John Wesonga

Current

• Consultant- Bee Project at UNICEF
• Founder at TIDE Series
• Chief Executive Officer at MultipleChoices

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Past

• Technical Lead- Open Source Software Education Project at Information Technology Associates
• Java Consultant at UN/DESA - Strengthening Parliaments in Africa Project
• Web Developer at Kencall

• Web Developer at 3mice Interactive Media
• I.T. Consultant at Deloitte & Touche-Kenya

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Education

• Strathmore University

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog
• My Company

John Wesonga’s Summary

To take Africa's wealth of information and build platforms to distribute the content to the masses.

John Wesonga’s Specialties:

Database Design & Development- Over 5 years of experience with MySQL and SQL Server, with core strengths in MySQL Database design.
Web Development-Over 3 years developing applications using PHP, Over 2 years using Ruby/ROR. Strong foundation in Java and Python .
User Interface Design- Strong understanding of UI concepts/technologies such CSS and XHTML, and their application in building effective and optimized web interfaces
Project Management-One year experience.

John Wesonga’s Experience

• Consultant- Bee Project

  UNICEF

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  September 2008 — Present (3 months)

  Design and Develop software to run on the UNICEF Communication Hub.

• Founder

  TIDE Series

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Founder of the TIDE (Technology, Innovation, Design and Innovation) Series.TIDE is an initiative whose main purpose is to inspire innovation in Africa in the areas of business and technology, through provision of interactive talks by business leaders.

• Chief Executive Officer

  MultipleChoices

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Develop and implement overall strategy of the company.
  Implement the companies vision.
  Drive product design and development and manage development teams within the organisation.
  Develop technical specifications for the current and future systems with a view if ensuring that they meet the organisations objectives.

• Technical Lead- Open Source Software Education Project

  Information Technology Associates

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2008 — May 2008 (1 month)

  Develop an implement an Open Source Software Curriculum for Africa Nazarene University in conjunction with the faculty.
  - To provide technical assistance as required in the development of facilities and content for Open Source training.
  - Train a core group of lecturers and students in open source software at installation/configuration and programming levels.
  - To carry out research and provide technical input in the development of Open source software.

• Java Consultant

  UN/DESA - Strengthening Parliaments in Africa Project

  (Internet industry)

  February 2008 — April 2008 (3 months)

  - Design and development an open source editor to be used in the drafting of legislative documents using Open Office API and Java.
  - Integration of editor into enterprise parliamentary system.

• Web Developer

  Kencall

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)

  April 2006 — January 2007 (10 months)

  Development of web based applications for the company as well as our various clients.

• Web Developer

  3mice Interactive Media

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2002 — April 2006 (3 years 9 months)

  Design and Implement enterprise web applications.
  Development of interactive web applications using the latest web technologies

• I.T. Consultant

  Deloitte & Touche-Kenya

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

  Development of Contenr management system for USAID-Kenya Intranet.
  Training of USAID-Kenya I.T. personnel

John Wesonga’s Education

• Strathmore University

  Business Information Technology, 2000 — 2007

Additional Information

John Wesonga’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Company

John Wesonga’s Interests:

technology, Africa, web development, Music, Entrepreneurship

John Wesonga’s Groups:

I.M.I.S-Member of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems U.K, Skunkworks

John Wesonga’s Honors:

Jikoni.com voted Best web portal in the year 2000 by the Computer Society of Kenya (CSK)

John Wesonga’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
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