Bryson Mwamburi

Kyosk App is the leading platform for informal retailers, commonly known as kiosks. These retailers currently contribute to 60% of all commerce in Africa.

My achievements include:

• Route Optimization : Optimizing delivery or sales routes to reduce costs and improve efficiency using AI
• Fleet Optimization through Assignment Intelligence: Intelligent allocation and management of vehicles for tasks based on factors like capacity and location.
• Stock Optimization: Ensuring optimal inventory levels at kiosks to minimize stockouts and overstock situations, improving sales and profitability.
• Customer Activation & Retention through behavioral interventions using large language models, retrieval augmented generation

Partnering with Shujaaz Media Inc, an Emmy Award winning social behavioral change company in the space of sexual reproductive health, we achieved the following:

• Segmenting digital audiences using data from offline surveys Creating assessment tools to monitor shifts in attitudes and beliefs regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health
• Building sentiment, topic, and data augmentation models for scalable impact measurement
• Managing stakeholders across various expertise areas within knowledge and learning teams

Amref is Africa's leading health NGO, working with communities in 35 countries to secure the right to health and break the cycle of poverty. Working with the Innovations Lead as a consultant, my contribution includes:

Opportunity scoping for data + health innovations

Mobile health clinic location optimization via GIS + data science

Pollicy functions at the intersection of data, technology and design to improve government service delivery. My mandate a s consultant included:

Detection and classification of gender based hate speech online via NLP model, with focus on women in politics using scikit-learn, BERT and Python.

• Oversaw preparation of party member acquisition strategy through digital channels based on voter personas
• Improved digital first strategy through changes to political party app design.
• Collaborated with sales and marketing departments to support member acquisition.
• Developed GIS and social media based intelligence tools to enhance understanding of members and their aspirations.

Marco Eyes is a US-based startup aiming to augment supply chains in healthcare through Artificial Intelligence. Working under the Director of Analytics, I achieved the following:

Analytics

Forecast analysis of appointment fulfillment by patients for highly sought-after medical services e.g. cardiac related healthcare.

Data wrangling from open data sources on public health, household surveys and measured of poverty so as to inform analytics in low-resource projects/settings in collaboration with Machine learning scientists and deployment managers.

Communicating data readiness and nuances to stakeholders via reports on nationwide healthcare data sources such as DHIS2, eSIGL and novel datasets created.

Machine learning infrastructure maintenance via database and feature updates performed utilizing PostgresSQL, AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2 and RDS) , Python, R

Business Development

Contributing to discussions on customer acquisition strategy.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We help clients understand people and inspire growth. Reporting to the Head Of Operations, West, East Central Africa, my acheivements involved the following:

Analytics

Enhancing proactive decision-making through forecast modelling of consumer satisfaction and product uptake metrics for leading telcos and banks.

Prioritizing areas of strategic focus through Key Driver Analysis on consumer behaviour, ensuring effective resource use.

Augmenting efficiency and accuracy in data collection through Automated Quality Control. Involving behavioural analysis and anomaly detection, this was used to flag bots and uninterested respondents, reducing time spent on manual checks by 16%

Mitigating biases through an interviewer recommendation system. Assigning interviewers to different tasks based on the type of project and quality of work, led to increased transparency in project team selection.

Sharing insights and project updates with clients via dashboards developed using PowerBI, R and Python.

Business Development

Improving operational efficiency and data quality through automated quality control checks and interviewer recommendation system
Client management as a technical lead for analytics projects

Offer pricing for the West, East and Central African region marketplace to ensure gainful business with clients whilst taking into account market realities.

Improving internal knowledge of analytics offers, operational opportunities for data science in our region through roadshows.

Stakeholder management through changes brought about by robotic process automation

Mannerisims.co.ke is a menswear blog, specializing in the depth of menswear history, alongside selling mens clothes.My role as business owner involved the following:

• Trained and motivated employees to perform daily business functions.
• Oversaw business budget planning and administration, accounting functions and purchasing
• Put together realistic budgets based upon costs and fees for successfully operating business.
• Consulted with customers to assess needs and propose optimal solutions.
• Conducted target market research to discover customer needs and analyze competitor trends.
• Tracked trends and suggested enhancements to both challenge and refine company's product offerings.
• Implemented business strategies, increasing revenue and effectively targeting new markets.