David Kambaja

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Co-Founder and President @ KitokoPay
Kinshasa, CD
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Gombe, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, the Democratic Republic of the
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About David Kambaja

As an Entrepreneur, I have gained extensive sub-Sahara Africa professional experience while Consulting with Multinationals on behalf of Orange business Services mainly in the domain of Financial Services e.g. evangelizing on Banking Digitalization, FinTech effect, Block Chain revolutions as well as advising them on the integration of Platform like Data Center and the impact of cloud on the reduction of Cost to income ratios.I worked for Orange business Services (“Orange Group ”) that i joined in 2013 as a Senior Solutions Architect covering mainly West & Central Africa with a special focus on Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory coast, Togo, Benin, DRC Congo and Cameroon, Gabon.Prior to joining Orange I have been involved in various business ventures and founded a couple of startups among which is the U-Data Technologies Group operating in the DRC Congo.I have also consulted as a Systems Consultant for Dimension Data / NTT Group and as Business System Consultant for T-Systems Group and Bytes Technologies Group.I have gained a significant exposure in Africa from consulting for most of the African regional power houses and Leading Pan-African banks and Global challengers like Ecobank, UBA, Zenith Bank, Bank of Africa ,Diamond Bank etc.. An entrepreneurial and technological visionary with 10+ years of executive level engagement experience, IT Networks Services and Telecommunication working with leading African Executives in identifying, qualifying, building consensus for, and implementing enabling technologies and enterprise systems that facilitate business processes and strategic objectives achieved. I have both a strong blend of technologies and business acumen resulting in consistent development of powerful business strategies.

