Samuel Kwahene - MD, Mpatapo

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Network Power<100 people

Roles

🧑‍💼80%

C-level Executive

🔥60%

Startup Founder

✨60%

Business Owner

Geos

🇷🇺40%

Russia

🇿🇦40%

South Africa

🇺🇸20%

United States

Work Background

OneConnect TechnologiesExecutive Manager: CEO Office

Mar. 2018 - Jun. 2022Johannesburg Area, South Africa• Consolidated efforts related to key sales initiatives and engagements • Managed alignment of business areas • Develop talent by facilitating cross-training, developing, coaching, mentoring & growing individuals & teams in the Business. • Monitored company strategy execution • Attended company events and presented to clients as an evangelist of the company. • Worked with the corporate teams to prepare packs for the CEO on a monthly, quarterly basis to summarize performance. • Develop and maintain productive and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders. • Collaborate with Clients to provide consultancy and advisory services related to requests for new technology services. • Proactively serve as a trusted advisor and act as the primary point of contact for Client stakeholders. • Build and drive successful relationships across the business promoting a best-for-business approach to solutions and delivery priorities • Provide thought leadership on the future of technology • Actively identify and champion innovation initiatives supporting the business strategy. • Continuously seek improved ways to work and efficiencies within the team • Promote and foster collaborative team and stakeholder relationships based on growth and resilience, integrity, accountability and inclusion, and adheres to the value of ‘Leadership’ • Encourage career advancement endeavours to staff. • Ensure training is a part of employees' daily routine & encourages them to tap into the knowledge of their colleagues & to set performance improvement goals. • Take ownership of driving own career development • Preparation and signing off Personal Development plan for staff • Act as the key liaison across all functional areas OneConnect Client Experience: Senior Integration Consultant Mercantile Bank / Capitec Bank June 2018 – May 2022 o Assisting the Forex team - July 2021 to date o Assisting the ESB team - June 2018 to June 2021

MPATAPOManaging Director - IT & Operations

Feb. 2018South Africa• Built and nurtured trust with teams, customers and external suppliers. • Provided strategic advice to shareholders so that they will have an accurate view of the market and the company’s future • Prepared and implemented comprehensive business plans to facilitate achievement by planning cost-effective operations and market development activities • Ensured company policies and legal guidelines are communicated all the way from the top down in the company and that they are followed at all times • Communicated and maintained trust relationships with shareholders, business partners and authorities • Oversaw the company’s financial performance, investments and other business ventures • Acted as the public speaker and public relations representative of the company in ways that strengthened its profile • Analysed problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions to ensure company survival and growth • Built and manage a diverse group of employees • Managed operations and adapted processes within time and budget.

OneConnect TechnologiesExecutive: Enterprise Integration Solutions

Aug. 2017 - Feb. 2018Johannesburg Area, South Africa• Implemented and improved overall integration solution systems o Improved and implemented portions of clients’ OSS and BSS solutions o Improved number portability services o Implemented new business orchestration services. • led a team of 40 engineers at different levels o 12 systems Integration, 10 BPM, 10 CEP and 8 Analytics consultants • Stakeholders o CIO, IT Development Manager, Developers, Customers and Intermediaries.

Puenty VCPuenty Loud Consultant

May. 2017 - Jul. 2017Raise awareness of the Puenty brand and position it as a top of mind for investors and entrepreneurs by: • Getting to know Puenty and its ecosystem to identify a unique selling proposition • Identifying channels and initiatives in order to define feasible objectives for a Marketing Plan • Creating a Digital Marketing plan (ROI, channels, partners, key messages, budget, etc.) o Identified and created the persona of the target customer o Made use of the 4 Ps of marketing to achieve our objective

IE Business SchoolMBA Candidate (Sabbatical)

Aug. 2016 - Jul. 2017Madrid Area, SpainSharpening my managerial and financial acumen, my investor mindset, and gaining international experience through the International MBA Program. Start-up & VC Courses: • Entrepreneurial Mindset • Entrepreneurial Venturing • Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital • M&A Bootcamp • M&A for Start-ups Tech Courses: • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning • Big Data & Business Analytics • Disruptive Technologies • Innovation of the Digital World • The Digital Social Interface • Technology & Business Strategy

