High school
Attended Mang'u High school from 1989 to 1992. Obtained an averarge grade of B in the KCSE examinations.

College
Attended Strathmore College from 1993-1995. Graduated with higher diploma in Management of Information Systems from the Institute of Data Processing Management. The subjects I sat for include:

-Accounting methods
-People communications in organisations
-Data processing I
-Data processing II
-Quantitaive techniques
-I did a programming Project (Telephone billing program)
-Software
-Business modeling
-Systems analysis and design I
-Systems analysis and design II
-Systems analysis and design III
-Managing informatics

University
I am a third year student at the university of Nairobi. I am taking a bachelor of science degree in mathematics anmd physics.

Currently I am preparing for my graduate diploma examinations from the Institute of Data Processing Management (UK) which I will sit for shortly. The following are some core units I have studied for:

-Data communications
-Program design methodology
-Files and Databases (Underlying mechanisms)-
-Modern aspects of Data processing

3. Skills

Operating systems

I have worked with the following operating systems:-
MS-DOS
Windows 95
Unix
Linux
VAX-VMS
Mac-OS

Programming

I have worked with the following languages
Dbase 3+ to Dbase 5
Foxpro
C++
Pascal
Javascript
Java
Perl

Currently I am getting comfortable with Java and Perl

Other
I know a reasonable amount of computer problem troubleshooting and problem solving. I understand computer security techniques.

I am currently writing a research paper titled "Security on the Internet" which I will submit for my graduate diploma exams. It will be published on my website in due course.

4. Membership

IDPM
I am a licentiate member of the Institute of Data Processing Management in the UK. I vote and participate in various functions of the institute.

5. Experience

Internship
I have been on attachment in various firms for example Kenya Breweries Ltd.

Job
I have worked with Form-net Africa as an installation technician and later on as a field technical support person. This was between march 1996 and June 1996.

I joined weblink services ( a subsidiary of Form-net Africa) where I am still working. Weblink services specializes in web-design and web related development. I was the first employee to join weblink other than the director. We started the design and development of KenyaWeb which is the most comprehensive information resource on Kenya today.

My main tasks were research and HTML (Hyper-Text Mark-up Language). programming. I also did development in other languages like javascript,C++ and a little bit of Java and Perl.

Today I still occupy this position. I also maintain and update KenyaWeb. I am currently working on the Kenya Government section in KenyaWeb.

6. Contacts

Postal: P.O Box 31594 Nairobi
Email: webdesign@form-net.com