Isaac Banson Botwe

My role: Software Engineer, responsible for delivering and supporting core academic and administrative platforms.

Scope

• Student portals, learning management systems and research tools
• Integrating LMS (Moodle, Canvas) and ERP (PeopleSoft, Banner) platforms with internal systems
• Database management with backup and recovery procedures
• Data analytics and reporting for management
• Custom research software built with faculty and researchers

Live at: task.inbitfirm.org

What it does

• Staff record the tasks they are assigned
• Repeating work is set up once, and daily and weekly tasks are generated each morning
• An email reminder goes out at 07:00 every day
• A full report appears on the manager's dashboard every Saturday

My role: Led development, implementation and ongoing support; later Team Leader for LeMAS & Systems Support.

What it does

• Course delivery for students and lecturers
• Assignments and quizzes
• Examinations and results
• Access for students, lecturers and administrators

Built with

PHP, MySQL, optimised database design

My role: Designed, deployed and maintained the sites; managed planning and rollout.

Highlights

• Installed, customised and maintained AIT's internal and external websites
• Increased AIT's online visibility through SEO and content improvements
• Performance tuning for student-facing portals
• Creative visuals for web-based applications

My role: Sole builder, from concept and data model to modules and dashboards.

Modules

• Admissions, plus student and staff records
• Class and subject allocation
• Attendance, including QR-code scanning
• Continuous assessment and exam scores, with terminal reports generated automatically
• School fees and billing, with QR-scan payments
• HR & payroll, and online teaching and virtual learning
• Role-based access for heads, teachers and bursars, plus reporting dashboards
• Installable web app (PWA) and a custom domain for each school

Client: Schools across Ghana. I built it after watching bursars reconcile fee books by hand.

What it does

• Bills students by class and term
• Records part-payments
• Shows arrears at a glance for one class or the whole school
• Prints receipts and the termly collection summary heads of school need

Client: Tertiary institutions. Used to run student elections where the count has to be fast and defensible.

What it does

• Enforces one voter, one vote against a verified voter roll
• Stores ballots encrypted
• Keeps an auditable event log
• Shows live results to the electoral committee

Internal product. I built it after seeing shared logins stay in client chat groups long after the people who needed them had left.

What it does

• Encrypts credentials at rest
• Gives each user their own access
• Keeps an audit trail of who opened what, and when

Client: Basic and secondary schools. Staff post news and update term dates without calling a developer.

What it includes

• Programme and admissions pages
• Term calendar, news and announcements
• Photo gallery
• A contact form that routes enquiries to the school office
• A simple admin area for school staff

My role: Designed and developed each platform.

Live examples

• Cape Coast Mall: a multi-store marketplace with order tracking
• AD Afida Import: an import and wholesale storefront
• Blessed Assurance AG: church administration, giving and communication

Also built

• Delivery management
• Savings (susu) management

Client: B Systems Limited (2024).

What we delivered

• Audience research
• Creative production
• Paid and organic distribution
• A reporting dashboard tracking cost per enquiry rather than impressions

Background: Set up and ran the Fekwon College network (cabling, routers, switches, user accounts) and maintained school labs.

Areas

• Networking: cabling, router and switch configuration
• CCTV and IP device configuration
• Web hosting (cPanel), Linux and Windows servers, including the inbitfirm.org family of sites
• Domain, DNS and email administration