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Ogaga Iyaga Richard

Summary

A dedicated professional, willing to work with a team of professionals, to further my career which has been demonstrated by over eleven years of experience in the telecommunication industry, with a track record of excellent technical, analytical, and communication skills with a high emphasis on records integrity.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Principal Specialist- OSP Implementation Projects

IHS Towers/GICL
Victoria Island, Lagos State, Nigeria
02.2021 - Current

Effectively program manage a group of 18 Fiber Optic engineers and Fiber specialist.


Review all plans and designs from IHS planning team to effectively come up with implementation Bills of Quantities for our Fiber implementation projects.


Application of Agile and traditional project management methods, to effectively track OSP projects from commencement to completion and handover to customer as required. Manage numerous projects simultaneously within budgetary guidelines.


Ensure smooth transition of records including but not limited to As built documents from the Implementation team to IHS Fiber Operations and maintenance team for smooth and effective management.


Spearhead multiple network records and survivability projects.

On call 24/7

Project Manager MTN SVMS Fiber Maintenance Project

Huawei Technologies Nigeria
Victoria Island, Lagos State, Nigeria
10.2018 - 12.2020

Direct interface with the customer on all technical related issues regarding fiber operations. Tracking customer critical concerns and following up to ensure all concerns from the customer are addressed.

interface between the Logical Back office and Field teams for critical failures impacting traffic and affecting customer satisfaction.

Performance evaluation and analysis periodically to enable management
make improvement plans as applicable.

Preparation of performance evaluation reports and presenting same to
customer on a weekly basis for MTN SVMS fiber project during fiber governance meetings

Track all MTN Last mile/enterprise customer related fiber failures and remotely offer technical support to the field teams where customer SLA is exceeded.

Ensure the right updates are conveyed to the incident managers from the field teams.

Periodical Training of field teams, on fiber maintenance operations.

Project Manager - Fiber Maintenance Department

INFRANET LTD
Lekki Phase 1, Lagos State, Nigeria
05.2011 - 02.2018

Single point of contact for Infranet to the Operators for all link failures on Infranet Maintained fiber Optic cable routes nationwide.


Coordinating all Infranet maintenance teams nationwide for effective delivery of preventive and corrective maintenance activities for all Infranet Fiber Optic cable routes.
Collating preventive and corrective patrol reports from teams daily and weekly and ensure such reports are sent to the clients as required.

Creating reporting templates and preparing reports for clients for fiber Optic maintenance activities as required

Assist in Survey and Design of new fiber optic cable infrastructure routes either for implementation, prior to commencement of projects or for as built documentation, on completion of projects.

Assist in planning and preparing budgets for new projects as required.


Assist in preparing reports for project management consultancy for Banks as and when required from Infranet LTD.

Interface effectively with all clients for Infranet Limited as required.

Education

Building Technology

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
Bauchi, Bauchi State, Nigeria
2007

Skills

  • Experience with Planning and Design of Fiber optic infrastructure routes using Mapping and drafting tools, such as Autocad, KMZ, Map source
  • Vast knowledge of a fiber-optic network implementation and Management, Operations and Maintenance
  • Program and Project management skills ensuring productivity as well as high employee morale
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Power Point
  • Vast knowledge of network design and planning
  • Skilled in process development
  • Excellent problem solving abilities

Accomplishments

  • Effectively led a planning, survey and design team to timely deliver fiber optic route survey designs and Bills of Quantity with precise GPS Mapping on Autocad and KMZ formats for 1,300km of fiber infrastructure deployed within various states in Nigeria. a team of 6 persons were trained to effectively deliver this aspect of the project within a duration of 6 weeks including field survey within same time duration.


  • Effectively led Huawei Nigeria Fiber Optic infrastructure Operations and Maintenance team, when they took over Operations and Maintenance of MTN Nigeria's vast fiber optic infrastructure all across Nigeria. total length of infrastructure managed was 30,000km. interfaced with NOC and the customer. while this was going on, i had to come up with a model to track all trouble tickets effectively to ensure 90% of all faults were resolved within SLA. this model brought to the table, accountability.
  • Delivered via Agile project management, 2600km of fiber infrastructure in Nigeria, for IHS Towers, within a duration of 1 year 6months in preparation for 5G Service in Nigeria.


  • Worked extensively with state, local governments and private land owners, securing permits, ROW and easements for cost effective OSP builds.


  • Facilitated many planning projects to ensure an attainable budget was approved by executives.


  • Currently working on 5600km of OSP infrastructure as a Program manager for IHS Towers, in Nigeria, which is on track to be closed before November 30th 2023.

Affiliations

CORBON- Council of Registered Builders of Nigeria

Timeline

Principal Specialist- OSP Implementation Projects

IHS Towers/GICL
02.2021 - Current

Project Manager MTN SVMS Fiber Maintenance Project

Huawei Technologies Nigeria
10.2018 - 12.2020

Project Manager - Fiber Maintenance Department

INFRANET LTD
05.2011 - 02.2018

Building Technology

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
Ogaga Iyaga Richard