Eugeniu CONOVALI

My current position is to coordinate the Information Management activities in Emergencies. Currently coordinating the IM&Data Management of EMTCC in Ukraine, Moldova and Poland.

Recently, I have returned from Turkey Earthquake Emergency where I was deployed as IM Coordinator in EMTCC

• Major achievements: Rationalized and harmonized data collection, use, reporting and visualization of protection indicator data for inter-agency protection coordination efforts, which resulted in the consolidation of data systems and ensuring consistency of data and results for country analysis.

• Major achievements: Developed an innovative information management system to collect, store, process and use large amount of data across 50+ countries related to over 50+ emergency medical teams and medical missions during COVID19 and other public health emregencies, with 1000+ members, which streamlined data and automated the data entry process.

• Major achievements: Development of emergency information management tool, which consolidates and visualizes national level aggregated data, including related to COVID – 19, with regards to public health emergency indicators, with a focus on laboratories
• This allows to monitor availability of resources for planning and contingency response.

• Major achievements: Planned and coordinated 25 connectivity assessment and fields missions in order to assess, evaluate and document functional and technical requirements, as well as conducted and documented technical site survey
• Furthermore, organized and coordinated periodic reviews of UNHCR registration global database networking performance to identify issues and recommend remedial actions to improve technical solutions and/or roll-out and service management processes.

• Major achievement: Act as a ETC coordinator and Security and Emergency Preparedness focal point
• Disaster Recovery Planning and Risk Assessments
• Undertook the needs assessment and stakeholder coordination for WFP SCOPE enrolment (registry) database roll-out
• I contributed to a very successful pilot roll-out for mobile retailer assessment
• In addition, I maintained a strong role in the IT management with an overall goal of building a strong infrastructure, including the procurement of equipment, setting up the server room and installation of servers
• Consequently, budgeting and planning the deployment of applications and infrastructure in accordance with WFP corporate standards were some of my priorities.

• Major achievements: Established and maintained strong partnerships with external partners to WFP
• Integrated IT and Telecommunications systems and applications to ensure appropriate data security and access controls considering both local and wide area network issues; Maintained, upgraded or enhanced existing systems and applications including troubleshooting and provided continuing user support.

• Major achievements: Established, managed, guided and coordinated the Somalia Service Desk, which, inter alia, included: implementation of service desk support systems and services that promote end-user support and the optimal use of resources, noting opportunities for further improvement
• I successfully maintained and coordinated IT support and ensured proximity of support staff / contacts globally to ensure smooth service desk operations.

• Major achievements: A very successful roll-out of the Connect project for the office of Somalia
• I was the only staff member on the ground responsible for the preparation, installation, configuration, training of staff, etc
• I successfully moved 8 offices (including 7 in Somalia)
• I trained over 400 staff members for the new system
• I installed the software and configured servers and equipment for over 400 computers
• But what I am mostly proud of is the fact that during the roll-out, the office’s communication systems were not disturbed, and the move took place very smoothly without affecting the work of colleagues
• This is even more critical as WFP Somalia is working with emergency programmes.

• Major achievements: In the office of over 50 staff members, I was the only ICT expert, therefore my range of responsibilities varied from very technical (installation, maintenance) to programming (plan and implement ICT projects, budget resources and conduct all actions to purchase equipment and contract ICT services) and standard setting and performance management (designed and implemented ICT projects with emphasis on connectivity)