SEBULENI SOFTWARE SYSTEM

 SEBULENI SOFTWARE SYSTEM 

David had since completed his KCSE exams and did well to earn admission to KU for a bachelor’s degree in IT. The close to one year break between clearing form 4 and joining university presented experiences which David found very interesting. For him, it was pure fun. He got so involved in business in many ways. Sometimes he would travel with Mike or the dad in the many rides they did in sourcing supplies for the business. He got a chance to visit many towns around Nairobi and beyond. He had always loved to travel even in his childhood days. Whenever he did not want to travel, he sat home observing how various home gadgets worked or playing with the desktop computer that he had been given by one of his uncles, Mwangi, in one of the many visits he made with the dad to the uncle's place in Kitisuru. In his uncle's place, while he was still in primary school, he usually met and spent time with Eric. Eric was the uncle's last-born son who was then a student of IT at JKUAT. Eric would be working on several hardware gadgets in their home or developing some programs either as college assignments or just for the fun of it. David would get very fascinated by what Eric was doing. David developed a big interest in IT and by then, he made up his mind of the wish to study IT in future. 

David was now in second year at KU but was always round and about. Anytime he did not have classes, he travelled with Mike or the dad to different rural areas. Sometimes he would visit Eric on the weekends or on weekdays in his new small office in Nairobi’s westlands area. Eric had started an IT solutions company and had a few customers, especially small SME firms. With no ability to employ IT personnel in their firms, Eric handled many firms' IT needs. His new company was picking up quite well. David always created time to be with Eric at the office in westlands. The two had become too close. They were not only cousins but friends. In Eric's office, David would help with the work. With time, he had learnt practical programming and would help develop operational software for the SME firms. He also learnt much about fixing hardware issues and setting up IT infrastructure for the firms. This also made his course in KU much simpler because, the many things he learnt in class, he also experienced them practically in Eric's office. David became so good that Eric would sometimes allow him to develop software alone, small less complicated systems for smaller clients. 

The most exciting project for David was development of a software system for Sebuleni restaurants. It began when he and Eric planned a meeting with Sebuleni stakeholders including David's dad Joshua, his brothers Mike and Daniel, as well as the sisters Hellen and Tabitha. Present also were the managers of all the branches. They all discussed the extent abilities that the system would handle and after the meeting, there was a plan for the software.

So began the development of the Sebuleni software system and David began working on it.

@Stephen Mungai