PROFILE

Lawrence A. Ukeagu

A: House ***, *st Avenue, Efab City Estate Abuja E: adkbc1@r.postjobfree.com M:+234-****-*** 008 A result driven, self-motivated, agile, and resourceful Business & Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Senior Project Manager (IAPM) with excellent leadership, interpersonal, communication skills. As well as excellent financial management, stakeholder engagement and management skills with extensive experience of business administration, detailed organization skills, advanced I.T skills and monitoring & evaluation; strong project governance, compliance and assurance experience including program management. A United Kingdom trained MBA graduate with over seven years post-graduate experience within the Finance, Sales, Energy and I.T industry. I have a track record of engagement up to director level; the experience of re-viewing, quality assuring and providing advice/guidance on project documentation; developing, rolling out and embedding project templates and processes; training, providing guidance and advice to Senior Management & CEO on management processes and techniques. I am a Fellow of Chartered Management Institute UK, currently working towards Manager of Quality & Organisational Excellence Certification. HONOURS & AWARDS

- Head Technical Department World Mission Agency (INGO WCIM) 2017

- Certified Senior Project Manager (International Association of Project Managers) 2016

- Volunteer Head Media, (INGO) Winners Chapel International Manchester 2015

- Community Food Bank Development and implementation of a customised automated dynamically linked RAAID log using excel and adopted as a PMO tool throughout the organisation.

- Part of the project team developing a new IT Project methodology, tailored to our environment and rolling out across three merged IT departments which used a variety of methodologies.

- Fellow, Chartered Management Institute London 2013

- EDF Energy/COSINE UK 2nd Top Performer Energy Adviser 2011

- Student President Kensington College of Business London 2009

- Scholarship from Kensington Business School London 2008

- Received Outstanding Sales Award MBNA Bank 2007

- Awarded European Outstanding Assistant Manager (Cobra Group Plc UK) 2007

- Customer Service Award (Cobra Group Plc UK) 2006 EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Feb 2019 – Till Date JLAD Nigeria Limited Abuja, Nigeria Principal Consultant Responsibilities

• Plan, direct, coordinate, and lead organisation activities to ensure that goals, objectives and all elements are accomplished within the prescribed time frame.

• Responsible for supervision of all consultants, the Partnership Point of Contact, and all planning/ administrative staff of the organisation to ensure projects are on schedule and within budget.

• Provide direction to the administration staff in their everyday activities.

• Perform and execute special assistance duties as assigned in various projects.

• Provide assistance to the top management in implementing policy decisions.

• Handle and manage various special assignments as directed by the top management.

• Developing corporate policies and guidelines to enhance business opportunities.

• Planning, developing, implementing and management of key business issues and protocols.

• Perform duties in creating and establishing annual business goals and objectives.

• Ensure compliance of corporate policies and issues in executing business activities Feb 2015 - Till Date Snapnet Nigeria Limited Lagos, Nigeria Senior. Business Manager Responsibilities

• Planned, directed, coordinate, and lead organisation activities to ensure that goals, objectives and all elements are accomplished within the prescribed time frame.

• Review organisation budget to determine time frame, funding limitations, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, and allotment of available resources to various phases of project.

• Establish work plan and staffing for each phase of project, and arrange for assignment of project staff.

• Responsible for supervision of all consultants, the Partnership Point of Contact, and all planning/ administrative staff of the organisation to ensure projects are on schedule and within budget.

• Outline work plan to assign duties, responsibilities, and scope of authority.

• Risk identification and management including the management of portfolio risks, identifying risk owners and assignees, coordinating and challenging risk responses and updates on a regular basis.

• Coordinating peer review of project documentation prior to authorisation, collating feedback for project managers as well as providing comments to governance Boards from a Portfolio Office perspective.

• Tracking and monitoring project progress, milestones, and highlight reports and monthly one-to-one meetings with project managers.

April 2012 – Dec 2014 RMDC Ltd, Manchester UK

Business Consultant Achievements

Analysed customer satisfaction data across equality strands linking analysis with customer profile data pro- ducing a customer insight report for a local client.

