Seko Kibona

Creating plans for the development and delivery of data to support strategic business objectives, business operations, advanced analytics, metrics, and reporting. Demonstrating strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills, and being able to develop potential solutions with consideration of inherent risks.

• Develop and manage data visualization solutions utilizing business intelligence tools to provide key stakeholders with intuitive insights.
• Develop and manage data wrangling workflows utilizing tools to transform data requirements into the required format for data visualization software.
• Conduct thorough control testing of each component of the solution, providing evidence that all data and visualization are providing accurate insights and evidence in the control process / validate with stakeholders.

Led key dashboard development, business process integration, and reporting projects from a software and data engineering perspective, with a particular focus on data modeling optimization, new dashboard design/development, and ongoing improvements to existing dashboards. Interfaced directly with stakeholders and provided consultative recommendations to achieve business objectives, while also directly and independently building new dashboards and workflow automation tools.

• Developed data visualization dashboards using leading business intelligence tools and built business workflows to automate manual processes.
• Led and developed a team of software engineers, providing effective coaching and career development.
• Provided thought leadership and promoted collaboration to advance the team's collective knowledge and expertise on the latest technologies, while also driving current projects to successful completion.

Responsible for stakeholder management for internal customers, articulated partner needs through documented business requirements, and determined technical feasibility. Acted as a liaison between the technical team and business stakeholders to ensure that solutions met product and partner goals. Responsible for user acceptance testing and product demonstrations of new features with internal stakeholders.

• Trained software engineers on how to develop secure code for internal and external-facing web applications.
• Started the center of excellence office that housed a reusable secure code base and libraries for software engineers.
• Presented the security assurance product roadmap to partners on a regular cadence.

Developed and designed web applications and data analytics for Agency Securities Finance trading and the operations team. Applied deep technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to tackle a diverse array of challenges that span multiple technologies and applications.

• Developed secure and high-quality production code and reviewed and debugged code written by others.
• Drove decisions that influenced the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes.
• Actively contributed to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle.

Developed an internal timesheet application and an analytical tool to track attendance and time spent by 10+ tech consultants on over 100+ client projects. Conducted product demonstrations of the time sheet's new features with internal stakeholders, including senior management.

Collaborated with the internal engineering team to design and develop the "extract-transform-publish" engine that scanned approved websites, identified news articles to target, scraped content based on agreed metadata, saved data into our database, and then published 500+ articles a day to 1,000,000+ users.