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VINCENT ADUL

Telecommunications Engineer And Computer Scientist
Westlands

Summary

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.

Pursuing full-time role that presents professional challenges and leverages interpersonal skills, effective time management, and problem-solving expertise.

Thorough team contributor with strong organizational capabilities. Experienced in handling numerous projects at once while ensuring accuracy. Effective at prioritizing tasks and meeting deadlines.

Proactive and goal-oriented professional with excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn and apply new skills. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.

Tech-savvy innovator with hands-on experience in emerging technologies and passion for continuous improvement. Skilled in identifying opportunities for technological enhancements and implementing effective solutions. Adept at leveraging new tools and methods to solve problems and enhance productivity. Excels in adapting to fast-paced environments and driving technological advancements.

Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.

Innovative technology professional with several years of diverse experience. Skilled in enhancing systems and aligning technical solutions with business objectives. Proven success in leading projects from start to finish and contributing to organizational growth and success.

Overview

39
39
years of professional experience
28
28
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
4
4
Languages

Work History

Communications Technology Expert

National Communications Secretariat
11.2012 - 10.2024
  • Initiating and /or coordinating pilot projects in new information and communications technologies
  • Responsibility 2: Coordinating Kenyan participation in all international meetings and conferences on information and Communications
  • Responsibility 3: Interfacing with other National, Regional and International Information and Communications bodies on policy and research that involves-Presentation and participation on regulatory initiatives with the National regulatory authority-Communications Authority of Kenya in all sectors of the ICT Market; Participations in various Technical Committees of the Kenya Bureau of Standards mandated with the responsibility of standards development; Presentations and participation in ITU-D Study Groups, ITU-T Study Group meetings to share knowledge and best practices on Telecommunications Standards for the entire universe
  • Responsibility 4: Preparing and updating country position papers that include but not limited to-Preparation and updating the country’s position papers on issues pertaining to ICT on EAC, EACO NCIP ICT clusters, National Preparatory Committee for the International Telecommunications Union’s World Radio Communication conferences, World Telecommunications Development Conferences and World Standardisation Assembly in preparation and finalisation of National Common proposals for WTSA
  • Responsibility 5: Conducting research and analysis in Communications Technologies which include among others- Conducting research on Mobile fixed and Fixed mobile network policies for Voice, Data, SMS and Mobile Money markets dealing with tariffs and costs from best practices; ITU-D, World Bank and OECD, as well as EU; Conducting best practice research on Cyber security standards from ITU-T Study Group 17 on Security;
  • Research and analysis on Radio Frequency Spectrum Policy requirements for ICT Market from regional regulators , ITU-R, GSMA;
  • General policy formulation and development from ITU-D, GSMA, COMESA and AU and conducting research and analysis on Technical Standards from ISO/IEC, ETSI and GSMA

ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Managed project for deployment of Enterprise Resource Management System within the organization through the process of planning design and implementation in collaboration with an approved Supplier.
  • Kenya government delegate to the ITU-R World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 that took place in Dubai (UAE) in November/December 2023 and executed the Final Acts of the Conference.
  • Alternate Director representing the Principal Secretary, State Department of ICT and Innovation-Ministry of ICT and Youth Affairs as Member of the Board of Directors of Kenya Space Agency from 2018 to July 2023 investing expertise in providing oversight to the management of the Kenya Space Agency.
  • Kenyan delegate ITU-R World Radio-communications Conference 2019 (WRC-19) that took place in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt from 28th October to 22nd November 2019.
  • Member of the team that coordinated and developed the Kenya’s Digital Economy Blueprint for Africa launched at the Transform Africa Summit 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda.
  • Taskforce member that reviewed and developed the National ICT Policy 2019 gazetted on Friday 7th august 2020
  • Taskforce Member that developed the Spectrum Management Policy
  • Chair of Sub-com 2 dealing with Mobile Broadband issues of the Kenyan National Preparatory Committee for the World Radio Conference 2019
  • Kenya government delegate to the ITU-R World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 (WRC-2015) held in Geneva, Switzerland from 2nd -27thNovember 2015
  • Chair of Sub-com 4 dealing with Satellite issues of the Kenyan National Preparatory Committee for the World Radio Conference 2015.
  • Senior Official for the Kenyan delegation on infrastructure projects, such as East African Community (EAC) and Northern Corridor Infrastructure Projects (NCIP).
  • Member of team that coordinated the successful implementation of the ITU requirement for Analogue to Digital Migration on June 15th, 2015.


