Richard K. Mberi

Current

• Manager - Business Development at Afrosoft Corporation

Past

• Project Manager at Afrosoft Corporation
• Product Manager Investment Systems at Afrosoft Corporation
• Developer / Analyst at Afrosoft Corporation

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Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Richard K. Mberi’s Summary

Solutions-focused, team oriented Senior Developer / Technical Analyst / Project Manager with broad-based experience and hands-on skill in the successful development and implementation of highly effective multi-sectoral Information Technology Solutions. Effective management of innovative customer and technical support strategies. Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative solutions for increasing reliability and improving productivity. Ability to implement and supervise diverse IT Project Management methodologies. A broad understanding of computer hardware and software, including installation, configuration, management, troubleshooting, and support.

Richard K. Mberi’s Specialties:

Strong Research and Development Bias as well as systems presentation and marketing. R & D experience in the following technologies : Microsoft Visual Studio .Net, Visual Studio 6.0, Altova UModel, XML Spy, CFML, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, VBScript, AJAX and Web 2.0, ESRI ArcGIS, MapObjects
Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL

Linux/Unix, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Windows XPembedded

Richard K. Mberi’s Experience

• Manager - Business Development

  Afrosoft Corporation

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2004 — Present (5 years 2 months)

  1. Heading Research & Development.
  • Set research objectives and supervised R & D team
  i. Integrated GPS / GIS embedded computer – based information system for rail tracking.
  ii. Integrated Biometrics and e-passport document readers for immigration control system.
  iii. Integrated e-commerce architecture including GSM / SMS, remote banking, email and internet modules.
  v. Integrated SCADA for Electricity Demand-side management system.
  2. Technical Sales
  • Identify potential clients, promising products and potential growth areas for existing products.
  • Compiling proposals in response to tenders.
  • Co-ordinating production of Product & promotional materials.
  • Ensuring Brand compliance in all client-facing areas.
  • Performing high-level product demonstrations presentations.
  • Spear headed international expansion initiatives, 1 year setting up the East African Office in Uganda.
  • Presented at the African Union Joint ordinary session on Science and technology in Addis Ababa.

• Project Manager

  Afrosoft Corporation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 5 months)

  1. Project Planning and Scope Definition ensuring analysis was detailed enough to reduce the impact of scope creep.
  
  2. Activity planning and Sequencing as well as ensuring all documentation demanded by the project methodology was in place.
  
  3. Resource Planning.
  
  4. Ensuring project Costing and Budgeting is realistic as well as ensuring that projects were completed within budget.
  
  5. Co-ordinating production of project plan and ensuring adherence to project plan.
  
  6. Enforcing quality within the project as per defined internal development and documentation standards as well as CMMI standards.
  
  7. Co-ordinating intra-project communication, as well as ensuring feedback mechanisms were understood and utilised effectively.
  
  8. Project Risk Management.

• Product Manager Investment Systems

  Afrosoft Corporation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2002 — May 2003 (6 months)

  1. Was responsible for overall product vision.
  
  2. Headed the development of a comprehensive product suite that catered for the following:
  
  * Treasury & Merchant Banking
  * Asset Management
  * Stock Broking
  * Unitized Investments
  
  3. Grew investment system portfolio from scratch to command 60% of the local market

• Developer / Analyst

  Afrosoft Corporation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2001 — December 2002 (2 years )

  1. Was involved in the following projects:
  
  * Development of Mortgage administration system
  * Development of Core Banking System
  * Development of Enterprise Resource Planning System
  * Development of a Health Insurance Administration System

Additional Information

Richard K. Mberi’s Websites:

• My Blog

Richard K. Mberi’s Interests:

Gadgets, New technologies, Apple products and services

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