Theogene Karekezi Bigenimana is a competent and personable Information Communication management with 15+ years’ experience maintaining and expanding cross-functional delivery teams (13 IT Staff & 48 Data entry staff) and liaising with both executives and the technology team. 

Have international experience in East, West, and Central Africa - Rwanda, Burundi, Central Africa Republic, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Togo. Serving in international NGOs - Catholic Relief Services and One Acre Fund, Bank Populaire du Rwanda, and I complete my secondary low level in DRC.

I am an active Head of IT at Catholic Relief Service, ensuring that the CRS information technology network is fully operational for 7/24 availability. 

I also worked for Akros as Informatics and Data Use Advisor seconded to IntraHealth International Ingobyi Activity office and provide implementation support for a broad range of activities related to health information systems and promotion of data use. 

I am a candidate for an MBA in Project Management from the University of Kigali and hold a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the Kigali Institute of Kigali.

I work at the intersection of digital technology and international humanitarian aid/development to transform individual lives and our world. At Catholic Relief Services, I assisted the agency in developing ICT4D solutions - apps (tech we use in our overseas field programs) and using GIS practices in Rwanda, Burundi, Togo, Senegal, and Central Africa. Using and promoting digitalization project in our daily life founded by the USAID, DFID, European Union. In 2019 we won external recognition as the top NGO for effective use of technology in international development.

I previously served as an IT Director at One Acre Fund. I lead, create, develop, and manage the IT Department in Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania by serving and assisting more than 2,000 staff who serves smallholder farmers!

I lead a team of 98 data enumerators and 13 ICT staff systems into ICT for Development in different projects and different countries (Rwanda, Malawi, Burundi, and Tanzania) for more than 5 years that read to the successful data system integration and the reporting system that meets donor requirements. As an experienced and driven professional with comprehensive expertise in directing the implementation of a wide variety of complex IT systems, data management, developed MEAL System and solution (ODK, CommCare, Tangerine, SurveyCTO), I am confident that I would significantly contribute to the objectives of your company as an ICT Manager.

My career accomplishments consist of more than 11 years of experience implementing technology projects, data analytics, provide reporting developing product requirements, and analyzing support strategies and processes to facilitate improved operations and efficiency. 

My superior communication, problem-solving skills, and data management skills allow me to excel in driving teams through all facets of project startup, project life cycles, and realizing improved efficiency and productivity.

Consider the following highlights of my achievement:

•    I develop coherent and technology-appropriate solutions that increase the impact of RMNCH and malaria health interventions; identify specifications for meeting user requirements and coordinate with expert developers to build in DHIS-2 - Intrahealth May 2021

•    Implement, develop, maintain and support e-PASP a global business solution tool being tested with PASPs (70) in Senegal, Rwanda, and Guatemala selling ag inputs and basic veterinary services using CommCare and using PowerBI for data visualizations – CRS Senegal, April 2019.
•    Implemented and drove the adoption of key tools and processes to effectively deliver IT projects for the company - CRS Central Africa, February  2019.
•    Facilitated prioritization discussions between IT and MEAL to ensure alignment of project’s data and DHIS 2 - CRS Central Africa, April 2019.
•    Mapping all beneficiaries using ArcGIS Pro - CRS Central Africa, March 2019.
•    Establish operation strategy in a team for collecting data and monitoring data collectors - CRS Central Africa, April 2019.
•    Prepare data and information for making regular report data analysis using Power BI - CRS Central Africa, April 2019.
•    Organizing Set and organize a RedRose training to strengthen CRS staff capacity on the management of project finances, partners and vendors. These two complementary approaches minimized fraud to 30% and strengthen real-time documentation and analysis when implementing the project - CRS Burundi, October 2018.
•    Conduct training on CommCare for CRS and partner staff and to assist in developing the CommCare system for project start-up - CRS Burundi, October 2018.
•    Develop MEAL system – CRS Platform integration into the project, data collection system, Workers monitoring, Reporting system - CRS Burundi, October 2018.
•    Designed and implemented the baseline survey use by the MEAL team to reach 2100 beneficiaries` families that are getting support from CRS and SNV via the Gikuriro program (Nutrition and WASH Project for 5 years) crossing 15 districts using tablets via CommCare – CRS Rwanda, June 2017.
•    Designed and developed Stock Management System at CSR Rwanda that tracks the incoming items, outgoing items, Manager item by employee, Asset movement, remaining store, reorder items – CRS Rwanda, January 2017.
•    Data migration from windows server 2008 (Old server) to windows server 2012 (new server) for CRS Rwanda - CRS Rwanda, June 2017.
•    Designed and implemented VOIP systems for the Kigali office for + 100 users - CRS Rwanda, July 2016.
•    Designed and developed IT inventory Database in One Acre Fund - OAF Rwanda, August 2013.
•    Designed, implemented, developed and maintain a MEAL database that seasonal tracks 100,000 farmers’ families in One Acre Fund - - OAF Rwanda, November 2013.
•    Designed, implemented, managed, and maintained an ICT training curriculum to +600 staff in One Acre Fund and Design Wiki Page in Kinyarwanda to promote IT continuous learning culture - OAF Rwanda, January 2013.
•    Reduced the IT department software cost to 50% with the Acronis computer image utilities - OAF Rwanda, December 2012.
•    Contributed to the design, documentation, training, usage, and troubleshooting  the  Roster  – Database that tracks +200,000 farmers activity per year – loan, distribution, repayment - OAF Rwanda, March 2013.
•    Lead, Created, recruited, trained an IT department staff for +8 IT Staff - CRS Rwanda, December 2016.
•    Created, designed, a 4 infrastructure networks across Rwanda (3 networks) and Burundi (1 network) that provided internet to 2,000 One Acre Fund staff from fiber optics in Rwanda and satellite in Burundi - OAF Rwanda, April 2014.
•    One Acre Fund IT Strategy, January 2014
•    Designed a network infrastructure that meets +300 user’s needs: 200 laptops, 50 tablets, and 50 smartphones at OAF Rwanda.
•    Recruited and +13 IT Support staff and 98 Data entry across countries – Rwanda, Burundi & Tanzania.
•    Developed a weekly backup system using Acronis that reduce IT Support staff workload at 17%.
•    Minimized the time to set up a new computer by providing an easy solution as Acronis, gain 90 minutes for each computer - OAF Rwanda, August 2010.

With achievements a proven track record of leading teams through ICT, Mobile installations, Mobile Management, Develop and Testing applications, MEAL System development, and development cycles of IT systems and programation, I am positioned to immensely exceed your expectations for this role. I look forward to discussing the position, and my qualifications, in further detail.