Nasir Suleiman Yakubu, an IT professional has worked over two decades and spent several years of his professional career helping organizations develop, build and implement sustainable technology solutions that has helped improve the process and productivity of these institutions.
He joined Galaxy Backbone Limited, as Manager, in charge of Corporate Performance and Process Improvements, where he rose to the rank of Deputy General Manager and Group Head, Research, Digital Innovations and Skills (RDIS) Department of the same organization till date. Prior to joining Galaxy Backbone, he has worked in several Organizations like Mercedes Benz ANAMMCO Limited, in the MIS department, as Head of Networks and System Development. From there he joined the services of NITEL Ltd, North West Zone (NWZ) Billing Center Kaduna, where he rose to rank of Head, System Administrations/System Development. He was transferred to NITEL Corporate Headquarters, as Manager, Main Billing Center. As part of his successful career progressions, he became the Head, Main Billing Center. He resigned from NITEL and decided to undertake private consulting. He has provided professional consultancy services to business enterprises like Microaccess Limited, Galaxy Backbone Limited before he was employed as permanent staff in Galaxy Backbone Limited.
Part of his numerous achievements within the industry to mention but few included the following:
➢ While working at NITEL Kaduna NW Billing Center, he has developed a special program, that
provided a platform for instant billing, without waiting for Month-End batched processing, during
the visit of former US Secretary of State visit to Nigeria, Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright, in 2001
➢ As a Staff of NITEL Kaduna NWZ Billing Center, he has developed a conversion program for the new Ericson switch that required metering in specific formats called (Flexible CIL Format), SMDR/CDR Data Format, in the year 2003/04.
➢ While working at NITEL CHQ Abuja, he led a team that reconfigured the Main Billing System in Lagos after System Crash. As a result, NITEL was saved from engaging Siemens (Main OEM) from Germany to undertake the project. This has saved millions of dollars to the NITEL, in 2005.
➢ As a staff of Galaxy Backbone, in 2019, he developed for the first time, in the organization,
functional Service Catalogue Structure based on Service Management Systems (SMS Framework)
that ensured that Services are designed and delivered according to agreed customer’s
expectations with the features that customers signed for.
➢ He is the Group Head in charge of a department in Galaxy Backbone, called Research, Digital
Innovations and Skills (RDIS) responsible for the Planning, Designing & Development of Digital
Services & Solutions, while also conducting Digital Skills Programs across Public MDAs and Private Enterprises.
➢ BEST STAFF of the North West Zone (NWZ) Billing Center – 2002
➢ SUN Certified System Administrator – 2005
➢ COBIT 5@ Certified Specialist in Managing IT Processes – 2013
➢ ITIL® Intermediate Certificate in IT Service Strategy – 2016
➢ PhD Student in Cybersecurity – from 2019/2020
