Director Manager

JOHN BRIAN KABAA KAMAU

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RISK MANAGER, IMPACT EVALUATOR, RENEWABLE ENERGY ADVISOR, CYBER SECURITY STRATEGIST, AND DESIGN THINKER

EDUCATION

Coffey Management Consulting – Tetra Tech (Business Advocacy Fund), 2018

oIntroduction to Advocacy, Influencing and Argumentation in Public Policy Dialogue

oUnderstanding Public Policy, Public Policy Analysis, and Formulating Public Policy

Passed Level 1 Golf Rule School, Kenya Golf Union, 2017

Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland online Coursera course with distinction, 2013

Risk Finance and Management Certifications, GE Capital, 2013

Project Management, Risk Management, ITIL, Executive Development, Leadership Certifications, JPMorgan Chase, 2009 – 2012

Central Michigan University – Mount Pleasant, MI

Degree: Master of Science (Physics – GPA 3.5/4.0) 08/2006 - 12/2008

Kalamazoo College - Kalamazoo, MI (Physics), 09/2005 - 06/2006

University of Nairobi - Nairobi, Kenya

Degree: Bachelor of Science (Physics) 09/2002 - 09/2016

Institute of Advanced Technology Computer ICDL certification 04/2001 – 09/2002

ACHIEVEMENTS

Participated in the 8th Edition of the Geneva Health Forum – Improving Access to Health with the open-source list of 3D printed medical devices.

Won the prestigious and highly competitive 2020 Lexus Design Award - Discover Lexus.

Nominated for the 9th World Water Forum by the Limuru Water and Sewerage Government Entity and Consolidated Water Limited in March 2022.

Received the Above and Beyond Recognition 2014 award at General Electric – GE Capital

Proactively involved in governance and strategy for Enterprise Risk and anticipated future analytics technology, resource and efficiency requirements – JPMorgan Chase.

Won the 2008 Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation Award at Central Michigan University. My Master’s thesis involved the discovery and investigation of novel lowest-energy Boron atomic clusters using computational physics optimization programs.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

01/2023 – Current ANEW Energy Nairobi, KE

Position: Board Member

Board seat member to scale Africa operations for ANEW products and services. This would include learning programs and manufacturing machine deployment to a fulfilment centre to serve Africa. Renewable Energy Copy Factory Manufacturing solutions for wind, solar and energy storage

01/2019 – Current WaSoRe Nairobi, KE

Position: Strategy and Africa Business Manager

Planned, formulated and deployed funding and business development strategic plans for ThornGreen that later became WaSoRe. Provision of the most effective eco/green-based Water, Energy and Agro technological products depending on the needs and Soil Regenerative Technologies to have a circular economic cycle.

We support the Within Foundation who provide a sustainable supply of clean drinking water. Their primary methods include the implementation of modern infrastructure such as 'Within Alpha Wellspring', Water Dams, and Water Purification Plants. The technology utilizes specialized satellite technology to locate "Alpha Water" veins, a water source believed to be mostly uncontaminated. Precise drilling locations and depths are determined based on these findings, typically around 2,000 meters below the surface.

03/2014 – Current BellTower Dallas, TX to Nairobi, KE

Position: Multi-Industry Business Development

For Tetra Tech Coffey under the Business Advocacy Fund project, I was involved in the assignments below:

oCompleted 9 impact assessment evaluations in 2018 for multiple Business Membership Organizations (BMOs) after policy changes and 3 monitoring Business Advocacy evaluation reports. These case studies highlighted the important role dialogue and advocacy play in sustainable economic development. Some involved

Warehouse Receipt System: A well-implemented warehouse system can reduce post-harvest losses and enhance farmers' ability to raise finance secured on produce not yet sold.

Reform of the Seed & Plant Varieties Act: has made a big difference to farmers by allowing an easier approval system for new plant varieties.

Creating a Veterinary Medicines Directorate: and separating the regulation of veterinary medicines and human medicines.

Reforming tax on the local manufacture of pesticides: to avoid the perverse discrepancy that imported pesticides were cheaper simply because they were taxed less.

Cooperative policy & legislation: KUSSCO aimed to avert proposals to amend legislation ahead of the adoption of a new national cooperatives policy.

Kenya National Chamber of Commerce Vihiga: enabling county revenue-raising legislation: This was the first of many successes to persuade county legislatures to put in place the appropriate legislation to raise revenue.

