Resume of Nils Kaiser

Nils Kaiser
Founder and Principal Advisor at kaikai

About

Passionate Digital Development and ICT4D adviser, and the founder of a team of African consultants (kaikai.dev). Creative ICT generalist with 10+ years of experience and a background in Political Science. Team player and enthusiastic communicator in four languages.

Work Experience

March 2020 – Present
Founder and Principal Advisor
Founded and leads a team of African advisors to support development organizations, implementers and private sector.
January 2020 – Present
Business Developer and Technology Advisor
Identified and developed business opportunities. Lead proposals for competitive tender processes.
Highlights
  • Raised over 750K EUR funding in 2020
January 2019 – Present
Digital Development and Digital Health Consultant
Consultancy services for various organizations, leveraging experience in Digital Development, Digital Health. Focus on ecosystem approach, sustainable solutions, local capacity building and empowerment.
Highlights
  • Identified a 800K USD funding opportunity for PATH
  • Various country missions in Cameroon, Togo, Benin
July 2018 – May 2019
Digital Health Advisor (Consultant)
- Managing global good funding awards, checking deliverables and progress - Lead a requirements workshop for a new Health Information System in South Africa - Lead training session on Health Information Systems implementations and Interoperability at the first WHO-ITU workshop on Digital Health Capacity Building in Lesotho 2018 - Technical advisory for country support related to Digital Health projects
September 2016 – March 2018
ICT4D Advisor
- Advised Government of Guinea, USAID mission and implementing partners on ICT and Digital Health - Initiated cooperation with Ministry of Telecommunications and private sector (MNOs). - Technical management of several awards - Liaised to Global Development Lab as well as to global initiatives and partners.
Highlights
  • Lead the creation of the first IT team and the MoH
May 2015 – July 2016
Information Systems Manager
- Designed and led a national scale health information systems project for mobile disease surveillance in Sierra Leone based on DHIS2, connectivity and solar roll at health facilities. - Communicated vision and requirements with Ministry of Health, CDC and WHO representatives. - Developed and tracked work plans, time-lines and budget as part of a cooperative agreement with CDC. - Recruted local technicians and developers.
Highlights
  • Lead a 7mio budget for disease surveillance CoAg
September 2014 – May 2015
Information Systems Advisor / Product Manager
- Technical lead for the national Ebola call center (115) in Guinea, gathered technical requirements and developed roadmap, coordinated dev team - Technical advisor for proposals to Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and DFID.
January 2012 – July 2014
Senior Developer / Architect (Freelance)
Architect for an internal expert finding tool at SAP AG built in Rails, MongoDB, Angular.JS. Lead roadmap.
Highlights
  • Drove transition to Angular.JS and ElasticSearch
May 2010 – July 2011
Consultant, Software Developer
Consulted public agency and the regional Mnistry of Justice in Content Management Systems. Introduced JIRA and new development practices
May 2010 – January 2001
Software Developer
Various Software Development and Product development roles. More information available on request

Volunteer

DaanCovid
March 2020 – June 2020
Volunteer and team lead
Advised patient tracking group and met with response stakeholders
International Cultural Youth Exchange (DE)
April 2007 – November 2004
Member of Board
Participated in strategic and operational decisions for ICYE Germany. Acted as trainer for preparation workshops.
Habitat for Humanity Honduras
November 2003 – September 2004
Donor Report Volunteer

Contact

Education

  • 2007 2008

    The London School of Economics (LSE)

    MSc

    Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems

  • 2005 2004

    University of Potsdam

    Diplom

    Verwaltungswissenschaft

  • 2004 2005

    Berlin School of Economics

    B.Sc.

    Business Informatics (Company Linked with IBM)

Skills

Software and Web Development Excellent
HTML, CSS Javascript, node.js, Angular SQL, REST
Digital Development and ICT4D Excellent
Principles of Digital Development Donor procedures
Social & Communication Skills Excellent
Strategic and technical advisory Very good
Project Management Very Good

References

USAID, Digital Health Lead, mschaefer@usaid.gov

GIZ, Head of Digital Development Sector Programme, bjoern.richter@giz.de