EDDIE KASAMBALA
Pretoria
Summary
Experienced professional adept at digital technology and business development, driving growth and innovation. Proficient in communication, design, digital marketing, presentation, public speaking, and strategy. Strong leader committed to refining business development and management skills, navigating complex tasks, and delivering results within budget and timeline. Skilled in customer and team liaison, issue resolution, and feedback implementation for optimal customer success. Effective advisor with excellent eye for detail, identifying areas for improvement and suggesting strategies to achieve business goals. Dedicated to introducing efficient systems and processes.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Channel Sales Manager and Partner Development Manager
Microsoft
08.2023 - Current
- Created and nurtured a partner ecosystem with assistance from manager and others, to drive impact for the customer
- Facilitated match-making to drive opportunities (e.g., cloud and solutions), connecting partners to sellers and identifying how specific business needs can be met via Microsoft solutions
- Delivers and integrates partner expertise and solutions into sales cycles that grow consumption of Microsoft products
- Leveraged partners and customers through direct engagements, field surveys, partner events and surveys, listening systems, and social mechanisms, to identify and alleviate key customer and partner success blockers
- Reporting on pipeline of 25% Year to Date growth rate for modern work solution area
- Connected resources and programs to support partner co-sell pipeline velocity and alleviate friction points
- Shared feedback among build-with teams and executes on corrections of errors in response to feedback.
Project Manager Trainee
Brainnest
02.2023 - 04.2023
- Elected as team project manager and team consisted of internationals from Spain, Nigeria, Angola and Greece
- Held remotely
- Identified project scopes, constraints, risks and deadlines
- Tracked project performance to analysed successful completion of short‐ and long‐term goals
- Used Click Up, Microsoft Teams and Jira to create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Used Agile Planning and Scrum verification techniques for changes to project scope, project schedule and project costs.
- Used process improvement tools to separate and combine tasks into efficient workflow, improving efficiency by 50%.
Internship
Open Skies Internship
02.2019 - 12.2019
- Assisted in graphic design and photography and lead some graphical work for some events‐ Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premier Pro
- (6 months) Assisted Trulife, NPO and traveled to different schools to assist in building life skills for children.
- (6 months) Mission trip exposure to Mozambique, Lesotho and the Philippines
- Volunteered in fundraising and different management tasks for these trips.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management -
University of Pretoria
University Of Pretoria12.2023
NSC: Bachelor Pass -
Maritzburg College
Durban, South Africa12.2018
Skills
- Leadership
- Public Speaking
- Negotiation
- Microsoft Azure, Dynamics and Power platform
- Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro)
- Project Management
- Strategy and Planning
- Microsoft Office
- Sales
- Client Engagement
- Growth Strategies
- Competitor Analysis
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 04/25/00
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: South African
- Driving License: B
- Marital Status: Single
Websites
Certification
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900),
- Microsoft M365 Fundamentals (M-810),
- Power platform (PL-900),
- Dynamics CRM (MB-910)
- Microsoft AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
- Microsoft security & compliance (SC-900)
- Certificate – Brainnest Project Management
- Digital Strategy Certificate –LinkedIn
- Account Key Management - LinkedIn
- Elevate Africa Public Speaking Certificate
Achievements And Projects
- Inter-varsity national entrepreneurship competition internal Tuks finalist and Gauteng regional finalist for EDHE 2023 for drafting and pitching a recruitment software operation idea. Over 26 universities in SA competed.
- Elected as one of the top 7 finalists in the University of Pretoria Public Speaking Competition in 2022, with over 100 applicants. Presented in the final round in front of judges including Miss. SA 2014, Head of Tiger Brands Marketing, SA Brands representative, and TUKS FM spokesperson.
- Prefect for Nathan house and head of culture for Maritzburg College in 2018.
- Top in Grade in business science in high school 2017 and 2016
Volunteer Experience
- Lead as Vice Chairperson of the Executive Committee of Elevate Africa Society at the University of Pretoria
- Lead as class representative for first‐year business management course at the University of Pretoria.
- Students Representative Culture (SRC) for Maritzburg College 2018
- Participated in SPCA event 2018
- Involved in charity organizations: Open Skies Church, Vision Church
References
MR. BRIAN VAMBE, +27 (73) 407-5425, MRS. ELMA AKOB, +27 (83) 538-5638
Timeline
Channel Sales Manager and Partner Development Manager
Microsoft
08.2023 - Current
Project Manager Trainee
Brainnest
02.2023 - 04.2023
Internship
Open Skies Internship
02.2019 - 12.2019
Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management -
University of Pretoria
NSC: Bachelor Pass -
Maritzburg College