LECTURER

ENGINEERING
04.2011 - 10.2012
  • Lecturing Electrical and Information Engineering Students Computer Science and laboratory
  • Lecturing Geospatial and Space Engineering students; Communications and Signal Processing Course
  • ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Lectured and oversaw laboratory work for first- and second-year students taking the Computer Science course
  • Prepared, and administered examinations for first- and second-year students taking the Computer Science course
  • Marked and graded the examinations scripts arising out of the examinations for first and second-year students
  • Prepared a Draft syllabus for First- and Second-year Computer Science courses
  • Prepared, and administered examinations for first year students taking the Communications and Signal processing course
  • Marked and graded the examinations scripts arising out of the examinations for first year students taking Communications and Signal processing course for geospatial students
  • Publications
  • V
  • Adul and E
  • Mwangi, "A robust video watermarking approach based on a hybrid SVD/DWT technique," 2017 IEEE AFRICON, 2017, pp
  • 309-313, doi: 10.1109/AFRCON.2017.8095500
  • Abstract:
  • A comparative analysis to determine the most effective video watermarking algorithm between SVD/DWT hybrid and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is reported in this paper
  • Blind video watermarking schemes are simulated, and attempts made to recover the watermark after some signal processing attacks such as median filtering and Histogram equalization
  • The quality of the extracted watermark was then measured using the SSIM index
  • From the computer simulation results using a diverse set of standard video clips the SVD/DWT hybrid performed better than the reference
  • An average value of the SSIM index of 0.98 was obtained
  • The SVD transform values varied from 0.57 to 0.78 for histogram equalization attacks and 0.83 to 0.9 for median filtering attacks
  • The results reveal the superiority of the SVD/DWT hybrid technique over SVD for digital rights enforcement.

CHIEF INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Metropol Corporation Ltd
01.2012 - 06.2012
  • Responsible for the technical requirements of the Credit Reference Bureau, in addition to tight security, I oversaw the entire software and hardware operation that entailed supporting business in determining strategies and responsible for implementation of new software and testing; Responsible for all maintenance, upkeep, updates, and changes to Credit Bureau software program, for all other office software in use—accounting, word processing Responsible for all compliance and ownership requirements pertaining to all software in use; Responsible for high-level communication with software providers and all client calls pertaining to program malfunction; Coordinated the creation and implementation of software program and all maintenance, upkeep, updates, and changes to all equipment in use and responsible for all communications, network, security, and hardware maintenance and upkeep, all ownership registration requirements pertaining to all hardware in use and the design and upkeep of company website
  • ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Set up the Oracle Database for the institution
  • Coordinated the setting up of the App in use at the institution for facilitating customers getting their credit ratings.

Senior Manager Technical Regulations

Safaricom PLC
07.2007 - 04.2011

Senior Manager, Radio and Technical Regulations-Management of the spectrum policy including negotiation and acquisition of spectrum for microwave links and mobile cellular network expansions from the Communications Commission of Kenya ; Improvements of transmission leased line management with the common carriers and Data Network Operators; Management of and technical standards formulation in and contributions in Standards development organization forums, including national ICT Policy, Regional and International Regulatory forums; Providing Environmental and EMF Leadership; Monitoring of technical regulatory changes pertaining to environmental and safety issues associated with network rollout; Management of sectional human resources.


ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Kenya government delegate at the ITU-R World Radiocommunications Conference 2007(WRC-2007) in Geneva, Switzerland. During this important conference, several key resolutions were made, among other the migration proposal for the resulting Digital dividends for mobile services band from 806-862MHz all the way to 790-862MHz to enable sufficient radio frequency spectrum for roll-out of mobile broadband.
  • Managed and coordinated the evaluation and Testing of Electromagnetic Fields Radiation compliance of all the 2,500 Safaricom Ltd Base Transceiver Stations as per the recommendations of ICNIRP/WHO.
  • Prepared an EMF Booklet, to enable stakeholder to understand the impact of EMF Fields on the health and Safety of mobile radio base stations and Mobile Phone use.
  • Contributed to the national policy framework on Collocation and site sharing by telecommunications operators in Kenya.
  • Managed the process of procuring fibre capacity from the Common carriers that resulted in the transfer traffic into close to 10,000km fiber infrastructure providing resilience to the traffic regime, to cater for the 18,000,000 Subscribers.

· Prepared and submitted and recommended to the Communications Commission of Kenya the preferred radio frequency spectrum band for the Safaricom Limited 3G Trial and eventual 3G license within the prime UMTS band.

· Coordinated the preparation of the technical, marketing and regulatory data submitted an application for Safaricom Ltd International Gateway license for voice and data services to the National Regulatory authority.

