INNOCENT SUNDAY UJATA, PMP®, PMD pro.

ABUJA, NIGERIA

Email: ujatasuni@gmail.com

PROFILE

Digital Transformation & Project Management Leader | Health Informatics & Data Strategy Expert | AI & IT Security Researcher | Empowering Professionals Through Capacity Building | Speaker

Resourceful, highly productive, and PMI certified Project Management Professional and Project Management for Development Professionals with a strong IT solution development background. I am a passionate health informatician, data scientist, database administrator and Information Security specialist with over Thirteen (13) years of experience in developing and deploying data collection platforms, designing complex database management systems to support applications, designing M&E tools for National projects, supporting mobile and web-based application designs, and performing various geospatial and non-spatial analytics on data. I have proven track record in designing automated real-time analytics systems and dashboard visualizations at national level and across different projects to support decision making. Also possesses excellent working knowledge of project management and technical documentation designs to support the development of products and services.

EMPLYMENT HISTORY

Health Informatic and Data Manager, Georgetown Global Health Nigeria.

November 2019 – Till Date, Abuja

Georgetown Global Health Nigeria Support to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) (November 2019 till date)

Manage all IT projects in the center.
Redesign and Upgrade APHIDS MS to meet the evolving requirements of the agency, it’s Partners and stakeholders.
Led secure design and deployment of national-level data platforms for pandemic surveillance, ensuring integrity, confidentiality, and resilience in system architecture.
Led the development of the NCDC IT Security Policy in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), ensuring alignment with international cybersecurity standards and national health data protection requirements
Collaborate with national and multi-national stakeholders to gather requirements and adapt existing platforms to meet the dynamic needs at the NCDC and partner projects
Design and develop Microsites for the outbreak epidemiological data, report, Guideline, Advisory, Analytics and GIS-based dashboards.
A member of the NCDC Strategic Planning Steering Committee responsible for NCDC strategic plaining.
Worked with teams to ensure the integration of new systems with the National SORMAS, platform in line with NCDC’s digital transformation strategy.
Working with NCDC partners and funders such as the WHO, USCDC, African CDC, Global Fund, PH England among others for IT Project Conception, Planning, Deployment, Monitoring and Evaluation, Quality improvement and Data exchange.
Provide daily support for the NCDC main website, including updating it with weekly epidemiological report, Disease Situation Reports, IDSR among other routine maintenance and administration.
Data management capacity development for NCDC surveillance data team.
Migrate NCDC mail services from Bluehost to Microsoft Office 365. Onboard NCDC staff on the Microsoft office 365 services, provide regular training on the use of the various services including, email, SharePoint, outlook, teams, word, excel, power BI, Ms project among others.
Migrate NCDC cloud resources from Bluehost to Microsoft Azure. Manages all cloud hosted solutions on Azure. Including NCDC main website Covid19 Microsite, Nigeria International Travel Portal (NITP), unified covid-19 result portal and other resources.
Support NCDC suites of applications including Data portal, APHIDS, Somas, Conference Website, AMCS, Infoveave, Tatafo, Sugar CRM and Elastics.
Provide technical support to connect center technologies.
Maintenance and support of servers and virtual machines. Maintenance of network infrastructure
Windows and Linux systems administration
Mentoring NCDC IT junior team members.
Advice the Head of IT and the Director General on emerging technologies for management decision.
Public health Data analysis and reporting for decision making.
Support the organization funding efforts from public health donor agencies around the world.
Project Management.
Submitting bi-weekly report of performance and IT activities to the Center for Global Health Practices and Impact Georgetown University for the Director General Nigeria Center for Disease Control.

ICT Specialist/Project Manager,International Financial Infrastructure June 2018 – Nov 2019

Overseeing all IT projects of the organization.

Providing Technical support in the development and maintenance of IT solutions.
Providing technology training for local farmers cooperative groups and on-boarding them into technological platforms and services.
Working with development partners like IFC, FAO and the Nigeria Central Bank to implement agricultural development policies.
Deployment and Management Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint services.
Aggregating Agricultural product prices and other related data and reporting it to the Director Agribusiness and Market Development ABM of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Solutions Developer and Quality Assurance, BizzDesk Global Solutions

July 2016 – May 2018

Solutions development with PHP, C#, ASP.NET, Angular JS, JavaScript. Software testing.
Built the front-end web portal for Internal Generated Revenue (IGR) solution for Plateau State.
Training, deployment, and Support for the IGR solution in Plateau State.
Perform Quality Assurance on all Software Application, (desktop, mobile and web).
Build frontend of a HR application with angularJS
Code Debugging and modification.

