Francisca Chinwe Awolesi
Canada
Awolesi Chinwe Francisca, fondly called Fran by colleagues, has been managing projects in the financial industry for over 8 years. She holds an MBA degree with specialization in Project Management from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a first degree in computer science. Fran has spent 18 years in the Information Technology servicing the financial sector which includes banks of various sizes. The first 10 years of her career was spent in the banking industry in various positions; as developer, systems analyst, business analyst and then as project leads for software implementation and support projects. As the Projects Director of SOFGEN Africa Limited, she is responsible for the overall delivery of SOFGEN projects in the continent. Her scope of project delivery covers implementation and support of IT solutions for core banking operations, ERP, Credit Risk Management and mobile banking solutions. Fran is a Certified Project Manager (PMP); member of Project Management institute (PMI), as well as a certified ITSM Expert (ITIL V3 Manager). She can be contacted at chinweawolesi@gmail.com.