OneConnect TechnologiesPre-Sales Consultant

May. 2016 - Jul. 2016Johannesburg Area, South Africa• Consolidate efforts related to key sales initiatives and engagements o Assisted in qualifying potential clients within the financial sector and engaging them o Presented solutions on elevating their challenges • Managed alignment of business areas • Created and presented POC/POV to clients • Responded to RFP/RFQ/RFX for Middleware solution

OneConnect TechnologiesSenior BW Consultant

Jun. 2013 - Apr. 2016Pretoria Area, South Africa• Solution development (process, SW, integration), modifications of the solution, resolution of issues with existing solutions • Develop and maintain software to serve in a real-time environment according to business requirements. • Wrote and maintained technical documentation. • Performed thorough technical and unit testing of software. • Followed change and release control procedures. • Used source control religiously, tagging versions so as to assist in change and release control. • Delivered the appropriate work breakdown structure (WBS) to the project manager and provide accurate timelines. • Engaged business colleagues to understand requirements and expectations. • Constantly aim to identify technical risks and inefficiencies.

tradebridgeBPM Consultant

May. 2012 - May. 2013Bryanston• Solution development process, integration, modifications of the solution, resolution of issues with existing solutions • Develop and maintain software to serve in a real-time environment according to business requirements. • Write and maintain technical documentation. • Perform thorough technical and unit testing of software. • Follow change and release control procedures. • Use source control religiously, tagging versions so as to assist in change and release control. • Deliver the appropriate work breakdown structure (WBS) to the project manager and provide accurate timelines. • Engage business colleagues to understand requirements and expectations. • Constantly aim to identify technical risks and inefficiencies.

TIBCO SoftwareCTS Consultant

Feb. 2010 - Apr. 2012TIBCO Client Experience: Telkom Mobile March 2010 – April 2012 • Joined the Mobile team, using BusinessWorks to create processes for their OSS and BSS stack FNB ECS June 2010 – February 2010 • Work on RedHat environment installing IProcess Engine,Workspace Browser, TIBCO BusinessWorks, TIBCO IProcess and BW Technology Plugin, TIBCO Administrator and TIBCO EMS • Joined the development team on the integration stream, using, TIBCO BusinessWorks and Ant to create the Build and Deployment scripts. Telkom Number Portability April 2010 – May 2010 • Joined the development team on the integration stream, using, TIBCO BusinessWorks to create processes related to porting of cell numbers from other network providers to Telkom mobile. Gijima February 2010 – March 2010 • Worked on a Suse Linux environment with TIBCO Business Studio, TIBCO iProcess Engine, TIBCO iProcess Workspace Browser, TIBCO iProcess WebService Plugin, TIBCO BusinessWorks and TIBCO EMS.

DVTDeveloper

Jun. 2008 - Jan. 2010Projects: • Beta Project (JP Morgan) o Developing of the Fund reporting portion of the Beta project. It entailed producing reports for all the trades that occur on a daily bases and also a summary report at the end of each month • C# Processes at AIIF o Creating the Online Claims and Fund Registration website o Maintenance, support and upgrade of the Prescription Alert System Database design o Code review and approval • C# Solutions at On The Dot o Maintenance, support and upgrade of the Media24 logistics website o Code review and approval Technologies Used: • C# 3.0, ASP .Net, Web applications, Windows Forms application, Windows Service, Remote Services, MSSQL Server 2000/2005/2008, XML, Subversion, Web Services, HTML, SharePoint

Metropolitan Health GroupC#/Java Developer

Jan. 2007 - May. 2008• TQ Functions (Similar to store procedures) re-engineering o Developed a TQ functions plug-in for visual studio 2008 by reverse engineering the existing java standalone application and converting it to a plug-in for MS visual studio 2008 • Java Development Project delivery and implementation. • Receive requirements/specs from the Development Manager on product requirements. • Provide feedback to the Development Manager on the progress of tasks assigned, to ensure project completion. • Receive regular guidance from Senior Developer and Development Manager on tasks assigned, to ensure the project meets its timeframes/deadlines. • Together with Senior Developer test product(s) or system(s) being implemented. • Provide input as requested to the Development Manager and Senior Developer on the implementation action plan, taking risks into consideration. • Drawing up technical documentation related to tasks assigned • Adhoc Software Development/IT Trainee (2007) o Had to get up to speed with the existing projects in order to help with Maintenance and upgrade