Lawrence Dirisu

Experience

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  National Information Technology Development Agency

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2008

  Head of the Wed Development Unit, Software Research and Development

  Supervises all the activities of the units with respect to web authoring, training, hosting, development and management;Develop Web enabled software for MDAs

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  National Information Technology Development Agency -NITDA

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2014

  Head, Capacity Development Unit,Department of Infrastructure and Technical Support Services (ITSS)
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  National Information Technology Development Agency

  Jan 2014 - Jan 2020

  Assistant Director and Head, IT Professional Development and Outreach Unit

  Defines and implements ICT training policies and Terms of Reference to address Internal and External stakeholder’s skill needs, Incorporates these into development plans as a tool for enabling career and skill development

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  National Information Technology Development Agency - NITDA

  Jan 2020 - Mar 2022

  Deputy Director and Head, Training and Software Development Division

  upervise the planning and implementation of the IT skills development and Digital Literacy initiative of the Agency in collaboration with the relevant Stakeholders;Supervise the Training of over 50,000 Professionals via NITDA Academy for Research and Training (NART) using Partners programmes such as Cisco Academy, Huawei Academy, Microsoft Academy etc

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  National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)

  Mar 2022 - now

  Deputy Director & Head, Technology Acquisition, Adoption , Adaptation, Tracking Division of R&D

  Mentor, IT R&D Mentor IoT Prototyping LabSystems IntegratorTrained Over 50,000 in Upstream Digital Skills