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Brian
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Brian Odong
UGANDA - Kampala City Najerra 2 - Busibante Rd
Ssalongo Nsubuga Close, 256 - DIA6
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Bio With a robust background in IT support and social development, spanning 7 years within both worldwide and regional organizations, I aim to harness my well-established technical proficiencies to propel my career within the spheres of social development, I.T infrastructure and communication. My employment history entails active involvement and collaboration with diverse teams and projects, culminating in the development of communities in Africa, Europe and South Asia, tangible product and strategies and exceptional design decision-making. Furthermore, I bring forth 6 years of experience in the creative fields of Documentaries, filmmaking and photography. ㅡ
Experience Larem Foundation - Community Based organization support and promoting Early Child Education in Northern Uganda www.laremfoundation.com
Co-Founder and Communications coordinator - Uganda, Anaka January 2016 - To Date
● I co-founded a community based child development center that has so far been able to educate over 150 children in the community through a 3 classroom block that was built with joint support from the community, the closed kindergarten was over 10 km away, and the children had to walk there.
● I have been able to provide employment to the community, by enrolling them into the Larem Foundation Child Development center workforce of 7 permanent staff.
● With the help of a few friends, we managed to build a playground, toilet facility and kitchen for children at Larem Foundation CDC, this has greatly improved our goals of a favorable learning environment
● Manage to raise over $8000 to build a threeblock classroom and kitchen in Nwoya district where the Larem Foundation Child development center was built, through the Larem Foundation website, Social Media and fundraisers in Austria and USA
ZOOMEX Singapore (Remote) Crypto Currency and Fintech Company www.zoomex.com
Designer EN
April 2022 - July 2023
● Worked in the creative process from concept to completion and translated marketing objectives into clear creative strategies, I also supported creative content production for marketing campaigns and social media content
● Closely collaborated with multidisciplinary project teams, particularly marketing and regional expansion to Create Ads for different marketing channels and participate in campaign strategy and formulation.
● Lead and directed the creative team in the production of all marketing material and deliverables, and made sure visual communication and brand standards weere met by third party partners, vendors and contractors.
● Reviewed design requests and redesigns and provided feedback to creative teams Creative & Digital lead.
Bybit, SIngapore (Remote) Crypto Currency and Fintech Company www.bybit.com
Graphics Designer EMEA
November 2021 - December 2022
● Delivered a wide variety of marketing material - including landing pages for new product campaigns, Motion graphics ads, banner ads, social media and Insite promo key visuals for EN/KR/JP/CN/DE regions and achieved substantial growth by over 60% for the African French speaking countries.
● Managed and executed design jobs for Africa/France and EU markets, which included development of UI and branding themes for Africa Region and various custom campaign landing pages.
● Participated in brand development and brand guideline updates for the Bybit Brands V3.0 in 2022 and made contributions to the new and improved brand direction.
SafariShare, Uganda (Remote) Mobility Startup
www.safarishare.co UI/UX Designer
November 2021 - June 2022
● I Collaborated with engineering, product management, and quality control departments to ensure the projects are completed according to specifications, and launched in tom the market on time, this included the redesign of SafariShare and the New features for route prediction
● I Coached scrum teams in sprint reviews and planning. Milestone tracking, holding daily stand-up meetings to reduce the time for product launches. Partners and Volunteers Initiative Uganda (PVI)- Uganda, Gulu Volunteer support network Communications Volunteer October 2012 - January 2014
● As a volunteer at PVI Uganda. I trained nuns at Saint Monica Girl's Vocational School, in Gulu. and improved the IT infrastructure of the school administrative block as well as ensuring the school IT lab was fully digitalized connected to the internet.
● Documented community projects of various Village Savings Associations in Northern Uganda and trained them on better financial record keeping and management.
● Documented the conditions of living at the Gulu Juvenile prison and advocated for better living conditions and feeding for the juvenile inmates and also sought better legal guidance for them.
Kakira Sugar Limited, Uganda - Jinja, Sugar factory and group of companies
Level 2 Systems Support Officer
July 2015 - December 2022
● While at Kakira sugar works, I completed various tasks including maintenance of operating systems: MS Server 2003/2008/2012, Linux, windows 7, windows 10, MacOS.
● Participated in the launch of both hardware and software upgrades for Virtualization setup and monitoring VMware vSphere Infrastructure 4.1, 5, 5.1
+Venter, SCVMM, Hyper-V.
● serviced, installed and participated in maintenance of Server Hardware: Dell, HP, Intel, IBM, Blade servers, Storage Arrays: Dell, IBM,NAS, DAS and SAN storages (Planning capacity, Physical installation, configuration, DRP sites, and Disaster recovery).
● Provided support for users with active directory, SonicWALL firewall, Mailtraq email server & office 360, across the different copeate of sister companies to Kakira Sugar Limited, which included Installation and configuration computer hardware, operating systems and user applications and monitor and maintenance computer systems and networks.
● I provided End user support to company staff or clients through a series of actions, either face-to-face or over the phone, to help set up systems or resolve issues, that helped de escalate IT tickets
● Achieved over 70% Computer literacy training for the Teaching staff and hospital stall for kakira Hospital and the estate school by conducting intensive 7 week training on the basics to full functionality of complex systems like SAP, Weighment systems and access control to hospital stores LANGUAGES
English Luo (Acoli) Swahili Luganda/Lusoga German (A2) ㅡ
Education Gulu University/ Bachelor's Degree in Information and Communications Technology
Sept 2011 - January 2015, Gulu City
Python programming • Data communications and Networking • CCNA • ICT Policies and Regulations • User Interface Design. • Research Methodology • Web Technologies and Internet Security
Busoga College Mwiri / Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education Jan 2005 - December 2010, Jinja City
Majored in History, Economics, African & European Literature, Art ㅡ
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