Victor Otim

• My initial role was to provide technical support towards the maintenance of a budget information website (budget.finance.go.ug). This involved developing new functionality on the website, optimizing database queries with over a million records of budget data spanning more than 10 years and debugging where necessary.
• Lead programmer on the development of the Online Transfer Information Management System (OTIMS) – accessible at otims.finance.go.ug. The system facilitates the process of formula based budgeting, a reform being phased in by Ministry of Finance in Uganda supported by the World Bank. It aims to achieve equitable and fair allocation of national budget based on transparent and objective scientific formula.
• The system also interfaces with the central budgeting system via an API in order to generate the final approved national budget estimates
• Development of an online performance assessment management system to facilitate the assessment of 154 Local Governments on their adherence to systems and processes as well as efficiency in service delivery
• Design and development of a construction assessment management system. The government of Uganda in partnership with the World Bank is building over 200 health facilities and schools spread out the country and needed a tool to assess the progress and quality of construction. In addition to quantitative building data, the tool also captures images and documents associated with the facilities. This data can then be analyzed and used to produce statistics/graphs for decision making.

Short term contract to develop an e-commerce portal for Ecopharm Uganda Ltd, a leading pharmaceutical company in Uganda. The company already had a functional website, however, in order to expand their client base outside of walk-ins and also provide more convenient service to their clients, they deemed it necessary to add an e-commerce component to the website.

I took on the consultancy as lead developer and my project objectives which were successfully delivered included;

• Design a clean, modern e-commerce platform that delivers a seamless and engaging user experience to maximize sales revenue
• Build a highly functional CMS which allows Ecopharm staff manage product content and customer requests
• Monitor sales volume and satisfaction metrics following deployment of the system
• Deploy the system on shop.ecopharmug.com

Technologies used - CodeIgniter, PHP/MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript

ENHAS was initially using a paper based system to manage its cargo handling operations but with the increasing export and import volume at the airport proportionately grew the amount of paper work generated. This made it extremely cumbersome and time wasting when it came to verification and clearing of clients goods at the airport - creating long queues at the baggage handling section of the airport.

Besides lost revenues due to snail paced cargo handling procedures, there were significant leakages deficits resulting from clearing agents taking advantage of the hard-to-monitor manual cargo handling processes to avoid paying storage and handling fees.

The company decided to invest in a computer based cargo handling system that would streamline the cargo handling process and improve management and monitoring of cargo in the ware houses right from arrival at the airport to delivery.

I took on this project while at Datacraft Systems and successfully deployed the solution at the client’s premises. Not only is the solution successful in achieving the initial goal of reducing paper work but also helped ENHAS realize a dramatic growth in revenue collected from their cargo handling processes as a result of more reliable auditing and reporting modules provided by the system.

The system was also integrated with the existing Tally accounting software via an API in order to automate transfer of sales and invoices.

Technologies used - VB.Net, MSSQL, SAP Crystal Reports

As lead developer, I scope, design and develop applications that support core business functions of organizations, especially small/medium enterprises. These applications include websites, web and desk top based applications.

I write technical documentation for client applications, e.g. software requirements documents defining the functionality of the solutions to our clients and system test case documents to manage bugs.

As technical lead, I was also responsible for ensuring that the team is adhering to modern development standards such as writing modularized/re-usable code, use of automated version control tools such as bitbucket/Git, commenting code and updating old code-bases.

• Responsible for developing websites and desktop applications according to client requirements
• Design test cases to establish that the websites render as expected on all browsersand devices
• Integrate feedback from the clients into the applications and websites.

• Planned website development, converting mockups into usable web presence with HTML, JavaScript, jQuery and AJAX.
• Integrate feedback from the clients into the applications and websites