Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
DEVELOPMENT TRAINING
Timeline
Victor Mhina,MBA

Victor Mhina,MBA

Dar Es Salaam

Summary

Experienced professional across two key sectors, Assurance and Tech/Telco with over 10 years’ experience supporting business in delivering technology solutions alongside digital transformations initiatives with a focus on corporate and enterprise customers experience enhancement.

Insightful assurance practitioner with vast experience in working with large financial and multinational institutions, customer-focused visionary, self-motivated innovation enthusiast with 15 years industry experience working for both public and private sectors, advising, design technology solutions, project implementations, teams’ development, products, and services commercialization that align with business goals and objectives.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Manager: Customer Support Operation Centre (CSOC)

VODACOM Tanzania Plc
12.2011 - Current

Service Delivery- Accountable for end-to-end Service Delivery to customers and to foster customers’ relationships.

Technology Solutions- To propose Technology Solutions design for corporate customers. Solutions that require detail and secure design that will give customers sustainable value.

Customer Management- Effective management and ownership of customer problems from occurrence through to resolution and maintain service level agreement (SLA).

Network Management- To manage network monitoring tools to manage customers’ networks proactively and efficiently and thus change and capacity management enforcement.

Vendor Management: Interface with service suppliers to ensure high levels of performance and customer satisfaction by owning, controlling and authorizing all aspects of service delivery to ensure continuous service with high availability and minimum disruption.

Key Achievements/Projects

· Manage automation and implementation of Vodacom Network Performance and Monitoring System (Netboss) $ 400k).

· Finalist in Africa Tech Festival Awards under Fintech Innovation category of year 2023 in Cape Town, South Africa.

· Participation of first 5G technology Roll out in country with vendors’ products specifications for enterprise solutions.

. Innovation Forum (Hackathon) Finalist under Growth and Customers Categories within Vodacom/Vodafone Group.

  • Streamlined customer support process for faster resolution times and improved customer experience

Manager MPESA Network

VODACOM Tanzania Plc
10.2017 - 10.2019
  • Monitor all M-PESA core systems and manage all incidents to third parties (Huawei and Vodafone).
  • Coordinate with all support teams to ensure full resolution of incidents within SLAs.
  • To prepare weekly and monthly reports of all M-PESA logged incidents.

Key Achievements/Projects

· Propose and manage the establishment of this newly MPESA Unit

· Proactiveness target achieved of being ahead of the customers when raising queries to Call Centre Unit

· SLA control and management boost with the vendors

Engineer: Customer Support Operation Centre

VODACOM Tanzania Plc
06.2010 - 11.2011
  • To act as first line support with configuration, troubleshooting, monitoring, reporting and isolating problems for enterprise customers
  • To provide technical support to ensure corporate customers to ensure service availability and reliability
  • To manage incidents, problems, capacity, configurations, SLAs (Service Level Agreements), and changes for customers that Vodacom Plc has acquired
  • To advise customers accordingly and eloquently on their problems and ensure that Vodacom Plc does not lose customer because of after sale support.

Key Achievements/Projects

· Participation on the 4G Network roll out migrating from the legacy wireless network (WiMAX)

· Worked as a solo engineer managing the entire Vodacom Corporate base around 300 customers

Financial and Systems Auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
08.2007 - 05.2010

· Review of security and IT robustness of systems by conducting penetration and vulnerability tests, identifying the risks affecting systems, applications, and processes

· Obtaining audit evidence and developing findings and use best practices to develop audit proposals.

· Presentation of audit reports to management and follow up of issues raised in previous audits.

Key Achievements/Projects

· Auditing large banking, financial and multinational institutions like NMB, CRDB, NBC, STANBIC, ABSA, EXIM, DTB, USAID, COCA-COLA, TAZAMA

· Advising clients on transfer pricing laws & regulations compliance in respect to transactions with other associates within the group.

· Advising clients on how to evaluate risks associated with internal systems controls, strengthen their system defence, reducing the risk of cybe-rattacks and data breaches.

· Advising client to have measures against security posture, ensuring more resilient and protected digital environment and the same time helping them to comply with the BOT external audit scope requirements as stipulated under Banking and Financial Institutions (External Audit) regulations, 2014.

Education

Proffesional Development

ITIL V3- Certificate in IT Service Management and CISCO

MBA - Masters of Business Administration (MBA

University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
07.2014

BSc.Computer Science -

University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
06.2007

Skills

  • Agility
  • Technology Innovation
  • Digital Transformation
  • Commercial Management
  • Service Delivery Management
  • Corporate Networks Management
  • Cloud and Virtualization
  • Stakeholders Engagement
  • Project and People Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Planning and Budgeting
  • Business Analysis

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Relationship Management: Managed to support the business grow the corporate base revenue from 3b to 7b monthly for a period of 6 years.

Revenue Growth: Designed and implementation of the current fast-growing Vodacom Supakasi FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) Product (4G & 5G) from 300 customers to 9kpresently worth 700m monthly.

Team Leadership: Proposed and manage the establishment of Vodacom Technical Corporate Networks Support Unit (CSOC Unit) with 10 engineers reporting to me with over 10kcorporate customers presently.

Technology Innovation: Proposed and Managed the Vodacom Network and Billing Automation Systems ( Netboss-$ 368k, Allot -$126k, FTTX-AAA $600k) as well as proposed and managed the ongoing automation of the Home Device Management Solution for our Fixed Wireless clients worth $ 220k.

DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

  • Technology & Digital Innovation
  • Strategy, Planning & Corporate Governance
  • CyberSecurity & Risk Management
  • Customers Networks Management
  • Managed Service & Vendors Engagement
  • Project Management Foundations
  • People & Performance Management
  • Commercial & Contract Management
  • CISCO Network Quality & Service Architecture
  • Virtual PBX Training-ZTE University (China)
  • Customer Relationship Management-Vodacom South Africa
  • Cloud Computing & Virtualization-Huawei Training Centre (China)
  • ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) V3- IT Service Management
  • Fintech Innovation (Africa Tech Festival Conference)-Cape Town, South Africa

Timeline

Manager MPESA Network - VODACOM Tanzania Plc
10.2017 - 10.2019
Manager: Customer Support Operation Centre (CSOC) - VODACOM Tanzania Plc
12.2011 - Current
Engineer: Customer Support Operation Centre - VODACOM Tanzania Plc
06.2010 - 11.2011
Financial and Systems Auditor - PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
08.2007 - 05.2010
Proffesional Development - ,
University of Dar Es Salaam - MBA, Masters of Business Administration (MBA
University of Dar Es Salaam - BSc.Computer Science,
Victor Mhina,MBA