Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Languages
Projects Management (List of projects)
Hobbies and Interests
References
Timeline
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Cecilia CHATINDIARA

Browns Bay

Summary

I am a qualified, versatile, and dynamic IT professional with four years working experience in the financial services sector, supporting systems, database management and day to day handling of customer queries. A goal oriented person and over the years acquired vast knowledge of how to handle herself under pressure without compromising on quality and who is always eager to learn and grow. Also have one year experience from working at a parastatal where knowledge pertaining database systems, and support systems was also acquired.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience

Work History

Head of Support

ZSS
07.2022 - 01.2024

· Technical issues- Finds the best way to resolve Incidents and requests that would have taken more time that anticipated without compromising the result.

· Reviewing the performance of the team on a weekly basis and ensuring that the team is meeting the expected KPI

· Handling escalation of issues from Customers and ensuring we resolve the challenges.

· Attending weekly management meetings where we discuss and align how we will

· Making follow ups with the Team and ensuring we are not breaching our SLAs with the customers.

· Attending weekly meetings with the banks and sharing technical progress for the projects and tickets they raised with the team.

· Handling technical escalations, the team and ensuring we push other departments for a resolution

· Scheduling of trainings for the team members whenever necessary.

Team Lead Support

Zimbabwe Shared Services
06.2022 - 07.2022
  • Handling of technical escalations be it internal or external
  • Creation of payroll roster for all departments
  • Handling and allocation of support funds
  • Ensuring that queries, enquiries, and handling of day-to-day customer communication is done in an efficient manner which enhances the customer experience.

Operations Support Technician

Zimbabwe Shared Services
02.2020 - 05.2022
  • Ensures that systems are working correctly through uptime monitoring, and rating checks
  • Manages Postilion for financial institutions (card production, routing of traffic, transaction tracking)
  • Write SQL scripts to generate reports and manipulate databases for several applications as requested by customers and managers
  • Participates in quality assurance tests
  • Trains customers and other stakeholders on new applications
  • Manages and monitors USSD, smartphone apps and payment integrations configurations for mobile banking
  • Negotiates and communicates with customers in highly escalated issues
  • Knowledge on real-time monitoring of critical services using Kibanna, ARMAS, Nagios and Grafana and quickly pick up and resolve outages
  • Participate in end-to-end solutions delivery, deployment, system integrations, and user acceptance of projects
  • Documenting procedures and manuals for all company products
  • Review applications operational logs to assist in query investigations
  • User management in active directory secure domains and other organization wide applications
  • Performs disaster recovery and other tests for the organizations systems and infrastructure in consultation with the system vendor(s).

ICT Intern

Ministry of ICT and Cyber Security
09.2016 - 06.2017

I worked for one year with the Ministry of ICT and cyber security (MICTCS) for industrial attachment. I gained a lot of knowledge pertaining to IT.

Tasks carried out involved:

  • Database management developed using Oracle
  • Networking use of static and dynamic IP addresses and use of SAP,
  • System development,
  • Data capturing


Education

Bachelor of Science Information Systems Honours Degree, 2.1 -

Midlands State University
Zimbabwe
11.2018

Skills

Incident management and reporting

Postilion and ISO standards

Knowledge of Microsoft SQL, Data grip and SQL Workbench for database management and query resolution

Linux (Mobaxterm)

Management monthly reports on teams perfomance and outages we had at organisation level either at MNO side or internally

Quality Assurance Software Testing

Ticketing system

Card production

Data capturing

Monitoring using Armas, nagios, Kibanna, prometheus

Good communication skills

Good team player

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Shona
Native or Bilingual

Projects Management (List of projects)

- Multi Currency project for the banks we offered services as ZSS team.

-Agency Banking for some of the banks we offered services for ZSS team eg POSB and ZANACO.

-Involvement in the development of Flutter Applications for the banks we hosted application for as ZSS team.

College project-Production planning and resource determination system for Manica Boards and Doors Leave Management system for Ministry of ICT Command Agriculture input allocation tracking and financing system

Hobbies and Interests

  • Surfing the internet
  • Watching cricket
  • Reading novels

References

  • Mr Zhou, Midlands State University, +263 77 283 7264, 054-260409 ext 291
  • Mr Mukahiwa, Ministry of Information Communication and Technology and Cyber Security, P.O Box CY704, Causeway Harare, +263 772296200
  • Mr T Jarayi, Zimbabwe Shared Services (ZSS), Block 6, East Crescent, Arundel Office Park, Norfolk Road, Mount Pleasant, Harare, 0775200032

Timeline

Head of Support

ZSS
07.2022 - 01.2024

Team Lead Support

Zimbabwe Shared Services
06.2022 - 07.2022

Operations Support Technician

Zimbabwe Shared Services
02.2020 - 05.2022

ICT Intern

Ministry of ICT and Cyber Security
09.2016 - 06.2017

Bachelor of Science Information Systems Honours Degree, 2.1 -

Midlands State University
Cecilia CHATINDIARA