Vincent Atake
Technician
Calgary,AB
Summary
An organized and dependable installation and maintenance professional with 12+ years of experience within the telecommunications industry, and a safety management experience within the oil and gas industry spanning over 3years. Having expertise in microwave radio system rollout, routine preventive maintenance and a strong sense of commitment to improving occupational safety through business processes that drive solutions, and increases operational efficiency.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Installation/Facilities Maintenance Technician
TIPS Personnel
04.2024 - Current
- Carried out building updates such as painting surfaces, replacing fixtures, and reorganizing rooms.
- Carried out installation and maintenance of horizontal cable-based fall protection lifelines at Albian Sands for Canadian Natural Resources Limited, with efficiency while minimizing potential damage to property and ensuring compliance to safety policies.
- Adapted quickly to changing priorities and workloads, effectively managing time and resources to complete tasks on schedule.
- Implemented roof maintenance and sealing up of leakages to ensure durability of building roofing sheets.
- Enhanced facility appearance with thorough cleaning and maintenance of both interior and exterior spaces.
- Inspected buildings, grounds, and equipment for unsafe or malfunctioning conditions.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively operate hand/power tools for disassembling and installing sheds, storehouses and operating of variety of moving equipment such as Elevated Work Platforms, 2 Axel trucks and electric pallet jacks.
Base Supervisor
Marshland Terminals Limited, Nigeria.
11.2019 - 12.2023
- Implemented effective communication strategies, ensuring timely dissemination of information to all personnel on base.
- Performed regular safety inspections to identify potential work place hazards and addressing them promptly and coordinated emergency response protocols to ensure team members are properly grounded on existing procedures.
- Organized bi-weekly routine training programs which trained over 300 workers, and daily toolbox meetings for staff members, to ensure compliance with existing safety protocols.
- Implemented cost-saving measures, optimizing resource utilization, and reducing overall expenses.
- Evaluated employee performance fairly, providing constructive feedback for professional growth opportunities, this improved workers productivity level over 120 percent.
- Collaborated with other departments to develop consistent policies for base-wide operations and maintenance procedures.
- Performed environmental site assessments (impacts of oil spillage) and investigated accidents analyzing their root causes in order to develop corrective action plans and implement preventive measures.
Installation and Maintenance Technician
Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited.
02.2013 - 10.2019
- Maintained a safe work environment by strictly adhering to established safety protocols and guidelines.
- Trained new technicians on standard operating procedures, ensuring consistency across the team.
- Assembled telecommunications electrical equipment, control panels and antennas according to engineering drawings and specifications.
- Performed troubleshooting and diagnosis on malfunctioning Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)..
- Completed complex repairs quickly by leveraging strong diagnostic skills and attention to detail.
- Collaborated in planning roll-out implementation of microwave & RF radio equipment deployment and their maintenance for service providers (MTN Nigeria and Ghana).
- Conducted hardware/software microwave transmission equipment installation, configuration, testing, alignment, commissioning and maintenance (preventive & run-to-failure) programs.
- Collaborated in facilitating end-to-end network design, planning and optimization, and infrastructure deployment both wired and wireless service providers.
Education
Diploma - Network Management, Transmission, RF/GSM.
TTC Mobile Communications Limited.
Lagos, Nigeria,09.2011
Associate of Arts - Journalism And Mass Communication
Federal Polytechnic Oko
Anambra State, Nigeria06.2005
Skills
- Power Tool Operation
- Furniture Assembly
- Equipment Installation
- Hand and power tool use
- Safety Monitoring and Compliance
- Safety Management
- Rigging Equipment
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Time Management
- Multitasking Abilities
- Reliability
- Excellent Communication
- Organizational Skills
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Heavy Lifting
- Task Prioritization
- Self Motivation
- Electrical Troubleshooting
- Attention to Detail
Accomplishments
- Supervised team of over 100 staff members to a successful planning, mobilization and deployment of resources for the CBNL Point-to-Multi point roll out for MTN Ghana network optimization, through effective collaboration and project management, thereby reducing the cost of equipment transportation by over 200% in the project budget, as well as ensuring safety of workers and equipment during the project life cycle.
- Collaborated with a team of over 400 workers; riggers, operators and truck drivers, conducting unload/loading and transportation of drilling pipes, chemicals and other materials on board vessels and trucks in achieving a zero accident and incident man hour deployment in the 8 month project life cycle, with Chevron Nigeria Limited as a contractor.
- Collaborated with other stakeholders in deploying point-to-multi point radio systems for MTN Nigeria, and upgraded existing service on the MTN NES customers network, with zero impact on the environment, and delivering the project 3 weeks ahead of schedule by completing 60+ link installation monthly as against the planned 45 links monthly.
Languages
English
Full Professional
Certification
Mobile Elevated Work Platform (MEWP) , AIP Safety Training/RedTail Industries - Jul 2024
Construction Safety Training System (CSTS 2020) - Fundamentals , Alberta Construction Safety Association - Jun 2024
H2S Alive , Energy Safety Canada - May 2024
Emergency First Aid - CPR A + AED , St. John Ambulance - May 2024
Fall Protection , WorkSite Safety - May 2024
WHMIS , WorkSite Safety - Apr 2024
International General Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety , London Professional Training Center Ltd. - Apr 2021
World Safety Organization (WSO) HSE LEVEL 1, 2 & 3 , HSETrain - Jan 2019
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Timeline
Installation/Facilities Maintenance Technician
TIPS Personnel
04.2024 - Current
Base Supervisor
Marshland Terminals Limited, Nigeria.
11.2019 - 12.2023
Installation and Maintenance Technician
Cambridge Broadband Networks Limited.
02.2013 - 10.2019
Diploma - Network Management, Transmission, RF/GSM.
TTC Mobile Communications Limited.
Associate of Arts - Journalism And Mass Communication
Federal Polytechnic Oko
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