The commercial law bench-book: An effective means of ensuring that judges are all aware of the law relating to commerce so that they can apply it more consistently.

Kenya Association of Manufacturers: Impact of licensing reforms on doing business and competitiveness in Kenya which led to the elimination of 315 regulatory requirements.

oFormulation and presentation of grant applications by assisting firms to complete Concept Notes, Application Forms, Due Diligence Forms and Budget Sheets.

oCompleted 3 monitoring effectiveness of partnerships between BMOs and Ministries, Departments and Agencies.

Driving a digital transformation network with ArtinTech, we deal with issues around low performance, slow work processes, high cost of operations, difficulty in communication processes, and human errors, among others. We even help those who are still using Excel files or depend on printing paper forms in their current process flows via a cloud-based Enterprise Resouce Planning software. In addition, we offer competitive solutions, including Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, business process management modules to drive automation as well as predictive analytical modules to provide insight for proper decision-making.

For Toyota Motor North America Inc., the Lexus Design Awards 2020 offers the opportunity to work on innovative solutions that captivate the imagination with exceptional design dubbed ‘Design for a better tomorrow’. The outcome was a smart design that produced an economically and financially sustainable water and energy harvesting unit with quality and purification aspects.

Involved in the planning, development and implementation of a digital fundraising campaign for a local educational funding mechanism. Provided and implemented strategic plans in phases to ensure economic sustainability moving forward.

The current director of Consolidated Water Company Limited searching for the most efficient way to save costs for a community development water project by seeking ways to reduce repair and maintenance costs as well as the addition of new members. I was involved in fundraising, conflict resolution, operations, procurement and end-to-end project management for major borehole and tank repairs as well as regular financial reporting. I created various company policies that brought objective best practice standards in operations and cost improvement e.g. fee structure, digital transformation strategy, operational strategy, etc.

Developing solutions to enhance performance, maximize efficiency and minimize costs.

e.g. created an automated bookkeeping and reporting workbook for a savings and investment group. This enabled ease of notification and reporting by having an established group of rules and regulations.

Other work-in-progress projects include:

1.Quantum Secure protection for data, communication, and financial payment gateway protocols as well as a Cyber Testing Platform.

2.Urban Planning for small spaces using Automated Vertical Parking Solutions.

3.Agroforestry Solutions.

4.Green Building Solutions.

5.Smart Water Detection and Energy Solutions. See an innovative work-in-progress project - Alpha Water.

6.Delivering ‘outside the box’ Technologies, Innovative Designs, Efficient and Sustainable Construction Methods, Best Practices, Best in Class Materials and Equipment, and of course training for Skills and Technology transfer. By showing health/nutritional, socio-economical, environmental, gender and educational progress improvements to livelihoods.

Helping natural resource owners like farmers, landowners, and investors by balancing short-term income with long-term returns. By making it easy for investors to fund low-risk projects, while helping one increase profitability, through our design, analytics and project development and management platform. With us, project owners become more resilient, and investors earn great returns.

02/2013 – 02/2014 General Electric Capital (GECA) – Irving, TX

Position: Senior Data Analytics Risk Manager

Drove continued shift in culture so that one line owns the timely closure of findings via weekly reporting to different necessary stakeholders.

Improved reporting integrity/consistency through the implementation of data validation techniques and formula checks.

Managed the production of GECA reports timely and accurately, from risk management repositories such as Metric Stream (MS) and other data warehouses all while driving data quality directly with all the relevant stakeholders. Shortened the timeline for delivery of these reports by use of Excel macros.

Participated in the integration of the mapped business processes, activities, risks and controls into MS. Involved in the development of key risk indicators and key performance indicators.

Increased the insightfulness of issue management reporting with data mining and scrubbing techniques to aid in the creation and development of year-over-year risk profile dashboards, root cause analysis of issues closed past due, and fieldwork coverage based on the risk review calendar.

Developed a simplified regression testing method for checking the data integrity of thousands of individual values after each system patch. This was adopted by IT in quality assurance.

Effectively managed a remote team by creating and maintaining the capacity, timeliness and error rate metrics which expanded the issue management and data sampling capabilities of the team.

