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Assa Abloy Kenya

- Sales Administration- Order Processing- Sales- Inventory Tracking- Account Management - Corporate Accounts

Nairobi County, Kenya

Branch Administration for IDS

Kenya

An operations consulting business supporting SMEs in Kenya to have their operations on target. Working to support the Manufacturing, ICT and Education sectors.Consultant, Trainer (Feb 2017 to date)• Operating model development support to SME expansion and digital transformation consultancy services.• Working closely with client organizational leadership, including board of directors, to strategically affect direction of operations.• Advisory services on Enterprise Transformation, Business Process Management, Robotic Process Automation and Project Management Capability Management.• Project Management, Customer Service, Operations Governance Training services• Web Platform development for small businesses.INDIVIDUAL CONSULTING ENGAGEMENTS, Kenya.Consultancy engagements within ICT startups in Kenya.• Feb to June 2022: Consultant Automation Project Manager for Onelife Consultants Ltd. Running Robotic Process Automation (RPA) implementation projects for KCB Group, a regional commercial bank and Jubilee Insurance, the leading insurance company in the East African Region.• July to Dec 2021: Consulting Program Manager, Qhala Limited – supporting the organization to have best practice program management towards funding for growth in Research, Venture Lab Software Development, Research and Data Science services• Various intervals since Dec 2017: Associate Consultant at PKL International – supporting SACCOs with regulatory compliance, covering ICT adoption.• Feb to June 2017: Operations Manager, Prime Telecoms Limited, a Telecommunications subcontractor company. Established project closure and invoicing mechanism that supported the recovery of at least USD 0.6M reducing a 2-year AR loss within 6 weeks. ISO implementation support.

Nairobi County, Kenya

• Responsible for team leadership and management, overseeing financial operations including budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation.• Spearheading business development initiatives, building partnerships, and strategic alliances.• Championing the company's brand and value proposition in the marketplace.

Nairobi, Kenya

A fast-growing ICT business providing integrated business and technology solutions to customers, spanning the Healthcare, Homeland Security and Social Services spaces: three of the African continent's most-needed areas of improvement.Group Service & Support Delivery Manager (March 2016 to August 2016)In charge of all Service and Support Delivery for the Healthcare and Infrastructure business units. Managed team in compliance with all healthcare initiatives (currently under the Kenya Ministry of Health GE Healthcare Service Support Initiative) and infrastructure initiatives. Budget of USD $1m annually. • Responsible for the fulfillment of all healthcare and infrastructure initiatives. • Locked in a 6-year budget and preventative maintenance schedule for the Ministry of Health Support with key stakeholders. • Established Group Service & Support unit from scratch: hired and onboarded a help desk team/existing engineers, developed/enforced a framework including policies, processes and procedures to ensure full ITIL compliance.

Region Sub-Saharan Africa

Driving quality of delivery and improve sales pricing precision for Delivery function of the Region sub-Saharan Africa Consulting & Systems Integration Business Unit (RSSA CSI). Member of the RSSA Operations Extended Leadership TeamPortfolio Revenue of USD 1B.• Business case reviews to ensure sharp capture of Business Drivers, Benefits, KPIs and development of measurement metrics, effectively communicating delivery expectations, extent of scope, impact on KPIs to delivery team members and account managers.• Member of the Global CSI governance committee, leading several agenda items and driving global representatives’ participation and compliance. Responsible for special programs: operations maturity model deployment, CSI methodology. • Recognized leader of a performance assessment and improvement initiative which resulted in RSSA CSI achieving operations CMMI maturity level 2 in 2013. • Established and managed the RSSA CSI Excellence program, CSI First Time Right Delivery program and CSI Red Team Pre-sales quality assurance (right selling and on profit delivery KPI) program, fulfilled requirement for competence build-up and methodology deployment.

