Maureen Kamau Email & Phone Number

Kenya

Remote

Helping clients clearly define their product vision and ensuring that the development team clearly understands the vision.Working with clients to help them put together the right engineering team, with the skills required to achieve the product vision.Helping development teams adopt agile methodologies such as the Scrum framework.Setting up the scrum framework and facilitating the scrum ceremonies.Working with diverse and distributed teams, setting them up for success by ensuring that, the scope of work is clear, proper communication channels are in place and they have the tools and information they need to perform.Working with the teams to ensure that there is synergy and everyone is collaborating towards the goal.Unblocking any impediments that could be impacting the team's performance. Ensuring that software development best practices are in place to ensure system stability, security, and scalability.Facilitating the requirements management process and ensuring that all the product backlog work items are clearly defined.Working with stakeholders to prioritize backlog items and draw a product roadmap.Collaborating with business and UI/UX specialists to create prototypes and test requirements before development.Keeping all stakeholders on track and well informed on the product development progress.Facilitating product increment review with the development team and business stakeholders at the end of every sprint to verify whether the sprint goal was met and decide the way forward.

Nairobi, Kenya

Ensured that projects were delivered on time, within scope, at desired quality standards, and within budget.Developed project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.Coordinated internal resources and third parties/vendors for flawless execution of the project.Ensured that needed resources were available.Developed detailed project plans to track progress.Made use of appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule, and costs.Managed relationships with the client and stakeholders.Performed risk management ensured that risk mitigation plans were in place.Created and maintained comprehensive project documentation.Gave feedback to the product team regarding ways they could improve the NLP labeling platform.

Nairobi, Kenya

* Leading high performing remote teams made up of brilliant individuals from diverse backgrounds.* Ensuring that fitting talent is placed on engagements assigned to me through thorough assessment of technical abilities, professional experience, and communication.* Mentoring teams on how to use agile methods to deliver complex projects.* Mentoring individuals as they transition into senior engineers, making them aware of change in expectations for their new roles in terms of Professionalism, communication, delivery, leadership and strategic thinking.* Building cultures that uphold teamwork and optimise team performance,this involves constant emphasis on respect, transparency, courage, professionalism and focus.* Offering support to enable the team deliver, by getting any blockers out of their way, celebrating their wins and offering mentorship for their areas of growth.* Conducting performance reviews for the engineers,identifying their areas of growthand working with the individuals on action plans to help them grow.* Conducting retrospectives at the end of an engagement and ensuring that actions are taken for lessons learnt to avoid recurrence.* Motivating teams through virtual team building activities and recognition and rewards for work well done.

Nairobi

• Facilitating requirements gathering workshops and documenting the project Scope.• Analyzing tasks and coming up with realistic time estimates.• Drawing and updating the project plan and sharing it with stakeholders.• Project resource planning.• Monitoring Product delivery milestones and ensuring that the project is on schedule.• Monitoring project risks and mitigating them.• Monitoring and controlling project costs and product quality.• Ensuring that various project teams collaborate to deliver the end product in thedesired quality levels.• Managing communication within the project.• Keeping the teams focused and motivated throughout the project.Achievements---------------• Delivered a mobile banking platform that increased the client's monthly revenue by 30%.• Implemented a mobile lending solution that enables people to borrow loans without visiting the lenders premises.• Led a team that implemented an ERP for a dairy processing plant.• Managed a systems optimisation project that increased the systems processingspeeds from 9 transactions per second to 50 transactions per second.• Assisted in setting up a Projects Management Office and coming up with strategiesfor ensuring quality and timely delivery of projects.• Actively participated in the company's strategy formulation.• Actively participated in the implementation of the Balance Score Card.

Kenya

• Designing a solution that fits the customer’s needs.• Developing Enterprise Service Bus that facilitates communication between channelsi.e(Mobile applications, USSD applications) and third party systems e.g CoreBanking systems, ATM switch, MNOs, Utility companies among others.• Database programming-Writing stored procedures.• Conducting System integration tests in collaboration with third parties.• Drawing developer guides for third parties that needed to integrate to the APIs.• Conducting technical training for technical support team.• Creating technical documents and user manuals.Achievements---------------• Implemented Internet Banking solutions in various banks across East Africa.• Developed a bulk payments processing engine for a bank in Tanzania.• Developed SMS and emails processing engines that integrated with various MNOsand mail servers.• Integrated to the SWIFT server to allow real time posting of SWIFT transactionsinitiated through the internet banking solution.• Developed a solution that allows customers withdraw money from the ATM usingtheir mobile phones.• Integrated to mobile money systems such as Mpesa to allow customers movemoney from their bank accounts to mobile money wallets and vice versa.

Business Leadership Micromasters, Organizational Leadership

Bachelor Of Science Information Technology, Software Engineering, 2Nd Class Upper Division

Software Engineering

Certification, Information Security

Information Security

Kcse, Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education

Activities and Societies: Science CongressKenya Certificate of Secondary Education