General Info
Professional Track
- Information Technology
Country
Sierra LeoneAreas of Expertise
- Data Mining and Analytics
- Database Administration
Professional Interests
- Data science and analysis technology and practical application
- Database administration, management, systems and processes
Age
32If you never try, you never know.
The Top Three Things I Would Like to Learn or Experience During my Mentorship
- Gain firsthand practice in building technical skills and exposure to new tools and platforms in data science, data analysis, database administration and management
- Gain experience in the day-to-day activities of a data science consultancy, and provide data-based, information management solutions to their clients
- Participate in workshops, seminars, practical research or certificate programs to further my learning
Mentorship Characteristic
- Have exposure to the company culture
- Identify workshops or certificate programs to further my learning after the program has ended
- Focus on technical skills building
Ideal Company Type
My ideal company is one that is primarily involved in data science, data analysis (both qualitative and quantitative), database administration and management services provision; that provides data driven web portal and information management solutions to their clients; that produces practical data driven research; that follows data driven project management, communication and presentation processes; and that offers hands-on development opportunities to it staffs or interns. Ideally, this company has 100-200 employees and has connections to my mentor.
Programming Languages
- Python
- SQL
Additional Technical Skills
Microsoft Office Suite; KoboCollect with Salesforce integration; ArcGIS; Data Visualization with Kibana and Superset; Qualitative data analysis with MaxQDA
What are three adjectives that best describe you in the work place?
- Persevering
- Curious
- Optimistic
What impact will your mentorship have on your career and professional path?
My mentorship will offer me a customized learning experience in my chosen career path. This mentorship will help me gain deeper practical knowledge and professional experiences in data science, data analysis and data management. It will help me build relationships to learn from others who are part of the program and create lifelong lessons. It will increase my capability to impact other women and girls in STEM.
After participating in the TechWomen program, how will you leverage your mentorship experience to make an impact in your home country?
I want to use my experience with the TechWomen program to build on the leverage established by tech fellows in my country, specifically through expanding participation of more women in data science using this existing platform. I want to conduct workshops, seminars and campaigns that will increase women awareness and participation in data science and STEM in general. Another goal of mine is to develop a campaign that encourages government ministries, department and agencies (MDAs) to use their own data to improve their business and produce new offerings to improve government service delivery, while also encouraging women to be involved.
Work History
Years of Full-time Work Experience
5Primary Professional Focus
- Database/systems/networks
- IT support
- IT systems and/or data analysis
Current/Most Recent Job
- Title and Company: Data and Insight Manager, Purposeful
- Direct Reports: 1
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Dates: January 1, 2021 –
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Responsibilities:
Raise girls' voices through girl-led research and gather insights of the lived experience of adolescent girls; develop data collection tools, and capture key components of program participation and content across program sites; perform monitoring and evaluation activities; download, clean and analyze program data; update program data in Salesforce; conduct periodic site visits to train, support and provide technical assistance to mentors and program field officers; measure change based on outcomes as presented in the log frame and suggest the most appropriate data collection approach to evaluate each outcome; conduct team monthly reflection; prepare program data report to partners and program staff
Job #2
- Title and Company: Junior Data Scientist, Directorate of Science and Technology
- Type: Part-time
- Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Dates: August 1, 2019 – December 1, 2020
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Responsibilities:
Collected geo-spatial data from government ministries, departments and agencies; cleaned, mapped and visualized geo-spatial data to locate government facilities on the Government of Sierra Leone integrated GIS portal; collected, cleaned and visualized school dataset collected from the Ministry of Education; aided in other data collection and analysis exercises
Job #3
- Title and Company: Assistant Database Administrator, Guaranty Trust Bank
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Dates: November 1, 2016 – August 1, 2017
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Responsibilities:
Queried the database and provided the monthly profitability report and other reports upon request; installed and configured the platform for end-users’ access to the core banking application; organized both online training rooms which all trainers and trainees can access; ran monthly and yearly data batches; backed up data and other system processes daily; provided general IT/desktop support to end-users
Education History
Institution #1
- Institution: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- Degree Awarded: Master's
- Major: Information and Communication
- Minor:
- Location: China
- Completion Date: May 1, 2019
Institution #2
- Institution: Njala University
- Degree Awarded: Bachelor's
- Major: Business and Information Technology
- Minor:
- Location: Sierra Leone
- Completion Date: May 1, 2014
