Patrick Mfungwe

Curriculum Vitae Patrick Chamberlain Mfungwe Brooklyn, Cape Town- Professional Profile An Experienced Data Analyst / Data Scientist with newly acquired skills, an insatiable intellectual curiosity, and the ability to mine hidden gems located within large sets of structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. proficient with the prevailing analytical tools, various presentation software and possesses strong and effective communication skills essential in conveying results in analysis and investigations conducted . Able to leverage a heavy dose of mathematics and applied statistics with visualization and a healthy sense of exploration, has great commitment to and affinity to meet deadlines without compromising accuracy and quality of work. Education 2015 MBA, Project Management, National Institute of Business Management, Chennai, India 2010 BSc, Statistics, Computer Science, University of Malawi, Chancellor College. 2005 Diploma in Education Science (Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry) 2002 Certificate in Computer Software Applications Professional Experience: August-present 2017 Data Coordinator, Amandla Development, Samora Machelo, Cape Town The following are some of my duties and responsibilities  Report to the Project Manager and supervise site data collection processes  Develop solutions for data collection, capture, and use in our community reporting activities  Facilitate forum meetings at which data on child welfare is explained in layman’s terms to community members and stakeholders  Support and train stakeholders to collect and use data for decision making  Train fieldworkers in various data collection exercises such as surveys      Write reports Individual research and leading some research processes Integrating technology into our work Coordinate the development of Amandla’s shared measures system within the network Think creatively about data management 2017-August 2017 Data Analyst, Skills Academy, Bellville South, Cape Town The following are some of my duties and responsibilities  Running daily, weekly and monthly reports for all departments  Sending out and analyzing quality assurance surveys  Analyze data and present to management  Assist with automating reports where applicable  Keep form and survey data up to date to assist departments in doing associated work the forms and survey bring up  Help set up new reports when required Freelance Statistician/ Data Scientist July 2016 – 2017 I have worked with different clients and small Organisations in the following areas; • Study Designs, data Modelling, Database Designs • Developed applications using Python and MySQL for database design • Designed data visualization to present current impact and growth • Developed Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Systems • Website designing using HTML, CSS, Adobe Dreamweaver • Private Tutor in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, SPSS, STATA, Programming • Data analysis using SPSS, STATA,R and Python • Reporting writing Research , Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Jhpiego Corporation, Nov 2015 – June 2016 Responsibilities: • Performed data query, extraction, compilation, and reporting tasks. • Managed, updated and manipulated report orientation and structures with the use of advanced Excel functions including Pivot Tables and VLookups. • Generated weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports necessary in maintaining a good and balanced Program reports • Handled data collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation to management and other team members gathered via a wide range of available means and methods from users and project partners associated with Supply Chain activities. • Researched for new means of qualifying and obtaining data and methods of utilizing analytical tools effectively to be used for program development and improvement. Monitoring and Evaluation Officer PACT International, Feb 2015 to Oct 2016 Responsibilities: • Worked with the project team in the effective generation of data and feasibility studies necessary as basis for new program development initiatives. • Analyzed program performance indicators, trends, historical reports, service loopholes to be able to propose and recommend solutions and remedies appropriately. • Involved in report writing and business process development. • Modified reports and make proper evaluations. • Validated data to ensure the quality, validity and accuracy of content. • Coordinated with business owners to determine business opportunities. Monitoring and Evaluation Officer Save the Children International (Jan 2013 to Jan 2015) Job Responsibilities: Duties and Tasks • • • • Assist in the roll out and management of the program monitoring and evaluation system, and USAID and Ministry of Health reporting requirements in the focus districts in the zone. Coordinate all district level M&E capacity building activities for facility statistical clerks and district M&E focal persons Work closely