Adeyemi Adegoke

Project Management professional with tremendous experience in planning and controlling projects in Telecommunications using Primavera P6 and MS projects. Enthusiastic planning engineer eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent organisational skills. Track record of effective stakeholder management and customer engagement and management. A clear understanding of agile framework and training in Scrum. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in Project Management.

Birtwistles UK, August 2022 - Date

Planning Engineer

• Develop a detailed schedule in P6 including Development of work breakdown structures, Coding activities in line with client requirements, Cost load schedule, Resources load schedule, Integration of subcontractor plans/programmes into overall contractor programme, Logic Linking Critical Path analysis and base lining
• Integrate all work package plans and ensure they are fully integrated to achieve an overall network to the company standard deploy, manage, and maintain the projects performance measurement baseline
• Liaise with all stakeholders including contractors, sub-contractors and third parties to ensure project plans contain real time information and can be utilized as an effective management tool
• Updating the integrated schedule throughout the project life cycle and reporting variance to the contractual dates
• Provide integrated planning solutions through the use of technical planning and the subsequent programme integration and linking to other areas of the business
• Producing look ahead programmes and making resource and cost forecast
• Work closely with the project team, subcontractors, and delivery integration team to maintain accurate and up to date data for each stage of the project
• Plan and prioritize operations to ensure maximum performance in terms of productivity and minimum delay
• Liaise with various engineering departments including Operations, Customer Service, Engineering, Inventory Control and Purchasing
• Determine manpower, equipment and raw materials needed to cover production demand
• Assign roles and resource to the L4 schedule and analyse the resource usage profile to determine overallocation of resources across the integrated program
• Perform project monitoring and control throughout the project to ensure alignment of project delivery to the contractual dates
• Address and propose solutions to issues when they arise aiming for minimum disruption to the critical path activities
• Collaborate with quality control, warehouse and project management team
• Develops a production schedule detailing all tasks and when they should be completed by to meet predicted completion date by reporting weekly s-curves of resources and planned Vs actuals
• Resolving Critical Path issues and Slippage, participate in project reviews with a critical focus towards metrics interpretation and trends to enable the project to finish on the expected date within the approved budget
• Analysis and levelling of critical resources to optimise the resources and schedule, identifying the risk & constraints of the schedule. Making baseline and back-up
• Earned value reporting and creation of what-if scenarios
• Change control, Risk and Issue, Documents and Requirements management

Nokia Networks, February 2020 – October 2021: 

Microwave Transmission Planning Engineer/Supervisor (Airtel Project)

• Provided daily progress report of Microwave activities in assigned region
• Engaged internal and external stakeholders daily to enhance collaboration and support in project delivery within Nokia principles of trust, transparency and teamwork
• Meet with operators’ regional managers (Airtel) for better optimisation of the schedule throughout the project life cycle 
• Resolving critical path issues and slippage, participate in project reviews with a critical focus towards metrics interpretation and trends to enable the project to finish on the expected date within the approved budget
• Analysis and levelling of critical resources to optimise the resources and schedule, identifying risk and constraints of the schedule, making baseline and back-up
• Performed gap analyses between baseline and actual (time, cost and resources)
• Recommend delivery and sequencing strategies to the contractors based on project knowledge
• Liaised with subcontractor management and resources daily for smooth project delivery
• Change control, Risk and Issue, Documents and Requirement management
• Perform project monitoring and control throughout the project to ensure alignment of project delivery to the contractual dates
• Ensured installation meet quality and design standard
• Ensured subcontractors compliance to safety process and procedures on site
• Provided technical support to subcontractors and project engineers
• Performed Site Acceptance, documentation including interface with customers Field Engineers and MS field engineers

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, November 2017 – January 2020: 

MS BO Planning Engineer (Microwave Transmission support)     