· Coordinated and procured Mobile Numbering resources for setting up of the international gateway Earth Station, facilitated the Type approval of the Ground Mounted Antenna dish for two international Gateways Links.

· Coordinated the provision of 7GHz Link for an STM-1 backbone between Nairobi/ Mombasa, and a 150km 7GHz STM-1 between Nairobi/Nakuru, and 8GHz Link for an STM-1 Backbone along our Western region covering Nakuru, Eldoret, Webuye, Kisumu and back to Nakuru, spanning 460km.

· Coordinated the process of laying STM-4 optical fibre links to interconnect two Mobile Switching Centres for Safaricom Ltd via diversity routing provided by the Common Carrier Telkom KENYA.

· Member of the Preparatory Expert Group for drafting the African Common position (ACPs) on behalf of ATU for Preparation of the African Common Proposals for the ITU-T World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly 2004 that was held in Florianopolis, Brazil from 5th to 14th October 2004.

· Member of the Working Group for Drafting the African Common position (ACPs) on behalf of ATU for World Radio Conference (WRC-2003) that was held at Geneva, Switzerland between 9th June to 4th July 2003.

· Coordinated the live testing between Safaricom Ltd and Kencell Communications Ltd recommending the opening of the CCS7 direct Link for both Voice calls and SMS on 7th October 2002

Senior Manager Corporate Affairs

Safaricom PLC
06.2002 - 06.2007
  • Management of the spectrum policy including negotiation and acquisition of spectrum for microwave links and mobile cellular network expansions from the Communications Commission of Kenya ; Improvements of transmission leased line management with the common carriers and Data Network Operators; Management of and technical standards formulation in and contributions in Standards development organization forums, including national ICT Policy, Regional and International Regulatory forums; Providing Environmental and EMF Leadership; Monitoring of technical regulatory changes pertaining to environmental and safety issues associated with network rollout; Management of sectional human resources., Regulatory -Effective monitoring of the rapid changing regulatory and management of projects including International Roaming Services; Managed the technical aspects of interconnection framework and Service Level Agreements; Negotiated and acquired radio frequency spectrum for microwave links for Fixed and Wireless Networks’ expansions; Representation in Fixed and Wireless Spectrum and technical standard formulation in Standards development organization forums at national, regional and International regulatory conferences.

Utility Engineer

Safaricom PLC
06.2001 - 06.2002
  • Responsibility of coordinated in collaboration with various stakeholders, including Electrical contractors, Radio network planners, and Transmission Network Planners, to assess the power supply requirements; Preparation and presentation to the electric supply utility the application for commercial power follow up of the same; Analysis of the proposed power supply line design strategy to the radio base station site and recommendation for the payment of the same
  • ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Coordinated the live testing between Safaricom Ltd and Kencell Communications Ltd recommending the opening of the CCS7 direct Link for both Voice calls and SMS on 7th October 2001
  • Coordinated the power Supply of over 100 radio base stations for Safaricom Limited at a total cost of close to US$2million
  • Technical advisor for the joint SAFARICOM /SIEMENS ATEA generator-sizing project to appraise the performance of existing and future sites’ generator size requirements
  • Recommended after extensive research the Wind, Diesel, and Battery hybrid to be adopted for remote sites power supply solutions.

Senior Customer Services Engineer

Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited
07.1985 - 06.2001
  • Enforcement of the Electric Power Act, 314 and the IEE Wiring regulations and various metering schemes; Coordination of collection of meter reading data on a monthly basis ensuring that the billing cycle was satisfied and inspection of all anomalous energy measuring devices with a view of ensuring their proper operations; Management of monthly customer metering readings as per the Strategic planning parameters; Organization of safety and energy conservation campaigns to sensitize electricity Customers on the important precepts of the same; Management of the customer services and customer care functions; Preparation and participation in Agricultural shows as a means of customer education
  • ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Coordinated the preparation and forecasting the energy unit sales and revenue for Coast and West Kenya Areas; in the case of the Coast Area with a customer base of close to 70,000 and a peak demand of 190W
  • The ensuing statistic reflected the need for 1.24TWhrs per annum yields an average of Ksh.8.5billion per annum, excluding the overall system losses that stood at 20% of the gross revenues
  • For the West Kenya area, the figures for unit sales and revenue were 1TWhr and Kshs6.6billion
  • Participated in the ESMAP Project for more than a year and established a thorough knowledge of International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)-World Bank procurement procedures and was exposed to international power system design and analysis percept
  • Utilised LOWO- Low Voltage analysis and design software from Immatram Voima Oy of Finland, and the financial software jointly prepared with the then World Bank Appointed Distribution advisor to KPLC
  • Carried out Power factor (PF) analysis for large power consumers, preparing estimate for improvement of the same for efficiency purposes
  • In Demand side management, sensitized customers on the need to efficiently utilize the energy available to them
  • Prepared pamphlets to demonstrate the advantages of using off- peak power tariff for industrialists, use of energy efficient showerheads
  • Coordinated the power supply for the Dry Dock at the Navy HQ, for the incoming Kenyan submarine project in collaboration with Vosper-Thorneycroft of the UK
  • Prepared and participated in the documentation for the new D.C.S (Design and Construction System) of the KPLC ISP Project in collaboration with Union-Fenosa of Spain
  • Participated in the connectivity and metering of the Westmont Barge, and Independent Power Producer at the port of Mombasa., Kenya government delegate to the African Preparatory Conference Meeting at Abuja, Nigeria from 25th to 29th June 2007 for the World Radio Conference 2007


