General Info
Professional Track
- Information Technology
Country
KenyaAreas of Expertise
- Agriculture
- Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning
- Agriculture Financing
Professional Interests
- Digital Financial Services
- Data Science
- Agricultural Financing
Age
29The Top Three Things I Would Like to Learn or Experience During my Mentorship
- Learn best practices for resilient fundraising
- Gain skills for managing a globally diverse team
- Cultivate strategies for networking with purpose and maintaining relationships
What are three adjectives that best describe you in the work place?
- Pragmatic
- Curious
- Resilient
What impact will your mentorship have on your career and professional path?
The TechWomen program will help me to continue developing the insight, skills and capabilities consistent with scaling a high-impact business across Africa. I believe the mentors and organizations I will be exposed to will help me gain a more global outlook into my leadership skills, which is what I am missing currently. Through what I will learn from TechWomen, I hope to strike a great balance of leading with competence, confidence and empathy.
After participating in the TechWomen program, how will you leverage your mentorship experience to make an impact in your home country?
After I return home from TechWomen, I will continue running my business FarmDrive and using that opportunity to create a clear pipeline of growth for my team members into leadership roles within and outside the organization. I will actively contribute to the Women in Tech Community in Kenya by organizing more meetups and creating a network of resources from which everyone can benefit. I recently started running a community development project, which provides after school programs and upskilling for young women in my rural village. I hope to use my networks and experiences through TechWomen to expand this initiative.
Work History
Years of Full-time Work Experience
6Primary Professional Focus
- Individual contributor leading innovation
- Managing technical employees
- Overseeing the delivery of technology products
Current/Most Recent Job
- Title and Company: CEO & Co-Founder, FarmDrive
- Direct Reports:
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
- Dates: March 1, 2015 –
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Responsibilities:
Plan and implement strategies to build sustainable, transformative business that meets the needs of customers; end-to-end agricultural portfolio management including building alternative credit scoring models, designing tailored loan products, mobile loan administration, data analytics, collections, recovery and mobile payments
Job #2
- Title and Company: Software Engineer, IBM
- Type: Full-time
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
- Dates: July 1, 2014 – September 30, 2014
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Responsibilities:
Implemented scripts to statistically analyse raw sensor data (hygrometer, accelerometer, location, gyroscopes),
statistical inferences were used to generate decision functions for data cleansing and modeling; configured and set up distributed databases to store data and developed web services to process the data; tools used include but not limited to Hadoop (MapReduce), Elasticsearch
Job #3
- Title and Company: Business Operations Analyst, IBM
- Type: Part-time
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
- Dates: September 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014
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Responsibilities:
Collaborated with IBM project managers across multiple African locations to centralize reporting on projects and
analyse data to draw real-time insights that inform project strategies; continuous improvement in the design and execution of business processes such as: pipeline growth and
progression, business reviews, resource management, account growth and planning, performance reporting and
analysis
Education History
Highest Level of Education Completed
Bachelor'sInstitution #1
- Institution: University of Nairobi
- Degree Awarded: Bachelor's
- Major: Computer Science
- Minor:
- Location: Nairobi, Kenya
- Completion Date: August 1, 2014
