Grace Babirye Email & Phone Number

United States

United States

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Support 1000+ emerging technologists across the globe, leveraging their tech talents for social impact, analyze community metrics, and oversee community engagement within the Millennium Fellowship program.• Deliver The Emerging Technologists Impact Report on findings from the program to the grant funders and stake holders.In partnership with Schmidt Futures, MCN recognizes the vital role that emerging technologists (undergraduates studying computer science, engineering, or self-taught) are playing in leveraging their talents for social impact.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network (MCN) presents the 'Millennium Fellowship'. 290+ campuses from 38 countries are selected to host 4,000+ Millennium Fellows🌍. This program convenes, challenges, and celebrates bold student leadership advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on campus and in communities.• Administer and manage operations and programming for the Millennium Fellowship program,mentoring 4000+ student leaders from 260+ universities across the globe and driving program growth.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

- Managed a team of 15 individuals across Africa in reviewing over 1000 millennium fellowship applications across Africa.- Delegated applications to members to review and assisted members in handling technical and application rubric issues- Participated in the interview of 60+ campus director applicants worldwide from Universities over the globe- Contributed in the selection and recommendation of applicants for the Millennium fellowship 2023- Acted as intermediary between the GAC members and the Team MCN

Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

● I develop and deliver interactive product management training and workshops for professionals looking to enter a product management career to educate and empower them on various aspects of product management, including product discovery, roadmap creation, and agile methodologies.● I work with budding product managers to develop and improve product strategies and roadmaps for the product case studies used during training.● I coach and mentor budding product managers on best practices for product management.● I foster continuous learning and improvement by staying up to date on the latest trends in product management.

beVisioneers is a global Fellowship that equips innovators aged 16 to 28 with the training, expert support and resources to bring their planet-positive projects to life. As a mentor I provide guidance, feedback, and support to my mentees on their personal and leadership development, serving as advisor, advocate and ally.https://bevisioneers.world/

Kampala, Central Region, Uganda

• Leading the development and launch of a B2B SaaS customer onboarding product used by 14+ financial institutions, increasing client adoption by 30%• Managing a KYC SaaS product portfolio for 25+ financial institutions, achieving a 15% increase in ARR.• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and deliver tailored solutions, resulting in a 20% increase in customer satisfaction.• Conduct market research to identify industry trends and competitor offerings, informing product strategy and decision-making processes.• Deliver comprehensive product/project roadmaps within budget and timeline constraints, utilizing tools like Jira and Confluence for effective project management.

Kampala, Uganda

• Collaborated with software developers to deliver a KYC government project serving over 23 banks in Uganda• Delivered an agency banking application facilitating over 200 bank account openings per week.• Spearheaded the design and development of a SaaS customer onboarding product, all through product launch, resulting in its adoption by 14 financial institutions.• Championed agile methodologies, promoted agile principles and facilitated agile ceremonies to ensureefficient product development and delivery.

Kampala, Uganda

A tremendous experience working with an awesome team of pioneers, innovators and entrepreneurs to accelerate entrepreneurship in Ugandan universities and most especially the females. And to effectively build on the Ugandan business eco system. Starthub Africa leverages entrepreneurship as a tool in the hands of young people so they build the futures they want to see.

Kampala, Uganda

Refactory Uganda partnership with stanbic Business Incubator

Kampala Uganda

https://www.refactory.ug/

-Innovated and developed AskTheDoctor project- The project is an sms platform which allows for medical consultations, lab tests, ordering and buying of medicine using sms service. In case someone got sick in the COVID-19 quarantine period, they can explain the symptoms they are having in an sms which they send to the platform and the doctor will be able to tell which kind of sickness it could be, in case someone wants to take a lab test, the lab sample will be picked up by our service men and it will be taken to the lab for testing and the results will be given to the patient, followed by right administration of the appropriate treatment.

Lagos, Nigeria

A software development training for budding software developers, an intense program which prepares the developers from novice, intermediate to job ready in a period of 10weeks training and delivery

- Innovated and developed GrowSearch, an agritech solution which connects farmers in remote villages to the urban coffee markets through USSD and SMS technology in the urge to address the problem of lack of access to the market for the farmers' coffee produce.https://gsl.mit.edu/programs/kampala

Bachelor Of Science In Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering

Product Management Nanodegree, Engineering/Industrial Management

Activities and Societies: Product strategy Product design Product development Product Launch Throughout the course I have learned.

Google Project Management Professional Certificate, Project Management

A rigorous, hands on program that covers traditional and agile project management approaches throughout the life cycle of a project

Agile Software Developer Nanodegree, Computer Software Engineering

Uace, Physics, Chemistry And Mathematics, B

Activities and Societies: Physics and computer community