Geoffrey Juma
Head - Products and Solutions at China Mobile International Middle East & Africa- Claim this Profile
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Vitalis O.
I worked with Juma for about three years. Apart from his ability to see a solution from a chaotic environment, I found Juma to be a Subject Matter Expert in Solution Design whilst putting the customer first. His intelligence drew us together when we started the SDWAN Services journey. Anyone will require a solid individual with a sense of seeing what the future holds. This is the strength that Juma brings to the table when you need a technocrat in the room with a vision of delivering sounding business decisions backed by technology innovation. Juma, the technical lead and solutions architect for SDWAN was able to work with key stakeholders within the organization while rallying the necessary support and resources in ensuring that the subject is well understood within the organization. His ability to lead, define and more so influence positively saw Safaricom adopt SDWAN Services as a new business line. His love for IoT and Artificial intelligence is what he consistently educated people and more developing solutions around that. Juma is a resource that anyone would love to have and work with it. I find Juma to be committed, intelligent and more so keeps the promises to the customers and the shareholders. This can be seen with his recent move to lead a team in Africa while offering solutions that matter and changes lives and economies. Without a doubt, I commend and recommend him for his integrity and future opportunities.
Kephers Ombewa
Juma is a brilliant Pre-sales engineer with an excellent eye for picking business challenges and creatively mapping solutions and propositions to help organizations achieve their objectives. I worked with Juma for a period of two years in cross functional assignments, a period in which he exhibited exemplary people skills. Juma is an extremely valuable asset to any organization. I would recommend him to any organization that operates in this space.
Vitalis O.
I worked with Juma for about three years. Apart from his ability to see a solution from a chaotic environment, I found Juma to be a Subject Matter Expert in Solution Design whilst putting the customer first. His intelligence drew us together when we started the SDWAN Services journey. Anyone will require a solid individual with a sense of seeing what the future holds. This is the strength that Juma brings to the table when you need a technocrat in the room with a vision of delivering sounding business decisions backed by technology innovation. Juma, the technical lead and solutions architect for SDWAN was able to work with key stakeholders within the organization while rallying the necessary support and resources in ensuring that the subject is well understood within the organization. His ability to lead, define and more so influence positively saw Safaricom adopt SDWAN Services as a new business line. His love for IoT and Artificial intelligence is what he consistently educated people and more developing solutions around that. Juma is a resource that anyone would love to have and work with it. I find Juma to be committed, intelligent and more so keeps the promises to the customers and the shareholders. This can be seen with his recent move to lead a team in Africa while offering solutions that matter and changes lives and economies. Without a doubt, I commend and recommend him for his integrity and future opportunities.
Kephers Ombewa
Juma is a brilliant Pre-sales engineer with an excellent eye for picking business challenges and creatively mapping solutions and propositions to help organizations achieve their objectives. I worked with Juma for a period of two years in cross functional assignments, a period in which he exhibited exemplary people skills. Juma is an extremely valuable asset to any organization. I would recommend him to any organization that operates in this space.
Vitalis O.
I worked with Juma for about three years. Apart from his ability to see a solution from a chaotic environment, I found Juma to be a Subject Matter Expert in Solution Design whilst putting the customer first. His intelligence drew us together when we started the SDWAN Services journey. Anyone will require a solid individual with a sense of seeing what the future holds. This is the strength that Juma brings to the table when you need a technocrat in the room with a vision of delivering sounding business decisions backed by technology innovation. Juma, the technical lead and solutions architect for SDWAN was able to work with key stakeholders within the organization while rallying the necessary support and resources in ensuring that the subject is well understood within the organization. His ability to lead, define and more so influence positively saw Safaricom adopt SDWAN Services as a new business line. His love for IoT and Artificial intelligence is what he consistently educated people and more developing solutions around that. Juma is a resource that anyone would love to have and work with it. I find Juma to be committed, intelligent and more so keeps the promises to the customers and the shareholders. This can be seen with his recent move to lead a team in Africa while offering solutions that matter and changes lives and economies. Without a doubt, I commend and recommend him for his integrity and future opportunities.
Kephers Ombewa
Juma is a brilliant Pre-sales engineer with an excellent eye for picking business challenges and creatively mapping solutions and propositions to help organizations achieve their objectives. I worked with Juma for a period of two years in cross functional assignments, a period in which he exhibited exemplary people skills. Juma is an extremely valuable asset to any organization. I would recommend him to any organization that operates in this space.
Vitalis O.
