Highlights:

Skills:Senior Electrical Engineer

MD/CEO 08/2017 - current
Synclear Engineering Services, Lagos, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: Electro-Mechnical Engineering
Providing all types of electro-mechanical engineering services for different clients.
Involved in substations design and erection, factories and other building lighting designs, hotels generators design, buildings systems surveys, poultry farms designs and others.--
Head Of Electrical Department 08/2011 - 08/2017
ETCO Nigeria LTD, Lagos, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: MEP contracting
Responsible for all electrical operations of ETCO - the biggest and srongest MEP contractor in Nigeria.
- Fully responsible for all company's electrical operations, contracting, tendering, design works and duties in Nigeria. - Responsible for company's professional and safety operations in electrical works. - Controlling 10 Expatriates and 200 local workers in an actual projects turnover of $20M USD for electrical only--
Electrical Maintenance Engineer 05/2007 - 05/2011
Nigeria LNG, Bonny, Rivers Nigeria
Industry: Oil and Gas
Maintenance engineer for 3 gas production trains and later chief electrical engineer of the company's residential area.
- Electrical Engineer, Electrical Maintenance supervisor for LNG production trains. - Responsible for all electrical Maintenance and Around the Clock Service of 3 LNG production Trains. - Responsible for Periodic Maintenance Planning and Application and Implementation.--
Operations Manager 11/2004 - 04/2007
ETCO Nigeria LTD, Lagos, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: MEP contracting
Second high position in the organisation, saved over 2M USD for smart solutions implementations. Was responsible for all projects execution, management and handover, training and staff positioning.
- Electrical Engineer, Operations manager of the company all over Nigeria. Member of the company's main management group. Second to the MD. - Fully responsible for all company's operations, contracting, works and duties in Nigeria. - Fully responsible for company's policy, representation, negotiation, sub-contracting, sales, supplies, relationships and works. - Responsible for company's professional and safety operations. - Controlling 50 Expatriates and 1,200 local workers in an actual projects turnover of $70M USD--
Northern Branch Manager 10/1999 - 11/2004
ELCO Contracting & Services, Kiriyat Ata, Haifa Israel
Industry: MEP contracting
Branch manager of the biggest MEP contractor in Israel, responsible for the full branch operation, reporting to the GM and company's management member.
• Electrical Engineer, Branch manager of the company’s branch in Northern Israel. Member of the company's main management group. • Fully responsible for all company's operations, contracting, works and duties in the northern part of Israel from Hadera to Metula. - Fully responsible for company's policy, representation, negotiation, sub-contracting, sales, supplies, relationships and works. - Sole responsible for the branch professional and safety operations. - Having solely signature rights, in the name of the company up to $500,000 contracts. - Fully responsible for money collection and customer relationships.--
Technical Manager 04/1997 - 04/1999
AFCON Nigeria LTD, Lagos, Lagos Nigeria
Industry: MEP contracting
Responsible for all company's technical sales, solutions providing and customer satisfaction
- Electrical Engineer, Technical manager of the company’s branch in Nigeria. - Dealing with high and low tension equipment sales. - Tailoring specific applications as per customers’ specifications. - Supplying technical backup and maintenance to the ABB and SACE equipment installed by the company all over the country. - Installing computers and operating systems including networking. - Maintaining computers, systems and networks.--
Electrical Department Commander (Maj.) 06/1989 - 01/1997
Israeli Defensive Forces, Tel Aviv, Dan Israel
Industry: Military
Chief electrical engineer of an army corps. responsible for all electrical aspects all over the country.
- Chief Engineer and commander of an electrical Design and support department. The department’s responsibility varied from designing, technical supporting, failure analysis and repairs and maintenance of HIGH and LOW voltage systems, including: Generators, UPS machines and Distribution systems and busses, cables and panels. - My duty included: 1. Design of complicated high-energy electrical systems according to local laws and military standards. 2. Failure analysis and repair “around the clock” 24 hours a day 365 days a year. 3. Characterization of new systems. 4. Inspection of new systems, new installations and contractors work. 5. Maintenance of all kinds of systems including generators, motor-generators, UPS machines and all kind of distribution and control panels and conductors. All the above in minimum time and minimum interruption periods of electrical energy. - Under my command were at about 30 electrical professionals - engineers, sub-engineers and technicians who designed, maintained and installed all kinds of electrical systems. - I have acquired a very good and important experience in complicated failures analysis and repair, and design of very reliable electrical and control systems in high and low voltage. - I have acquired the ability to work around the clock in very short response times under pressure and to cope with a lot of new material in very short time. - I have been specialized in cyclic maintenance design for critical electrical systems for achieving minimum MTTR and maximum MTBF.--

Technion Israel Institute of Technology 09/1985 - 08/1989
Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Electrical Engineering
Minor:Optics, control, communications, computers
Studied Power Electrical Engineering, Power Electronics, Control and Automation, Computers Programming, Communications Techniques and Fiber Optics.

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