EPHANTUS M. MWAURA
P.O. Box 5673 00200 Nairobi Kenya / 10039 Cord ST NE Blaine MN 55014 USA
Email: ephantus@softrendsolutions.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE
To provide intuitive, cost-effective\user friendly custom software design and programming: have a challenging career in a international organization to make a meaningful contribution while adding value, drawing from my experience, education, training background and the working environment at large.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
 
May 2008 / To Date eSystem IT-Development HB Sweden

Remote Clarion Software Developer Software Projects Accomplished:
Helped in Designing and developing Personnel Registration System
Helped in Designing and developing PC Last System

September 2007 / To Date. Inventory Solutions Pascagoula MS USA

Remote Clarion Software Developer Software Projects Accomplished:
Designed and developing Church and Home Inventory System

2001 / To Date SoftTrends Solutions.  Nairobi Kenya
 
SoftTends Solutions is a Kenyan based custom software development firm, also offering IT consultancy, and support.
Softrends Solutions also does web design and hosting services and software programming outsourcing services across the world.

Manager / Owner /Software Design & Developer Software Projects Accomplished:
Designed and developed Production and Sales System for Amani ya Juu Kenya.
Designed and developed Bakery Management System for Cake House Industry Kenya
Designed and developed Point of sale, stock control system
Designing and developed Payroll Systems for Kenyan Companies.

August 2002 / January 2007 Pinnacle Relational Database Systems Ltd. Nairobi Kenya

Pinnacle is a custom software development firm, also offering IT consultancy and support.
Software Development Manager
Software design and programming and implementation for several clients 
Database design and normalizations n Maintaining, supporting and further development of existing project systems 
Projects team leader, ensuring software projects are delivered in schedules time frames. 
Trainer of software development tools ( Clarion 5.5 - 6.1) 
Liaising and coordinating with software clients 
Software testing and debugging before deployment.
Software system and user guides documentations. Software Projects Accomplished: 
Designed and developed Export / Shipping & invoicing system for Undugu Society of Kenya
Designed and developed a college management information system
Designed and managed Insurance brokerage information’s system (IBIS)
Maintenance of Hospital Management System.
Designed and management of a payroll processing system.
Designed and development of Tax Soft. A KPMG Kenya corporate taxation system
Designed and development of Deadline Compliance system for KPMG Kenya
Designed and directed the development of a booking and reservation system for tours firms
Managing and further customization of a privilege club system for The Stanley Hotels Kenya
Systems Team lead conversions from Dos to windows platforms.



February 2005 / December 2007 Mitten Software Inc. MN USA
 Mitten Software Inc is a custom software development firm, also offering clarion related software and development templates in clarion IDE.
Remote Software Outsourcing Programmer
• Designing and developing a client communication management system.
September 2006 / December 2008 Sheen Consulting Solutions Inc. Edmont CANADA

Sheen Consulting Solutions Inc. is a custom software development firm, also offering clarion related software and development templates in clarion IDE.
Remote Software Outsourcing Programmer
• Designing and developing a Tribal Court Data Conversion system.
• Olive Branch Utility System for File Conversion (Tps to CSV)
2001 Lynx Group Nairobi Kenya
Lynx Group is a software development firm main on Point of Sale Systems on major shopping stores in Kenya and East Africa. Card control systems and hardware support.
Junior Software Engineer
Installation of Point of Sale software system n Installation of Microsoft software office products
Installation and configuration of operating systems ( Dos, windows 95,98,2000,Me,NT) 
Hardware \ software support to the Point of Sale clients
Systems technical and user training n Basic Novel Operating system
Reporting to the software manager
2000 Coffee Board of Kenya Nairobi Kenya
Computer Data Entry Clerk 
Daily routine computer operations
Keying in coffee data to be processed.
Validating and analyzing report before releasing to the computer operations manager.

EDUCATION 1997 - 2000 COMPUTER TRAINING CENTRE Nairobi, Kenya
 
• Advanced Diploma in Computer Science -Association of Computer Professionals (A.C.P.) UK
• Principles of Information processing
• Systems analysis and design programming
• Computer Management
• C# and Pascal programming
• Payroll project system
• Diploma in Systems Design- Association of Computer Professionals (A.C.P.) UK
• Systems analysis and design
• Software methodology engineering
• Computer systems for small businesses
• Stock control project system
• Micro soft Excel
• Micro soft Access programming
• Certificate in Computer Programming - Association of Computer Professionals (A.C.P.) UK
• Computer Fundamentals
• Computer Programming and Operations
• Programming Problem solving
• British association of chefs project system
• Certificate in Ms Dos operating system
• Certificate in Word perfect 5.1
• Certificate in Microsoft Excel
• Proficiency in Programming languages
• Basic, Dbase III+, Pascal, C#, C++, Clipper 5.1, Visual Java ++ 6.0, Clarion 5.5, Clarion 6.0, Visual Studio .Net, Asp.Net
• Internet programming Java applets 6.0, Html, Php
• Excellent In Clarion ABC And Legacy Programming 5.5 And 6.3
• Proficiency in backend databases. MS_SQL, SQL Anywhere For Sybase Power Builder, Clarion Top Speed, Ms Access, Dbase III+ And IBM DB2
• JavaScript Coding