David Kambaja's Current Company Details
KitokoPay

Kitokopay

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Co-Founder and President
Kinshasa, CD
Website:
kitokopay.com
Employees:
1
David Kambaja Work Experience Details
  • Kitokopay
    Co-Founder And President
    Kitokopay
    Kinshasa, Cd
  • Kitokopay
    Co-Founder & President
    Kitokopay Feb 2019 - Present
    West & Central Africa, Kinshasa
    KitokoPay as a low value digital payement hub we will facilitate a seamless and omni-channel processing of multiple stores of value i.e., mobile phone e-wallet based with a revolutionary technology based on Bluetooth technologies, we will operate as an aggregator that brings transactions of all players together on one single digital platform or Hub. The company’s core application will run as an advanced payment and commerce technology ecosystem designed to integrate all types of payment… Show more KitokoPay as a low value digital payement hub we will facilitate a seamless and omni-channel processing of multiple stores of value i.e., mobile phone e-wallet based with a revolutionary technology based on Bluetooth technologies, we will operate as an aggregator that brings transactions of all players together on one single digital platform or Hub. The company’s core application will run as an advanced payment and commerce technology ecosystem designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Agent bankers, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber-based transactions.Our exposure to advising banks in WCA regions has led us to identify the need for Fintech in our own country the DRC and with some of our key partners we co-founded  a Fintech company called “KitokoPay” a Fintech platform or mobile financial Services ecosystem with the vision of reducing financial inequalities for the mass, positioned as a digital financial Identity services hub for the informal economies, KitokoPay vision extend to linking Central, East and West Africa via its strong financial technologies ecosystem, based in most center part of Africa the DRC Congo, KitokoPay provides integrated mobile digital payments services rails to cloud based mobile wallets, agency banking, SME marketplace, banks, MNO, MMO etc.. Targeting the unbanked, the underserved population with the objective of bringing the unbanked and underserved into the financial stream and easing payments, collections while creating financial historical data or a financial identity for these group of our population today excluded and completely off the financial services grids. Show less
  • Kitokopay
    Co-Founder & President
    Kitokopay Feb 2019 - Present
    West & Central Africa, Kinshasa
    KitokoPay as a low value digital payement hub we will facilitate a seamless and omni-channel processing of multiple stores of value i.e., mobile phone e-wallet based with a revolutionary technology based on Bluetooth technologies, we will operate as an aggregator that brings transactions of all players together on one single digital platform or Hub. The company’s core application will run as an advanced payment and commerce technology ecosystem designed to integrate all types of payment… Show more KitokoPay as a low value digital payement hub we will facilitate a seamless and omni-channel processing of multiple stores of value i.e., mobile phone e-wallet based with a revolutionary technology based on Bluetooth technologies, we will operate as an aggregator that brings transactions of all players together on one single digital platform or Hub. The company’s core application will run as an advanced payment and commerce technology ecosystem designed to integrate all types of payment platforms, banks, merchants, Mobile Agent bankers, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and other companies with subscriber-based transactions.Our exposure to advising banks in WCA regions has led us to identify the need for Fintech in our own country the DRC and with some of our key partners we co-founded  a Fintech company called “KitokoPay” a Fintech platform or mobile financial Services ecosystem with the vision of reducing financial inequalities for the mass, positioned as a digital financial Identity services hub for the informal economies, KitokoPay vision extend to linking Central, East and West Africa via its strong financial technologies ecosystem, based in most center part of Africa the DRC Congo, KitokoPay provides integrated mobile digital payments services rails to cloud based mobile wallets, agency banking, SME marketplace, banks, MNO, MMO etc.. Targeting the unbanked, the underserved population with the objective of bringing the unbanked and underserved into the financial stream and easing payments, collections while creating financial historical data or a financial identity for these group of our population today excluded and completely off the financial services grids. Show less
  • Absolor Affaires Industrielles Sas
    President
    Absolor Affaires Industrielles Sas Jan 2018 - Present
    Central Africa, Kinshasa | Congo Drc
    Absolor Affaires Industrielles SAS is a USA and Congo DRC based Investment management house with a vision of playing a leading economic role in major investments in Africa and ensure successful operations in all key sectors of the African Economy i.e. investment Advisory, investment management, Agribusiness & Food, Transportation Industry, Logistics & Distribution, Energy& Power, Mining, Fund Raising, Financial Services, New Technologies & Telecommunications, Infrastructure & Industrial Real… Show more Absolor Affaires Industrielles SAS is a USA and Congo DRC based Investment management house with a vision of playing a leading economic role in major investments in Africa and ensure successful operations in all key sectors of the African Economy i.e. investment Advisory, investment management, Agribusiness & Food, Transportation Industry, Logistics & Distribution, Energy& Power, Mining, Fund Raising, Financial Services, New Technologies & Telecommunications, Infrastructure & Industrial Real Estates Park and Special Economic Zones, Packaging, Healthcare Medical services, Petroleum. Absolor Affaires Industrielles also have major involvement in a number of Joint ventures and alliances with key strategic partners around Africa and the world, and would like to position itself as a key contributor to the African national economic development and GDP growth for the next 50 – 100 years. Show less
