Resume

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Strategic Technical Leader with over a decade of experience designing, building and scaling enterprise solutions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Demonstrated success in translating complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions while managing stakeholder relationships at all levels.

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Technical Leadership: Product Development, Technical Operations, Infrastructure Optimization, Technical Roadmap Development
  • Cloud & Infrastructure: Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud Deployments, Enterprise Systems, Systems Integration
  • Security & Compliance: Financial Regulatory Compliance, SecurityOps, Security Audits, Risk Management
  • Team Leadership: Team Management, Technical Mentorship, Stakeholder Management, Resource Planning
  • Business Operations: Technology Budget Planning , Procurement & Vendor Management, Business Development & Sales Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technology Consultant

Gavor Consult International — April 2024 to Present

Spearheading the modernization of a legacy accounting ERP platform serving multiple SME clients. Working with client IT to drive infrastructure decisions to support hybrid deployment model.

  • Built an MVP that successfully validated the agreed migration strategy.
  • Executed successful migrations for 3 clients, transitioning them to a secure web-based platform with an expanded feature set and significantly improved user experience.

Global Technical Lead

RxHealth Info Systems — May 2021 to March 2024

Wore several hats as Global Technical Lead to modernize RxHealth's engineering management practices, driving process improvements and elevating technical excellence across the organization.

  • Led architecture and implementation of several enterprise software technology projects in private and public sector.
  • Orchestrated DevOps transformation that successfully achieved migration of 30+ projects/products to GitLab with CI/CD automation, significantly enhancing delivery capabilities and platform scalability.
  • Spearheaded infrastructure optimizations that reduced monthly recurrent cloud costs by 50%.
  • Provided mentorship and coaching to junior colleagues, lead upskilling initiatives that led to adoption of Laravel as house framework.

Head of Infrastructure - IT

Services Integrity Savings & Loans Ltd — Feb 2017 to Apr 2021

Was responsible for managing IT infrastructure and maintaining systems SLAs. Key technical lead during the ground-up build-out of SIS&L's IT infrastructure, responsible for designing and implementing core components including the data center, network, and equipment specifications.

  • Achieved 40% reduction ($62,000 in year 1) in monthly data connectivity cost by writing some scripts to automate network failover operations utilizing SSL tunnels over public internet to provide reliable access to critical banking systems.
  • Reduced average time to deploy 2.5x using virtualization to automate deployment environment management.
  • Maintained outstanding security audit record with zero adverse findings over 4 fiscal years.

Technology & Systems Support Officer

Office of the President, Republic of Ghana — 2013 to 2017

As TSSO, my mandate was to drive the Office's vision for improving the efficiency of the office using technology to transform communications, scheduling and other administrative activities.

  • Developed a PHP based digital correspondence & scheduling application that reduced average correspondence turnaround time by 70%.
  • Developed a Performance Tracking application used by internal stakeholders to monitor activities of Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the government.
  • Setup and managed secure document management and archival system for President's Secretariat.

Senior ICT Assistant

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology — 2012 to 2013

  • Designed and developed web applications for School of Graduate Studies and Admissions Registry that reducing applicant processing time by 87%.
  • Designed and developed a biometric student registration and verification system used by the Institute of Distance Learning to verify student identity during academic registration and examinations. The system was expanded to the entire student population of the University (35,000+) after the initial pilot.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Infrastructure:
    • Cloud: AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, Scaleway, OVH, Linode, Hetzner
    • Virtualization: vmWare, HyperV, KVM, ProxMox
    • Databases: MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
    • Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Podman, Buildah, Kubernetes, Nomad
    • Server & Network Management: Linux, Windows, Unix, Overlay Networks, Mesh Networks
    • Observability: Grafana Stack (Grafana+Loki+Prometheus+Tempo), Elasticsearch Stack (Elasticsearch+Logstash+Kibana+Beats) , Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty
    • DevOps & CI/CD: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, Ansible
  • Software:
    • Languages: PHP, Python, JavaScript, Go, SQL, HTML, CSS
    • Scripting: Bash, Powershell
    • Frameworks: Laravel, Symfony, Filament, Livewire, React, AlpineJS, Tailwind
    • Testing: PHPUnit, Playwright,
  • Other:
    • Reporting: PowerBI, Metabase, Superset, Tableau Desktop
    • Wireframing: Balsamiq, Figma

EDUCATION

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology
BSc. Materials Engineering

COMMUNITY IMPACT

  • Co-founded mFriday, a tech community group at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology in 2012; mFriday's goal was to encourage students create startups. It was very successful, creating the TechHub, Ghana's first innovation hub and producing companies like Farmerline and mNotify.
  • Active member of DevCongress, Ghana's largest software developer community.