Jacob Kato (Ugandan) is the Programme Officer, Infrastructure and Administration at the Secretariat and has experience of over 17 years in Network and Systems administration, prior joining RUFORUM, he worked as Systems Administrator at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Makerere University, Compuscan CRB Limited, a Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) as a Senior Technical Helpdesk Consultant to provide technical support to Commercial Banks and Micro Finances (MDI) using Financial Card System and Credit Bureau System in Uganda. Later joined Group 4 Security (G4S) Uganda as Network Administrator from 2010 to 2014, where he was involved in different activities such as administering LAN, VPN, and WAN, performing remote installations, onsite and offsite backups of critical data, administering firewalls, financial systems, and end user support. He worked as General Manager at ITWS Specialists (U) Limited in 2014 to oversee different projects such as website design, software development, liaising with the software development team to ensure the software developed meets the stated requirements in the Customer Agreement, and overseeing networking (Data, Voice, CCTV) projects.