Senior Consultant – Social Protection, Strategy Development and Performance Management, Development Economics and Policy, Data Science and Machine Learning.
Professional Summary
William is an accomplished strategy professional, software architect and data scientist with over 26 years of experience designing and developing software products and solutions to solve a wide variety of business problems in both the public and private sectors. He has worked extensively in power generation and supply, social protection and development, healthcare, education, multimedia and financial sectors and on elections and governance projects.
He has been certified by the IEEE Computer Society, both as a Software Development Professional and a Software Engineering Certified Instructor, holds a certificate in Data Science and Big Data Analytics from MIT, and a MicroMasters in Data, Economics and Social Development also from MIT.
He has worked as the National MIS Consultant for the Ghana Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection’s Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) Social Cash Transfer program in Ghana since 2010. For LEAP, he leads the development of the MIS for managing all the Targeting, Selection, Enrolment, Payment, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Case Management processes.
More recently, he supported the development of the Unified Social Registry and Cash Transfer Management Information system for the Government of Somalia. Was Quality Assurance Consultant responsible for supporting the government client to evaluate the quality of the outputs delivered by the contractor. Provided support for the development of the overall delivery systems including the Operational Manuals.
He was also a Senior Consultant and Director of Technologies at Balanced Scorecard West Africa, the West Africa affiliate of the Balanced Scorecard Institute. Holds the Balanced Scorecard Master Professional certification, a certification jointly awarded by the Balanced Scorecard Institute and the George Washington University Center for Professional Studies. At BSWA, he worked with clients to design, develop and automate their Strategic Planning and Execution processes based on the Balanced Scorecard framework and the Balanced Scorecard Institute’s Nine Steps to Success methodology. In 2014, was named a Senior Associate of the Balanced Scorecard Institute.