Malcolm Musila

Senior ICT Consultant | Project & Change Management

Salary / Daily rate

Nairobi, Kenya

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Remote only

Skills

Design ThinkingProject Management (PMO)ScrumAIProduct StrategyLookerMonday.comConsulting ITGo-to-marketJiraStrategy & ConsultingCommunity ManagementERPMicrosoft Dynamics 365CybersecurityCSR

Languages

EnglishSwahili

About me

Intro

ICT leader with 15+ years driving digital transformation, cybersecurity resilience, and agile project delivery. Prosci® certified change practitioner and Scrum Master with proven success managing multi-million operations across East/West Africa. Expert in AWS cloud, generative AI, and security operations delivering measurable business outcomes.

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Work experience

Technical Program Manager

ADG

Aug 2024 - Present

2 years 3 months

Nairobi, Kenya

My primary responsibility is to foster happiness and joy among my colleagues by empowering them to deliver multiple projects with a shared vision. At the same time, I am deeply committed to ensuring that clients are satisfied with the quality of the products and services they have entrusted to us.

General Manager Operations

CYBER1 Solutions - East and West Africa

Jan 2023 - Jul 2024

1 year 7 months

Nairobi, Kenya

Enabling Cyber Resilience into the future in East and west Africa. Value Proposition: 1. Deep Domain Experience: Certified skilled resources capable of addressing today's cyber threat. 2. Customer Focused: Ensuring solutions and managed services deliver outcomes through measured success 3. Quantifiable Outcomes: Delivering results aligned with business expected metrics 4. Cyber Threat Risk Reduction: Verified and validated engagements ensuring results GM Operations is responsible for overseeing and managing the organization's day-to-day operations, coordinating and directing the work of teams and individuals, implementing policies and procedures, and ensuring the organization’s goals and objectives are met. I work closely with other management team members to develop and implement strategies for improving efficiency and effectiveness, budgeting, and financial management.

Ujuzi Code Ltd

Jan 2021 - Mar 2023

2 years 3 months

Kenyatta Road, Kenya

Scrum Master Consultant

Jan 2021 - Mar 2023

2 years 3 months

Kenyatta Road, Kenya

Key Responsibilities: - Standups - Facilitate daily standups (or the daily scrum) as needed. - Iteration/sprint planning meetings – Protect the team from over-committing and scope creep. Aid in estimation and sub-task creation. - Sprint reviews – Participate in the meeting and capture feedback. - Retrospectives – Note areas for improvement and action items for future sprints. - Board administration – Work as the administrator of the scrum board. Ensure that cards are up to date and the scrum tools, are working well. - 1 on 1s – Meet individually with team members and stakeholders as needed. Iron out team disagreements about the process and work styles if needed. - Reporting – Regular analysis of burndown charts and other portfolio planning tools to understand what gets built and at what cadence. - Blockers – Help the team by eliminating external blockers and managing internal roadblocks through the process or workflow improvements

Project Manager Contract

Jan 2021 - Mar 2023

2 years 3 months

Nairobi, Kenya

- Perform project planning to collect and align the project team and stakeholders on the project scope, timeline to completion, and budget forecasts. - Prepare and maintain schedules for project activities and events, taking into account dependencies, resource availability, and scope. - Work with project representatives across functions to identify and measure risks associated with meeting the budget, business metrics, timeline, and scope of the project. - Work with department leads to identify and manage major project challenges to ensure the success of the project. - Create and communicate project updates in a succinct and meaningful way. - Monitor progress to make sure that milestones are being met across the various projects according to plan. - Manage the project deliverables to the appropriate phase in the Stage-Gate Process

Scrum Master

KCB Bank Group

Aug 2022 - Jan 2023

6 months

Kigali, Rwanda

Key Roles & Responsibilities: - Exhibits the behaviors of a Lean-Agile Leader with a Lean-Agile Mindset - Helps the team embrace SAFe Core Values, adopt and apply SAFe Principles, implement SAFe practices - Helps the team focus on creating increments of value each iteration and achieving daily and Iteration Goals in the context of the current Program Increment (PI) Objectives. - Facilitates team events, including the Daily Stand-up, Iteration Planning, Iteration Review, Iteration Retrospective, Backlog refinement and the team’s PI Planning activities and ensures they are productive and kept within the timebox. - Helps the Product Owner in their efforts to manage the backlog and guide the team while facilitating a healthy team dynamic with respect to priorities and scope. - Helps the team in addressing and eliminating impediments and issues to improve the likelihood of achieving the objectives of the Iteration. - Focuses on ever-improving team dynamics and performance and coaches the team in self-management. - Works with other Scrum Masters and stakeholders to help the team contribute towards improving the overall development Value Stream. - Guides the team in establishing normalized estimates and helps the team understand how to estimate Features and Capabilities

