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| Executive Director |
Dec 2006 to Apr 2007 |
| ICT Consultant |
Jun 2005 to Jan 2006 |
| Technical Director |
Apr 2004 to May 2005 |
| PHARAON TELECOM & TECHNOLOGIES, Cotonou, Benin |
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| Founded by high-profile expatriate Beninese who returned to their country to enhance and transform the ICT industry, establishing a first-class Internet service provider and then extending services to the financial services sector and later to the rest of West Africa. |
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Re-designed the company’s IT infrastructure to improve service quality to corporate clients |
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Contributed to increasing the turnover by 35% within five months |
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Re-organised the marketing department and re-aligned processes to conform to new regulations |
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Liaised with high level stakeholders to understand their concerns and integrate strategies to meet their objectives. |
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Invented new and re-packaged existing products (with assistance from Marketing Executives), while maintaining the Company’s primary business objective of Internet Service Provider |
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Created and managed accreditation relationship with Microsoft, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Comtrend Corp etc… |
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Designed an xDSL infrastructure and led the technical department in it’s nation wide deployment |
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Direct reporting as Technical Director was 23 people and 87 direct & indirect reporting as Executive Director |
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