Joe-Smith Essang

Cyber Risk Consultant | Solutions Architect

Self-proclaimed Polymath. Consultant by Day, Developer/Solutions Architect by Night, Sheet Music Arranger by Weekend

Joe-Smith is a Microsoft Certified Professional with adept knowledge and expert-level skill in cloud services. As a Cybersecurity consultant, he has honed skills that stem from knowledge and implementation of leading practices such as ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and ISO 22301 for clients in different sectors of the economy; cloud services, etcetera. These versatilities afford him the ability to deliver implementation solutions that ensure optimal levels of IT service performance. He has offered professional support and interaction with hundreds of Cloud (Azure) Tenant Administrators across Europe, The Middle East, and Africa and executed the role of a Microsoft 365 solutions architect with expert level enterprise skills in Office365, Azure. My keen interest as a CyberSecurity enthusiast is to help organizations leverage the superior infrastructure and seamless business experience offered by Cloud Computing.

I am currently working as a CyberSecurity Consultant at Deloitte and Touche.

Programming Languages
I have intermediate experience utilizing JAVA + XML coupled with Android Studio IDE for the development of Native Android Mobile Applications. I also have basic syntax knowledge of Scripting languages such as Python, JS with CSS/HTML for web development.

Microsoft 365 Solutions Architect
A result-driven implementation engineer, with expert level skill in Microsoft 365 cloud services, with enterprise specialties viz: Executed role of a Microsoft 365 Solutions Architect with Expert Level Enterprise skills in: SharePoint Online | SharePoint Developer OneDrive For Business. Microsoft Streams. Office 365 Mover. [Migrations Expert - Proficient in SharePoint Migration Tool | Mover.io] Efficient in modding and scripting cmdlets in PowerShell, CMD, Bash and Terminal interfaces. Exchange Online [Migration (imap, g-suite, hcw)]. Azure AD integration. Vmware, V-sphere, VMAS. Microsoft Windows Server (2016/2019).

UI/UX Design
Industry experience with creative adherence to Google Material Design in developing wireframes to seamless User Experience and soothing interfaces. Figma as my preferred editing tool.

Specialties
ISO Standards [ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 20000, Microsoft 365 SharePoint Administration, Information Security Management, Penetration Testing and Vulnerability AssessmentProject Management, COBIT/ITIL, Version Control, Scripting

Work Experiences

Deloitte and Touche

Lagos, Nigeria
Cyber Risk Consultant
May 2020 - Present

Technologies:
Arcsight, Burpsuite, Nmap, Kali, Windows Server

Responsibilities:
IT Risk.
IT Compliance.
General IT Control Reviews.
Vulnerability Management and Penetration Testing.
SOC [Threat Monitoring and Analysis].

TekExperts

Lagos, Nigeria
Technical Support Engineer
Sep 2019 - Mar 2021

Technologies:
M365, Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint Online, Azure Active Directory, Endpoint Protection, Teams, Powershell

Responsibilities:
Offered professional support and interaction with hundreds of Office 365 Tenant Administrators across Europe, The Middle East and Africa.
Acted as the Advanced Technical Contact for troubleshooting Microsofts customer issues while ensuring ticket resolution and customer satisfaction.
Delivered expert level technical troubleshooting and problem-solving solutions for Microsoft O365 technologies: Exchange/Outlook, Sharepoint, Teams/Skype For Business.
Followed best practices and processes to deliver top notch professional services by prioritising, scheduling, and administering all instances where enhancements and defect resolution are required.
Managed critical issues by setting customer expectations, devised and implemented action plans and professionally communicated measures to all parties involved.
Developed solution architecture and provided technical guidance to the team.

Belle Of The Night (Belle Writer)

Client: Bellestoreinc

Lagos, Nigeria
Technical Writer
Jul 2019 - Sep 2020

Technologies:
Medium, Wordpress

Responsibilities:
Researched, wrote, edited and proofread complex technical data.
Maintained and updated quality content on websites blog segment.
Analysed and gave reviews on technological trends to be perused by users.

Hotels.ng (HNG Internship)

Remote, Lagos
Software Developer Intern
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017

Technologies:
Versioning (Git), HTML/CSS, Figma, Java+Xml, API, SEO, Pivotal, Katalon, Airtable

Responsibilities:
Successfully completed the internship as a finalist, by finishing in the top 50 out of 1000+ registered interns.
Consistently met deadlines and requirements associated with each and every task.
Performed series of UI/UX designs tasks in teams and on individual basis. Designed 'analytics page' for the hotels.ng mobile application.
As a tester, successfully carried out manual and automated testing scenarios for usability and quality assurance of a financial software 'Transfer Funds' that uses Flutterwave and Ravepay API. Likewise gave detailed bug report to the development team.
Demonstrated week-in week-out, characteristic team-player qualities that ensured team synergy in weekly tasks competitions.
Provided requisite peer-to-peer mentorships to under-performing interns.

Latter-Day Saints Self Reliance Centre

Uyo, Nigeria
Volunteer Missionary
2013 - 2014
Responsibilities:
Daily set-up of 15 computer systems, 2 internet routers, and other facilities at the centre.
Frequently carried out troubleshooting/diagnostics of systems and facilitated logistics to fix faulty equipments.
Organized weekly staff devotion and training via live visual transmission by assigning roles, under managers supervision.
Offered top notch assistance and service to trainees and users of the self-reliance centre.

Professional Skills

Top Skills

90%

Microsoft Exchange | Sharepoint Online

Enterprise Expert
90%

ISO 27001

Expert
70%

ISO 22301 & 20000

Advanced
90%

IT Control, Compliance & Governance

Expert
70%

Windows/Linux Server Administration

Advanced
55%

Android

Intermediate

Other Skills & Tools

Nessus Nmap Burpsuite Arcsight Figma Power Apps and Automate Vulnerability Management Project Management Linux Distro [KALI] Powershell Scripting Active Directory Google Material Design Pivotal Git AWS

Education & Certification

MCP
Microsoft 365 Certified Security Administrator Associate
2020
B.Eng Computer Engineering
University Of Uyo
2019
O-Level
West African Senior School certificate Examination
2012
Online Learning
Andela, Google, Udacity, Microsoft
2017 - 2019
The Basic Digital Skills Training | Haptics: Sponsored by Google Certificate link
Front-End Web Development Course | ALC: Powered by Microsoft Certificate link
Android Development For Beginners Course | ALC: Sponsored by Google Certificate link
Certificate Of Completion: Principles Of Leadership | LDS Institute Of Religion

Portfolio

Open Source Contribution

Clients

Favorite Books

Productivity
  • The 48 Laws Of Power (Robert Greene)
  • Dianetics: The Modern Science Of Mental Health (L. Ron Hubbard)
Religion
  • The Book Of Mormon
  • The Pearl Of Great Price
Esotericism
  • The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception (Max Heindel)
  • The Final Prophecies Of Nostradamus (Erika Cheetham)

Get in Touch

I'm currently taking on freelance work.

I can help with the following:

  • Microsoft 365 Cloud Services Administration
  • ISO 27001 Audit and Implementation
  • Technical Training

Drop me a line at Personal; joesmithessang@gmail.com

Work; joessang@deloitte.com.ng or call me at +234 703 294 8514