, strictly in the field areas of Managing workforce and infrastructures, Facilities/Safety projects monitoring, performance Operations & Maintenance, Telemetry/ICT inspection and Testing of materials and equipment, Supervision of construction or equipment installations contract, and Telecommunication Technical feasibility & Preliminary Engineering business as it may.

Jun. 2018 – Till Date.    NOKIA SOLUTIONS & NETWORKS, NIGERIA                                                                                                                                                                              
Position:                   “Roll-out / Technical Reverse Logistics Manager”.  

Key Accountabilities:

Act as the key interface of the customer for deployment activities of a project, including the management of all internal and external resources.
Ensure deployment activities are executed within the scope of the contract and within the agreed planning, specifications and quality standard, and ensure customer satisfaction.
Responsible internally for delivery of the solution within the agreed budget, for optimizing costs and for identifying and driving up scopes in cooperation with the PM.
Create, maintain and manage deployment project plans, including sub-contractors, quality management plans to ensure NOKIA meet the contractual scope of work, milestones and customer pre-requisites.
Liaise with Project Manager and customer as needed for escalations on scope, processes, and/or budget.
Prepare and maintain resource plan and forecast including own resources, subcontractor needs and tools.
Monitor, track and ensure deliveries of Return of decommissioned equipment/installation materials on site.
Monitor drivers and track vehicles in case of theft. Purchasing and maintaining vehicles for deliveries.
Deciding whether to lease or buy vehicles. Assisting in the recruitment of quality drivers into the fleet.
Developing efficient driver schedules to maximize profits.
Managing drivers so they adhere to strict schedules.
Registering and licensing all vehicles under their management.
Finding ways to cut costs and maximize profits.
Developing strategies for greater fuel efficiency.
Maintaining detailed records of vehicle servicing and inspection.
Complying with Nigerian Department of Transport laws and regulations.
Scheduling regular vehicle maintenance to ensure operational efficiency.
Ensuring strict servicing and maintenance times to minimize downtime and maintain schedules.
Monitoring driver behavior and ensuring a high level of customer service.
Analyzing data to increase business operational efficiency.
Utilizing GPS systems to monitor drivers and track vehicles in case of theft
Secure availability, accuracy deployment orders, dispatching & resolves all issues raised by team.
Finalize the equipment installation acceptance with proper contractual documentation and generate Acceptance Documentation according to acceptance protocol or agreement.
Perform regular meetings to monitor progress and solve potential issues.
Monitor performance of project teams and subcontractors and Provide feedback to resource owner and/or procurement. Also Communicate and take strict action towards subcontractors.

Jan. 2016 – May. 2018. ZTE GLOBAL SALES & SERVICES LTD.

Position: “Technical Project Implementation Manager”.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Manage a team of implementation professionals that are responsible for preparation of implementation, establish project success criteria, & plan the project scope including schedule, risk mitigation, communications, and overall project guidelines.

1.Handles telecommunications and Energy project engineering services.

2. Ensures efficient monitoring project documentation.

3. keep knowledge and information flowing seamlessly.

4. Provides technical support on all moderately complex project plans issues and concerns.

5. Finally to Ensuring customer satisfaction at last.

Detailed Competencies:

