Achievements & Skills

Computer Skills 

• Design Application:Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Adobe illustrator, Fireworks and Lightroom
• Financial Application: Quicken and Quickbooks
• Web Development Applications: JQuery, web browser applications, Edit Plus, FileZilla, Cute FTP pro, CMS (Content Management System) with Joomla / Mambo, WordPress, PHP, MYSQL and CSS. 
• Office Application: Microsoft office packages (PowerPoint, Excel, Access, email applications, Internet research, Publisher, and Word).

Sport Achievements

1. Organized and coordinated a peace tournament in Mathare North that featured twelve teams during the December holiday the year 2013. 
2.  Diversity Cup in Hamburg Germany with other 14 fellows from other countries as part of the Do School  fellowship program. http://thedoschool.org/
3. Toured with Mathare United U16’s to the Norway Cup in Norway, 1997, 1998 and 1999.
4. Team manager of Otto-Benecker football girl’s team. www.otto-beneckerfc.blogspot.com.
5. Founder and head coach of Metro Sports FC which is youth lead initiative through sports in the slum.
6. Played for Mathare United under 17 team, winning the Coca-Cola youth tournament in 1999 in Nairobi.
7. Captain of Don Bosco secondary school football team 1999, Nairobi-Kenya.
8. 1999 Winner of MYSA (Mathare Youth Sports Association) Best Player and Fair Play awards.

Television Interviews

In 2001 I was featured in the BBC documentary, ‘Well Connected’, about the work of NairoBits and the global impact of the internet. I was interviewed for the program by the presenter, Mariella Frostrup, and assisted the production crew with their filming objectives during their stay in Nairobi.

Areas of Expertise

• Graphic / Web design
• Photography and Social Media Strategies. 
• Presentation skills 
• Project management People management 
• Time management Community mobilization 
• ICT Training.
• Social Enterprise and Business skills
• Youth training and Mentorship

Awards, Publication, Exhibitions and Workshops

• 2009: Represent Zanzibits in the annual rotary career day at Haile Selasi Secondary, Ugunja Zanzibar
• The Butterfly paper No.1 featured story page 44 – http://www.butterflyworks.org 
• 2005: Winner world ‘s best e-content in the category of creativity and culture at the World Summit Youth Award year 2005 which took Center stage in Tunis Tunisia. http://www.youthaward.org/. 
• March 2005 attended the Doors of perception 8th conference doors8delhi.doorsofperception.com in New Delhi, India and represented NairoBits at the exhibition. 
• 2005: Participated in the African Youth Foundation (AYF) essay competition in ICT and education in Africa.
• In September 2005 attended a workshop organized by YIKE (Youth Initiative Kenya) on youth leadership and attained a certificate for participation. 
• 2004 Award winner 1st Prize: Poster competition 2004 for young people which was organized by the Safer Cities program of UN-HABITAT to mark the World Urban Forum and sensitize young people on urban insecurity.