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Conrad MESSINA
(Statistician-Economist Engineer)
Senior Data Scientist
During 12 years experience in performance measurement, Market research, Monitoring/Evaluation and analytics to ease decisions making, including consultancies and teaching,
I have built strong skills in understanding business drivers calculate them and provide leaders with actionable recommendations. In a prospective way, I’m able to forecast business trends and make good predictions to build plans and then design a system to monitor & evaluate execution.
Proven ability to bring others delivering their duties, develop their skills and stay engagement around a common goal.
Education
Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics
Statistician-Economist Engineer
Yaounde, Cameroon
2010
University of Yaounde II (SOA)
Bachelor’s degree in Economics (Mathematics & Econometrics)
Yaounde, Cameroon
2005
Professional Experience
MTN-Cameroon / Marketing-Department / Business-Intelligence-Unit / Market-Insights-Coordinator(B2B, Digital, MFS and S&D)
Douala, Cameroon
Present - Jan 2020
-SURVEY DESIGN AND EXECUTION: Global Telecommunication Survey (GTS: 2020, 2021, 2022) for consumer and Mobile Financial Services segments (57 offers identify from main competitor among which 76% where more competitive in September 2022)
-BUSINESS MONITORING & EVALUATION: Ad Hoc tactical survey to explain customers base drop, revenue drop, awareness of offers/services etc. (Identify roots causes of 3% revenue drop in July and guide mitigation plan through DTC SMS push during havy rain helping at reducing rain negative impact on cash-out by 50%)
-MARKET SHARE ESTIMATION: Methodology, Computation and Reporting including drivers monitoring (Gross-Adds and Churn) (Build Insightful KPI for market share estimation and measure accurately MTN’s market position in an increasingly on-net oriented market and help keep MTN’s leadership position)
-GEOMARKETING DASHBOARD: Geographical monitoring of business KPI’s to identify positioning versus competitors, treats and growth potential (BTL representing 40% of identified offers from competition)
MTN-Cameroon / Marketing-Department / Business-Intelligence-Unit / Acting Business Planning and Performance Manager
Douala, Cameroon
Dec 2019 - Jun 2019
- STRATEGIC PLANNING: Leading Business Planning process and deliver the Business Plan for 2020
- FORECASTING TIME SERIES: Forecasting business KPIs future trends
- REPORTING: Measure Business performances Metrics and present in Power-BI and R-Shiny dashboards
MTN-Cameroon / Marketing-Department / Business-Intelligence-Unit / Competitive Intelligence Specialist
Douala, Cameroon
Nov 2019 - Jan 2016
- MONITORING & EVALUATION: Monitor business environment (Macroeconomic, PESTEL, SWOT Analysis)
- PRODUCTS & SERVICES CATALOG: Collect all operators offers and services
- COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE: Comparison of offers to guide MTN’s Value proposition improvement
- MARKET SIZING: Measure the potential of the market and estimate Market and Value Share
MINISTRY OF HEALTH / Malaria Control Program / Monitoring & Evaluation Expert
Yaounde, Cameroon
Dec 2015 - Feb 2013
- SURVEY DESIGN & EXECUTION: Monthly data collection to compute malaria status KPIs in the Centre region
- IMPACT ANALYSIS Survey to measure the Impact of Mosquitoes nets usage
- PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT Compute 60 KPIs to provide the status of the disease on a montly basis
MINISTRY OF ECONOMY PLANNING AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT / Competitiveness Committee / Monitoring & Evaluation Expert
Yaounde, Cameroon
Jan 2013 - Jul 2010
- SURVEY EXECUTION: World Economic Forum (WEF) survey to calculate Cameroon Competitiveness Index
- REPORTING: Design the Competitiveness Dashboard of Cameroonian economy
Teaching Experience
Data Visualization.
Data Visualazation with R and Power-BI at Institut Saint-Jean.
Yaounde/Douala, Cameroon
Since 2020
Sales Forcasting.
Sales Prevision at SABC-Group for College de Paris.
Douala, Cameroon
2019
Publications and Consulting
Evaluation and Monitoring of CIMAR project and measure of its impacts on farmers incomes in Njome-Penja.
Article for 2011 Young African Statistician Development Conference (YSIBALO-2011)
Pretoria, South Africa
2011