Zekarias Bogale
Creative Director
Position:
Creative DirectorResponsibility:
Creative DirectorExperience:
10 YearsEmail:
zekarias.b@eastafricanconsult.comPhone:
2519225766984Personal Experience
IT Manager, Software Engineer & Digital Financial Services More than 15 years of experience with more than 3 years as a manager
Dashen Bank — Digital Banking Channels Engineer
September 2022 – PRESENT
- Serve as technical lead and technical project manager on various digital banking projects such as branch automation, Flocash payment gateway integration, Safaricom airtime top-up, postpaid, & M-pesa services integration
- Lead & implement integration projects with third-parties
- Maintain high availability of the digital banking platform
- Work on IBM API Connect & App Connect Enterprise ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) to implement integration in a service-oriented architecture
- System integration & user acceptance testing
Hidasie Telecom — IT Strategy & Innovation Manager
May 2016 – June 2022
- Led the development of bulk SMS system and contact center database for short code 8520 as a project leader and software engineer
- Supervised implementation of two Electronic airtime Voucher Distribution systems – normal EVD system & wallet-based EVD system (https://admin.hidasie.et , https://admin.htpay.et )
- Supervised integration of eTopUP prepaid mobile phone airtime recharge system in partnership with Bank of Abyssinia & Ethio Electronic Kifiya (First Global Data). This experience has helped me gain a deep understanding of fintech, banking operations & risk based auditing
- Supervised implementation of Shareholder Management & Voting System
- Led the development of Hidasie Telecom website ( https://www.hidasietele.com ) as project leader and full stack web developer
- Supervised implementation of ERP system (Enterprise Resource Planning system consisting of Human Resource Management Module integrated with attendance machine, Inventory Management Module, Sales & CRM Module, Procurement Management Module, and Finance Module) http://erp.hidasietele.com
- Participated in the restructuring of IT department’s organizational structure
- Took Telebirr mobile money TOT (Training of Trainers) training before its launch & provided the training to 15 partner trainees in partnership with Ethio Telecom
- Planned & provided EVD training for 11 districts & 45 trainees across the nation
- As IT Strategy & Innovation Manager, I have always applied Agile project management methods
- Participated in commissioning & installation of a small-scale datacenter
OCAD — ERP Developer & Expert
July 2014 – May 2016
Implemented Odoo ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system when it was previously known as OpenERP
VibeNet CyberSpace — Software Developer
June 2008 – July 2014
- Ethiopix GNU/Linux OS distro developer & project leader / partner (This project is currently discontinued & archived in the Wayback Machine Internet Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110201162817/http://ethiopix.com/ )
- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP / Python) programmer & Linux system network administrator
EDUCATION
HiLCoE School of Computer Science & Technology, BSc Degree in Computer Science
2005 – 2008
Computer science courses I took are listed in the student copy
Addis Ababa University School of Commerce, Master of Science in Corporate Finance with Specialty in Investment Management
October 2023 – PRESENT
I am currently taking 2 courses: Advanced Financial Management & Business Research Methodology
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