Ife Ugbebor
ICT & Renewable Energy Consultant · Founder, CollabMart
Ife designs and delivers the systems that keep homes, businesses and public institutions connected, powered and secure, and trains the people who run them. The practice spans networks, information security, software, solar power, electric mobility and applied AI.
Consulting, design and delivery
Networks, security, software, solar
CollabMart, with ventures in food, energy and learning
Osun State, Nigeria
Profile
One practice across technology and energy.
Ife Ugbebor is an ICT and renewable energy consultant based in Osogbo, Osun State, and the founder of CollabMart. A physics graduate of the University of Ibadan, Ife has worked since 2012 across campus networks, information security, business software, smart-building systems and solar power, and now leads CollabMart’s ventures in food commerce, energy and learning.
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The practice sits where technology and power meet: networks that have to stay up when the grid does not, solar systems sized to the real load rather than the brochure, and security installations that people will actually use. Engagements run from site assessment and design through sourcing, installation, commissioning and handover.
Teaching runs through all of it, from digital literacy for secondary school teachers to applied AI for business owners and professionals. Ife works in English and Yoruba, and gives time to initiatives that widen access to technology for young people, women and girls.
How the work is done
Every engagement starts with the site, the load, the users and the budget. Equipment is chosen after that, not before.
Unstable grid power, patchy connectivity, heat, dust and cost pressure are design inputs, not surprises after installation.
Access control, backups, monitoring and human review are part of the design, whether the system is a CCTV network or an AI workflow.
Handover includes training, so the people who own a system can run it, check it and know when to call for help.
Practice areas
What Ife is engaged for
Five areas, one discipline: understand the site and the people first, design for local conditions, and hand over something that keeps working. Open any area for the detail.
01 · ICTNetworks, connectivity and security systems
The connected systems an organisation depends on every day, installed to work together.
Wired and wireless networks, internet connectivity including VSAT, CCTV and surveillance, access control, fire alarm and detection, and intercoms, with automatic changeover so it all keeps running through power cuts.
02 · EnergySolar power, backup and electric mobility
Solar power from site assessment to maintenance, and electric vehicles for business use.
Off-grid and grid-tied systems: load assessment, array, inverter and battery sizing, component selection, installation, commissioning and aftercare. Engagements include solar power for primary healthcare centres in Osun State. On electric mobility, Ife helps importers and buyers match vehicles to the work they will actually do, from range-extended SUVs to three-wheelers for commercial riders.
03 · DigitalSoftware, data and applied AI
Business analysis and software delivery, now focused on AI inside real operations.
Specifying, testing and rolling out software that organisations depend on. Past work includes school management, hotel, estate and payroll software. AI work is built with evaluation and human review from the start.
04 · CapabilityTraining and technology education
Training that leaves people able to run what they have been given, from teachers to teams.
Ife has taught digital literacy to secondary school teachers, delivered networking, security and project management courses, introduced teenagers to programming through Scratch, and leads CollabMart’s applied AI training for business owners, professionals and teams.
05 · AdvisoryTechnology strategy and proposals
Feasibility, costed proposals and market entry for institutions and firms.
Each proposal is costed and ends in a rollout plan an institution can act on. The same discipline carries into market-entry work for technology and energy firms.
Selected work
Built, delivered and proposed
Public ventures link out. Client and public-sector work is described without naming the client unless the client has agreed to be named.
CollabMart ventures
Farm2Kitchen, a local marketplace for food, market goods and neighbourhood shops, and CollabMart Solar, a planning tool for homes and businesses considering solar, are live. Cadence, an adaptive-learning product, is in early access.
Solar power for primary healthcare centres
Technical execution of solar installations for primary healthcare centres in Osun State under a government contract: site assessment, system design, component sourcing, installation, commissioning and maintenance.
Smart home and office systems
Automatic changeover for generators, CCTV and surveillance, fire alarm and detection systems including FM200 and CO2, burglar alarms, biometric and card access control, networks and intercoms, hotel door locking, video door entry, electric fences and automatic gates.
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Electric vehicle introductions
Market-introduction documents for an electric vehicle importer, matching its range to corporate buyers: executive and range-extended SUVs, vans and minibuses, and two- and three-wheelers for commercial riders.
Public-sector ICT proposals
Costed proposals for city-wide public Wi-Fi built on existing fibre, solar-powered ICT classrooms with local digital content, and an initiative teaching teenagers to program with Scratch, presented to state ministries.
School management solution
A web application for schools with offline and online modes, role-based oversight, a parent and guardian portal and a computer-based testing engine.
University network access control
Led the first phase of a project to remove unauthorised users from the University of Ibadan network, and proposed a two-step verification process for it.
Career
From campus networks to an operating company
- 2017 – now
Founder, CollabMart Current
Osogbo, Osun StateStarted with smart home and office systems and technical training, then built ventures in food commerce, solar energy and learning, alongside consulting in ICT and renewable energy.
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- 2016 – 2017
Senior Business Analyst
DTM Solutions Limited, IbadanRequirements, risk analysis, process design and user acceptance testing for bespoke web applications, including a school management solution.
- 2014 – 2015
Marketing and Business Development
GNT Nigeria Limited, IbadanSold and delivered IT training and solutions, surveyed and installed VSAT internet links, and gave invited talks on information security and cloud computing.
- 2014
Marketing and Business Development
Cistematix Nigeria Limited, IbadanCo-developed and marketed hotel, estate and payroll management software used by businesses in Ibadan and Lagos.
- 2012 – 2013
Instructor and Marketer
Merrion IT Limited, IbadanTaught the IC3 digital literacy certification to secondary school teachers and installed interactive whiteboards in schools.
- 2012
IT Support Intern, ICT Unit
Office of the Vice-Chancellor, University of IbadanSupported and maintained the university’s wired and wireless network, including its first network access-control project.
- 2010 – 2011
National Youth Service
Ile-Ife, Osun StateMember of the NYSC ICT community development group, and a mathematics and physics teacher at Moremi High School, Ile-Ife.
- 2009
BSc Physics
University of IbadanIndustrial training during the degree was at the Nigerian Gas Company, Warri, in its water treatment plant and gas analysis laboratory.
Credentials
Education and certifications
Degree and professional certifications
- BSc PhysicsUniversity of Ibadan2009
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)Cisco2012
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)EC-Council2014
- CompTIA Project+CompTIA2014
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Continuing education
- AI Career EssentialsALX · eight-week programme in AI-augmented professional development2024
- Networking EssentialsCisco Networking Academy2020
Recognition
- First place nationally, information security scholarship competitionAppin Nigeria2013
- Mathematics Scholarship AwardNational Mathematical Centre, Abuja1996
Years show when each credential was earned. Certificates are issued in the name Ifeloju O. Ugbebor; copies and verification details are available on request from desk@collabmart.com.