7 Day Writing Challenge Day 2 - My Work History | by @manuelhooks

in SteemAlive3 years ago (edited)

Work Experience

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This is the work experience section of my resume. I officially started my ICT career in the year 2004 under the Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme and true to the words of Confucius, it has been fun all the way.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

- Confucius -

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Promac Technology Limited



Year 2004, Promac Technologies Limited granted my request to acquire work experience in their company through the student industrial work experience scheme (SIWES)
The company was located along Iboko street. The company's area of concentration was

  • Consultancy services
    -- Feasibility assessment
    -- Cyber Caffe management

  • Training in:
    -- PC Assembly and troubleshooting
    -- Computer system maintenance
    -- Printer Repairs
    -- Vista Installation

I was officially labelled workshop manager and my job description covered

  • keeping the workshop running.
  • Assisting the instructors.
  • Making minor repairs.
  • Attending to.

At some point when the partnership got sour, the company got split three ways. I joined Ettetronics because he offered to pay off the debts I was owed as accumulated allowance.

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Ettetronics Computers

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I worked with Ettetronics from 2005 to 201. By 2006 Ettetronics Computers became popular among ICT firms known for training in data processing, information technology and computer engineering in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The contemporary firms were IMFI and Aptech.
I still maintained the position of workshop manager. My job description now included, Repairs and maintenance of company and client computers

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By 2008 I was designated Technical manager and from 2008 to 2012 my job included overseeing the running of the entire company with the power to both hire and fire.
I functioned as head in the engineering department, teaching basic electronics, system troubleshooting, installation and assembly. Designed and implemented training time tables, repairs and Maintenances of company computers and electrical systems.

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In the data processing department I took care of word processing with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. Spreadsheet with Microsoft Excel and swift calc. And Operating system.

At a point there was no more room to climb in the company's coperate lader. So when a new competitor immersed, I had to switch sides.

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IBBIL ICT Academy

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Year 2011, I applied to work at IBBIL. I was employed to Work as an instructor in FULGA Secondary School, Ibiono. I was responsible for the ICT training and the Maintenance of equipments in FULGA ICT lab.

By 2014, I was made zonal coordinator for Uyo zone.
This involved coordinating ICT training in the different nursery, primary and secondary schools with IBBIL ICT facilities in Uyo. Which involved 12 schools maned by 24 staff.
The job involved training and retraining the instructors, deploying then to schools then creating and editing lesson content for School and staff development.

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I Double as Training Coordinator IBBIL SLIP Program in Bright Stars Model Secondary School, Uyo. Responsible for Maintenance of Equipments in BSMSS ICT lab- Network Administrator on Thin Client Cloud Computing (with both, XP, Linux & Windows 7 on a Wireless Network)

When all 60 school around Nigeria comes down for training, I was involved in the training of more than 120 staff of the company. This has always been fun.

Year 2016, was time to move on so I left IBBIL to explore possibilities

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Mindset ICT Academy

Since 2016 down to the time of this writing, I have worked with Mindset Computers as a training coordinator. Develop a program where students in the technical schools are thought computer engineering, web development and programming.
The program tagged SITech ran as a pilot program at:

  • Government technical college, Ewet.
  • Ikono people's high school, ikono.
  • Archibong Memorial high school, Ikono.

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Attempt was made to activate the same program at Uyo high school but was not successful.

Job description at Mindset includes:

•Staff training/Development
•Maintenance of ICT Lab
•Network Administrator
•Head of training: Engineering

Instructor:

•Microsoft Office
•Programming
•Operating systems

Professional skilled acquired at work

-Human resource management
-Design of Electrical an electronic systems
-Hardware/software installation
-Troubleshooting/configuration
-Network administration on fat/thin client
-Web development and design
-Installation and administration of Linux
-AutoCAD 2D/3D
-Programming with C++, Java, MATLAB, VB.
-Experienced in the administration of the following operating system: MS DOS, Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 10.

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Are you still with Mindset ICT Academy?

You have really had so many job opportunities and experiences. It's a good thing to have experience on a whole lot of things..... You never can tell where you will be tomorrow...

Thank you for sharing your job experience with us.

 3 years ago 

Yes I am still working with Mindset ICT Academy. And It has been greatly rewarding. And the knowledge acquired in now used on Steemit.

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