Education

MSc - Electronic Engineering

University of Nairobi
01.2011 - 01.2021

MSc - Information Systems

University of Nairobi
01.2004 - 01.2008

BSc - Electrical Engineering-First Class Honours

University of Nairobi
01.1980 - 01.1984

Ph.D. - Computer Science-Ongoing

University of Nairobi
01.2019 - Current

High School Diploma -

ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL
04.1974 - 01.1977

High School Diploma -

ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL
Kiambu, Kiambu District, Kenya
04.1978 - 01.1979

Skills

Teamwork and collaboration

Affiliations

  • Corporate Member of the Institute of Engineers of Kenya
  • Registered Engineer with the Engineers Registration Board of the Republic of Kenya
  • Member of the Institute of Technology, United Kingdom
  • Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (USA)

Publications

A robust video watermarking approach based on a hybrid SVD/DWT technique, 2017 IEEE AFRICON, 2017

Awards

  • Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization scholarship
  • Swedish International Development Agency Scholarship
  • United States Telecommunications Institute (USTTI) Scholarship
  • Head of State Commendations by HE THE PRESIDENT of Kenya

Accomplishments

  • Contract Manger of the Project team of ten(10) in the Renovation of National Communications Secretariat office space at a Cost of US$ 400,000
  • Contract manager of the Project team of twelve for the development and implementation of the Enterprise Resources Planning Software for the National Communications Secretariat to cater for Human Resources, Accounts, Supply Chain, ICT and Users totaling 22 members.
  • Supervised the development of a Database for Metropol Corporation Ltd for Credit Ratings.

Certification

Engineering , Engineers Board of Kenya to date

Work Preference

Work Type

Contract WorkGig Work

Work Location

Hybrid

Important To Me

Healthcare benefitsCareer advancementWork-life balanceFlexible work hoursPersonal development programsTeam Building / Company RetreatsPaid sick leaveStock Options / Equity / Profit Sharing4-day work week

Work Availability

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Languages

Luo
Advanced (C1)
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
French
Upper intermediate (B2)
Swahili
Upper intermediate (B2)

Software

Java Programming Language

Microsoft Office Word

Microsoft Office Excel

Microsoft Office Projects

Microsoft Office Power Point

MATLAB/SIMULINK

Quote

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes

Interests

Current Affairs

New and Emerging Technology Technology Research

Reading various books on Strategy, Law, Technology

Travelling

Timeline

Ph.D. - Computer Science-Ongoing

University of Nairobi
01.2019 - Current

Communications Technology Expert

National Communications Secretariat
11.2012 - 10.2024

CHIEF INFORMATION AND TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Metropol Corporation Ltd
01.2012 - 06.2012

LECTURER

ENGINEERING
04.2011 - 10.2012

MSc - Electronic Engineering

University of Nairobi
01.2011 - 01.2021

Senior Manager Technical Regulations

Safaricom PLC
07.2007 - 04.2011

Engineering , Engineers Board of Kenya to date

01-2004

MSc - Information Systems

University of Nairobi
01.2004 - 01.2008

Senior Manager Corporate Affairs

Safaricom PLC
06.2002 - 06.2007

Utility Engineer

Safaricom PLC
06.2001 - 06.2002

Senior Customer Services Engineer

Kenya Power and Lighting Company Limited
07.1985 - 06.2001

BSc - Electrical Engineering-First Class Honours

University of Nairobi
01.1980 - 01.1984

High School Diploma -

ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL
04.1978 - 01.1979

High School Diploma -

ALLIANCE HIGH SCHOOL
04.1974 - 01.1977
VINCENT ADULTelecommunications Engineer And Computer Scientist