Nicolas Malonga, Mba, Msc Email & Phone Number

Davenport, Ia, Us

Kigali City, Rwanda

Renew Capital invests in Africa’s growth-oriented small and medium enterprises and builds vibrant private sectors across Africa. The Company's motto is: Grow a Company, Build a Nation and Leave a Legacy.Role DescriptionIn his role as Data Scientist manager, Mr. Malonga has been overseeing in a fast-paced environment the design and implementation of a centralized, integrated and scalable data infrastructure to enhance Renew Capital’s ability to efficiently screen high volumes of deals, generate actionable intelligence on companies sourced and discern economic macro trends across Africa.Key responsibilities and initiatives:▪ Support the strategic implementation, customization, and optimization of HubSpot as the organization main CRM system.▪ Design, build and deploy automated data collection processes to gather, review, and interpret data in a way most conducive to generating useful insights for the organization.▪ Lead the development, deployment and maintenance of reports and dashboards for tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and providing actionable insights to support decision-making at the executive level.▪ Support the implementation of data governance policies and procedures to ensure consistent data handling, adhering to compliance requirements, and minimizing data-related risks. ▪ Lead data integrity efforts by providing training and technical assistance to address data-related challenges and raising awareness on the importance of adopting data management best practices. ▪ Support Renew Capital's research unit in the development of methodologies/tools (Momentum Index) for assessing Africa's entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Helping John Deere’s achieve its sustainability objectives by supporting Technology & Digital Transformation initiatives within Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS)

Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing advanced products and services and is committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land - those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure. Since 1837, John Deere has delivered innovative products of superior quality built on a tradition of integrity.The Data Science Enablement Team provides assistance to other areas of the Enterprise with their Analytics needs, and serves as a leading area for Machine Learning Operations (ML Ops). In this team, the project experience typically incurs many facets of Analytics work in a variety of Business Capability Areas.Role Description:- Supports the Data Science Enablement Team in the development of a predictive and descriptive analytics tool intended to automate resiliency assessment and reporting of Deere’s Supply Chain.

Moline, Illinois, United States

John Deere's Order fulfilment unit is charged with balancing market demand, dealers inventory levels and factories production plans. Such goal is successfully achieved by leveraging Data Science and Analytics to support the unit expertise in forecasting, reporting, and scenario analysis. Work at Order Fulfillment often involves making the best use of limited data to make a positive impact on business decisions.Role Description:▪ Supports Order Fulfillment Unit in the development of complex statistical models and predictive analytics solutions to improve demand forecasting accuracy and bias reduction of product Inventory and shipments.▪ Designed customer-facing visualization tools in Excel, Tableau, and R Shiny, enabling both technical and non-technical stakeholders to access real-time production forecast insights and key performance metrics.▪ Designed a predictive analytics tool to forecast dealers optimal inventory levels based on historical sales data, seasonal trends, and market demand. Used Python and R to aggregate the data build the model.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Global Market & Customer Insights (GMCI, formerly EMR) generates descriptive and predictive analytics, geospatial analyses, data visualization and market share information in support of global marketing functions. The team works to understand customers, competitors and markets in support of critical ECAP (enterprise customer acquisition process) activities. Key stakeholders include TacticalMarketing, Product Line Marketing, and Dealer Development.Role Description:▪ Supported John Deere’s Enterprise Market Research (EMR) Unit by carrying out data science and analytics driven tasks to generate insights and intelligence that helped stakeholders make informed business decisions.▪ Supported the integration of dealer sales data with external market data, allowing leadership to benchmark dealer performance against competitors, enhancing the decision-making process.▪ Developed a Tableau dashboard to track dealers' performance across various regions. The dashboard aggregated data from multiple sources, including sales, customer feedback, and inventory levels, providing actionable insights on underperforming dealers and those exceeding expectations.▪ Built a customer segmentation model to categorize dealership customers based on purchasing behavior, geographic location and product preferences. ▪ Worked closely with IT and management to identify, explore and implement new analytics solutions capable of enhancing overall business performance.▪ Built analytical solutions inside and outside cloud environment (AWS) by extracting, transforming and integrating diverse large datasets with R, Python, SQL and reporting generated insights through Tableau.

Moline, Il

Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing advanced products and services and is committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land - those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure. Since 1837, John Deere has delivered innovative products of superior quality built on a tradition of integrity.Role Description:▪ Managed data aggregation process of web-based tool designed to gain insights on company’s supply chain.▪ Gathered raw material suppliers’ and parts manufacturers’ data from internal and external sources. ▪ Cleaned and converted collected data into common standards of the business prior to database upload.▪ Used SQL and Tableau to automate data extraction and generate insightful reports for various stakeholders

Davenport, Iowa Area

Founded in 2016, Africans Building Africa (ABA) is a platform dedicated to the promotion of African entrepreneurship. Through articles, stories and interviews of successful entrepreneurs, ABA's aim to inspire and motivate young Africans to launch business ventures that can generate wealth on the African continent and thus catalyze its development.

