Senior Software Developer

*. Identification

Names: Irène MUSHIMIYIMANA

Date of Birth: February 11, 1984

Nationality: Rwandan

Marital status: Married

Gender: Female

Telephone: +250*********

Email: **************@*****.**

2. Summary of Qualifications

- Self-motivated with strong communication skills both written and oral that positively impact customers and stakeholders’ relationships;

- Experience in cultivating digital partnership within both public and private sectors;

- Over 15 years in design, development and supervision of software projects implementation processes, communicate and coordinate activities with stakeholders and fund partners, ensuring good negotiations with prospective customers and end-users, software testing and validation, developing web/windows applications, providing support to the end-users of the developed systems, and overseeing the execution of multiple projects in a simultaneous environment ensuring compliance to the systems’ development best practices and assuring that set deadlines are being met.

3. Professional Experience

Senior Software Developer

Enabel – Belgian Development Agency Kigali November 2023 – Present Providing technical support to Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority in processes digitization to support the institution in the attainment of WHO Maturity Level 3 and 4: o Collaborated with cross-functional teams to technically assist in integrating regional partnership initiatives into overall business strategies, resulting in closing a strategic partnership (grand challenge) with the Gates Foundation for Strengthening African National Regulatory Authorities(NRAs) Data Systems to Enhance and Track Performance: Currently assigned as the project manager, coordinating a team of assigned technical experts, in collaboration with East African Community National Regulatory Authorities, for the development and implementation of NRA’s data systems project;

o Conducted system’s gap analysis to identify area which need improvement for a fully process of digitizing the regulatory functions;

o Manage existing key partner relationships by ensuring technical alignment with the institution’s business goals;

o Performing the whole software development life cycle for the institution’s processes digitization including stakeholders’ engagement and change management process; o Provide technical support to developed system’s end-users and ensure software products meet the best practices and data protection standards; o Developed the Human Medicines Market Authorization Data Analytics & KPI Tracking Tool (E-Trace system) in compliance with the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Benchmarking Tool for evaluation of national regulatory systems of medical products registration and supply chain to the Rwandan Market for the Rwanda Food & Drugs Authority Maturity Level 3 and 4 attainment.

Database Developer / Administrator

Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) Kigali March 2018 – November 2023

- Gathering of information and requirements from end-users, developed the terms of reference, application and system security requirements for the applications to be developed complying to the national and global standards;

- Examined, analyzed, designed and developed programs and applications that improved the efficiency and productivity of the institution;

- Supervised the software development process and validated each Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) phase by ensuring that the software implementation best practices are applied by the development team/consultant. The system is integrated with the payment gateway and SAP S/4 HANA ERP;

- Developed the systems users and technical manuals, and provided support to the systems’ end- users on any inquiry related to the usage and accessibility of installed systems in use;

- Mapping of the conceptual design of the planned databases;

- Installation and testing of new versions of the Database Management System (DBMS);

- Transcribed the database documentation, including data standards, procedures and definitions for the data dictionary (metadata).

Applications Development Consultant

HOBUKA LTD Kigali October 2010 – February 2018

- Led a team of Software Developers, programmer analysts, network specialists and IT specialists, and empowered to establish and implement standards and practices to ensure the highest degree of software quality;

- Partnered with Quality Assurance, Architecture, Engineering and Project Management groups on all development activities;

- Identifying and escalating potential concerns related to project initiatives and recommend viable solutions;

- Advising the Managing Director on shaping strategic goals. Programmer Analyst

University of Lay Adventists of Kigali Kigali July 2008 – July 2016

- Analyzed, developed, implemented and configured the students’ management information system for the university (UNILAK);

- Designed UNILAK website and enabled students to access their data online;

- Integration of the students management system with Sage Pastel ERP for the finance office to exchange students’ payments data.

Assistant Lecturer

Adventist University of Central Africa Kigali October 2010 – October 2012

- Delivered Web Technology and Internet course;

- Supervised students from the final classes of Information Management department in their final projects.

Programmer Analyst

E-ICT Integrated Training Center Kigali August 2006 – July 2008

- Worked on a full life cycle web-based application development of a functional hospital management;

- Trainer of Tumba College Instructors in Software development, Apache, MySQL and PHP;

- Analysis, design, conception and implementation of a Prisoners’ Management software. 4. Education

Masters of Business Administration

University of Lay Adventists of Kigali – Kigali

September 2012 – February 2015

Bachelor of Business Administration

Major: Information Management

Adventist University of Central Africa – Kigali

March 2003 – July 2007

5. Languages

- Kinyarwanda : Native speaker

- English: Professional level, working language

- French: Professional level

6. Software Technology Skills

- Database Management Systems: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP HANA

- Front-end & back-end development: PHP, .NET, HTML, XML, JavaScript, CSS, SOAP, REST API

- Data presentation & reporting tools: Power BI, Crystal reports

- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): SAP ERP (B1 and S4/HANA)

- Content Management System (CMS): WordPress

7. Awards

Best Employee

Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority May 2019

I have received the Best Employee of the Year Award for outstanding performance for having successfully undertaken the institution's digitization tasks. Summary of Achievement for the services digitization and improvement of service delivery:

- Development of E-recruitment application: The system is used by RURA Recruitment committee and handles all activities from the job application process to the shortlisting (staff and professional interns).

- Development of Type approval application: The system was developed for a proper electronics equipment’s importation efficient process. Phase one which consists of certificate and type approval acquisition has been implemented in 2018 and phase two is enabled together with integration with RRA Rwanda Electronic Single Window System - Rwanda Single Transaction Portal for traders;

- Development of the Extra SIM card request system and approvals: The application was developed for extra SIM(s) application requests and approvals from both RURA and Telecom Operators;

- Coordination, supervision and validation of RURA Converged Licensing Management System implementation: This open source platform was implemented in line with Zero-Trip Zero-Paper national strategy and it is used by RURA licensees for online licenses applications. Approval levels are enabled within the system and once the request is approved, a QR Coded certificate/license is available on the applicant’s account who is notified by SMS and the system is integrated with the banks and e-wallets through a payment gateway;

- Supervision and process validation of RURA ERP( SAP S4/HANA) implementation: The purpose of this project was to digitize RURA corporate services. The main modules implemented are Human Capital Management (HCM), Finance, and Material Management(procurement and logistics) processes;

8. Certificates

Certificate of Completion: IMPLEMENTING A SQL 2016 DATA WAREHOUSE (SSIS) India – June 2022

Certificate of Completion: JAVA EE 6: DEVELOP WEB SERVICES WITH JAX-WS & JAX-RS India – February 2019

Certificate of Completion: PROFESSIONAL WORDPRESS

India – February 2019

Certificate of Completion: WAMP DEVELOPER

India – February 2019

ISTQB Certification

Kigali – December 2021

ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level Certificate No.: 21-CTFL-200790-12 Test d’Evaluation de Français

Kigali – July 2023

Attestation no. : 55974730 - 55974728

9. References

1. Names: GAKWERERE Mathias

Position: Humanitarian Technical Specialist / UNFPA Regional Office for East and Southern Africa

Email: *********@*****.***

Phone: +278********

2. Names: Washington Samukange

Position: Strategy and Policy Expert – Healthcare and Regulation / Enabel Email: **********.*********@******.**

Telephone: +250*********

3. Names: François GATETE

Position: Senior Manager of Information Systems / RURA Email: ********.******@****.**

Telephone: +250*********

10. Certification

I, Irène Mushimiyimana, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, this CV correctly describes myself, my qualifications, and my experience. I understand that any willful misstatement described herein may lead to my disqualification or dismissal, if appointed for the position.

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