David Gerard

Ntinda, Kampala - Ug Cell : - - E-mail :- David Gerard 15 years management – 10 years internationally C o m p e t e n c i e s  Intercultural management & Leadership  Market research  Interpersonal skills S k i l l s :  Financial management  Strategic management  Statistical analysis Foreign languages  French: Native  English: fluent & Computer skills  German: intermed  Spanish: fluent  PowerApps – Power Automate – Ms Office – QuickBooks – Power BI – Database – SQL – HTML – CSS – DAX – M – VBA – Azure – IBM cloud P r o f e s s i o n a l e x p e r i e n c e s : Entrepreneur - Business Intelligence Consultant April 2018 – Present Kampala – Uganda          Data analytics and visualization Data modeling, Dynamic dashboards and reports Dynamics 365 Ms BI stack (T-SQL, SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, Power Query, Power BI) PowerPlatform (PowerApps and Power Automate - Flow) Ms Office expertize (Advance Excel, Advance Word) Microsoft Azure Cloud, IBM Cloud VBA, M query language, and DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) Notions: IBM DB2, IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM Whatson, Python, HTML, CSS, mySQL, PostgreSQL Entrepreneur, co-founder, and Managing Director January 2014 – December 2017 Kampala – Uganda  Management (110 employees)  Entrepreneurship  Fundraising, grant application, relation with investors o Management of 3 grants (total value 1M USD)  Corporate strategy planification and implementation  Writing business plans and preparing financial models  Key accounts,partnership, and strategic alliances management  Working with government and key stakeholders  Communication and reporting to board of directors  Ensuring performance goals are set and met  Overseeing operations of organization  Financial and physical resources management  Market, clients and competition overview Awards and recognitions: GSBI Alumni 2014 – Unreasonable EA fellow 2014 – SEED Award winner 2014 – CTI-PFAN Africef-3 Finalist 2014 – Invited to the UN Global Entrepreneurs Council 2014 – SOCAP Social Entrepreneurs 2014 – GACC SparkFund grantee 2015 – EEP S&EA grantee 2015 – Sankalp Africa Summit Finalist 2016 – EEP S&EA Project of the year 2017 Since 2014, the company’s turnover tripled, the equity doubled, the investment in assets tripled, and the company gained international recognition. GBE is known to be the leader in its sector in East Africa. Entrepreneur, co-founder, and Business Development Manager October 2012 – Dec. 2013 Kampala – Uganda        Supervising, managing staff Following up new business opportunities Managing partner relationship Planning and preparing presentations to clients and partners Communicating new product developments to prospective clients Overseeing the development of marketing material Reporting on activity Office Manager – 7 years November 2006 – July 2012 Strasbourg – France April 2005 – October 2006 Strasbourg – France      Managing staff (10 employees) Liaising with other agencies, organizations and groups Scheduling events and projects Initiating, coordinating marketing actions, (op. marketing and com. team) Data analysis and monitoring data feeds from marketing campaigns, web site  Generating and reviewing weekly custom Excel reports        Managing staff (10 employees) Monitoring customer preferences to determine focus of sales efforts Initiating and coordinating marketing actions with partners in Europe Organizing shipping operations of a fleet of 600 camper-vans in Europe Elaborating market watch and competition analysis Closely following activity to improve and optimize partnership efficiency Participating in the strategic selection of new partnerships      Analyzing market Presenting and selling company services Following up on orders and customers Participating in commercial and marketing strategy Following up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity Destination Manager – 6 years February 2003 – May 2004 Vosges Mountains – France August 1997 –October 2002 Malta, Greece, Andorra, Egypt, Spain  Managing a portfolio of partners and their contracts  Closely following activity to improve and optimize partnership efficiency  Organizing meetings, presenting and selling services to groups of 50 people  Elaborating market watch and competition analysis on related segment  Participating in the strategic selection of new partnerships E d u c a t i o n & C r e d e n t i a l s : Forecasted 2019 Data Science Professional Certificate (IBM - Coursera)  Python for Data Science and AI - Data Science Methodology Databases and SQL for Data Science - Data Analysis with Python -Data Visualization with Python - Machine Learning with Python MBA – Corporate Management (University of Nicosia)  Corporate finance, corporate strategy, organizations & HR management, organizational behavior, decision making methods & tools, enterprise information systems Forecasted 2020 2014 Certificate in Corporate Finance (University of Michigan through Coursera)  Time Value of Money, NPV and IRR, bonds and stocks, risk and return, cost of capital 2010 -2012 Master in Marketing & International Management (International Management School Strasbourg – Fr.) Management, business communication, intercultural management, negotiation techniques, marketing techniques and strategies, international law, world economy  6 months of tra in Cyprus as Destination Manager for a Dutch tour operator, an Israeli tour operator and a travel agency specialized in deluxe kosher holiday 1997 Bachelor Tourism Management  4 months of traineeship (1 month in France and 3 in Egypt) H o b b i e s : Tennis | Swimming | Sailing | Hiking | Biking | Badminton