  • U-Data Technologies Group
    Founder & Ceo
    U-Data Technologies Group Dec 2017 - Present
    Southern Africa - West Africa & Central Africa
    As a founder,I has gained extensive experience in Africa for more than 15 years, working as an entrepreneur and Sr consultant for multinationals on behalf of various companies, today in particular for U-Data Technologies Group which I founded in 2008 in South Africa,Pretoria and relocated operations to the DRC in 2011 and worked in the WCA sub-region for OBS covering more than 30 countries in Africa, mainly in the field of financial services and others (i.e.,evangelizing on the digitization of… Show more As a founder,I has gained extensive experience in Africa for more than 15 years, working as an entrepreneur and Sr consultant for multinationals on behalf of various companies, today in particular for U-Data Technologies Group which I founded in 2008 in South Africa,Pretoria and relocated operations to the DRC in 2011 and worked in the WCA sub-region for OBS covering more than 30 countries in Africa, mainly in the field of financial services and others (i.e.,evangelizing on the digitization of banks,raising the awareness on the impact of FinTech as a future of financial services, the Blockchain revolution, the Cloud for cost to revenue optimization). At OBS which I joined in 2013 as Senior Solutions Architect and later Partner Solutions Architect covering mainly the EUMOA and ECOWAS region with a big focus on Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Togo, Senegal, Benin, and CEMAC starting from DRC, Congo and Cameroon, Gabon,etc. with South Africa as a base. I am a serial Entrepreneurs who enjoys finding path around the complexities in the continent which hides enormous opportunities. Prior to joining OBS ,I was involved in various business ventures in WCA and South Africa and co-founded two start-ups with a vision to make it a Congolese powerhouse for digital transformation advisory services, integration and a leader in digital infrastructure we advising both private and public sectors on all matters related to technologies and the digital economy.  As part of our record,I also played in major technological league organisation serving as a Sr Systems Consultant for global and listed companies like Dimension Data / NTT Group,T-Systems and Altron/Bytes etc. Part of our Role at OBS had translated in exposing us to most African financial services as a Sr digital transformation advisor for most of the African regional champions and major pan-African powerhouse banks as well as global challenger such as Ecobank, UBA, BGFI, Bank of Africa – BMCE, Diamond Bank,GCB Bank,AFDB,etc. Show less
  • Orange Business Services
    Solutions Architect Sub Sahara Africa
    Orange Business Services Jul 2013 - Feb 2018
    Southern - West Africa & Central Africa
    Responsible for developing an optimal service, financial and operational solution leveraging Orange Business Services existing / emerging solutions, customer specific development and third party services. Ensuring seamless integration and interoperability between all service blocks and components. Align and optimize operation model across various service blocks, business units, third party suppliers and a customer’s existing service management model. Ensuring alignment and… Show more Responsible for developing an optimal service, financial and operational solution leveraging Orange Business Services existing / emerging solutions, customer specific development and third party services. Ensuring seamless integration and interoperability between all service blocks and components. Align and optimize operation model across various service blocks, business units, third party suppliers and a customer’s existing service management model. Ensuring alignment and integration between customer and Orange security policies, compliance and business continuity requirements. Ensure clear delineation between Orange, customer and third party roles and responsibilities during contract life. Obtaining solution design validation directly with technical architecture team, service delivery organizations and business units. Functional work activity covers development of technical architecture; service level agreements; overall solution costing; delivery planning; and offer elaboration inclusive of customer facing activates such as presentations and negotiations as required. My Goal as a Solutions Architect is to collaborate effectively with our client and remain at the for front as a Link between business strategy/Engineering team and operations as a lead Architect translating the business visions, business transitions and strategies into visible value add through a combination of various Solutions and Services.Principal Duties:• Support Manager/Account Managers in all Sales and Pre-Sales related effort.• Local Vendors Relationship/Assist in Business Development activity.• Work with Technical Solutions Consultants in technology and solutions positioning.• Creating Bill Of Materials/Network Design Templates/Statements of Work for all Networks • Presenting solutions and giving customer information on Products for customer case studies.• Working with Bid team to qualify all deal and assist in other commercial activities ect .. Show less
  • T-Systems
    Independent - Ip Ngn & Unified Communications Consultant
    T-Systems Jan 2013 - Jun 2013
    Africa