IT Specialist/Teacher, ECWA Wuse II, Academy.

October 2015-July 2016

Setup the school IT-infrastructure: System setup, OS installation, Network installations.
Manage the School Internet and Computer Network.
Perform Computer System Audit, Installation and configuration of operating systems and other software.
Recommend Network, Software and Hardware Solutions. Antivirus installation and maintenance.
Managing and maintaining the entire Information and Communication Technologies of the School.
Teach Computer Studies. Hardware troubleshooting.

National Youth Service Corps,

Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University

Bauchi, Bauchi State.April 2014- April 2015

ICT Specialist, office of the Registrar.

Duties: Managing and maintaining the entire Information and Communication Technologies in the Rigistrar’s Office and the various Deputy Registrars.

Recommend Network, Software and Hardware Solutions. Antivirus installation and maintenance.

Develop Software Solutions, and Hardware troubleshooting.

ICT Specialist/Instructor, Bologi Nigeria Limited, AbujaOctober 2012- March 2014

Instructor
Develop Software Solutions, Desktop and Web Applications.
Installation and maintenance of Network Solutions.
Perform Computer System Audit, Installation and configuration of operating systems and other software. Recommend Network, Software and Hardware Solutions. Antivirus installation and maintenance.

Associate Network Administrator, Suburban West Africa Abuja

November 2011-February 2012

Installation and Maintenance of Network Solutions and training.
Updating Operation Management Meeting Report.
Creating System User Account for New Staff and Removing Outgoing Staffs Account.
Hardware troubleshooting

PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

2025-Date: Baze University Abuja.

PhD -in View (Computer Science: AI, IT Security Research).

2019-2020: Project Management Institute Pennsylvania USA.

Project Management Professional PMP.

2016-2019: University of Abuja, Abuja.

M.Sc.- Computer Science, Major in Information Security

2015-2018: NiiT Wuse II Abuja.

Cloud Computing Technologies.

2008-2012: University of Abuja, Abuja.

Bachelor of Science Degree- B.Sc Computer Science

Second Class Honours (Upper Division).

2011-2012 Suburban Telecom

Networking Fundamental Training

2001-2007: Community Secondary School Egume, Kogi State 2007

National Examination Council Examination Certificate (NECO)

1992-2001: Peace Child Academy Alifeti, Benue State

First School Leaving Certificate

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION AND MEMBERSHIP

Nigeria Computer Society

Member, (ISC)² – International Information System Security Certification Consortium

Project Management Professional (PMP®)

Member, Project Management Institute (PMI), Pennsylvania, USA

PMI-Nigeria Chapter

PROFICIENCY

Microsoft Office suite
Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint
Microsoft Azure services
Amazon Web Services
Technologies: Node.js, PHP, Visual Studio C# and ASP.NET, Python (Django), Ruby (RoR), Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Angular JS, HTML, CSS,Nginx,MySQL, Postgres, Sidekiq, MongoDB, SQL server, Docker, Kubernetes.
Networking: Cisco Technologies, Fibre Optic Cable Installation, LAN/WAN/MAN/WLAN/SAN, Cable Crimping
Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10, Linus (Ubuntu), MacOSX
Servers Management: Windows Server, Linux Server, LAMP, XAMP, WAMP DNS and SSL management.
Frameworks: VMware, VirtualBox, Interswitch WebPay
OpenSource System: Bahmni-RPM (Health Information management system), Wordpress, Opencart, OpenMRS, Magento, Jumla.
Source Code Management: Git via Bitbucket and Github.
ICT Device Hardware Troubleshooting.
Project Management.
Cross-functional Team Leadership Leadership
Quality Assurance and Quality improvement.
Change Management
Problem Solving Skill

PUBLICATION

Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats: A Comparative Evaluation Review

AWARDS

Etisalat Nigeria Award of Excellence 2011

HOBBIES

Reading, Research and Teaching.

REFEREES

Available on request