I worked with Juma for about three years. Apart from his ability to see a solution from a chaotic environment, I found Juma to be a Subject Matter Expert in Solution Design whilst putting the customer first. His intelligence drew us together when we started the SDWAN Services journey. Anyone will require a solid individual with a sense of seeing what the future holds. This is the strength that Juma brings to the table when you need a technocrat in the room with a vision of delivering sounding business decisions backed by technology innovation. Juma, the technical lead and solutions architect for SDWAN was able to work with key stakeholders within the organization while rallying the necessary support and resources in ensuring that the subject is well understood within the organization. His ability to lead, define and more so influence positively saw Safaricom adopt SDWAN Services as a new business line. His love for IoT and Artificial intelligence is what he consistently educated people and more developing solutions around that. Juma is a resource that anyone would love to have and work with it. I find Juma to be committed, intelligent and more so keeps the promises to the customers and the shareholders. This can be seen with his recent move to lead a team in Africa while offering solutions that matter and changes lives and economies. Without a doubt, I commend and recommend him for his integrity and future opportunities.
Kephers Ombewa
Juma is a brilliant Pre-sales engineer with an excellent eye for picking business challenges and creatively mapping solutions and propositions to help organizations achieve their objectives. I worked with Juma for a period of two years in cross functional assignments, a period in which he exhibited exemplary people skills. Juma is an extremely valuable asset to any organization. I would recommend him to any organization that operates in this space.
Experience
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China Mobile International Middle East & Africa
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United Arab Emirates
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Telecommunications
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1 - 100 Employee
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Head - Products and Solutions
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mai. de 2019 - - o momento
In this role I focus on: Product Development, Africa Partnership Ecosystem, Business Development, Product Marketing and Infrastructure Planning.Key accomplishments: - Proactively supported business development activities; growing revenue by over 1150% in the first year of operation.- Created business case and justification for the investment of over USD 500M in ICT infrastructure in Africa.- Worked with global OTTs, CDNs, IXPs and Telcos to improve quality of CMI products in Africa. CMI rank moved 50 points to top 10 in Africa.- Pioneered the re-sell model and partnerships with public cloud service providers like AWS, Huawei, AliCLoud, GCP, Azure, Oracle - growing Africa cloud revenue by 300% on year1;- Developed Africa Partner Ecosystem by pursuing and on-boarding strategic partners including software integrators, A2P/SMS aggregators, Managed Cloud Service Providers, Africa IDC providers, IOT players etc
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Safaricom Limited
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India
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1 - 100 Employee
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Manager - Digital Solutions Architecture
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jul. de 2016 - mai. de 2019
• Led a team of Business Analysts, Solutions Architects, Agile Product Owners and Data Engineers, Infra Engineers and worked with cross-functional teams from products, marketing, sales and strategy specialist pioneer emerging technologies and products such as IoT, SD-WAN, Regional MPESA, CLOUD, Managed WiFi and Analytics, etc., leading through RFP specifications, vendor selection, technical design and implementation, product commercialization roadmap, customer journey definition, stakeholder training and evangelism, Proof of Concepts/Proof of Value, UATs and product launch and marketing.
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Strathmore University
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Kenya
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Adjunct Faculty, School of Computing
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jul. de 2016 - jan. de 2019
• Facilitating B. Sc., and M. Sc., courses on Artificial Intelligence; • Supervising and Advising M. Sc. students with their Theses;• Industrial Liaison and Technology evangelism ; • Provide industry expertise and feedback on Curriculum development;
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Faculty, School of Computing
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set. de 2014 - jul. de 2016
• Areas of focus - Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development and Design, Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Database Systems, Object Oriented Programming;• Liaised with global Technology Leaders and local ventures in organizing ICT conferences, Training, etc with a view to exposing students to current technology and enabling competitive advantage to the companies involved.
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Presales Engineer/Solutions Architect
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jul. de 2010 - set. de 2011
Designing and Deploying complex multi-vendor core network solutions to top-tier clients through analysis of customers' business needs and budget constraints.
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Customer Technical Support Engineer
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mai. de 2009 - jun. de 2010
Supported a 5000km stretch heterogeneous fully meshed network with redundant fiber back-hauls, IP/MPLS/VPLS Core cloud, SONET/SDH/DWDM transmission, Metro Fiber Access, Microwave Access, WiMAX, PON, ADSL, technologies. Gain excellent skills in configuration of CISCO ASRs and ISRs, ALCATEL LUCENT 7750s, 7450s, JUNIPER MX Series, HUAWEI ARs, PTN, OSNs, SIEMENS Layer 2 switches and Routers.
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Education
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2012 - 2014
Vladimir State University/ владимирский государственный университет
M. Sc., Computer Engineering and Informatics - Intelligent Systems -
2011 - 2012
Vladimir State University
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2005 - 2009
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science -
2005 - 2009
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
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2000 - 2003
Mbita High School
A - (minus) 78 points; top of graduating class
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