Chibu O.

Lead Consultant

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Bonn, Germany

Experience

Oct 2022 - Sep 2025
3 years

Lead Consultant

Addlestone Advisory Partners

  • Attained buy-in and accountability from key stakeholders on regulatory, technology, functional as well as process engineering and project delivery issues.
  • Guided stakeholders through decision making processes.
  • Increased organisational maturity levels and data process flows.
  • Business analysis duties as required.
  • Project and or programme management duties as required.
  • Bridged between operational, technical and management teams.
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
7 months

Strategic/Technical Consultant

Cleverbridge GmbH

  • Renegotiated improved telecoms provider terms at reduced cost.
  • Migrated to a SIP trunk and added hardware and service resilience to the organisation’s global telephony.
  • Negotiated extended leasing agreement with Apple Europe at zero additional cost.
  • Arranged equipment and service cost reductions from local network manufacturers.
  • Implemented structured training for support staff.
  • Dramatically rationalised the hardware and software landscape.
May 2021 - Nov 2021
7 months
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Undisclosed Law Firm

  • Rehired to manage the migration from on-premises to cloud hosted IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions.
  • Implemented Kubernetes virtual containers.
  • Reorganised the DevOps teams to fully embrace Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
  • Migrated physical infrastructure resources to the software environment.
Jan 2019 - Apr 2021
2 years 4 months

Primary carer

Home Office

  • Primary carer for my son when his mother resumed her career.
Aug 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 5 months

Data Governance Programme Manager

Undisclosed Law Firm

  • Lead the data governance programme.
  • Defined the relevant process changes.
  • Translated technical complexities into plain, accessible terms.
  • Aligned ICT with business strategy.
  • Ensured readiness for process and related technology changes.
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
1 year 2 months

Senior Business Analysis Consultant

European Aviation Safety Agency

  • Identified synergies between projects, processes and architectures in order to reduce unnecessary duplication.
  • Defined streamlined requirements.
  • Walked business architects, systems architects and project managers through new processes and functional requirements.
  • Proposed the establishment of the universal certification process.
  • Harmonised the noise and type certification processes.
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
4 months

ICT Strategic Analyst (HRIS)

European Parliament

  • Identified inefficiencies within the HR IT management process.
  • Documented methods for improvements in efficiency, cost savings and management oversight.
  • Introduced best practices (ITIL/PRINCE2).
  • Defined coordinated and aligned systems strategies (COBIT).
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
1 year 9 months

Strategy Consultant

Systems Thinking Ltd

  • Assisted clients in the planning and deployment of strategic ICT implementations.
  • Conducted analysis, process improvement and change management.
Dec 2011 - Jan 2014
2 years 2 months

ICT Management Consultant

United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change

  • Implemented frictionless transformation between project and business as usual phases.
  • Implemented standard metrics for greatly improved planning.
  • Initiated the ITS service catalogue (ITIL).
  • Budgeted, defined, procured and implemented the mobile ICT infrastructure that underpins the global climate conferences.
  • Liaised directly with the Government of Qatar for COP18.
  • Reduced SLAs from 80 pages to a more user-friendly bullet point summary of five pages on average.
  • Established standard unit costs for section managers, resulting in significantly improved accuracy of the annual ICT budgets.
  • Identified other standard metrics to ease planning and reporting.
  • Analysed, defined and documented their ICT strategy.
  • Architected their solutions and managed the transition from UN tenant to fully operationalised independent global agency relocated to South Korea.
  • Liaised directly with the Korean Finance Ministry.
  • Specified the state-of-the-art boardroom with audio visual, voting, live broadcasting and translation capabilities.
  • Elicited equipment sponsorship from major local manufacturers.
  • Assisted the GCF in migrating from Lotus Notes to Microsoft.
Dec 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year 1 month

Programme Office Planning and Reporting Coordinator

European Patent Office

  • Assisted in drafting of the programme office operating manual and process maps.
  • Implemented and trained project managers on Microsoft enterprise project management (Project Server 2007) resource, capacity and budget planning.
  • Parsed staff costs obtained from the SAS RDBMS in order to provide senior management with dashboard and burn-down charts indicating planned versus actual costs.
  • Provided support for budget and resource planning by implementing capitalisation principles and rigid reporting of development activities in order to reduce tax liabilities.
  • Contributed to the production of the programme newsletter.
Sep 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year 4 months

Data Security Analyst

Department for Work and Pensions

  • Assured compliance with ISO 27001 data privacy requirements.
  • Implemented Check Point’s full disk encryption server, media encryption server and clients to prevent any portable media’s data falling into unauthorised hands through loss or theft.
  • Liaised with the user community to understand work methods and essential devices to be added to the preliminary white list.
  • Ensured all other devices were restricted to read-only access.
  • Analysed whether external media were uniquely identified within the Check Point security software as originally quoted.
  • Analysed, documented and implemented the endpoint data encryption security policy.
Jun 2008 - Dec 2008
7 months

Lead Governance Analyst

Ricoh Europe

  • Managed the customer data landscape for the Siebel CRM and Oracle sales order applications.
  • Made recommendations to eliminate corruption of the Oracle RDBMS and new Siebel DB.
  • Ensured that all regulatory and contractual obligations would be adhered to.
  • Performed process modelling and mapping onto data sources to identify system to business impact.
  • Established, developed and managed local data steward network EMEA-wide.
  • Assisted in the harmonisation of data standards EMEA-wide.
  • Prepared offices and their customer data for the changeover to the new system by organising and hosting workshops.
  • Identified, owned and resolved all customer related data issues.
  • Translated business users’ issues into developers’ action plans.
  • Conducted data and entity relationship modelling.
  • Shadowed staff in order to efficiently identify source of downstream data corruptions.
  • Reported change and defect statuses to senior business and programme stakeholders.

Summary

In partnering with me, you will take onboard a well travelled and skilled strategist. One with a creative approach to problem solving and proven ability to communicate effectively from the ‘factory floor’ to senior government official levels.

Skills

  • Business Strategy Alignment

  • Stakeholder Management

  • Technology Planning

  • Programme Management

  • Process Engineering

  • Workshop Facilitation

  • Reporting

  • Budget Management

  • Procurement

  • Cross-cultural Teams

  • Workload Prioritisation

  • Cloud Solutions

  • Ict Architecture

  • Systems Integration

  • Data Governance

  • Data Privacy

  • Data Cleansing

  • Document Management

  • Unified Communications

  • Critical Thinking

  • Change Agent

  • Perceptiveness

  • Listening Abilities

  • Instructional Abilities

  • Non-hierarchical

  • Approachability

Languages

English
Advanced
German
Intermediate
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2006 - Jun 2007

London South Bank University

MSc, Information Systems Management · Information Systems Management · London, United Kingdom

Certifications & licenses

MSP - Managing Successful Programmes

Undisclosed Law Firm

CSPO - Certified Scrum Product Owner

DasScrumTeam

ITIL - IT Service Management

EXIN

PRINCE2

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