CURRICULUM VITAE
SAMUEL MUKANGA
PERSONAL DETAILS
Surname: Mukanga
First name: Samuel
Mobile Number: 072*******
************@*****.***
Home address: *****-***,
Mumias.
Date of Birth: 09/09/1990
PROFILE
Passionate cyber security and sales personnel with a good background in Information Technology (IT). Ready to be part of a cyber security, sales and IT team that will develop my personal and professional skills as a member or a leader.
EDUCATION
Tertiary Education
Institution: Technical University of Kenya
Period: 2011-2014
Qualification: Bachelors-Information Technology
High school
Institution: Booker Academy
Period: 2005-2008
Primary school
Institution: Shitoto Primary School.
Period: 1997-2004
CERTIFICATIONS $ SKILLS
ICT Certifications: CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA Security+, Cisco CCNA. Skills: Information technology, Sales, Preparation of tender documents, Managing and negotiating for contracts, Project Management, market research, market analysis, forecasting and presentation.
2
WORK EXPERIENCE
Period: Since January 2016
Company: Professional Technologies Limited.
Position: Sales Account Manager- Cyber Security solutions Work description: Responsible for meeting customers, identifying their requirements and then professionally suggesting, explaining and providing cyber security solutions to them
Duties:
• Undertaking direct marketing activities within the assigned region/territory.
• Preparing business development and sales action plans.
• Source and convert clients.
• Scheduling sales, promotions and marketing activities.
• Planning and participating in sales events.
• Develop and maintain a customer database.
• Make sales calls to new and existing clients.
• Carry out market research and surveys and file reports back to the manager.
• Train clients on products features.
• Maintain sales activity records and prepare sales reports. Period: April 2014- December 2015
Company: Professional Technologies
Position: Cyber security Pre-sales engineer.
Work description: Responsible for supporting customers to ensure they are cyber resilient. Duties:
• Installation of Enterprise security solutions.
• Making presentations on IT Security procedures and technologies.
• Technical presentations to C-Level Personnel.
• Compliance checks on client sites.
• Root cause analysis of security breaches and virus attacks.
• Gaining an understanding of IT security and mitigation steps
• Performed unit Upgrades and updates of Enterprise Security Software.
• Installation of Intrusion prevention and Detection systems.
• Installation and configuration of Data Loss Prevention Systems.
• Performing POC’s of firewalls in several institutions
• Configurations of routers and switches
• Configuration of firewalls to set policies of organizations. INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Hobbies: Reading books, Researching and travelling. Membership: Partner of McAfee, ACRONIS, CISCO, SOPHOS, FORCEPOINT, RAPID 7 and Thycotic
3
REFEREES
1. Name: Wallace Mbwaya.
Position: Information Security Consultant
Organization: Co-operative Bank of Kenya
Contact number: 071*******
2. Name: Eva Amenya
Position: Software Security Expert
Organization: Professional Technologies
Contact number: 072*******
3. Name: Richard Masinde
Position: Research Professional
Organization: Kenya Metrological Department
Contact number: 071*******