Erick Wafula

Experience

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  Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES), Kenya

  Jan 2011 - Apr 2015

  Software Engineer

  Programmer responsible for implementation, customization and maintenance of patient Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system running on OpenMRS platform.Worked with other team of developers to develop KenyaEMR add-on module to add content to KenyaEMR retrospective data entry work-flow

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  AMPATH Kenya

  May 2015 - Apr 2016

  Senior Software Engineer

  Lead developer for developing AMPATH Point of Care of Application (POC). This application used angular JS as it's front end and OpenMRS Platform.Developed form-entry module to be used by the AMPATH POC applicationDeveloped Node REST Server for handling data requests between the POC application and MySQL databaseDevelop SQL queries for extracting data to be generated by Node REST serverPart of the team responsible for upgrading AMPATH OpenMRS from 1.9.7 to 1.11.5

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  SEARCH/University of California, San Francisco

  May 2016 - Jul 2022

  Software Engineer/Data Analyst

  Design, develop and maintain electronic data collection and reporting tools for various SEARCH studiesDesign, monitor, and update SEARCH OpenMRS /KenyaEMR data collection systems at various SEARCH health facilities and non-SEARCH clinics in coordination with HIV Implementing partnersReview the data extracted for upload to SEARCH central data servers by coordinators and data officers on a weekly basis to report on progress of data management and systems development to ensure quality research dataDevelop queries for extracting data to respond to various data requests using R/SQLDevelop various data visual tools and reports Show less

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  Global Health Mentorships

  Oct 2020 - Feb 2021

  Student and Young Professional

  Apprenticing under Global Health Experts to develop skills and competencies in Epidemiology and Global Health

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  Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)

  Jun 2021 - Aug 2021

  Data Science Intern

  In this role I was involved in various data science assignments at HDR UK and LSHTM

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  UC Global Programs for Research and Training, Kenya

  Aug 2022 - now

  Computational and Research Data Specialist

  Experienced Computational Data Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the Clinical Health Research. Skilled in R, Python, Stata, Databases Management, Data Visualisation and SQL. Strong data engineering professional with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) focused in Computer Information Systems and MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.