Daniel Kaguongo

Experience

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  Voluntary Service Overseas International (VSO)

  Jan 2016 - Feb 2017

  Regional Information Communication Technology Advisor

  ✔Provided IT technical assistance to six Simbu Provincial Treasury and District Administrations.✔Coordinated projects technical tasks bringing down number of reported technical issues by 95%. ✔Maintained IT inventory, while preparing DoF IT budgets, cutting cost by 60%. ✔Spearheaded, mentored and coached, and a team of ten trainers of trainers on conducting IT capacity building.✔Conducted monthly staff coaching and mentoring sessions, staff attendance increased by 90% and service delivery by 75%. ✔Audited six Simbu Province districts to analyze IT training requirements, using Training Needs Assessment (TNA) tools.✔Launched an IT training laboratory, trained over 70% of the staff in basic, and advanced IT skills. ✔Configured an open source learning Management System (Moodle) redeeming 80% of the total cost of staff trainings.✔Networked all printers, dropping cost of stationery and printer consumables by 95% per year.✔Empowered, mentored and coached 200+ SPG officers including 20 LLG managers.✔Led training and peer-mentoring programs for trainers of trainer’s class of 10; developed and maintained training program to reduce training duration by 50%. Show less

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  Simbu Provincial Government (SPG) & Simbu UNITECH Satellite University (SuSu)

  Oct 2017 - Sept 2019

  Government Information Communication Technology Consultant

  ✔Planned, researched, and recommended to senior management on implementation of three effective IT programs.✔Improved performance resulting by 90% success in IT project implementations. ✔Established IT budgets, supervised procurement IT equipment minimizing cost of procurement by 40%.✔Steered Cybersecurity awareness programs bringing down number of security incidences by 50%. ✔Manage PNG accounting system and provide support windows OS and office 365. ✔Organized and presented IT projects reports to senior management and staff ahead of schedule with 3 months.✔Orchestrated and configured presentation system for National Nursing Symposium attended by 700+ nurses, emerging the best in a period of 15 years.✔Mentored 200+ public servants including six Local Level Government Manager on IT skills, Microsoft Office Suite, Internet and Email. ✔Repaired national Identification computer systems, revamped infrastructure, and restarted setup for first time in 6 months.✔Automated day-to-day routines, increasing staff performance from 40% to 85% in a record of 6 months. Show less

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  Self-Employed

  Oct 2019 - Jun 2021

  Cloud Architect & IT Consultant

  ✔ Works best to help organizations in their cloud migration journey.✔ Cloud architecture in AWS, Azure, and Oracle.✔ Analyze the company's IT system and infrastructure.✔Diagnose IT system problems, inefficiencies, and weaknesses.✔Manage IT Projects with tight deadlines.✔Takes care and understands client's business needs.✔Implementing best technological solution to meet business needs.✔Analyze and determining security threats to secure business IT and data assets.✔Providing advice on technology best practices.✔Collaborates with your technical in-house team to ensure familiarity with technology.✔Conducts corporate training to staff on IT systems security.✔Offers Azure and Oracle Cloud advisory services. Show less

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  PNGDATACO

  Jun 2021 - now

  Manager Cloud & Solutions Architect

  ✔ On-premises workloads migration to Data Centre Cloud Systems.✔ Leads initiatives designed to share knowledge across Security Platforms and/or Technology teams. Identifies, recommends, coordinates delivers timely knowledge to support teams regarding technologies, processes, or tools. ✔Contribute to the detailed analysis of all production incidents and provide specific technical recommendations for improvements✔Responsible for cloud infrastructure capacity planning, upgrade planning, patch administration, security administration, and documentation.✔ Team lead on tenant onboarding and cloud assets provisioning.✔ Oversee daily management and maintenance of ManageOne cloud management system, including but not limited to eSight, NetEco, OceanStor applications.✔ Team leader ISO 27001 Certification - Information Security Management Systems Coordinator.✔Responsible for coordinating multiple components of the ISMS program, including but not limited to audit findings, follow-up, scheduling, compliance evaluation, communication, change management, and engagement activities.✔Provides excellent technical support and management of PNGDATACO cloud facilities(s), including Huawei, AWS, and Azure products and solutions.✔ Tenant Virtual Data Centre (VDC) setup and configuration.✔ VDC software image registration through operations and Management system.✔Responsible for managing the PNGDATACO cloud platform, specifically in migration and online delivery of public cloud products and solutions. ✔Responsible for pre-sales technical communication with key sales and marketing teams.✔Integrate internal and external resources, helping ecosystem partners to achieve goals effectively and win-win outcomes with PNGDATACO cloud.✔Provides technical support for public cloud projects to ensure the POC test of the solution and service migration to the cloud.✔ Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced cloud-based engineers and other technical staff. Show less