Operations Manager

LinksPay Ltd

Sep 2021 - Jan 2022

5 months

Juba, South Sudan

- Develop and implement operating systems and work processes, procedures, and policies consistent with LinksPay philosophy and framework. - Involved in system design, selection and play a key role in the implementation of suitable systems and solutions. - Develop sound vendor management practices and procedures to protect the interest of the company - Coordinate with support functions (HR, Finance) and commercial personnel to assure plans and resource deployment are aligned with LinksPay objectives, mission, and vision. - Design, implement and manage a cohesive financial and operational strategy and ensure operational efficiency. - Track and analyze metrics to determine growth opportunities and improvement areas. - Identify new revenue opportunities and target markets for the product. - Liaise with regulators, public authorities and ensure compliance with the relevant laws and regulations. - Drive an innovation culture and generate brand visibility. - Adopt a risk-based approach to proactively identify and address risks to propel sales, excellent customer experience, and operational efficiency. - Engage and develop a strong customers relationship to understand and validate their evolving business needs.

Program Manager

Safaricom PLC

Oct 2019 - Oct 2020

1 year 1 month

Nairobi, Kenya

As a program manager, I am called to wear different hats on a day to day basis to handle different assets of disciples that have to enable me to exercise different muscles in answering the what, why, and how to build, deliver and rally others for program and project success. Key Duties: -Responsible for planning, executing, and completing projects on-time, within budget as agreed with key project stakeholders. - Responsible for coordinating the efforts of project team members and third-party providers to deliver projects according to plan. - Responsible for defining the project objectives, completing a business case, ensuring key weekly milestones are achieved, and preparing short weekly project updates for project stakeholders. -Assist the Technology/PMO in delivering the strategic objectives of providing professional and efficient governance service to all business partners, clients, suppliers, and employees. -Drive the objectives of Technology/PMO in delivering the company’s operational objectives in product and service offerings, customer service, and profitability. - Communicate project risks and issues to relevant stakeholders and escalate where appropriate in line with the escalation process. - Conduct project reviews to assess outcomes of projects, against established baselines, and to evaluate the effectiveness of project management practices.

Old Mutual Kenya

Apr 2008 - Oct 2019

11 years 7 months

Project & Change Manager (ICT)

Oct 2015 - Oct 2019

4 years 1 month

Accountable for achieving results, delivers specified requirements and meets customer satisfaction, ensure quality is achieved as planned, manage people, work and resource involved, establish and updates plans with actual and forecasts, reports to respective stakeholders, escalates decisions and unresolved issues and concludes work upon completion or premature cessation.

ICT Project Coordinator

Jan 2010 - Oct 2015

5 years 10 months

Kenyatta Road, Kenya

Maintenance of project documentation, plans and reports,assigning tasks, controlling schedule,maintenance of headcount databases, materials, configuration management,updating risk/opportunity registers, schedule updates, financial updates...

IS System Specialist

Apr 2008 - Jan 2010

1 year 10 months

Kenyatta Road, Kenya

To Research problems, plan solutions, recommends software and systems, and coordinates development to meet business needs or other requirements. Interact with customers to learn and document requirements that are then used to produce business requirements documents. Interact with designers, vendors to understand software limitations. Document requirements or contribute to user manuals. Responsible for designing components and providing that information to the developer whenever any development process is conducted.

System Administrator

Real Consult Agency

May 2007 - May 2008

1 year 1 month

Kenyatta Road, Kenya

Business systems analysis to devise and collate ICT solutions within the Agency, disaster Recovery project Initiation, setup and testing, Led PABX-upgrade project to meet the agencies changing cost control via Individual-usage reports and call recording for customer care, responsible for procurement of corporate antivirus solution.

Intership/ Support

Kenya Airways

Jan 2007 - May 2007

5 months

Kenyatta Road, Kenya

Oversee the operation of all computers, Troubleshooting software and hardware, Installing software and hardware, System upgrading and maintenance of ICT equipment and general user support tasks.


Education

Daystar University

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

2016 - 2018

2 years 1 month

Strathmore University

Training on Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

2013 - 2013

1 month

Africa Nazarene University

BSC

2001 - 2007

6 years 1 month

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