Moses Aluodo

Responsible for overall business development activities in East Africa for Amdocs, as well as overall stewardship of all on-going projects in the region, including the day-to-day management of project teams:

Key Achievements:

• $9.0M MVS (Minimum Viable Solution) for Safaricom Enterprise Business Unit’s Automation – the MVS initially cover end-to-end automation of the lead-to-order sales processes. Subsequent automation of the order-to-cash and cash-to-care processes are planned and confirmed for Phase II of the project.
• $1.1M Cloud Aggregation Platform (CAP), an automated e-commerce fulfillment platform for Safaricom’s telecom products as well as third-party independent software vendors (ISVs).
• $7.0M Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management platform that’s machine-learning based and enables detection, correction, prevention and recovery of revenue and cost leakages.

Responsible for Oracle Consulting Services business development activities in East and West Africa territories, across all customer segments – service provider, public sector and commercial.

Key Achievements:

• $5.9M consulting services for Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise transformational multi-pillar Oracle cloud solutions.
• $4.5M consulting services for Central Bank of Kenya Enterprise Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Analytics running on Cloud at Customer.
• $1.2M consulting services for Safaricom Limited Human Capital Management and Supply Chain Management cloud implementation.
• $500K consulting services for Kenya ICT Authority shared services implementation on Oracle Cloud Machine (OCM) as well as migration of existing workloads to the OCM platform.
• $1.0M consulting services for Equity Bank Limited Data Warehouse Phase 2 and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).

Technical Services Leader for all the client value offerings in the Global Technology Services division at IBM East Africa: Cloud, Security, Mobility, Networking and Managed Services, across all customer segments. Worked on major transformational opportunities in Public Sector, Service Provider and Commercial segments.

Key Achievements:

• Orchestrated and signed a $3.1M multi-year managed services opportunity at Sidian Bank helping the bank adopt an annuity-based IT consumption model, delivering high availability and predictive operations to the bank.
• Designed and delivered Cisco Collaboration Demo as part of IBM East Africa’s Innovation Center’s capability to have customers experience collaboration solutions and shorten sales cycles.

Principal overlay go-to technical sales consultant in Sub Sahara Africa for Collaboration Solutions - Telepresence, Unified Communications, Web Conferencing (WebEx), Contact Centers and Digital Media Signage:

Key Achievements:

• 2015: Lead overlay technical sales consultant from concept, design to closure of the $2M unified communications and video conferencing infrastructure for the Nairobi County government - a collaboration transformation project funded by the World Bank.
• 2014: Lead overlay technical sales consultant from concept, design to closure of the $6M Safaricom’s Hosted Collaboration Solution and Telepresence Exchange – a cloud platform that enables Safaricom to package and monetize collaboration-as-a-service offering for the Kenyan market.
• 2014: Lead overlay technical sales consultant from concept, design to closure of the $4M unified communications and immersive video conferencing infrastructure for East Africa Community – one of the initiatives under the infrastructure pillar to help accelerate integration of the East Africa economic block.
• 2013: Lead overlay technical sales consultant from concept, design to closure of the $1M unified communications infrastructure for the Government of Lesotho – an initiative under the Ministry of Health to connect all departments and agencies.
• 2012: Lead overlay technical sales consultant from concept, design to closure of the $3M video conferencing infrastructure for the Government of Rwanda – a country transformation to connect all the districts for day-to-day collaboration to reduce both costs and carbon foot-print.
• 2011: Lead overlay technical sales consultant from concept, design to closure of the $10M unified communications infrastructure for the Government of Kenya – a country transformational project for telephony costs take-out.

Principal technical resource for partner-led business; translated diverse customer business requirements into future-proof technical solutions incorporating several Cisco’s architectures: borderless networks, collaboration, data center and virtualization. Coached and mentored a wide pool of system engineers working for Cisco’s eco-system of partners delivering on the promise of technical excellence for our customers in terms industry certifications:

Key Achievements:

• Helped grow the Partner-Led Cisco Business from $4M in 2008 to $20M in 2010 through accelerated channel enablement and joint marketing roadshows.
• Pioneered several cross-architectural technology boot camps for partner and customer engineers, with a record growth in certification badges, building a community of technical leaders.
• Lead technical resource from concept to design and closure of the $6M Government of Rwanda Data Center, first Cisco Data Center win in Africa, based on vBlock (converged infrastructure).

Principal consultant and advisor to senior management on information technology; continuously review and optimize Service Level Agreements with all ICT suppliers, managed and negotiated contracts, to optimize overall ICT spend in the region; Business Continuity Planning (BCP) for all business applications, Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN); manage quarterly testing of ICT Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).

Key Achievements:

• Prince II Project Management methodology, in the management and delivery of all ICT projects ensuring the business imperatives of the projects accrue to the business.
• Unified communications roll-out across all campuses eliminating the recurrent cost of inter-branch calls as well as increasing productivity in terms of supporting remote-working. This project became a model for Lafarge Corporate and was subsequently rolled out to other business units.
• Disaster Recovery Plans for the SAP ERP and other critical business applications, Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN), delivering uptimes of near 100%.
• Championed and successfully introduced blade server technologies, including virtualization and storage area network (SAN) to consolidate and reduce server footprint in the group.
• Centralized Microsoft Active Directory platform, delivering a controlled and consistent end-user experience – transforming the desktop as a platform for communication.

Provided overall strategic ICT leadership to the Plant, and in particular executed an adaptive enterprise Plan that revamped LAN infrastructure to high-performance, high-availability network; worked closely with the plant management to streamline management reporting; Knowledge Correspondent charged with training new-hires and employees on Lafarge’s knowledge sharing tools:

Key Achievements:

• ICT Master Plan and Strategy addressing short-, medium- and long-term business needs of Bamburi Mombasa Plant.
• Revamped architectures for Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN) and Data Center, delivering predictive ICT operations to Bamburi Mombasa Plant.
• Talent acquisition and development, including succession plans, and facilitating team members to develop to their full potential.

Joined WorldSpace as an intern immediately after graduating from University of Nairobi, was confirmed and promoted to a Systems Administrator within three months and ended up getting another promotion as the Information Systems and Solutions Support Manager. In the final role, provided overall IT leadership to the business:

Key Achievements:

• In consultation with other line-of-business leaders, developed the corporate information technology vision and strategy.
• Established controls and monitoring of network devices for proactive response, escalation, and maximum uptime.