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Nwankwo Stephen is from Rivers State, Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria, graduated in September, 2005 from the University of Port Harcourt, Choba, Nigeria with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. In September, 2006, he received a National Call-up letter to serve his nation, Nigeria in a national scheme assignment-National Youth Services Corp (NYSC).

During the assignment; he was sent to Ette Community, Igbo-Eze North L.G.A., Enugu State as a government and economic teacher to the community school. On the process of the assignment; Stephen was picked as a Program Officer in Peer Education Training by UNICEF Enugu State, Nigeria in a project titled: UNICEF (NYSC), Community Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Project, and was commended at the end of the project for effort contributed towards Community Development. Then he joined a local NGO (called Society for Better Life Programme, Enugu State, Nigeria) working on community development in October, 2007 as a Programme Advisor on community development.

In August, 2009, he was chosen as a team leader over seven (7) local and international Nigerians by International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth (IPC-IG), Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP, Brazil in UNOV for a project titled; Organising a Directory of Researchers in Nigeria.

After, the programme, in the same 2009, through, UNOV, he joined a local NGO called TechCeFaCos, Kumbo TeleCentre, North West Region, Cameroon-Africa as a Fundraising Officer and Project Presentation/Proposal Document Advisory.

Furthermore, in November, 2009 after ascertaining his technical experts by the United Nations Volunteer Office (UNV) in Bonn, Germany (formerly located in Cyprus), he was placed on UN Rooster list with accredited number; REG/AWT/Web/NIR/431417/Nwankwo,Stephen for an overseas assignment. It is the awaiting for this assignment that made the UNDP, Nigeria to notify him with Nigeria National Volunteer Service (NNVS) in his resident state (Rivers State).

Stephen has a strong background in management and sound financial background from Nigerian Institute of Management, NIM (Chartered). His personal qualities and skills, essential working and knowledge, work experience and competence, knowledge of technical expert issues for development practices, Proficiency, and rating in computer packages are assets to any relative company, organization, community, or national work. For professional qualifications and certifications, he is highly certified from various institutions Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), Monitoring and Evaluation Network of Nigeria (MENN) and, African Evaluation Association (Afrea), although Afrea membership in process.

Presently, he is the founder of Work Data Group, which manages Space-Era Data Services. However, for his career, he still on Monitoring and Evaluation exercise programs, but in the specialty of Data Management and Analysis. He has really gotten some technical expert experience via paperwork and distance learning courses from USAID, World Bank Group Group, UNDP, AFREA, and DFID M&E Guides and Standards, and at the same time have gained recognition with Monitoring and Evaluation Network of Nigeria (MENN) and African Evaluation Association (Afrea). Furthermore, he has been certified by EvalPartners, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, and USAID in this profession Monitoring and Evaluation.

For book publication, Stephen is the developer of App-XL, known as Applied Microsoft Excel in Statistics, Economics, Bussiness and Finance Perspective: For MS Excel Users and Learners. The targeting users a professionals in the fields of Economics, Accounting, Statistics, and Businesses. Currently, the book is published by Createspace Inc. of Amazon, USA and as well sells in Amazon Market. It is been sold in Europe, America, Asia via the online marketing channel of Amazon and CreateSpace. The team of Space-Era Data Services has done great work to developed a Forum Support Site for the package. See www.App-XL.com

Stephen has just launched a love pyschology challenging book titled "Why you are acting that way in your Love-Relationship. (A Love Psychology Book for Single and Married)" Printed and Sold by CreateSpace.

Source: Stephen Personal Blog