• Support microwave transmission through daily monitoring of KPIs, hardware, link availability to broadly determine the performance of the network
• Prompt fault troubleshooting, escalation, root cause analysis and closure in keeping SLA and achieving over­all network KPI
• Assured minimum mean time to repair (MTTR) between outages and resolution of on-air sites
• Plan implementation transmission work orders, traffic cutovers, software upgrades and other TX maintenance services requested by customer
• Communicated to customer daily regarding all activities and outstanding issues through regular, timely reports and updates
• Identification, notification of early warnings and creation of what if scenarios
• Reported to Operations management the complete and timely information regarding status of activities, customer problems, failures and occurrences
• Audited the network quarterly to determine network transmission risks and proffer lasting solutions
• Coordinated with transmission planning team periodically for network risk analysis and better network performance solutions
• Coordinated overhauling and replacing of faulty parts according to schedule
• Scheduling and planning of all activities identified by field maintenance engineers to resolve hidden transmission faults.
• Developed details schedule for TDM/E-Line/E-LAN service provisioning, to integrate Node-Bs, BTS and Enterprise solutions to the network
• Worked closely with the project team, subcontractors, and delivery integration team to maintain accurate an up-to-date data for each stage of the project
• Liaise with level 1 engineers to conclude on physical adjustment proposed
• Provided daily technical aid to field team through on-site guidance and training in proper operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of equipment functions and routine actions, including the use and proper interpretation of data and technical instructions
• Designed standard operational procedures for digitisation of technical operations processes

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, July 2015 – October 2017: 

Microwave Transmission Planning Engineer/Manager (EMTS/9mobile)

• Managed Network rollout – Transmission links sub-projects
• Microwave Key Team lead – end to end project management including schedule and resource control (man power and equipment)
• Updated daily milestone progress of Microwave transmission activities to project stakeholders
• Develop a detailed schedule including development of work breakdown structures, coding activities in line with client requirements, Cost load schedule, Resources load schedule, Integration of subcontractor plans, Logic Linking Critical Path analysis and base lining
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues which may impact the scheduled tasks
• Resolving Critical Path issues and slippage, participate in project reviews with a critical focus towards metrics interpretation and trends to enable the project to finish on the expected date within the approved budget
• Analysis and levelling of critical resources to optimise the resources and schedule, identifying the risk & constraints of the schedule. Making baseline and back-up
• Attended weekly meetings with vendor for optimization of schedules throughout the project life cycle and proposed solutions to issues arising aiming for minimum distruption to the critical path activities
• Reporting weekly s-curves of resources and planned Vs actuals
• Planned and deployed special cooperate/ enterprise microwave transmission links
• Developed technical solutions for different implementation scenarios
• Collaborate with quality control, warehouse and project management team
• Perform Site Acceptance Testing, documentations and processes, including interface with customer Field Engineers
• Prepared budget forecast and project expenditures for the Operation and Maintenance including expansion roll out projects. Prepare Bids/quotations documents and all related project proposals
• Liaised with various departments including Operations, CEG, Inventory Control and Purchasing
• Interpreted Bill of Quantity (BOQ) and Parking List (PL) to ensure accurate goods manufacturing and shipment
• Tracked materials inventory, generate reports, and identify supply risks to help customers and management make informed decisions

April 2013 – June 2015:  Microwave Transmission Project Engineer (EMTS Phase 6 Project)                     

• Integrated new NE to the network and prepare new build links for integration to the existing network
• Uploaded NE, Service mapping, Link upgrade, Software upgrade on iManager U2000 Web LCT
• Installation and commissioning of Huawei Optix RTN (600 & 900 series) & OSN (550, 1500,3500,7500)
• Service configuration 2G and 3G
• Cross connection to BTS
• Line of Sight (LOS) survey and technical reporting
• Acceptance Test for Microwave Links
• Technical Site Survey (TSS)
• Quality Installation Check and Providing Technical Support to SBCs (subcontractors), project field engineers

Master of Science, Project Management, University of Salford

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University

Certificate in IT, British Computer Society