Teddy Berihun

About Teddy Berihun

Results-driven leader with 20+ years of experience in digital transformation, DevOps,…

Experience

1. Director of Information Systems

   Palladium: Make It Possible

   Jun 2022 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Lead the development the company’s vision and growth plan for information systems.• Formulate partnerships and collaborations with organizations and networks for strategic growth including representing Palladium to governments, donors, partners, and other stakeholders, through thought leadership at international meetings, ministry-level events, technical working groups, one-on-one meetings, and communities of practice; manage existing relationships.• Identify, assess, and pursue new business opportunities in line with the practice growth strategy; lead active proposal development pursuits.• Work with the digital solutions and transformation portfolio and other business units globally, develop processes with portfolios and business units to support the IS workstream development and growth.• Lead the development of a corporate proposal for a product innovation initiative working with relevant portfolio leads, the emerging business accelerator, the commercial innovation practice and the Kenya regional digital team. • Support assigned, Project Directors in in their role to ensure quality technical IS program design, implementation and project management; guide staff on technical implementation ensuring adherence to standards, industry best practices and key strategic guidance.• Build and lead an agile team of information systems experts comprised of content specialists, project managers, information system advisors, business analysts and technology specialists.• Lead the preparation of key documents and products reporting on portfolio workstream, successes and accomplishments.• Work closely with Sr. Manager of the Kenya regional digital team to ensure business processes for IS product development and the software development life cycle (SDLC) are functioning; problem solve as needed.

Education

• Florida Institute of Technology

  MSC program(one year training), Software Engineering

  2009 — 2010

• Addis Ababa University

  Msc, Information science

  2005 — 2007

• Bahir Dar University

  B.Ed, Physics

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Program Evaluation
• Proposal Writing
• Public Speaking
• Dhis 2.0
• Visual C++
• Management
• International Development
• Project Management
• Analysis
• Mobile Applications
• Software Development
• Program Management
• Sharepoint
• Training
• Commcare
• Data Analysis
• Databases
• Management Consulting
• Microsoft Office
• Government
• Hmis
• C#
• Programming
• Capacity Building
• Java
• Team Leadership
• Leadership
• Strategy
• Odk
• Research