GRANT MCHINGULA, DIRECTOR-SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMNT, SUPPORT AND DELIVERY

GRANT MCHINGULA

DIRECTOR-SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMNT, SUPPORT AND DELIVERY

CLICKTECH SOLUTIONS LIMITED

Location
Malawi - Blantyre
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
9 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 5 Months

DIRECTOR-SOFTWARE DEVELOPEMNT, SUPPORT AND DELIVERY at CLICKTECH SOLUTIONS LIMITED
  • Malawi - Blantyre
  • My current job since January 2018

Responsible for Direct strategic development, management and
deployment of QA resources and software development.

Project Name: Development and
Implementation of Case
Management System
Client: High Court of Malawi-Revenue
Division
Role Performed:
 Developed core modules for
the case management system
 Translated customer business
requirements specifications to
functional requirements
specifications for other
developers to use.

IT Project Manager at ECS/FutureSense
  • Malawi - Lilongwe
  • March 2019 to January 2020

Responsible for delivering of Oracle EPM Enterprise Planning and
Budgeting Cloud Service project at Reserve Bank of Malawi against
agreed scope, budget, schedule & customer expectations. Doing this
whilst supervising, directing & motivating teams of multi-discipline
contractors & employees

Project Name: Oracle Enterprise
Planning and Budgeting Cloud
Service Implementation Project
Client: Reserve Bank of Malawi

Role Performed:
 Provided executives with
analytics and decision-support
tools used as the basis for
reorganization, consolidation
and relocation strategies.
 Partnered with developers to
automate manual processes,
saving time and money while
decreasing errors.
 Collaborated with stakeholder
groups across the organization
to ensure business and
technology alignment.
 Proposed solutions meeting to
defined specifications and
needs.

Achievements:
 Performed quality assurance,
system integration and user acceptance testing facilitating
on time, on budget and
acclaimed “go-live” of EPBCS

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER(INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT) at United Nations Regional Service Centre Entebbe
  • Uganda - Entebbe
  • September 2013 to August 2016

Provided technical expertise and recommendations in assessing
existing business systems and new ICT software projects and
initiatives with available resources;
 Verified the integrity of data and databases;
 Identified opportunities that can improve efficiency of business
processes and carry out any in-house application development
workarounds or solutions;
 Analyzed requests for change of systems in production in an orderly
manner such as estimating and communicating the work efforts,
risks, timescales, resources required to fulfil them;
 Drafted Project plans or complete assigned Work Packages for new
systems and/or system releases agreed upon by CITS’s Senior
Management with the business;
 Tested and modified systems in a controlled manner with the
necessary tools for Test Specifications, Test Scenarios and Test Cases
so as to ensure that the systems operate reliably;
 Performed systems deployments and/or releases to the
production/live environment, monitor and optimize their
performance and availability;
 Involved in software coding, documentation and operating
manuals;
 Conducted User training and presentations about the final products
to the target audiences concerned;
 Provided technical service support for deployed systems and
releases and respond to feedback given by the business;
 Involved in configuration management of software applications
changes and revisions


Project Name: Development and Implementation of Various Systems
for different units at United Nations Regional Service Centre Entebbe
Client: UNRSCE-Uganda
Role Performed:
 Translated specifications into executable code for a business rule
engine.
 Reviewed code done by peer developers.
 Refactored and maintained an existing enterprise application
system.
 Integrated an existing application with externally operating
applications.
 Involved with the day-to-day agile development environment
processes.
Achievements:
 Analyzed degradation points of an existing system and did
prototypes as an example to refactor the system for better
performance.
 Developed documentation used as a best practices with
producing quality code on a specific platform.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at University Of Malawi – The Malawi Polytechnic
  • November 2013

Did a research on the Impact of IT investment on firm performance-Case of Malawi Insurance Industry

Bachelor's degree, Administration And Information Systems
  • at University Of Malawi – The Malawi Polytechnic
  • January 2006

Developed WES(Written Exercise System) for managing Students written exercises

Specialties & Skills

System Integration Testing
IT Technical Support
Custom Software Development
Business Analysis
IT Project Management

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner
Portuguese
Beginner