Nyagatare Valens
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Nyagatare Valens is a business minded person with strong analytical and customer service skills. He has experience working with people needs in insurance industry, retail management, international trade and research projects. He has extended knowledge in Microcomputer Support Technology, Information Technology Management, and Business Intelligence Technology.
Skills Summary
OSI Model, TCP IP, subnetting, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Window XP, Microsoft Office products, and end users services.
EDUCATION
Microcomputer Support Technician at Century College, White Bear Lake, Minnesota. All courses were hands-on materials, which included Supporting MS XP, MS 2003 Server, Administrating Active Directory, MS Server 2003 Networking Infrastructure, Networking System (Example :OSI Model), Unix Operating System and End/Users Networking Analysis.
MBA in Information Technology Management at Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota. All courses are strategic in nature, which include Professional Effectiveness, Managing Information Assets and Technology, Project Planning Management and Financial Control, Strategic Info System Planning, Impact of Advance in Information System Technology, Techniques for Managing Information Technology Professional, and Strategy.
International Trade Specialist (Import/Export) certificate, St Paul College, Minnesota
Bachelor of Science degree from Iowa Stae University Ames, Iowa, specialized in General Business.
Applied Statistician Technician, Kigali Statistics and Applied Economies Institute, Kigali Rwanda.
USA EMPLOYMENT
Operation and Marketing Management, Woodbury Home Depot, Minnesota:Implement and maintain customer’s orders system.
Manager, Oakdale Menards, Minnesota. Manage Wall Covering, Electrical, Building Material and Receiving departments.
Life Insurance Agent, New York Life Insurance, Des Moines Iowa: Business and financial analysis research and study insurance data using data mining systems, and write reports and give advices to insurance agents.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
1. Member of St Paul Parks Lion’s Club: Organize, implement and participate in club activities
2. Member of Phi Theta Kappa, an International Honor Society: Average GPA of 3.5 and above
OTHER LANGUAGES:
Speak and write very well French
Recent Activity
Recording for example cost of good sold during the discount period can show the purchase discount gain in income statement, while cash and account payable are affected in the balance sheet. This is illustrated in the formula, where gain in income will be added to net income, and we all know that net income affects the outcome of Owner' Equity: Assets + Liabilities + Owner' Equity
"If your IT organization is distributed and not centralized, then revisit your strategy. If you do not offer a common set of shareable services then revisit your strategy. If you are global and fully centralized then you also need to revisit your strategy. In short if you still have a monolithic IT organization built around a mainframe and/or a set of giant UNIX boxes serving the entire organization spread nationally or globally then you also need to revisit your strategy" (CIO, 2008).
Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Web Cast: Your Window to Corporate Performance, for an update on the state of business intelligence systems; and the major issues covered by the Web Cast, indicating their relevance to any organization.
In this article, " The State of Information Security 2003", he demonstrated how a survey done by PricewaterhouseCoopers about Information Security, which was based on: "information security as an ongoing discipline" (Scott, 2003). Then, in 2007, Scott Berinato (2007) discussed again, in his article titled: "the Fifth Annual Global State of Information Security", where he emphasized on the state of Information Security, compared to five years before" (Scott, 2007). I a
I thought about "Planning", which is the key to successfully manage and maintain a continuous flow of information needed in management of a business. "Setting up a database is only a start. In order to make sure that the data for your business remain accurate, reliable, and readily available to those who need it, your business will need special policies and procedures for data management" Laudon, 2007
A company should not forget about IT training for non-IT people, the business managers, and personnel who are involved in using information and in determining the need for additional information resources…The concept of the knowledge company is becoming more than just an esoteric business term. The successful companies are those that can turn data (raw materials) into information (finished goods) and then into knowledge (meaningful action based on the information)" Kanter (2003)
What is blockbuster's business model? How successful had it been? What industry and technology forces have challenged that business model? What problems have they created? Is Blockbuster developing successful solutions it should have considered? How successful is Netflix and its business model? Do you think Blockbuster or Netflix will succeed in the future?
In his article, Neal (2007) identified four ways to calculate accounting variances; he gave an example as follow: contribution margins of $39.60 per unit (actual) and $36.00 per unit (budgeted); budgeted market size (1,000,000 units) and the actual market size (880,000 units) and planned 100,000 units (10% of the budgeted market) but sold 110,000 units (12.5% of the actual market).
It is getting really tough for graduates, experienced and even experts to get hired these days. Many will blame the economy, others will speculate on how the government is not working towards adequate solutions to the problem. I personally believe that the loss of thinking big is not driving some, to work really hard, to improve the overall of American lives. Why do I need to remind business people, I mean people who have money in USA (top 1%), to go back to the basics: Follow GAAP and FASB!
In order to become more competitive, a particular company should use principles and techniques of operations management, such as identification, planning, analysis, design, testing, implementation, and review of a selected improvement plan (OIP); and should be able to analyze candidate processes within the company to select a substantive process of appropriate scope to meet the operations improvement plan objectives.
