Festus Mbuga

A senior, resourceful, communicative, and forward-thinking Certified Project Manager with 8+ years of demonstrated expertise in serving as an Engineer in the private sector while organizing business operations, overseeing financial oversight, and resource management to achieve smooth flow and project operations. Adept in leading procurement of resources in engineering set-ups, including equipment and supplies, monitoring projects by adhering to production schedule and budget, managing production team, identifying problems and providing targeted solutions, accounting principles, bookkeeping, budget, and financial management.

Possesses a Master of Business Administration: Strategic Management, a Bachelor of Technology: Industrial Electronics Engineering, and a Diploma in Electronics: Electronics Engineering. Seeking to leverage my skills, experience, and education to land a rewarding project management position, people management, and operations management.

Project Manager-Schneider Electric Ltd – East Africa.

• See to it that teams adhere to industry practices, company standards, and safety protocols at work.
• Assist in overseeing level-loading project capacity and made proactive decisions around process improvements to the development cycle.
• Develop viable project timelines for product lines from kickoff through production and online content development based on marketplace requirements.
• Model company's management and organizational skills and multi-tasked and prioritized in a deadline-driven environment.
• Build Schneider’s successful project plans covering objectives, resources, and staffing to meet schedules.
• Schedule and facilitate meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules, and conflicts.
• Demonstrated soft skills in Negotiations, Change Management & Conflictual conversations with customers.
• Leads the closeout of work orders and processes for financial reconciliation with related documents.
• Respect the CPP4S process (Handover /Risk Assessment/ Kick-off meeting/Project Charter / Planning / Delivery / Site Services / Closeout).

• Master of Business Administration: Strategic Management- Expected completion-01/2023 -Jomo Kenyatta University - Nairobi
• Certified Project Manager conferred by Project Management Institute (June 2020).
• Bachelor of Technology: Industrial Electronics Engineering-12/2010 - Egerton University - Nakuru-First Class Honors