Rssa

Driving adherence to company methodology across all projects in the region, ensuring best practice.• RSSA PMO governance metrics definition and measurement towards the global Balanced Scorecard.• Participated in global tools and knowledge management, represented the company in processes forums. • Key achievement was coordination of improvement activities that allowed for RSSA Operations to achieve CMMI Maturity level 1 in 2011.

Kenya

A Group Function Finance (Business Finance & Company Control) Operations Optimisation and digital transformation project that entailed a restructure to a hub-branch office structure and roll out of SAP R/3 in 8 Branch Offices including Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Congo, D.R Congo, Madagascar, Gabon and Central African Republic. Overseeing teams of at least 10 people per branch office in ensuring full implementation of SAP for each country.Partnered with Group Function Finance and Group Function IT in acting as SAP and Business Process SME to establish new ways of working and improve on system usage.Key achievement was the installation of the Republic of Congo SAP system, that required a fresh setup of the unique Chart of Accounts model and Sales Tax, which required a lot of system architecture definition which I took up and accomplished successfully.

Sub-Saharan Africa

Supporting the Project Management Office team in defining, setting, and applying best practice project management methodology and processes, systems, tools and templates through:• Conducting System Data Analysis that aided in delivery improvement, competence planning and conducted necessary training from data insights. • Internal Controls audit in fulfilment of SoX and ISO requirements, ensured project audit readiness, quality checks and SAP R3 Project Systems Controller, Hub East.• Project Environmental Maturity Assessment (PEMA) Assessor for PMO sub-Saharan Africa, an improvement program that allowed for standardized sale and delivery of the Ericsson Project Management Service based on PROPS, the Ericsson Project Management Methodology.• Driving PMO standards compliance through Improvement Projects, Learning and Education (Course preparation and delivery) - PROPS methodology Project Management Trainer, a role that I provided during my full stay at Ericsson.

Kenya

- Monitoring of various project subcontractor payments to ensure adherence to proper company work requisition and payment procedures.- Planned Microwave Links installation project for Telkom Kenya Limited Rural project, which was to include 5 subcontractor teams installing 120 links nationwide.- Subcontractor contract negotiation finalization for scope of works and responsibility matrix for Telkom Kenya transmission project.

Kenya

• ERP (Oracle) responsible for Sub-Saharan Africa region for service parts sales, supply and inventory operations which included SO release for the region and local PO creation for inter-company orders and follow up on work done to meet SLA agreements.• Organized the Kenya warehouse operations to proper standards thereby receiving the Huawei Spare Parts Management Global Award in the 3rd quarter of 2005 - an award presented to two people in the whole organization, worldwide, at a time.• Creation of a CRMS report compilation guide for use by Customer Service Centres in the Sub-Saharan Africa Region; done in April 2005.

Kenya

- Developing shipment schedules and organizing shipments.- Liaising with staff for all shipments.- Conducting quality assurance checks on outgoing shipments.- Responsible for all duty, customs sales and tax functions, including certification and verification, drawback, and compliance with governmental agencies.- Coordinating imports and exports.

Kenya

Network administration and end user IT support.

Kenya

Worked as an intern-teaching assistant in the electronics department

Bachelor Of Science, Physics & Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Member JKUSO (JKUAT Student Union) as a Hall RepresentativeStudent Leader - Hall representative and Catering.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (Cisa), Information Systems Audit, Cisa Exam Passed

Passed Exam covering the following areas: - Information Systems Audit Process - Information Systems Management, Planning & Organization.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (Ccna) Part 1

Certificate In Computer Repair & Maintenance, Computer Science, A

Activities and Societies: - Chess and Scrabble - Basketball- Electronics (Level 1 & 2) - Microcomputers - Digital electronics.

Certificate In Business Use Of Computers, Computer Science, A

Activities and Societies: - Chess and Scrabble - Basketball- Introduction to Microcomputers and Data Communication - Introduction to Data.

Pmp Preparation Course, Project Management, Completed