Rogers Munene

Major Professional roles have been primarily focused as a software developer working with various middle-ware technologies building interfaces for medium to large scale applications. Provide application support for middle-ware financial application systems. Liaising with external partners to resolve and help set up systems to be integrated and ensuring that integration projects meet business requirements and goals, fulfil end-user requirements, and identify and resolve systems issues

1. SOFTWARE ENGINEER | TECHSAVANNA-FINSERVE AFRICA (2021 – PRESENT) I am currently working at Finserve Africa under Techsavanna Company Limited as a Software Engineer and Technical support. I am involved in development and support of the Jenga product which is currently undergoing upgrade. I have been engaged in the deployment of the services to the azure cloud platform. Responsibilities: • Analyzing requirements within company and giving independent and objective advice. • Developing agreed solutions and implementing them as they are listed in the requirements documents • Helping with change management activities. • Designing, testing, installing and monitoring new fixes in the system. • Preparing documentation and presenting progress reports to my managers. • Organizing training for users . • Fixing and troubleshooting of issues 2. SOFTWARE DEVELOPER | ECLECTICS INTERNATIONAL (2016 – 2021) Eclectics International is a technology savvy company whose business is to innovate, design, develop, deploy and support state of the art tailor-made software, for the Banking & Financial sector. Eclectics has implemented ICT systems in over 20 countries and with ongoing projects in Botswana, Zambia, Ethiopia, Southern Sudan, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Responsibilities: ✓ Meeting with clients to determine requirements. ✓ Working with clients to define the scope project. ✓ Travelling to customer sites. ✓ Liaising with staff at all levels of a client organization. ✓ Defining software, hardware and network requirements. ✓ Analyzing IT requirements within companies and giving independent and objective advice on the use of IT. ✓ Developing agreed solutions and implementing new systems. Presenting solutions in written or oral reports. ✓ Helping clients with change management activities. Purchasing systems where appropriate. ✓ Designing, testing, installing and monitoring new systems. ✓ Preparing documentation and presenting progress reports to customers. Organizing training for users and other consultants. ✓ Being involved in sales and support, and where appropriate, maintaining contact with client organizations. PROJECTS: Co-operative Bank of KENYA. MCO-OPCASH ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) Upgrade. (September 2017 – 2021). ✓ High availability architectural design and implementation i.e., Multiple instances’ of ESB running concurrently for both high availability and scalability on Oracle Weblogic 12c. ✓ Oracle Weblogic performance tuning. ✓ m-visa Integration – integrating with VISANET on both issuing and acquiring ✓ transaction on the ESB routing engine. ✓ BFUB Core banking OFFLINE transaction processing (during EOD/SOD& Downtime). ✓ Alert management –SMS & Email across all channels. ✓ Integrating –Messaging, translations, security, message response etc ✓ Integrating all payment systems–Money Transfer (Account to Account, ✓ Wallet/Account to Account/Wallet). ✓ B2C integration. ✓ Integrating all Channels (POS, Mobile Banking, Loan Scoring System) ✓ Integrating Bill Payment Service Providers–KPLC, DSTV etc ✓ Integrating Mobile Top-up – Safaricom, Airtel ✓ Integrating to Mobile Money providers–MPESA and Airtel Money ✓ Reports and data visualization creation. ✓ Development and Support of a Mobile applicatiowith a web-based admin portal with capabilities of Balance Inquiries, Mini statements, Fund Transfers (Bank to Bank, Bank to Mobile Money), Airtime Top-up (for Mobile Phones). ✓ Development and Support of a USSD Based Mobile Handset System with a webbased admin portal with capabilities of Balance Inquiries, Mini statements, Fund Transfers (Bank to Bank, Bank to Mobile Money), Airtime Top-up (for Mobile Phones) ✓ Development and support of Middle-ware Java applications that are part of the mobile wallet structure. The main focus was integration of bill payment utilities to the core banking system via a dedicated enterprise service bus (ESB). ✓ PESALINK integration ✓ Safaricom Host to Host integration ✓ Bug fixing of already developed applications as a part of the support structure

EDUCATION QUALIFICATIONS: 2021-2023 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology-Master’s Degree Software Engineering 2012-2016 Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology-Degree in Computer Technology (Second Lower Division) 2006-2010 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (A-) Chogoria Boys High School 1997-2005 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (399/500)-Mariamu Primary School