Providing legal and regulatory support to the group across markets in Africa - Ghana | Liberia | Togo | Kenya | Uganda | DRC | Mauritius

Tutor of Internet Governance, Internet Way of Networking (IWN) and Encryption courses on ISOC's Learning program meant to equip new internet leaders with policy, technology and business skills to succeed in a digital world.

• Providing leadership through initiatives to get more people, especially the youth from Africa to be actively engaged in Internet governance processes at the local, regional, and global levels.• Handling all internal legal and contractual relationships with external partners.• Leading partnership building processes for EGIGFA. Key partners include Global Cyber Alliance, E-Governance Academy (EGA), etc.• Coordinating team member of the Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG)… Show more • Providing leadership through initiatives to get more people, especially the youth from Africa to be actively engaged in Internet governance processes at the local, regional, and global levels.• Handling all internal legal and contractual relationships with external partners.• Leading partnership building processes for EGIGFA. Key partners include Global Cyber Alliance, E-Governance Academy (EGA), etc.• Coordinating team member of the Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG) annual programme. • Providing training on Internet Governance, e-Governance and Human Rights in Digital spaces. Show less

• Drafting of legal documents• Conducting legal research• Reviewing of contractural documents and advising• Writing legal opinions• Researching and providing input on various laws supporting opinions for commercial transactions• Representing clients in court

Contributed effort towards the attainment of the following:• Represented Sanigest in project meetings in Accra leading to contract award.• Inception Mission (data finding and authoring inception reports).• ICT Case Studies.• Auditing and assessing ICT Applications• Roadmap Development.• Feasibility and Implementation Plan design.• Cost Schedule preparations.• Organized meeting stakeholder meetings in collaboration with the clients.

• In charge of managing the project to expand 4G LTE to all regions in Ghana.• Tracked all risks and issues as well as milestone achievements and reporting.• Tracked the project budget, and schedule and ensured timely reporting.• Established a project management academy and offered training to various stakeholders across the business to ensure effective workflow in Surfline’s project environment.• Designed and implemented a cross-functional business continuity initiative… Show more • In charge of managing the project to expand 4G LTE to all regions in Ghana.• Tracked all risks and issues as well as milestone achievements and reporting.• Tracked the project budget, and schedule and ensured timely reporting.• Established a project management academy and offered training to various stakeholders across the business to ensure effective workflow in Surfline’s project environment.• Designed and implemented a cross-functional business continuity initiative, designing several interruption scenarios and how to address them.• Designed all processes across the organization covering both internal processes and customer-facing processes. Show less

Reporting to Head of Commercial Execution:
 • Maintained a pipeline of projects to be implemented for the year • Converted business requirements into technical requirements to be implemented by technology teams. • Managed the testing and release for commercial products • Ensured product launch checklists are complied including regulatory requirements. • Managed post-product launch issues and tracked for closure.

Reporting to Chief Commercial Officer: • Oversight of the Innovation & Project to ensure high-quality deliverables, synergy and constant improvements of project outcomes. • Defined and optimized processes and policies within the commercial department and other units of the business. • Commercial lead for telecom regulator specific projects and commercial representative in regulatory meetings. • Ensured all product issues are closed on time and communicated with the customer… Show more Reporting to Chief Commercial Officer: • Oversight of the Innovation & Project to ensure high-quality deliverables, synergy and constant improvements of project outcomes. • Defined and optimized processes and policies within the commercial department and other units of the business. • Commercial lead for telecom regulator specific projects and commercial representative in regulatory meetings. • Ensured all product issues are closed on time and communicated with the customer touchpoints.• Monthly meetings with the regulator to update on mechanics of commercial products as well as notification verifications. • Oversight of several Transparency initiatives within commercial products and services to build trust with the consumer. Show less

Reported to Regional Entertainment Program Manager:• Worked with local project managers in all operations to follow project management rollout framework to successfully manage projects.• Successfully launched SMS Firewall project in 6 Tigo operations in Africa to ensure proper content control to subscribers and grow revenue.• As a champion for the VAS acceleration initiative, I shared high performing products from Tigo’s LATAM market with Category and Product Managers in Tigo’s… Show more Reported to Regional Entertainment Program Manager:• Worked with local project managers in all operations to follow project management rollout framework to successfully manage projects.• Successfully launched SMS Firewall project in 6 Tigo operations in Africa to ensure proper content control to subscribers and grow revenue.• As a champion for the VAS acceleration initiative, I shared high performing products from Tigo’s LATAM market with Category and Product Managers in Tigo’s Africa operations to help them.implement and grow their revenues.• Trained both commercial and technical teams on the Tigo rollout framework. • Weekly project calls coordination, project plan tracking and updates. • Follow-ups with local PMs on project deliverables for regional and local projects. • Visited Tigo operations that lack local resources to help them manage local projects as well as train to build local capacity. • Timely reporting of project status to key stakeholders. Show less

Product manager for mobile advertising (Tigo Ads). * Restructured the sales strategy for Tigo’s mobile advertising product which saw a rise in revenue of 30%. * Sealed advertising campaign deals with Nestle and other popular brands. * Proposed an ideal business case for Mobile Advertising for Tigo Ghana. * Designed “Purchasing and Delivery” m-commerce product (Tigo Kaya).Premium Content Product Manager (MO Value Added Services). * Developed a roadmap… Show more Product manager for mobile advertising (Tigo Ads). * Restructured the sales strategy for Tigo’s mobile advertising product which saw a rise in revenue of 30%. * Sealed advertising campaign deals with Nestle and other popular brands. * Proposed an ideal business case for Mobile Advertising for Tigo Ghana. * Designed “Purchasing and Delivery” m-commerce product (Tigo Kaya).Premium Content Product Manager (MO Value Added Services). * Developed a roadmap for premium SMS content promotions for 2012. * Planned and executed the Tigo Easter Quiz Promo that boosted Entertainment Categoryrevenue. * Coordinated to ensure that mini/mega promotions meet regulatory requirements ofGhana. * Coordinated the deployment and launch of the “Tigo Super Play” mega promotion. Show less

* Teaching assistant: supported in teaching and organizing student lab work and graded assignments.* Research assistant in ICT regulations, telecom liberalization, privatization, broadband plans and deployment, Strategic management and project management.* Assisted professor in Smart Grid communications research.

• Managed entire project portfolio for Tech Aide which involved helping development.• organizations like Plan Ghana, Camfed, Winrock etc. include ICT elements in their programmes.• Prepared need assessment, stakeholder engagements and reports for all projects• Worked on global collaborative research projects as a technical and social researcher, notably:• “Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT Euro-Africa FP7 project -Low-Cost Broadband Infrastructure and… Show more • Managed entire project portfolio for Tech Aide which involved helping development.• organizations like Plan Ghana, Camfed, Winrock etc. include ICT elements in their programmes.• Prepared need assessment, stakeholder engagements and reports for all projects• Worked on global collaborative research projects as a technical and social researcher, notably:• “Digital World Forum on Accessible and Inclusive ICT Euro-Africa FP7 project -Low-Cost Broadband Infrastructure and Information Access Devices thematic groups - http://digitalworld.ercim.eu/ “ and “Wireless Africa Project (www.wireless-africa.org)”.• Partnership development with low-cost/low-power computing manufacturers. Show less

* Surveyed market on bringing Blue Monitor Systems to Ghana in the Information Technology Business Process Outsourcing industry.* Managed project and relationships using CRM software.* Collaborated and communicated with multi-partners using internet tools.* Proposed business development.* Closed business deals in web development and new information technology products.