Develops and manages simple to moderately complex project plans to ensure that they are successfully executed within defined schedule and budget objectives.
Manage full deployment of mobile site roll-out to full acceptance
Manage scheduling of delivery program & supervise subcontractors to deliver on time & on budget
Ensure site readiness for deployment including liaising with SAED team, & all necessary prep work, permits, processes, HSE are in place to minimize delivery time
Conduct site audits to ensure delivery performance as per KPI
Report & attend regular daily/weekly/monthly review meetings internal & externally to unblock issues, minimize delivery downtime and delay
Ensure site achieves full acceptance and all acceptance documents like SRN feed backs are in place.
Ensure all HSE & Quality practices procedures are followed & complied on every site
Planning, executing, monitoring & delivering the project according to the customer & ZTE scope requirements.
Supporting the Project Director to ensure implementation of end-to-end services in telecommunications delivery scope & acceptance.
Plan & communicate accurate resource & financial demand figures for all implementation works.
Lead & monitor all engineering & services project/sub project team members performance.
Lead all partners (SBC)/service suppliers’ interactions relating to delivery scope. Responsible for ensuring that project forecasts are met through all third-party engagement
Continually monitor the boundaries of the project scope. Where required implement change control processes & handle change management, ensure customer acceptance for the system and/or service.
Ensure high quality of internal, customer & third-party documentation
Organize & maintain clear & effective internal & external communications with the customer, third parties & project teams.
Identify & analyze all project & business-related risks before planning & implementing a risk response process.
Estimate level of effort required for implementation projects
Review the site design, build ability, site systems inter-working integration, testing and commissioning process.
Liaise with multiple groups responsible for planning, engineering (network & IT), construction, operations to meet time & cost constraints
Monitor & report the delivery status of the implementation project 
Co-ordinate issue resolution during the project deployment
Defines and documents the scope and objectives of the project in order to assure user satisfaction, acceptance and ownership of the project.
Identify the project deliverable and objectives defining successful completion of the project.
Conducts comprehensive status reviews of projects to ensure adherence to design and quality objectives. Monitors results against schedule and budget objectives.
Consults with project team members to identify corrective action activities.
Consults with other managers and/or senior project manager to identify and manage the critical path for project completion. Identifies and communicates the overall status, issues and risks of the project to the project team, sponsors and affected groups.
Publishes and distributes the appropriate project documents and deliverable s to project team members on a timely basis.
Executes a formal change control process for all assigned projects.
Consults with project team to identify potential risks and executes risk management practices accordingly.
Schedules, leads and documents project team meetings on a regular basis to facilitate effective team communications.
Submits status reports to superior Manager and others as requested/required. .
Assists in the development of policies and procedures applicable to the practice of project management within the organization.
Interacts in a cooperative and professional manner with employees, clients and/or vendors in team-oriented environment.
Promotes a professional working relationship with clients and other departments.
Supervised Installations, configuration and commissioning of the following prepayment meters: (a)
Single Phase (b)Three Phase (c) Whole Current Meter Board (d)MD Low Voltage & High Voltage Standard Meter Boards.
Inspects and tests electric meters, relays, and power, to detect cause of malfunction and inaccuracy, using hand tools and testing equipment.
Continually learns and applies new information in fast-paced, dynamic technical environment.
Knowledge with SDH, Add/drop Multiplexers, Routing and Switching and Transmission technologies.
Knowledge of GSM and GPRS networks and products, theory of operation and traffic engineering..
Power Utility knowledge and facility management capability.

Aug.2013 – Dec.2015  “FIRST CHARTER ENERGY RESOURCES LTD,
Position: “Project Manager (Cathodic Protection Support Engineer”).

Responsibilities:

Work on site with our large customer to provide cathodic protection project engineering, review and analyze data, prepare documents, write specs/scope of work and create, review or improve designs.
Apply comprehensive engineering principles and corrosion theory to prepare supporting mathematical calculations and conceptual design plan. Diagnose and remedy any system malfunctions.

Perform economic evaluations of alternative methods of Cathodic Protection and corrosion control.

Analyze material and structure layout to create most appropriate design.
Prepare specifications for material and execution.

Estimate cost to furnish, complement and install materials.
Review and analyze field data. Measure, record, analyze, and evaluate field data.

Supervise all types of surveys, as well as perform surveys as needed.
Ensure proper application of methods and procedures, modify as appropriate.

Assist in cost estimation, procurement and detailed proposal development for projects.

October. 2009 – Dec. 2012.   MTN NIGERIA TELECOMMUNICATION LTD,
Position: “NSMC BSS (Network Surveillance) Engineer”.

Job Responsibilities:
*Provide 24*7*365 network management, faults detection, analysis, troubleshooting, escalation and resolution of all network related faults i.e core (switching), Transmission (radios, Muxes, ADM, Fibre Optics etc), Power (Intrusion, Rectifiers etc).
*Monitor the allocated network nodes effectively and promptly react to all network-related faults, this includes the auctioning of all alarms and trouble tickets and adherence to procedures.
Assume responsibility for correctly forwarding trouble tickets to Radio Engineers, Operations and Maintenance Centre (OMC) personnel, High Level Support (HLS) and Value Added Systems (VAS) support, follow up on these trouble tickets and ensure a speedy response.

Ensure that transmission and related faults are correctly diagnosed and escalated to support staff.

Act as interface and provide NMC refs to Contractors, Field Engineers, OMC Engineers and other departments for planned work and access to sites and switches
Perform NMC duties as instructed by NMC Coordinator e.g. correlation of outages, adjustment of availability parameters, follow up and clearing of specific network faults.

