Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Interests
References
Timeline
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Kalombo Chilongoshi

Technology
Lusaka,Zambia

Summary

Driven, innovative and curious - I'm drawn to stimulating work environments, constantly curious about new technologies or research. With nearly a decade in Mobile Commerce, Mobile Telecoms IT and Fintech, I have a broad experience working with a diverse platforms, vendors, technologies and people from different nationalities.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

IT Manager Financial Platforms and OSS

MTN Zambia Limited
Lusaka, Zambia
07.2021 - Current

Operational management of financial services platforms and Mobile Money, its associated 3rd party integration API (Open API),Enterprise
Resource Planning application, Voucher management applications. Optimizing performance and value delivery, informing new solution designing and integrations, client & partner engagement, capacity planning and budgeting.

Manager Billing & Customer Care

MTN Zambia Limited
Lusaka, Zambia
09.2018 - 06.2021

Management of revenue generating platforms the Intelligent Network (IN), USSD, SMSC, MMSC WAP, Customer Relationship Management portal and Service Delivery platform . Ensuring optimal performance of the afore mentioned, through KPI tracking, vendor
management and continuous improvement initiatives. Managing prioritization of product configuration and roll out and ensuring 100% FTR, through close engagement and collaboration with business teams Managing the billing process for Enterprise products and services. Capacity planning, budgeting and OPEX tracking and optimization

IT Operations Lead - Airtel Money, V.A.S, Products

Airtel Networks Zambia Limited
Lusaka, Zambia
01.2016 - 09.2018

Operational service management for m obile money , third party V.A.S services and traditional
telecoms product bundle services. Man ag ed the inhouse development t eam to supp ort and deliver enhancements to
products. Management of vendors and managed service partners to meet OLA’s and business SLA’s

IT Engineer V.A.S Innovations

Airtel Networks Zambia Limited
Lusaka, Zambia
08.2014 - 12.2015

Developed, deployed and support of product bundle applications. Engagement with commercial team’s for requirements gathering, product design, implementation and evolution of products and services. L2 support of deployed applications

Implementation Engineer

Cellulant Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia
03.2013 - 08.2014

Developing and deploying enhancements to mobile banking application, L2 support for existing services, greenfield integrations, client engagements and deploying POC's in support of sales pitches.

Education

GCE -

Mpelembe Secondary School
Kitwe, Zambia
01.2002 - 11.2006

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia
04.2008 - 06.2012

ITIL-4 Foundations

Axelos
04.2020 - 04.2020

Skills

Technology Service Management

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Accomplishments


  • So Che (Airtel Networks) - Developed, deployed and evolved the USSD, mobile money & mobile app integrated application that at its peak accounted for 50% of the Telco's revenue.
  • Provisioning Engine (Airtel Networks) - designed and guided the development of a Provisioning Engine that handled provisioning of diverse products in a headless fashion. It enabled products to be retailed on divers channels - USSD, Web, mobile applications.
  • IT Manager of the year 2020 (MTN Zambia) - voted by my colleagues as the best performing manager - for delivering on measurable metrics, supporting Projects, Security and Teams and good cross functional engagement.
  • Charging System Upgrade & Expansion (MTN Zambia) - intimately supported the upgrade and expansion of the IN (Online Charging System) during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic, coordinating my support teams to do the onsite functions while the project team operated remotely.

Certification

ITIL-4 Foundations

Interests

Reading - fiction, geopolitics and history

Jogging - I run two-three times a week

Judo - Started about six months ago, still a white belt rookie

References

Mwamba Mutale Head IT Operations, Airtel Networks Zambia PLC. Email: mwamba.mutale@zm.airtel.com Phone: +260978980848


Kali Lupenga Head Technology Projects & Transformation, Zanaco PLC. Email: Kali.Lupenga@zanaco.co.zm Phone: +260966220415

Timeline

IT Manager Financial Platforms and OSS

MTN Zambia Limited
07.2021 - Current

ITIL-4 Foundations

Axelos
04.2020 - 04.2020

ITIL-4 Foundations

04-2020

Manager Billing & Customer Care

MTN Zambia Limited
09.2018 - 06.2021

IT Operations Lead - Airtel Money, V.A.S, Products

Airtel Networks Zambia Limited
01.2016 - 09.2018

IT Engineer V.A.S Innovations

Airtel Networks Zambia Limited
08.2014 - 12.2015

Implementation Engineer

Cellulant Zambia
03.2013 - 08.2014

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Zambia
04.2008 - 06.2012

GCE -

Mpelembe Secondary School
01.2002 - 11.2006
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