Timothy Essuman

Factory Manager · Ajumako, Ghana

• Run the daily operation of a palm kernel processing facility: procurement, production, labour and buyers.
• Own procurement of palm kernel seed, the facility's primary raw material, from sourcing through receipt and payment.
• Plan and supervise daily production runs, optimising throughput against raw material, labour and plant capacity.
• Maintain the supplier master record and the buyer register, and report a daily snapshot of factory activity to executives overseas.
• Operate, every day, the ERP I designed and built for this facility, which is the tightest feedback loop a developer can have on their own system.

Technology Project Coordinator · Ajumako, Ghana

• Designed and built an eight-module ERP replacing Excel reporting across factory and farm.
• Built a farmer-facing mobile application connecting 100+ smallholders to the processing facility.
• Reduced operational data discrepancies by 80% and recovered roughly 20 hours a week of manual reporting.
• Coordinated with UNICEF StartUp Lab mentors to secure prototype funding and technical support.

Product Development Intern, MEST Africa Immersion · Remote

• Built a property maintenance request system for the ImmoAsk marketplace, with role-based flows for landlords and tenants, image upload, and a live preview that updates as the form is filled.
• Architected a dynamic inventory system generating unlimited itemised entry and exit records, with per-item image compression and state preserved across navigation.
• Integrated posting to four social platforms behind one abstraction layer: OAuth 2.0 linking, token refresh, per-platform adapters and content formatting, rather than four parallel integrations.

Team Supervisor · Ajumako and Breman Asikuma, Ghana

• Supervised twelve enumerators across two field seasons at 100% data-quality compliance.
• Reconciled daily returns against structural listing datasets, catching anomalies before they reached the data-quality team.
• Ran the computer-assisted interviewing tooling in the field and fixed it there, which is where I learned what happens to software when the signal drops.

Procurement Manager and Finance Manager · Ashaiman, Ghana

• Reduced procurement costs by 20% through vendor negotiation and cost modelling.
• Owned the end-to-end procurement lifecycle, from needs assessment through contract management, which is the process the ERP procurement module was later modelled on.
• Held supplier relationships across perishable categories, where a late delivery is a write-off. That constraint is why the inventory module tracks batches rather than totals.