Muscatine, Ia

Monsanto Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides agricultural products for farmers worldwide. The Company's seeds, biotechnology trait products, and herbicides provide farmers with solutions that improve productivity, reduce the costs of farming, and produce better foods for consumers and better feed for animals. The company operates in two segments, Seeds and Genomics and Agricultural Productivity. Its operations are primarily found in the United States, Europe, Africa, Brazil, Argentina, the Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Mexico. Position Description:▪ Provided engineering support for a manufacturing unit, including statistical monitoring of production metrics and identification, definition, and cost analysis of improvement projects. ▪ Provided technical support to both production and maintenance personnel to identify, troubleshoot and resolve problems impacting raw material yields, capacity, quality, environmental compliance and safety▪ Supported Management of Change (MOC) process by reviewing proposed changes and their impact, initiating MOC, making sure all associated technical documentation for changes made is completed and kept current ▪ Prepared and share daily reports required to keep management informed on performance of production unit

Mozambique

The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes providing technical assistance, helping people outside the United States to understand American culture, and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. The work is generally related to social and economic development. Each program participant, a Peace Corps Volunteer, is an American citizen, typically with a college degree, who works abroad for a period of two years after three months of training.Volunteers work with governments, schools, non-profit organizations, non-government organizations, and entrepreneurs in education, hunger business, information technology, agriculture, and the environment.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Praxair, Inc., a Fortune 250 company with 2013 sales of $12 billion, is the largest industrial gases company in North and South America and one of the largest worldwide. The company produces, sells and distributes atmospheric, process and specialty gases, and high-performance surface coatings. Praxair products, services and technologies are making our planet more productive by bringing efficiency and environmental benefits to a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, chemicals, food and beverage, electronics, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, primary metals and many others.Position Description:Worked within coating and slurry manufacturing division of Praxair Surface Technologies to maintain and improve productivity, quality and performance of products made and equipment used in the production processAchievement: 2009 winner of Praxair Quest For Excellence Six Sigma Award - Atomization yield Improvement (Runner-up in 2010).▪ Took part in Praxair’s Leadership Technical and Orientation Program and received structured training and wide exposure to critical business units of the organization including operation, quality, sales and finance.▪ Managed several projects intended to drive cost, quality, yield and productivity improvements of coating and slurry products via the application of Continuous Improvement tools and methodologies such as Six Sigma▪ Developed, implemented and managed new packaging and labeling system as well as Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) generation and review process of all manufactured products and purchased raw materials.▪ Conducted root cause investigations to address customer’s complaints. Implemented corrective and preventive actions to resolve uncovered process, products and raw materials issues and non-conformances.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially airlines) and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the "big three" aero-engine manufacturers, it competes with General Electric and Rolls-Royce, although it has also formed joint ventures with both of these companies. In addition to aircraft engines, Pratt & Whitney manufactures gas turbines for industrial and power generation, and marine turbines. As of 2014, the company reported having 31,500 employees supporting more than 11,000 customers in 180 countries around the world. In 2013, Pratt & Whitney's revenue totaled $14.5 billionPosition Description:• Worked within chemistry and metallography group of Materials and Processes Engineering (MPE) division of Pratt & Whitney to assist team of engineers investigate aerospace components failures and non-conformances• Performed coating thickness evaluation on F119 stage vanes to determine root cause of surface cracks Task involved performing samples preparation for metallographic examination and reporting collected data• Mount and polish specimens, perform surface preparation, conduct basic metallurgical hardness testing and perform microscopical examinations using advanced metallographic techniques.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Pratt & Whitney is an American aerospace manufacturer with global service operations. It is a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation (UTC). Pratt & Whitney's aircraft engines are widely used in both civil aviation (especially airlines) and military aviation. Its headquarters are in East Hartford, Connecticut. As one of the "big three" aero-engine manufacturers, it competes with General Electric and Rolls-Royce, although it has also formed joint ventures with both of these companies. In addition to aircraft engines, Pratt & Whitney manufactures gas turbines for industrial and power generation, and marine turbines. As of 2014, the company reported having 31,500 employees supporting more than 11,000 customers in 180 countries around the world. In 2013, Pratt & Whitney's revenue totaled $14.5 billionPosition Description:• Worked within chemistry of Materials and Processes Engineering (MPE) division of Pratt & Whitney to assist team of engineers investigate aerospace components failures and non-conformances• Assisted during evaluation of alternative coatings to hard chrome plate for F119 engine turbine blades. Task involved performing heat treatments and completing surface preparation of specimens for coating purposes.• Assisted in experimental work regarding corrosion performance of Aluminum, Titanium and Nickel alloys used in aerospace structures. Task involved preparing and applying various coating and stripping solutions.

Greater New York City Area

Assisted in environmental assessment of bus depots. Supported survey and monitoring of petroleum storage tanks, testing of leak detection alarms and review of spill prevention measures and emergency response plans

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management Science

Master In Business Analytics, Business Analytics

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) , American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American.