    SUMMARY:With over 5 years’ Experience on the professional Services market as a UC & C Consulting Systems Engineer I am assisting organisations with delivering consulting and architecting Unified Communication technology, manage operational, implementation aspects to effectively support large unified communication and next generations Network projects,Taking leadership of small/medium and large projects, dealing with all relevant issues, Providing support / leadership in the… Show more SUMMARY:With over 5 years’ Experience on the professional Services market as a UC & C Consulting Systems Engineer I am assisting organisations with delivering consulting and architecting Unified Communication technology, manage operational, implementation aspects to effectively support large unified communication and next generations Network projects,Taking leadership of small/medium and large projects, dealing with all relevant issues, Providing support / leadership in the formulation of network, technology roadmap, systems and information strategy and evolution plans. Working with Client and Partners to create and execute test plans for their specific UC & C and network deployments, Participate in pre-sales and post-sales design discussions with the customers, Aid in architecting the UC & C solutions into the Client/Partner Proof of concept lab, potentially depicting a customer’s production network, Managing all Pre-Sales and technical aspects of a Client engagement where required.• Architecture and Design of UC & C Solutions • Lead and support pre-sales activities - proof of concepts • Lead architecture and design workshop for Enterprise and SP Clients • Troubleshoot and resolve highly complex customer network and collaboration related problems • Produce High and Low level Design for Clients new Network and UC technologies• Strong consulting experience around Collaboration technologies – Plan, Build & Run • Strong technical knowledge around Cisco Collaboration products, • Analytical skills to perform troubleshooting and diagnosis.Technologies involved: WAN,LAN,VPN,Cisco CUCM 6-8 CUCM-SME,Cisco SBC, QOS,Unified Messaging, UC Presence, SRST, CUCME SRST,and SIP Trunking. UCCX integrated with CME, WebEx-Meeting Place,CUCM with MS Lync,Acme SBC with SIP Trunk to SP,Cisco SBC CUBE; voice Gateway,SBC for NAT Traversal,Topology Hiding,ARC Console,Arc Voice Recording (Arc- Telerex),Broadsoft, Softswitch,Acme Packet SBC,switching,routing,H.248, MGCP, MPLS Show less
  • Dimension Data
    Ipt & Unified Communication Systems Engineer
    Dimension Data Mar 2011 - 2013
    Johannesburg -Bryanston - The Campus
    SUMMARY:Experience in planning, designing, implementing and optimization of UC solutions, including Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Messaging (Unity/Unity Connection), Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) and Voice gateways (H.323, SIP, MGCP) for key customers. - Experience in Presence and Cisco SBC-CUBE Integrations (H.323, SIP, MGCP) ,Experience working with both Windows 2003-based and Linux-based IPT OS. Knowledge of virtualization (VMWare and UC on UCS) Good… Show more SUMMARY:Experience in planning, designing, implementing and optimization of UC solutions, including Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Messaging (Unity/Unity Connection), Unified Contact Center Express (UCCX) and Voice gateways (H.323, SIP, MGCP) for key customers. - Experience in Presence and Cisco SBC-CUBE Integrations (H.323, SIP, MGCP) ,Experience working with both Windows 2003-based and Linux-based IPT OS. Knowledge of virtualization (VMWare and UC on UCS) Good understanding of TCP/IP protocols. Experience with the following:• Cisco CallManager - CUCM• Cisco Unified Presence Server- Jabber • Cisco Unified Contact Centre Express - UCCX• Arc Enterprise suite- Cisco Enterprise Attendant Console . Cisco Meeting Place – WebEx • Cisco Unity. Cisco Telepresence Integrations • Cisco Unity Connection – Unified Messaging Technologies involved: Cisco CUCM 6-8 Version, Cisco CUCME, Cisco SBC CUBE, Unity Unified Messaging, UC Presence, SRST, CUCME SRST, and SIP Trunking. UCCX integrated with CME,UCCX Integrated CUCM 6-8 , CUCM with MS Lync, Acme SBC with SIP Trunk to SP, Cisco SBC CUBE, voice Gateway,H.323,MGCP,SIP,SBC for NAT Traversal, Topology Hiding, ARC Console Solution (PC Based Switchoard) Arc Voice Recording (Arc- Telerex) etc.… Show less
  • Bytes Technology Group
    Data - Voice Network Engineer
    Bytes Technology Group 2009 - Mar 2011
    Midrand Johannesburg
    SUMMARY:Good Understanding & Experience with Cisco CUCM , Unity Connection, Unity Express Ability to Coordinate system installation, configuration and migration at client locations ,Ability to configure and implement most of the Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel and 3Com Networks Product. - Able to communicate clearly and effectively with peer engineers, sales staff, vendors- Able to Work with , implement and Configure Alcatel Lucent Routers and Switches-… Show more SUMMARY:Good Understanding & Experience with Cisco CUCM , Unity Connection, Unity Express Ability to Coordinate system installation, configuration and migration at client locations ,Ability to configure and implement most of the Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel and 3Com Networks Product. - Able to communicate clearly and effectively with peer engineers, sales staff, vendors- Able to Work with , implement and Configure Alcatel Lucent Routers and Switches- Configuration and installation of Cisco Unified Communications Manager & Express- Configuration and installation of Cisco Unity Connection & Express - Solid understanding and experience of Juniper SRX,EX M, T Series and WXC for Acceleration - Basic understanding and Experience with Expand WAN Acceleration Equipment - Basic understanding and Experience of Packecteer Accelerations Devices Technologies involved: Cisco CUCM 6-7 Version, Cisco CUCME, Unity Unified Messaging, SRST, CUCME Juniper SRX, juniper WXC, Juniper EX,VPN, MPLS, EIGRP,RIP,VLANs, VTP, BGP , Cisco Campus LAN, IP Video surveillance, Integrated Parking systems over LAN , Access control over LAN, Video Surveillance over Wireless network. Show less
  • Pro-Networks
    Voice & Network Engineer - Uc- Am
    Pro-Networks Jul 2008 - Aug 2009
    Roodepoort South-Africa
  • Veronatel
    1-2 Line Netowork Engineer
    Veronatel Jan 2008 - Jun 2008

David Kambaja Skills

Cisco Call Manager Cisco Technologies Unified Communications Switches Voip Sip Pre Sales Mpls Telephony Wireless H.323 Wan Routing Cisco Ip Telephony Design Juniper Mgcp Ip Vlan Troubleshooting Ccna Network Design Vmware Vpn Ip Pbx Sip Trunking Contact Centers Rip Wireless Networking Ss7 Lte Routing Protocols Tcp/ip Cisco Unified Messaging Cisco Unified Contact Center Session Border Controller Hosted Voice Data Center Networking Ngn Epc Ims Hosted Services Qos Sbc Integration Eigrp Routers Solution Architecture Consultative Selling Business Development Service Oriented Architecture Design

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David Kambaja attended University Of Pretoria/universiteit Van Pretoria, Cisco University/pec, University Of South Africa/universiteit Van Suid-Afrika.

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