As external Project Consultant, developed FIVE project proposals worth £100,000 for the procurement & manufacturing of Safety and Fire Resistance doors for Intelnet Ltd.

Liaised & supported the Program/Project Managers with monitoring, evaluating and ensuring understand- ing of best practices.

Enhanced staff morale through a six-week incentive program and one-week team building activity which led to increased work output in building rapport between the staff & third-party contractors.

Provided Project Management training which equipped the staff with skills necessary in the execution of the project.

Jul 2011 – Nov 2011 Wizcore Technologies Ltd, London Business Intelligence Analyst

Worked on an SAP implementation project for AML UK/AUS

Conducting business blueprint workshops, gap analysis, face to face interaction with business teams and se- nior user to identify business requirements, develop functional/technical/operational/transitional specifications, blueprints, etc.

Analyse and prioritise business requirements in consultation with stakeholders using MoSCoW)

Prepared technical documentation as per deliverables and Interacted with users for gathering information on reporting requirements and defining acceptance criteria. Oct 2011 – Dec 2011 Tellallmyfriends Ltd, London

Project Manager/Business Analyst Achievements

Led the Project team working in a Prince2 environment who pioneered the first ever mobile contribution app for smart phones -iPhone and android platform

Worked with the Program Manager, saved the company up to £0.5Million using Smartsheet and MS Project software in making detailed planning and delivered the project within budget and time

Managed about 50 employees across 4 locations including large offshore and third-party contractors.

Ensure multiple projects are aligned, planned, organised, controlled and delivered within a given program portfolio by working directly with project sponsors in North America, UK, Spain, Latin America and Asia Pacific. Sept 2010 – Sept 2011COSINE UK (EDF ENERGY)

Senior Sales Adviser Achievements

Coordinated the Project team implementing change from Legacy System (Siebel & CIS) to SAP CRM.

Led the Dudley Project team to be the best project site as well as was recognised best energy consultants with forty-three energy contracts worth up to £1M between September 2010 - January 2011.

Built rapport with clients achieving 107 energy contracts between October & January 2011 worth up to £100M. April 2008 – April 2009 Excelon Corporation Ltd,

Birmingham Business Analyst/Project Manager

Achievements

Scoped the business requirements and developed technical solutions used in the implementation approach and managing the impact on all business areas.

Established client objectives, working from a Project Mandate.

Analysed proposed business case to ensure regulatory compliance. Feb 2006 – Feb 2008 Cobra Group Plc (KMS Promotions) London Project Sales Manager Achievements

Led the acquisition of over 1,000 customers in excess of £10 million for AXA PPP Health Plan UK.

Awarded Excellent Customer Service award by Credico Limited, a subsidiary of COBRA Group Plc, London among 1,000 Project Sales Executives in 2007.

Led the successful hands-on training of SEVEN Marketing Executives in three months resulting in a promotion and received the European Outstanding Leadership award in July 2006

Managed a team of 25 Sales Executives including Managers for the use in customer service. EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

TRAINING

Project management (Prince 2, PMP and Agile), Managing risks in projects, ITIL, PMP, Business, Procurement & Financial Planning, Budget management, Performance Monitoring, Risk Management, Impact assessments, Negotiation skills, Strategic thinking, Change Management, and MS Word, SAP BI (data warehousing, reporting, administration, etc.

HOBBIES

A big fan of football, I play tennis every weekend to keep fit and enjoy a game of chess to relax my mind. I love travelling and enjoy playing golf, it helps me increase my coordinating skills. REFERENCES

References available on request.

2015 Certified Senior Project Manager (IAPM)

2013 Fellow Chartered Management Institute London (CMI) 2013 Certified Project Management Professional (PMI) 2012 ITIL Foundation Certificate IT Service Management (APMG) 2012 White Belt Certificate Six Sigma

2009 Masters in Business Administration (MBA) University of Wales, UK 2007

European Computer Driving License Certificate (British Computer Society UK)

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