Tochukwu Alaekee
Boston
Summary
A flexible, high achieving strategically focused and commercially driven project manager, driving sales, shareholder values and regularly delivering difficult targets, always making sure there are clearly set aims and objectives.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
MTN
- 10.2023
- Validated initial project scope and estimates for {3} projects, managing any changes or risks that might affect project delivery
- Facilitated internal project kick-off meetings with key SMEs, involving {15} external stakeholders
- Developed comprehensive project plans
- Improved communication effectiveness to {90%} between senior management, project team members, and vendors across {3} projects
- Aided in identifying proper resources and optimizing billable schedules that reduced errors by {25%}
- Approve timecards, expenses, and vendor invoices
- Led project team on tasks and methodologies, while ensuring prompt status reports, project documentation and risk reduction by over {60%}
- Continually drove day-to-day delivery across different internal development and external partner teams, scheduling sprints, balancing priorities, and supervising progress
- Created and maintained strong relationships with all project stakeholders, ensuring projects met and exceeded {95%} stakeholder expectations
- Demonstrated ability in negotiating small changes, resulting in {80%} fewer project impact issues.
Customer Project Manager
Nokia Networks
06.2016 - 08.2019
- Defined project scope with the customer, resulting in a 20% increase in project baseline finance
- Identified project needs by reviewing project objectives and ensured 100% completion on schedule
- Communicated with key stakeholders to determine project requirements and Objectives
- Drove project execution, tracking activities, handle changes and critical issues
- Handled project finance for 2 projects, ensuring financial system monitoring
- Led customer relationship building, ensuring project progress for 2 projects, and arranging meetings
- Ensured compliance with relevant regulations for 100% of projects during all stages of project lifecycle
- Led the development of 2 business contracts by participating in pre-sales meetings
- Negotiated and managed contracts with third-party vendors, optimizing supplier performance by 40%.
RF Planning & Optimization Engineer
Huawei Technologies
04.2011 - 05.2016
- Performance monitoring and Quality of Service analysis of live systems to ensure better performance
- Restoration time and troubleshoot trouble tickets and resolve within agreed SLA
- Parameter alignment and optimization for improved radio KPI: Accessibility, Retain ability & Mobility
- SPU utilization balancing to achieve & maintain network performance as per the contractual KPIs
- Performed advanced troubleshooting of the worst cells on Access failures, Retain ability & low HSDPA throughput
- Monitor the network availability and carry out health checks to filter out present degradation and troubleshoot for effective operations
- Communicated to the business/management clear and concise system performance, its impact to the business and the steps to ensure timely resolution and prevention
- Remote resolution of identified faults performs preventive & corrective maintenance, problem management, acceptance, and fault management
- Optimization of cells congesting on Power, UPA, DPA, CE
- Analysed PRE and Post expansion Traffic values, throughput, and overall improvement.
Education
Master of Science in Information Technology -
National Open University of Nigeria
01.2017
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics -
Enugu State University of Science and Technology
01.2010
Skills
- Agile
- Budgeting
- Scrum
- Customer Relationship
- Excel
- Jira
- Kanban
- Service now
- Ms Project
- Negotiation Skills
- PMP
- Power point
- QoS
- Share point
- Statistics
- System Monitoring
- Waterfall
Certification
PMP, PMI, 03/01/23
Accomplishments
- Effectively delivered 5G network in Nigeria, (First in west Africa), achieving 58.5% increase in business revenue for the 2022 financial year.
- Bolstered sales by $2.5 million from 2022 to the third quarter of 2023 by adding 200,000 new subscribers through the roll-out and integration of 7,000 rural telephony sites within 18 months.
- Reduced Errors: Optimized billable schedules that reduced errors by 25%.
- Exceeded Stakeholder Expectations: Ensured projects met and exceeded 95% stakeholder expectations.
Availability
Open to Onsite, Open to Relocate
Projects
5G Implementation and Integration in Nigeria. Rural Telephony delivery and Implementation Project. Distributed Antenna System.
Timeline
Customer Project Manager
Nokia Networks
06.2016 - 08.2019
RF Planning & Optimization Engineer
Huawei Technologies
04.2011 - 05.2016
Project Manager
MTN
- 10.2023
Master of Science in Information Technology -
National Open University of Nigeria
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics -
Enugu State University of Science and Technology
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