Abubakar Umar CGEIT - CRISC - CISA - FIMC

Experience

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  MFI

  Aug 2004 - Jan 2007

  Computer Aided Design (CAD) Consultant
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  Hipernetix Solutions

  Jan 2007 - Dec 2008

  Senior I.T. Consultant/Business Development
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  McGregor Boyall

  May 2010 - Mar 2011

  Financial Markets I.T.

  McGregor Boyall is a leading, multi-sector technology consultancy that has focused for more than twenty years on delivering effective solutions to the Financial Markets in London & Europe. I was responsible for managing key accounts, resourcing and recruiting software developers into the Finance and Banking sector for leading Tier 1 Investment Banks HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, BarclaysCapital, Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BOAML), Nomura Investment House, UBS, Commerzbank, Goldman Sachs, Soc Gen, Lloyds Banking Group, JP Morgan, Citigroup, SunGard,Northern Rock, Credit Agricole, BP, Blackrock, Barclays Wealth, Sapient, and Mitsubishi UFJ.Areas of Technology Specialisation: C#/WPF/WCF/WinForms C++ Java Swing/J2SE/J2EE Microsoft.Net/ASP.Net/Microsoft Silverlight Excel/VBA SQL Server/Oracle/Sybase Object Oriented Analysis and Design Agile Development Methodologies Enterprise Distributed SystemsBusiness Areas:The Investment Banking technology projects business area focus were in Prime Services, Prime Brokerage, Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD), Credit Derivatives, Exotic, Vanilla, Equities, Equity Derivatives, Sophis, Over the counter derivatives, Exchange TradedDerivatives (ETD), Foreign Exchange, Futures and Options, Commodities, Front Office, MiddleOffice, Back Office. Show less

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  Hipernetix Solutions

  Jan 2011 - now

  Director of I.T. & International Business Development

  - Involved with Strategic & Tactical level business development in Information Technology Services, Aviation, Oil & Gas, Energy and Facilities Management Services- Involved with development of modern Agile software applications deployed using Microsoft Azure Cloud Technology. Virtualization: Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks, Platform as a Service (PaaS) implementation for leading Companies, including using PowerShell for automation and management, using Active Directory, migrating from on-premises to cloud infrastructure.- Strategic Consulting, including business process re-engineering & business management process strategy development.- Involved with the new business development process for the supply of aviation fuel to a major international airliner.- Facilitated new business development and technical partnership deals between one of the biggest and longest established Facility Management companies in the UK and an International client with operations in more than 36 cities.- Advising new businesses on technology, procurement and deployment. Show less

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  JOS Electricity Distribution Plc

  Feb 2014 - Oct 2016

  Head, Information Technology

  Responsible for the overall planning, organizing, and execution of all IT functions at JOS Electricity Distribution Plc. This includes directing all IT operations to meet business, customer and regulatory requirements as well as the support and maintenance of existing applications and development of new technical solutions.I am also responsible for management of IT projects, supervision of departmental staff members and recommendations to Board & Executive Management regarding IT policy and procedures. Show less

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  JOS Electricity Distribution Plc

  Oct 2016 - Nov 2019

  DGM Operations Support

  Responsible for overseeing the 5 Units that make up the Operations Support Department - Supply Chain, Information Technology, Admin & Logistics, Human Resources, Safety & Security Departments.

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  Excelian Group

  Dec 2016 - now

  Director

  Excelian Group, a diverse and dynamic group of companies comprising of 5 subsidiaries:- Excelian Technologies Ltd- Excelian Energy Solutions- Excelian Transport & Logistics- Excelian Realty- Excelian Apex VenturesWe are committed to pushing the boundaries of innovation, sustainability, and efficiency in each industry we operate in.

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  Cynotrust Intelligent Systems

  Jan 2017 - Nov 2019

  Co-Founder

  Cynotrust Intelligent Systems Limited (“Cynotrust") is a Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology Company leading the innovation in the African technology revolution.With extensive expertise in the Energy Sector, Information Technology and Financial Service sector, the team at Cynotrust initiated the development of our proprietary blockchain application product – Mocrow Ecosystem; a platform specifically designed to integrate Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) onto Energy Sector marketplace (energy [kWh] audit and sales) with the aim of eliminating the sector's devastating inefficiencies and high losses – particularly in Africa and developing regions of the world.” Show less

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  Canary Tech Ltd

  Dec 2019 - now

  Group Executive Chairman