Zelina Francis Email & Phone Number

Basingstoke, Uk

Designed and delployed the country's first online comparison site offering quote and buy services for Zimbabwe's leading financial services brands. Analysed target local and global addressable market. Set up marketing strategy for individual and corporate accounts, exploiting digital channels.

The Connexion, Newbury, Berkshire, Uk

Leading the Business Systems Analysis team to manage requirements for Vodafone UK's vast range of highly fast paced IT transformation projects. Striving for optimal balances of agile but rigorous methodologies that ensure fit for purpose solutions with superior customer experiences are delivered at a the most rapid possible pace.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for rationalising RSA vast IS Applications and Infrastructure estate - reducing cost and complexity. Managing technology standards roadmap. We are leveraging the Troux SITP tool to drive the rationalisation of this immensely comlex and large estate and deriving significant value.

In 2004, Zelina established Aptitude Consulting services, a niche IT Advisory consultancy specialising in the Insurance Industry thereby leveraging her strong stakeholder relationships within the industry. During this period she formulated and led several IT Strategy and Implementation engagements for leading Financial services institutions including ZimRe Group, TA Insurance Group, PG Industries, Cresta Hospitality Group.

Concurrently with her Aptitude consulting work, in 2005 Zelina was appointed as Microsoft’s Market Development Partner for Zimbabwe managing its large enterprise clients and marketing events.

In 2000, Zelina joined African Banking Corporation as Regional IT Operations Manager, responsible for managing the transformation of its IT Systems and infrastructure from a complex mesh of inefficient, duplicate and obsolete systems acquired through mergers. Major initiatives included implementation of a regional VSAT infrastructure to create secure VPNs over 13 sites in 7 counties and managing the implementation of a new suite of banking and MIS systems with supporting web and other platforms.

In 1997, Zelina joined Old Mutual Zimbabwe as a Divisional IT Manager responsible for formulating and implementing corporate IT Strategy for the migration of legacy mainframe-based applications to a client-server platform. Other key initiatives included defining an e-Commerce Strategy, designing a new web site, deploying an Enterprise Management System & storage infrastructure and spearheading a proposal to centralise the disparate IT capabilities of the wider group.

Senior IT being engaged in significant management advisory/consulting engagements for leading institutions including Meikles Consolidated Holdings, UNDP Government Technology Programmes, National Telecoms, National Social Security and Old Mutual.

Ma In Art History And Museum Cultures, History Of Art

Msc, Scientific & Engineering Software Technology

Bsc, Computer Science