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London, England, United Kingdom

Leading IT projects and overall IT management for a successful and growing fire protection and safety company in London. Designing survey and reporting tools, automating reports, and implementing a new integrated construction management system for the company.

London, England, United Kingdom

Fire Safety Officer and Team Leader for fire safety inspections for housing associations in London.

Hertfordshire, Uk

Operations manager for a busy health-oriented charity. Responsible for IT operations for around 100 staff and volunteers. Directly overseeing the Database team. Assisted in adoption of a new implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM and Office365. Introduced Jira service desk for managing tickets.

Nairobi, Kenya

* Consultant to a mid size IT company in Nairobi to set up their Project Management Office (PMO): defined PM framework, methodology, knowledge management and repository, HR work orders and JDs. * Consulted for implementation of an HMIS for 98 hospitals in Kenya. * Consulted for Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute: Designed IT enterprise solution (software & hardware) for national scale up of Tanzania public health insurance system, crafted e-health global trends report guiding National Hospital Insurance Fund of Kenya, designed and developed Joomla website for STPHI's project.

Nairobi, Kenya

Senior Project Manager and CEO for IT consultancy managing 4 employees delivering IT for development projects. After coming on board Increased revenue for the company by 50%.* Programme Manager for EHRS requirements to implementation for 77 health facilities in Kenya for the WHO and Ministry of Health. * Implementing PRINCE2 and Agile methodologies also led projects creating and customising web apps and USSD mobile apps for health-related organisations.* Using business analysis techniques (UML-like work flows) created operations manual for a proposed Third Party Administration department for a micro insurance company in Kenya.

Nairobi, Kenya

Project Manager and IT Consultant, focusing on IT for Development projects in Kenya.Example project: Project manager and support for 'Linda Jamii' - An innovative paperless micro-insurance product from Safaricom (largest telco in Kenya), Britam (leading insurer) and Changamka (microinsurance). Helped bring product to launch and on-board 25,000 subscribers in one year.

Nairobi, Kenya

Managing busy IT department, overseeing 9 technicians in Kenya, Sudan and South Sudan.Administering 130 user network in Nairobi.Providing IT support and user training to branches in Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Work included personnel management, procurement, software and hardware installations (data centers), networking, server set up and administration (Microsoft & Linux), firewall configuration and VOIP phone setup.Customizing, installing, training MS Access/SQL Server ERP in 10 branches in East Africa and Asia

London, United Kingdom

Teaching Degree Foundation Programme Information Technology courses, 4GL programming languages, ACP Certificate

North Thames Region, Uk

Industrial Trainee in Engineering Admin Systems section. Database development in Paradox and SQL programming for IBM mainframe