ABOUT ME
A career data enthusiast with an
extensive background in
management consultancy, corporate
strategy development and reviews,
research, data analytics, business
intelligence, market analysis, forensic
analytics, revenue assurance and
information technology audit. I have
worked with various organizations
within the financial services,
government, telecommunications and
manufacturing.
CONTACT
MOBILE:
EMAIL:
************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
2020 – Certified Tableau Desktop
Specialist
2016 - IBM Business Intelligence
Specialist
2014 - Certified IDEA Data Analyst
2014 - Certified Information Systems
Auditor (ISACA)
2013 - Certified Securities &
Investments Analyst (KASNEB)
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
SQL, MySQL (Database
management & Querying)
Data warehousing & ETL
Python, R
Data visualization & reporting
Presentation (Power point)
Communication
DAMIAN NYAKOE
Experienced IT Professional, Project Manager & Data Value Engineer EDUCATION
University of Nairobi
2020 - 2025
MSc. Computational Intelligence.
Major on:
Machine learning
Natural language processing
Intelligent systems
Research project: Customer Segmentation using K-Means University of Nairobi
2009 – 2013
BSc Statistics
Focus on:
Measure, Probability Integration
Bayesian Inference
Stochastic processes
Experimental Designs
Alliance High School
2004 – 2007
KCSE
WORK EXPERIENCE
ISUZU East Africa – IT Manager, CRM, Telematics & E-Commerce 2024 –
Project management
Lead design, development, deployment and management of applications for Customers Relationship Management (CRM), Vehicle Telematics and E-Commerce to support business priorities.
Provide on-going tracking, monitoring and performance improvement of systems and applications.
Evaluate customer, market and product data analytics, providing business insights to meet volatile marketing and competitive environment.
Nurture analytics and technology skill withing the organization. REFEREES
Mr. Eric Hulbert
Sr Officer
Xtium
TEL: +1-315-***-****
Mr. Marion Kayioni
Sr Finance Analyst
MSU
TEL: +1-425-***-****
ISUZU East Africa – IT Manager, Aftersales
2023 – 2024
Process improvement
Automating business processes to improve efficiency, accuracy and scalability.
Identify business processes that can be automated to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. These areas include remote selling, parts pricing, field activities, business reporting etc.
Robotic Process engineering and workflows
Oversee implementation of SAP HANA WMS
Data analytics application in business
ISUZU East Africa – Data Scientist, Strategy & Innovation 2017 – 2022
Innovation
Leading the company to develop and manage creative ideas to sustain growth, create consistent streams of new solutions, processes and business models.
Planning
Actively take part in generating short-term, mid-term and long- term projections for the company.
Monthly reporting on business performance status.
Strategy
Take lead in company’s medium-long term strategy formulation and implementation.
Sales and marketing
Market intelligence and general competitor information.
Customer analysis
Insights/Research/Innovations
Design research, experiments, test hypotheses, and build analysis models that support business objectives.
General analysis in support of decision making.
Data Management
Develop and implement the company’s data strategy in line with the global business strategy.
Define policies, standards and procedures data handling.
Drive the organization’s buy-in to nature a data driven decision making culture.
KPMG East Africa – Senior Data & Analytics Consultant 2013 – 2017 (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania & Rwanda)
Engagement planning, client management, team leadership. Data analysis, data modelling, visualization in different industries:
Manufacturing
Insurance
Banking
Government
FMCGs
Information Systems Audit
Review clients’ systems establish if they meet organization’s objective.
Check on systems’ integrity administrator’s activities, system parameters security reviews and the accuracy of the operations carried out.
General IT controls review - assessment of an organization's overall IT controls framework to determine the effectiveness of its IT governance, risk management, and security practices. Continuous monitoring
Solution implementation for clients.
Automation of audit tasks, exception reporting, assigning, notification, escalation and follow up.
Training clients on audit, CAATs and continuous monitoring.