Chief Technology Officer of Credable Group

Part of Web Development team to;Rewrite a multi-tiered high traffic financial web application leveraging new technologies, frameworks and libraries to improve performance, scalability and maintainability.Develop web services for newly established products to support financial institutions and their customers.Involved in number of related projects in different stages of development cycle; designing, development, testing, deploying applications in multiple environments. Involved in solving production issues that affect financial institutions’ ability to assist their customers and manage their business.

Transformed the company’s research and development position by establishing a highly available and secure hosting platform despite ingrained national infrastructure, electrical, and connectivity challenges.Achieved significant enhancements to a Telco operator’s distribution channel by developing and integrating advanced security features to enable an electronic vending system for the sale of mobile airtime.Rewrote and customize our operator independent mobile banking solution to suit the needs of one of the Telecommunication companies in the country. Add additional feature to the system to improve accessibility, security and availability of the platform. Liaison with our customers in matters partaining to technology.Design and prototype future company solutions to the management.Worked with partners through the entire development cycle. Made decisions partaining to technology.Hired and mentored new technical employees.

Developed the country’s first-to-market mobile banking service along with an interface to bridge with financial institutions and the major four telecommunication companies in the countryDeveloped handset applications (J2ME applications and USSD based solution). Designed and implemented the business-critical “SWITCH” to provide a robust platform for the newly launched mobile banking solution, involving a high-security network, firewall configuration, and the set-up of a highly available database (MySQL NDBCLUSTER) system and Web application.Configured SMS Gateway and established SMPP connections to the Telco Operators.Configured Linux/BSD firewalls (pfSense, ipcop and smoothwall)

Involved in initial stages to setup the company.Advised on matters pertaining to choice of technologies.

Subcontracted to develop an interface for CitiBank–Tanzania to integrate with Tanzania Revenue Authority through their Automated System for Customs Data (Asycuda++).

Instructed Database Implementation course for second year students pursuing Diploma of Computer Science.Instructed Internet Navigation course for first year students pursuing Diploma of Computer Science.

Customization and development of District Health information System (DHIS 1.4) modules.Development of a report extension for DHIS 1.4Defined existing Data Elements and migration into DHIS.Migrated DHIS 1.4 to a web based management System DHIS 2.0Deployment of DHIS 1.4 in Zanzibar and Bagamoyo District in TanzaniaTrain medical users on how to capture and store records into the system.