FMP®, CFM®, MNSE, COREN R64076 · AZ-900, KCNA

Operator. Engineer. Builder. Building the systems organisations rely on.

I started by keeping buildings running. Twelve years later, I build the platforms that run them.

The journey is not finished.

2014–2018.

Mechanical engineer by training. The early years were a stack: HVAC design first, then facilities coordinator across 30 Standard Chartered Bank branches and 8 MTN Nigeria sites — a contract I helped grow from 20 to 30 branches in six months. Then supervisor at a luxury estate, where I eliminated over ₦2m in outstanding utility bills and uncovered construction fraud through reformed energy reporting. In parallel, three years of freelance research at the University of Ibadan on rice husk ash concrete and fracture mechanics. The period closed with the Guinness Nigeria graduate scholarship for a year at Egbin Power Plant under NAPTIN's skills development programme — steam, hydro, and gas turbines.

Lesson: operational competence is a stack — hands on the tools, eyes on the numbers, paperwork that survives an audit. Skip any layer and the rest collapses.

2019–2021.

Application admin for Autodesk BIM360 and CAFM systems — first exposure to enterprise systems administration. Stepped into a stalled ₦40m NCDMB headquarters digitisation project, mentored a team of recent graduates to completion; the turnaround secured two follow-on contracts worth ₦80m. Then to industry — facilities manager at a paper pulp and packaging plant, where I built the FM department from the ground up to cover two manufacturing plants and 65 residential apartments.

Lesson: every system fails the same way — not because the technology is wrong, but because the operating model around it was never built.

2022–2025.

Digital transformation lead. Led the technical execution of a ₦137m NLNG smart building project — cloud architecture and IoT integration across an LNG site (Home Assistant, MQTT, Shelly/Tuya/Flair sensors for energy and water monitoring). Migrated six critical systems to cloud, saving thousands of dollars by replacing HubSpot with an open-source CRM. Built and monetised a new training division from scratch, personally training 1,700+ students to generate ₦40m in revenue.

Lesson: infrastructure budgets get approved on outcomes, not architectures. Show what it changes, not what it is.

Reliance Health, 2025–present.

Hired into Facilities and Logistics. Promoted within three months to FLO-IT Manager for a pan-African healthcare group — now leading integrated physical and digital operations across 13+ facilities in Nigeria, Egypt, and Senegal, directing cross-functional teams across Facilities, Logistics, IT Support, Network, and SaaS. Architecting a three-year operational roadmap for expansion to 26+ clinics across seven African countries; currently leading market-entry logistics studies into four new nations.

Microsoft 365 Global Admin across three countries: Entra ID, Intune, Purview, SharePoint intranet, Windows LAPS, Global Secure Access. Azure Bot Service for internal Teams tooling. Built an internal governance automation platform with SLA tracking, exception reporting, and monthly executive scorecards. Solar-first power transition across ten clinics. Internal Data Protection Officer.

Lesson: the gap between "we have a tool" and "the tool works" is bigger than most engineers think, and closing it is its own discipline.

2024–present.

Eighteen months of remote-first software engineering training (Microverse, 2022–2024) gave me the formal grounding to build, not just integrate. From 2024, I have been building on Fidara Platform — a branded-house substrate where shared infrastructure, brand, and design system support multiple solutions without coupling them. Three live, one planned.

Reliance Health is the reference deployment for fmworkflows. The whitepaper I am writing — The Price of Professionalism: Why Nigeria's Facilities Management Sector Cannot Close the Global Gap Without Structural Investment — is the long-form argument for why this market needs to be built.

Lesson: a shipped system is worth ten architecture diagrams. The same discipline that runs a facility runs a solution — write things down, do them on a schedule, fix what breaks.

• The cloud-native deepening. AZ-900 and KCNA in April 2026. AZ-800 next. Eventually CKA.
• TradeBoard. The next surface on Fidara Platform.
• The whitepaper to Journal of Facilities Management submission.
• fmworkflows as the IWMS of record for the African FM market.

I am open to conversations about platform engineering roles, IWMS partnerships, and serious investment in the African operations-tech gap.

Microsoft 365 at enterprise scale. Entra ID, Intune, Purview, SharePoint, Windows LAPS, Global Secure Access — across three countries at Reliance Health. The discipline most M365 engineers never get to practise at this scope.

Cloud, deepening. AWS for IAM, Ansible configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines through consulting work. Azure at foundational level (AZ-900) with AZ-800 in progress, plus Bot Service for internal Teams integrations. DigitalOcean for the Fidara Platform fleet. KCNA for the cloud-native track, with CKA next.

Build. Ruby on Rails, Go, React, JavaScript, Python. PowerShell and bash for operations. Kamal for deploys.

Discipline. I keep things boring on purpose: Solid Queue/Cache/Cable instead of Redis, HTTPS APIs instead of shared databases, SQLite where it fits, Rails 8 for everything that doesn't need otherwise.

Still climbing.