Introduced process simplification and team productivity by reducing the hours needed to generate a full set of a report by 51%, allowing for increased/improved reporting and sampling support by the remote outsourced team – use of the team’s capacity increased to 97%, while timeliness of deliverables was increased to 98%.

Leveraged best-in-class models for sampling, reporting and analytics processes, systems, and deliverables as compared to other regulated companies.

Crafted a handbook / Standard Operating Procedure for an efficient and effective statistically valid risk-based sampling of business data sets that were adopted by other lines of business.

Performed analysis/segmentation of the entire data universe for multiple lines of businesses, to centralize sampling and make it easier to identify risks and execute reviews.

Maintained the GECA Risk Review calendar to optimize fieldwork coverage for over 269 reviews.

03/2010 – 01/2013 JP Morgan Chase – Dallas, TX

Position: Operations Risk and Control Self-Assessment Program Manager

Designed, built and managed internal business enterprise risk and control tests by employing project management techniques. Successfully managed the testing of business IT risk management controls such as Access Administration, Access Recertification, Capacity Planning, Change Control, Data Backup, Data Confidentiality, External Network Connectivity, Incident and Problem Management, Information Retention, Privileged Access, Production Monitoring, Project Assurance, Business Resiliency, Security Configuration, Technology Asset Management, Vendor/Third Party Oversight and User Developed Business Application Management and Governance.

Designed, developed, and documented bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly and semi-annual reports with Risk management repositories (Archer, Phoenix and Business Objects) to aid in decision-making, e.g. time-based reports, quality assurance reports and productivity reports. Maintained consistency in reporting ensuring data quality, integrity and deployment promptly.

Involved in the governance of each line of business to assess key Risks, identify appropriate Controls, and ensure that those controls are mitigating the risks effectively and consistently.

Created tools for performance models to improve the team’s effectiveness, provide insight for setting strategic objectives and drive operational performance.

Chose statistically appropriate sample sizes to ensure application reviews were completed efficiently by the operational risk team and summarized test results for each completed review performed.

Identified data process improvements and leveraged technology to automate and streamline existing processes which increased the efficiency of audits/tests of controls by 50%. Guided remediation efforts to the application information owners to ensure the business complied with risk management policies, standards, and procedures.

Provided guidance and mentorship to direct reports given their career interests.

Participated in the development of the annual model validation/review plan.

Built, fine-tuned and tracked the success of internal capacity planning, and forecasting models for business IT process management and mortgage banking purposes.

Validated and documented new and existing financial (prepayment modelling), and decision-making models utilized across the organization.

08/2006 – 08/2008 Central Michigan University, Physics Dept. – Mt. Pleasant, MI

Position: Advanced Material Science Researcher & Physics Teaching Assistant

Prepared, formulated, extracted and analyzed amounts of atomic-level theoretical big data housed in a UNIX-based environment.

This involved learning the use of various programming software to accomplish goals throughout the research period.

Simulated novel lowest energy electronic structures of Boron atoms using programs based on the first principles of quantum mechanics. Presented various electronic characteristics and properties of boron clusters and nanotubes for creation in the lab.

Performed lab instruction and supervision of physics experiments based on mechanics, optics, and electromagnetism. Mentored undergraduate students working on research projects.

09/2005 – 08/2006 Kalamazoo College – Kalamazoo, MI

Position: Assistant Researcher and Computer Lab Manager

Tested already published immunotherapy mathematical models discussed in bio-math research articles. This involved solving multi-parameter differential equations via Matlab.

Obtained feedback from clients to improve processes. Implemented new organizational policies that helped improve operational performance.

10/2001 - 08/2002 Kengen – Nairobi, Kenya

Position: Information Technology Assistant

Maintained and expanded internal client relationships through the delivery of high-quality desktop (hardware and software) support while resolving all cases expediently and tactfully. Performed various desktop support duties.

Assisted in the maintenance of finance, procurement, and SAP modules. Involved in various projects that involved implementation and testing of the upgraded SAP versions in the Oracle servers.

AFFILIATIONS

American Physical Society (11/2005 – present)

Member of the Central Michigan University (CMU) Sigma Pi Sigma Alumni and the Society of Physics Students - CMU Chapter (08/2006 - present)

Founded and served as the Chair of the Nairobi University Physics Association (11/2004 - 07/2005).

Actively involved in the creation of the 1st Annual Science and Technology Conference Nairobi University, Chiromo Campus (11/2004)

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