Escalate all faulty devices or hardware detected after troubleshooting/diagnosing (which cannot be resolved Remotely) to the field support engineers (Radio, Transmission, ESS and others) for replacement in order to improve network performance.
Monitor the network for overall efficiency and trouble spots using tools like Optima & Facts.

Ensure that transmission and related faults are correctly diagnosed and escalated to support staff.

Act as interface and provide NMC refs to Contractors, Field Engineers, OMC Engineers and other departments for planned work and access to sites and switches
Perform NMC duties as instructed by NMC Coordinator e.g. correlation of outages, adjustment of availability parameters, follow up and clearing of specific network faults.

Escalate all faulty devices or hardware detected after troubleshooting/diagnosing (which cannot be resolved Remotely) to the field support engineers (Radio, Transmission, ESS and others) for replacement in order to improve network performance.

Jan. 2008 – Sept. 2009 ANCHOR TELECOMS LTD, LEKKI PHASE 1, LAGOS.   
Position: “Microwave Transmission/BTS Field Engineer”.

Job Descriptions:

Installation and Commissioning of Eclipse Microwave radios.

Installation and maintenance of Network PDH Radios for Cell sites.
  Site acceptance test procedure for Network SDH & PDH radios at 7GHZ, 8GHZ, 13GHZ, 15 GHZ, 18GHZ and 23GHZ, frequencies for GSM and data traffic using XP4, MXC 9500 & Eclipse.

Using power meter to carry out power measurements on transmission links.

Using Site Master to check for VSWR on the cable and TEMS for performance.
Performance of Local & remote loop test / stability test for 24HRS.
Ability to survey sites readiness for operation.
Termination, Jump ring and Cross Connection of PCM cables on the DDF racks.
Integrating ADM STM – 1 interface with SDH radio STM - 1 Ports.

Jan. 2003 – Dec. 2003 SPDC - SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF NIGERIA
Position: SITP 2 - TRAINEE TECHNICIAN

Duties occupation includes:

1) Inspects, tests, adjusts, and repairs electric, electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic instruments and systems used to indicate, record, and control generating operations in conventional or nuclear power electric generating plant: Inspects meters, indicators, and gauges to detect abnormal fluctuations.
2) Tests accuracy of flow meters, pressure gauges, temperature indicators, controllers, radiation counters or detectors, and other recording, indicating or controlling instruments to locate defective components in system, using test equipment, such as pressure gauges, mercury manometers, potentiometer, pulse and

signal generators, oscilloscopes, transistor curve tracers, and ammeters, voltmeters, and watt meters.
3) Traces out and tests electronic solid state and vacuum tube circuitry and components to locate

defective parts in analog and digital, protection, or radiation monitoring systems, using test equipment, schematics, and maintenance manuals.

4) Removes defective instruments from system, decontaminates, disassembles, and cleans instruments,

and replaces defective parts, using hand tools.
5) Reassembles instruments and replaces instruments in system, using hand tools.
6) Lubricates instruments and replaces defective wiring and tubing.
7) Calibrates readings on instruments according to standards and adjusts phasing and aligns stages to ensure accuracy of recording and indicating function.

8) Records calibrations made, parts and components used, and inventory of parts on hand.
9) Prepares schematic drawings, sketches, and reports to reflect changes or alterations made in instruments, circuits, and systems.

10) May be designated according to type power plant as Nuclear-Plant-Instrument Technician; Instrument Repairer, Steam Plant.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Platforms: Microwave Radio Transmission, BTS, and Power energy Management utility skills.

Education:  Nexford University Online MBA, USA.
  
2023 – Date:  
MBA Course: “ Engineering Project Management ” (MBA)
Grade:  In view  
Course Major: Artificial Intelligence Engineering Management Application  

 Yaba College Of Technology, Lagos.  
    
2015 – 20016:    
Post Graduate Diploma: “Professional Advanced Facility Management & Safety” (FMS)  
Grade:  Upper Credit    
Graduation Project: Preparing Budget for Business Strategy on Opts. & Maint. Implementation  
  
 

2001 – 2005:

B.Sc Hons.:
Grade:
Graduation Project:

Lagos State University, Ojo Lagos.
“Electronics and Computer Engineering” (ECE).
Second Class Upper (2:1)
“Remote control and surveillance (PLC & SCADA & Network system)”.

2000 WAEC O’

Level Certificate.

Osolu High School, Irewe – Ojo, Lagos.
(Sciences) (Excellent)

NATIONAL PARAMILITARY SERVICE:

National Youths Service Corps. (N.Y.S.C)  Completed – (from Feb. 2006 - Feb. 2007).