Grace, thanks for sharing.

Great story and achievement by the SWAT Team at Safaricom. Anyone working on projects will appreciate the kind of planning and meticulous execution required to work on such a project. And Mpesa being the giant it is, the pressure and all the things that can go wrong are just countless.

I salute Emma and all the men and women who delivered this project successfully within scope, time and hopefully budget!

Harry Hare

Director | African eDevelopment Resource Centre

PO Box 49475 00100 | Nairobi, Kenya

Tel +254 20 4041646 | Cel +254 725 650044

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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 17:44:04 +0300
To: Cio_Magazine Hare <harry@africanedevelopment.org>
Cc: "Grace Mutung'u (Bomu)" <nmutungu@gmail.com>
Subject: [kictanet] Women in tech - Mpesa Migration Story

It was said to be one of the biggest and most complex projects the company had ever embarked on and the information technology specialist, who led the team of 320 people in the Herculean task of moving M-Pesa servers from Germany to Kenya — a process that lasted between 11 p.m. on Friday April 17 and 11.30 a.m. on April 19 after years of meticulous planning — received special mention from the CEO.

http://mobile.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/-/1950774/2696774/-/format/xhtml/-/618vfbz/-/index.html

Grace L.N. Mutung'u
Nairobi Kenya
Skype: gracebomu
Twitter: @Bomu

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