with the district HMIS officers, Statistical Clerks and HMIS focal persons of MoH, to improve the quality, completeness and timeliness of facility/community level reporting. Assist in analysis and use of information for decision-making and feedback at facility and District levels Research , Monitoring, Evaluation and Documentation Officer Youth Net & Counseling (YONECO) (June 2012 to Dec 2012) Job Purpose • The Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Documentation Officer (RMELDO) • coordinates all research, monitoring, evaluation, learning and documentation related activities of all programmes in the organization. • The RMELDO is also responsible for overall annual report production and dissemination of programme activities. • The major areas to be managed are: • Monitoring and evaluation, Research, documentation, quarterly and annual reports and data management • RMELDO shall be responsible for the timely consolidation of the Quarterly and Annual Reports in YONECO. HR Core Data & MIS Analyst Standard Bank , HEAD OFFICE (June 2011-Jan 2012) Summary of Duties & Responsibilities Data Analysis • Analyze large datasets to provide strategic direction to the company. • Perform quantitative analysis of product sales trends to recommend pricing decisions. • Conduct cost and benefit analysis on new ideas. • Scrutinize and track customer behavior to identify trends and unmet needs. • Develop statistical models to forecast inventory and procurement cycles. • Assist in developing internal tools for data analysis. Data Management • Understanding the various data sets and their related source systems. • Understand the flow of HR data (Inputs and Outputs),i.e. On-boarding, Off- boarding, Transfers, Payroll, etc. • • Extraction of data for ad-hoc and standard Business reporting, with an understanding of all the related data and reporting definitions. Manage exception reporting, where key data is incorrect and/or incomplete, and ensure the correction process takes place. HR Management Reporting • Provide Hr Management reporting: • • • Monthly MD’s report HR Groupwide report Weekly vacancy status • • • Quarterly HR Board report Preparation and even presentation of Information reports (Summary and Detail) with the analysis commentary in place Execute completion of HR compliance reports to legislative bodies e.g. Department of Labour, Reserve Bank of Malawi, Nico Life, Old Mutual etc Administration • Supports the Principal Officer of the Stanbic Bank Pension Fund • Processing School fees of Senior staff in liaison with the Head of HR, this must be done with utmost confidentiality • TEP processing for expatriates • Provide certificate of service to former employees • Prepare long service award schedule for the year • Ordering of stationery and managing of petty cash Related Knowledge, Competencies & Skills Operating Systems; Windows and Linux Linux administrator, with a strong performance background in wide variety of professional system support and solution-based IT services for Linux Systems (or administrations) including, monitoring, configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance of operating systems. • • • • • • Red Hat, Ubuntu, Fedora, Kali Linux and SuSE MySQL and Ruby on Rails SQL Server installation and administration Apache web server: PHP configuration, Virtual hosting TCP/IP, VLANS, SNMP Python,R scripting languages Data Science • Subject matter expert in solving problems using data science approaches, techniques, and methods • Data integration, data cleaning, descriptive analyses, exploratory analyses, predictive modelling, data mining, text analytics, social media analytics, social network analysis, rapid prototyping, data visualization, natural language processing • Proficiency with analytics techniques such as:Data mining, predictive modelling, forecasting, optimization and simulation modelling (e.g., regression, neural networks, decision trees, KNN, K-means, random forests, model ensembles, support vector machines, machine learning methods, system dynamics and agent-based models, micro-simulation • • • • models) Sound understanding of statistics, more specifically, statistical tests, distributions & maximum likelihood estimators Communication skills, more specifically: The ability to clearly and fluently translate technical findings to a nontechnical team (storytelling ability to convey in lay terms what data is saying) The ability to understand the needs of non-technical colleagues in order to wrangle data appropriately • The ability to discern which problems are important to solve Computing Packages/ Tools Technical Knowledge & Skills in: • Programming languages such as; Python, PHP • Web Designing with Dream Weaver, HTML, CSS, PHP. • Data Visualization tools such as; Tableau, Qlikview • ETL tools such as; MSSQL (SSIS), STATISTICA, R-STUDIO and PYTHON • Database Management tools such as; MySQL, Ms Access. • Quantitative Analysis tools such as; SPSS, STATA, R, Amos • Qualitative analysis tools such as; Nvivo, Atlas.ti REFEREES Upon Request