HISTORY
My Story
Dr. Yawo O. Kondo is a cyber security professional with progressive knowledge in Information Technology (IT), including Electronic Health Records (EHR), Cloud services, Enterprise Systems Architecture, cybersecurity, InfoSec, Data Management, System Design, Risk Assessments, Contingency Plans, Security Test & Evaluation reports, and Vulnerability Assessment reports. He has advanced knowledge of frameworks such as FISMA, RMF, DoD RMF, FedRAMP, DIACAP, CSF, HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, and ISO 27001, among others.
Yawo is also a security researcher and instructional systems specialist in cybersecurity. He is passionate about making learning exciting and interactive, a skill he has honed while working in the industry. Dr. Kondo is currently an adjunct professor at Washington Adventist University.
He leads a team of highly trained professionals based in the U.S. and Africa. His roles include ensuring compliance with technology-related regulations, ensuring critical infrastructure protection, researching data security and privacy, preparing tests and reports regarding business resiliency, and managing third-party service providers organization-wide.
Dr. Kondo’s commitment extends to corporate citizenship, having served on governing boards, leadership boards, boards of directors, and advisory boards on IT and security. Dr. Yawo Obimpe Kondo is the Director of Institutions, Departments & Centers, USA, Europe, and Canada Bureau at SE-INTERNATIONAL. He provides technical support to local NGOs, private companies, and government institutions, helping them become more effective in their operations and coaching them in proposal writing, business development, fundraising, program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, budget development, events planning, and more. He also supports initiatives designed to proactively engage program members, partners, and sponsors, leveraging his experience with leading communications initiatives.
Dr. Kondo conducted a doctoral dissertation on Cyberattack Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies with double concentrations in international business management and global strategy studies from the University of Nebraska, a double master’s degree in healthcare informatics from the University of Maryland, and Strategies and Leadership in Information Technology from Walden University, along with numerous IT professional certifications.
Yawo is also a security researcher and instructional systems specialist in cybersecurity. He is passionate about making learning exciting and interactive, a skill he has honed while working in the industry. Dr. Kondo is currently an adjunct professor at Washington Adventist University.
He leads a team of highly trained professionals based in the U.S. and Africa. His roles include ensuring compliance with technology-related regulations, ensuring critical infrastructure protection, researching data security and privacy, preparing tests and reports regarding business resiliency, and managing third-party service providers organization-wide.
Dr. Kondo’s commitment extends to corporate citizenship, having served on governing boards, leadership boards, boards of directors, and advisory boards on IT and security. Dr. Yawo Obimpe Kondo is the Director of Institutions, Departments & Centers, USA, Europe, and Canada Bureau at SE-INTERNATIONAL. He provides technical support to local NGOs, private companies, and government institutions, helping them become more effective in their operations and coaching them in proposal writing, business development, fundraising, program implementation, monitoring and evaluation, budget development, events planning, and more. He also supports initiatives designed to proactively engage program members, partners, and sponsors, leveraging his experience with leading communications initiatives.
Dr. Kondo conducted a doctoral dissertation on Cyberattack Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in international studies with double concentrations in international business management and global strategy studies from the University of Nebraska, a double master’s degree in healthcare informatics from the University of Maryland, and Strategies and Leadership in Information Technology from Walden University, along with numerous IT professional certifications.
A Good Fit
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in International Studies
University of Nebraska, USA- 2006
As a child, I dreamt of working for an international organization that will allow me to solve urgent global needs, poverty alleviation, health issues, conflicts, and significant occurrences. My fascination with the world’s politics and international perspectives exceeded anything else. I believed that a degree in International relations could open up the world to me, which was the dream that motivated my first degree in International Studies with a double concentration in International Business Management and Global Strategy studies. Following my qualifications, I received significant exposure in world politics, governing policies, and the social, historical impact of global development. This degree allowed me to understand NGOs, the private sector, advanced human culture through cultural exchange, diplomacy, and policy development. The degree also reinforced my interest in economics, geography, history, and languages. I considered that degree to be appropriate to help me face urgent world issues until I started working for a nonprofit organization.
When I started working for a nonprofit organization that participates in community integration of people with developmental disabilities, I discovered that healthcare also had an urgent need to develop innovative ways to acquire, store, retrieve, and secure healthcare information. This was the reasoning behind my enrollment in a Master of Science in Health Informatics Administration (MSHIA). My choice coincided with the acceleration with electronic health records (EHRs) adoption introduced by CMS meaningful use incentive program. The program’s response to how and why questions helped organizations implement new systems, upgrade existing databases and contributed to different healthcare systems’ interoperability. The degree made it possible for me to evaluate an organization’s IT systems, design, and apply EMR/EHR software application. Furthermore, the degree equipped me with skills to convert and analyze medical and health data, ensure the quality of care, train physicians and other medical professionals in IT systems and application and EMR/EHR and computerized physician order entry (CPOE).
Master of Science in Health Informatics
University of Maryland, USA- 2011
Master of Information Technology Strategic Leadership
Walden University, USA- Dec 2018
As I continued to work in the nonprofit world, I realized that my degree in Health Informatics (MSHIA) did not give me the full scope of necessary tools to address some other pressing issues that related to patients’ information in-depth security. I stepped further in the studies that allowed me to gain those skills. The MSIT Strategic leadership gave me a sophisticated understanding of the technical expertise in integrating systems and leading global change initiatives, developing proactive and reactive Security Plans, leading IT in a Dynamic Environment, Operating System & Network Architecture, Enterprise System Architecture, Systems Analysis, and design, data Modeling & Database Design.
My post-graduate work was just a continuity of my innate desire to develop solutions to daily life challenges when it comes to IT. With the onset of globalization, cybersecurity has become a ubiquitous concern. My IT focus targeted security and privacy issues in information technology, information assurance, data modeling, security plans, systems analysis, and compliance in Non Profit organizations. The purpose of the qualitative multiple case study of this degree explored the strategies that nonprofit organizations employ in protecting against cyberattacks. The specific population encompassed IT managers and directors of information technology in charge of security management in nonprofit organizations.
Doctor of Information Technology ( DIT)
Walden University, USA- 2021
