Nkateko Okwera

IT Technician

Nkateko Okwera provides web-based and IT support for OtherWISE evaluation projects. She completed 4 years of Information Systems (with a focus on health) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore county and then proceeded to graduate from Southern Polytechnic State University with a BSc in biology.  Since graduating, she has spent 8 years developing technology solutions to support public health, business needs, and government initiatives. She specializes in portal technologies, SharePoint, web development, business process management, as well as strategic technology planning. She also runs a series of websites that she has developed, ranging from a support community for women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, a logo design business she’s run since 2003, various online graphic generators, personal blogs, and most recently a medical practitioner customer rating service.   

She is currently a Managing Partner at CapeNexis, an IT consulting firm.In 2010, she formed CapeNexis as a technology consulting firm providing services in SharePoint and business intelligence. CapeNexis provides services to federal government, state level government, and commercial entities. After being based in Atlanta, Georgia for 10 years, she became a mother in 2011 and decided to relocate to her home town (Cape Town, South Africa). Since then, she has formed SkyNexis in 2013 – a sister company to CapeNexis to provide the same services in South Africa. Nkateko is a wife, mother to a 2-year-old toddler, a passionate cook (launching a cooking site in early 2014), an entrepreneur, a web technology expert, and programmer.