John Agebe
Calgary,Canada
Summary
Team-oriented project management professional prepared to take on leadership responsibilities with focus on driving results and fostering collaboration. Proven success in managing teams, overseeing project execution, and adapting to dynamic work environments. Known for reliability, flexibility, and strong organizational skills, ensuring seamless team operations and achievement of goals.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Management Team Lead
SUBNET Solutions Inc
09.2021 - 04.2025
- I managed cybersecurity and device management projects for 12 electrical utilities across the globe. I provided leadership for the PM team from plan development, design specification workshop facilitation, document creation and approval, project execution, monitoring and control, training and closing.
- Delivered complex and customized IT/OT cloud-native transformation projects from end to end. The project improved operational efficiency, device management, issue resolution by 60%, reducing fault response times and secure remote engineering access.
- Provided strategic leadership to revive a stalled project. I prioritized stakeholder engagement and customer focussed agile sprints, leading to the delivery of the project milestones. Secured a follow up worth 120% of the original PO value.
- Defined KPIs and led reporting using Power BI regarding project forecasting and delivery.
- Established and executed comprehensive risk management frameworks to identify, assess, and mitigate potential project risks, ensuring successful project delivery within scope, budget and on time.
Associate
Drake International/ Home Depot
11.2019 - 09.2021
- Played central role in the timely distribution of 1,000’s of units of inventory to retail outlets across Western Canada.
Project Manager & Owner
Etalonnage Services
08.2018 - 09.2019
- Founded company to capitalize on a market gap in the oil and gas engineering industry in Nigeria, leveraging professional network within the industry to recruit and manage a team, lead business development, and drive all project operations.
- Navigated financial, legal, licensing and QHSE audits and applications to gain compliance with relevant regulations.
- Won business from Shell for multiple instrumentation and calibration contracts, leading full project lifecycle.
- Developed and delivered use cases and business proposals with TotalEnergies, building relationships with leadership.
- Managed team of 4 engineering and administrative professionals to drive on-time and on-budget project completion.
- Created execution plans for the commercial, engineering, quality, sourcing, and supply chain functions of Etalonage.
- Led customer engagement operations such as discovery, contract negotiations, scope defining, and implementation.
- Generated a comprehensive business plan to purchase the Nigerian arm of Proserv and reached final negotiation stages.
Project Manager - Program Mgr
Proserv Instrumentation
09.2015 - 07.2018
- Promoted to own P&L for all Proserv projects within Nigeria, portfolio entailed client relations, requirement gathering, project planning, vendor relations, budget management, procurement, end-to-end approvals, and regulation compliance.
- Managed RFP requirement gathering, response collection from vendor and oversaw the vendor response evaluation process for the program SOW.
- Deployed ERP - AX12(D365) for PIN that cover two operating centers that covered services, manufacturing and trading business lines of business.
- Tracked project/program performance by collecting project financial information and prepared project update decks for presentation to MEA executive team and answered any question that came up.
Project Manager
Proserv Middle East
05.2013 - 09.2015
- Owned P&L on 4 projects lasting 6-12 months with multi-million-dollar budgets, responsible for client relations and all EPCI (Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Installation) planning and delivery for the oil and gas engineering company.
- Developed business case for ERP project management module that took inputs from sales, purchase requisition and QHSE modules to model 7 operating centers spread across 5 countries.
- Pulled projects report from ERP cost center to prepare project financial performance for MEA executive management team quarterly meeting.
- Managed a team of 5 responsible for operations with sales, supply chain, engineering, production, and installation.
- Owned full P&L for a $4M Weatherford-Shell project for 32 weeks, leading end-to-end project planning and delivery of 180 units of chemical injection systems (CIS), managing budget to achieve a 38% profit margin on project.
- Owned full P&L for a $3.9M Shell Oil field project for the Sulaimaneyah oil field, successfully delivering wellhead control panels alone units of wellhead control panels. Navigated a major supplier on from finish the project ahead of schedule.
- Owned full P&L for a $780K ExxonMobile project with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to build unique chemical injection skids for island oil fields. Negotiated rate adjustments despite fixed-price contract to ensure profitability.
- Developed and executed end-to-end project plans for each project, overseeing operations of project teams of up to 15 cross-functional staff and liaising with clients and regulatory bodies to meet specifications and ensure compliance.
Project Manager & Project Engineer
Bluesky Technologies Ltd.
09.2009 - 08.2011
- In this joint PM and engineering role, responsibilities included all facets of the project planning and delivering including the initial discovery and scope definition conversations with customers, solution engineering, project planning, procurement of materials, manufacturing of solutions, and the final construction / implementation and hand-off to customer.
- Gathered RFP requirement, reviewed RFP responses and ranked vendor RFP technical bid responses based on agreed ranking to determine winner.
- Directed a $2.5M project to deliver internet Point of Presence to 13 Federal and State offices, building a robust supply chain and service networks to deliver a 99.9% increase in service level availability on time and on budget.
- Managed relationships with external consultants, government regulators, third-party vendors, tradespeople, QHSE leaders, and a Satellite service provider, to coordinate all aspects of planning, building, and approving the project.
- Established partnerships with clients to define project scope and work collaboratively throughout the project.
Sr. Project Engineer
JKN Ltd.
02.2008 - 08.2009
- Leveraging engineering and project management skills, responsibilities included overseeing all logistical planning and execution of construction-based projects within the telecommunications industry.
- Led a $8M project to improve call phone handoff infrastructure on highways in 3 states for Huawei Technologies. The project received final acceptance certificates within 8 months of joining the project and won several awards.
- Managed a team of mechanical and electrical engineers, tradespeople, a QHSE lead, and relationships with vendors.
- Built reliable supply chain networks in remote desert location to allow for a consistent flow of required supplies.
- Ran all logistical planning aspects of each project, planning accommodations for tradespeople, securing sites, and ensuring constant compliance with health and safety regulations.
Education
Master of Business Administration - undefined
Hult International Business School
Cambridge, MABachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University
Greensboro, NCSkills
- MS Dynamics 365 (AX12)
- MS Project
- Conflict resolution
- Attention to detail
- Customer focus
- Schedule management
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic planning
- Project management
- Risk management
- Change management
- Coaching and mentoring
Accomplishments
Delivered several projects with budget of $350K - $1.2M dollars. Total of over $25M of delivered projects.
Collaborated with team of 12 in the delivery of IT/OT projects.
Documented and resolved pending issues which led to project sign-off.
Supervised a team of 12 comprising 2 direct report and 10 indirect reports.
Completed Dubai Marathon.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Certification
- Certification, Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute, USA
- Scenario Planning Course, Hult International Business School, Shanghai, China
- Contract Management Course, Proserv Middle East, Dubai, UAE
Industry Expertise
Oil & Gas, Energy, Telecoms, Construction, Technology. Flexible Across All Industries.
Timeline
Project Management Team Lead
SUBNET Solutions Inc
09.2021 - 04.2025
Associate
Drake International/ Home Depot
11.2019 - 09.2021
Project Manager & Owner
Etalonnage Services
08.2018 - 09.2019
Project Manager - Program Mgr
Proserv Instrumentation
09.2015 - 07.2018
Project Manager
Proserv Middle East
05.2013 - 09.2015
Project Manager & Project Engineer
Bluesky Technologies Ltd.
09.2009 - 08.2011
Sr. Project Engineer
JKN Ltd.
02.2008 - 08.2009
Master of Business Administration - undefined
Hult International Business School
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University
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