Cary Mccormick Email & Phone Number

Nairobi County, Kenya

• Assisting UNICEF offices in Eastern and Southern Africa with identification, assessment, and integration of ICT/T4D and Innovation into UNICEF programming based on the Principles for Digital Development
• Strengthening internal UNICEF capacity in the region to lead and support T4D projects, including both the integration of the Technology Playbook and INVENT into governance and portfolio management processes, and.
• Researching, identifying and engaging with potential regional and country-specific T4D partnerships, including World Bank, USAID, MNOs, Universal Service Funds, and Digital Government Authorities
• Advising ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence (DCOE) on priorities and advocacy opportunities to advance the T4D practice within UNICEF
• Leading the development of the Digital Programming Guidebook in ESARO to advise Country Office Programmes on fundamental ways of using digital standards and solutions to accelerate results

Kathmandu, Nepal

• Assisted UNICEF offices in South Asia with identification, assessment, and integration of ICT/T4D into UNICEF programming based on the Principles for Digital Development
• Strengthened internal UNICEF capacity in the South Asia region to lead and support T4D projects, including the integration of the Technology Playbook and INVENT into governance and portfolio management processes
• Researched, identified and engaged with potential regional and country-specific T4D partnerships, including MNOs, Universal Service Funds, Digital Government Authorities, and SAARC
• Advised Country Office technology partners on best practices for the development and sustainable support models of digital public goods
• Led the new, cross-sectoral ROSA Acceleration Area to position UNICEF as a key player in addressing the digital divide in the region, especially for girls and young women
• Working with UNICEF regional and global ICTD and T4D colleagues to identify and package an inventory of digital public goods solutions and ICT building-blocks to support a wide array of programme priorities

Kampala, Uganda

• Managing all aspects ($1+M budget, contracts, consultancies, partnerships) of the Civic Engagement Unit under Communications within UCO’s 2016-2020 country programme
• Identifying opportunities to support core UCO programmes (Health, Education, Child Protection) to use technology-enabled solutions to reach citizens and increase social accountability
• Driving engagement strategy for U-Report Uganda’s connection to 345,000+ citizens and young people on important socio-economic issues
• Coordinated 6-month upgrade effort of U-Report Uganda from RapidSMS to RapidPro between GIC, UCO, Thoughtworks, and Nyaruka including 300,000+ contacts/ 1,600 polls/ 72+ million messages
• Strengthening key civil society networks, with 1,000+ member organizations, to engage in evidence-based, child rights advocacy at national and subnational levels
• Ensuring that findings from U-Report and other citizen-based reporting mechanisms are integrated into decentralized local government sector plans to improve services for children

Kampala, Uganda

• Managed the Youth Engagement and Livelihoods Unit under Communications and integrated citizen-facing T4D initiatives into UCO’s 2010-2015 country programme
• Coordinated all aspects of U-Report platform and increased # of U-Reporters by more than 100,000
• Focused on integrating U-Report within CO programme teams, priorities, and workplans - especially during intensive planning period for the new 2016-2020 country programme
• Supervised the 3-year, $1.2m Barclays Building Young Futures programme to train 10,000 young people on life skills and entrepreneurship in partnership with BRAC and key faith-based organizations
• Partnered with faith-based organizations to deploy UNICEF Digital Kiosks & Content Portal in 69 youth clubs nationwide to address gap in access to quality information for young people
• Strengthened capacity of the Uganda Youth Coalition network of 375 youth-led, youth-serving CSO/CBOs to advocate on behalf of young people at national and sub-national levels

Kampala, Uganda

• Managed Agile software development process of the open-source, Rapid Family Tracing and Reunification (RapidFTR) platform, reporting to Child Protection in Emergencies and Innovations in HQ
• Coordinated development iterations to include contributions from 10-person software team contracted by UNICEF and 300-person volunteer, open-source community
• Supported MoU negotiations with ICRC, UNHCR, UNICEF, and Save the Children for two-year deployment and field testing in Uganda
• Coordinated small-scale deployment to support registration of UAMs and separated children during refugee influx from DRC to western Uganda in both offline and online scenarios
• Supported South Sudan country office to deploy RapidFTR in IDP response
• Provided updates and lessons-learned to global Working Group on Unaccompanied and Separated Children

Durham, NC

• Managing data migration from multiple databases to one, cloud-based CRM system
• Designing user trainings based on technological needs of the organization
• Facilitating customization of systems to support the fundraising and project implementation processes of the organization

Kampala, Uganda

• Managed Agile software development process of GIS/web application (www.devtrac.ug) aimed at transparently sharing development partner monitoring reports
• Facilitated the contracting process of hiring a software development contractor to develop the second phase of the DevTrac application
• Worked closely with contractor to define boundaries of each software iteration, monitor progress, and managed testing process to accept final results
• Monitored progress of system adoption by UNICEF users and provided relevant feedback to managers of PCR and administrative teams
• Developed and delivered internal trainings to new UNICEF users of the system from various teams
• Provided on-site field support to users of the Blackberry mobile-phone component of application

Primary assignment involved working with NGO Perspektiva in a small town in Crimea to help them refocus themselves as a “Center for Regional Development”. Specific responsibilities involved:- leading the NGO through a strategic planning process, - developing an implementation plan for their new priorities, - consultation on various grants, - project.

Participated in various customer implementation projects of proprietary AMS software with Fortune 50 customers and large Federal Government Agencies. These projects involved integrating new business acquisitions, new business processes, and the retirement of legacy systems. Various roles included training, business process analyst, and technical lead.

Responsible for 33 boys on three youth soccer teams in the Under-10 age group. Duties included setting overall coaching directives for the age group, planning practice sessions, regular communication with parents throughout the year, providing a primary point of contact for parents with questions and individual issues, and serving as head coach for one.

- Served as a web development intern for the Training and Diversity groups within the Human Resources department - Responsible for developing websites for the internal web portal relating to training classes and diversity information - Developed animated graphics for use as advertising on various internal websites

Masters In International Development Policy

Activities and Societies: Sanford School of Public Policy Board of Visitors (Ex-Officio) - 2011/2012, MIDP Class Representative.

Bs, Information Systems, Business, Spanish

Activities and Societies: Carnegie Mellon Men's Soccer, IS.Net (for current students and alumni of the Information Systems major)