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Augustine R. Odhiambo
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Summary
To improve animal production for farm animals efficiently and cost effectively thus enhancing food security for mankind, poverty alleviation, Climate smart Environment, national and international growth of economy. To find a challenging position to meet my competencies, capabilities, skills, education and experience
Experienced technologist with strong track record in driving impactful projects and delivering cutting-edge solutions. Skilled in software development, systems architecture, and cybersecurity, with focus on collaboration and adaptability. Known for reliability and results-oriented approach, consistently meeting and exceeding goals in dynamic environments.
Overview
16
years of professional experience
1
Certification
Work History
University of Nairobi, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Farm
Senior Technologist-Head Unit
03.2023 - Current
Job overview
- Manage budgets, forecast expenditures, and drive cost-effective resource allocation
- Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, promoting a culture of safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee daily farm operations, ensuring adherence to best practices in crop management, livestock care, and equipment maintenance
- Managing, protecting, and monitoring the farm's environmental impact by promoting sustainable practices and biodiversity
- Planning for and overseeing animals' health and welfare needs
- Setting targets for livestock production to maximize profitability
- Overseeing livestock performance in line with targets
- Overseeing the sale and purchase of livestock
- Monitoring and overseeing all farm financials including budgets, cash flow, and costs
- Ensuring the farm operates to government regulations and legislation
- Ensuring financial, staff training, environmental, and farm assurance scheme records are accurate and up to date
- Recruiting, managing, and developing employees
- Overseeing all farm health and safety for employees
- Overseeing and maintaining relationships with external contractors, suppliers, and consultants
- Ensuring all buildings, equipment, and machinery are in good working order and comply with safety regulations
- Collaborate with agronomists and researchers to adopt innovative farming technologies and methodologies
- Ensure compliance with environmental regulations and industry standards
- Facilitate training programs for staff on new techniques and equipment usage.
- Stay informed about market trends, consumer preferences, and industry developments.
- Participate in agricultural research, trials, or extension programs.
- Represent the farm in community events, agricultural fairs, or industry associations.
- Regulations
University of Nairobi (CAVS)-Field Station
Technologist
01.2017 - 03.2023
Job overview
- Make routine decisions regarding the proper care and handling of the animals.
- Advise and ensure high quality feed processes and procedures have been adhered to.
- Ensure proper storage of quality feed, Monitoring, Medicating and treatment on Livestock.
- Ensure training and coaching of staff in livestock sections to ensure they competently carry out tasks required of them in the farm.
- Review, implement and Improve health and safety policies and procedures at the farm poultry and dairy Section.
- Ensure high standards of animal welfare and maintain high standards of productivity.
- Ensure proper establishment of pastures in the fields and monitors on the performance at the fields.
- Analyze productivity and health levels of the pullets and dairy animals by ensuring management are updated on the same within agreed timeframes.
- Submit reports as per agreed time frame within specification as herein.
- Enforce a strict bio-security policy that allows for a death rate of 0.01% per year where by management must be notified of the time and IN-TIME and cause of death of every single bird and dairy animal and the carcass must be viewed and signed off by the post holder before its disposed.
- Design job cards for the workers on poultry and Dairy sections on a daily basis and share with the management.
- Ensure the stocks are accounted for
- Source required supplements and vitamins to achieve production targets.
- Oversee adherence to all relevant animal welfare codes.
- Ensure any development works is undertaken with appropriate consents under the respective bodies i.e. NEMA or KVBA.
- Ensure new staff and students on attachment are inducted and aware of livestock policies and are given role clarity.
- Monitor and recommend quality and amounts of feed to be given to particular livestock by the team.
- Provide technical support and supervision to staff in dairy, poultry and other livestock sections including capacity building trainings, coaching, mentoring and Monitoring.
- Participate in trade and agricultural exhibition, and shows to familiarize with current livestock managements practices and share such information with the management.
- Perform any other duty and role as instructed by the farm manager and the management.
- Ensure proper updates of the records in all the sections.
Somali Poultry and Sea Fish Farms
Feed Mill Manager (Consultancy)
07.2016 - 01.2017
Job overview
- Advise and ensure high quality feed processes and procedures have been adhered to.
- Responsible for all essential functions of the Animal health Technicians.
- Promote and coordinate training for farmers on proper feeding standards, hygiene and treatment.
- Monitor and recommend quality and amount of feed to be given to particular livestock by the farm line Managers and team.
- Ensure proper batching of feeds within the production unit.
- Plan and Allocate feed using feed budgeting technique to achieve production budget on the farms.
- Source required supplements and vitamins to achieve production target.
- Overseeing feed delivery and delivery activities
- Managing and maintaining an adequate yet cost effective grain, ingredients and supplement inventory
- Developing and evaluating the efficiency of all related standards operating procedures and train regime.
- Monitor feed formulations to meet quality performance and animal health standards.
- Rationalize animal feed manufacturing technique
- Asses the relative nutritional and economic value of feeding system.
- Research the effective of dietary regimes.
- Formulate diets and rations to maximize, growth, reproduction, health and performance
- Evaluate the chemical and nutritional values of feeds, feed suppliments, grass and forage for commercial animals and pets
- Provide advice to commercial and sales teams in producing and launching new products.
- Balance a growing consumer interest in quality with the need to develop competitive agricultural system.
- Maintain expertise in nutritional trends and keep update with regulatory changes including KEBS and KVB.
- Work closely with the executive director to develop the 5year Business plan and annual budget.
- Monitor the seasonal expenditure in line with the budgeted cash flow.
Pwani Feeds
Contract
12.2015 - 07.2016
Job overview
- Understands and Complies with Company's Policies, Procedures and Instructions.
- Assists sales team in technical issues and evaluate client's technical claims, provides them with technical support.
- Pays in-person daily visits as per an already set action plan to existing and prospective clients.
- Communicates and understands the needs and requirements of various client with respect to the products and their concerns.
- Participates in investigating technical and non-technical solutions for client's problems with the product.
- Trains the Sales team on the technical specifications of any new product to ensure a more professional and accurate communication with clients.
- Attends conferences, seminars, reviews trade journals and other publications in an effort to stay abreast to ever changing technology and current trends in core business.
- Reports activities, client's concerns and market updates in a daily basis to the commercial Division Head.
- Attends weekly staff meetings to provide management with proper input for proactive and value-added management.
- Keeps technical records for client's customized requests, problems and concerns.
- Contributes in product development as per market needs.
- Participates in marketing new products by explaining technical aspects and effects of the product directly to the client.
Egerton University INCIP
Animal Feed Consultant
10.2015 - 12.2015
Job overview
- Data collection, Anaysis and Interpretation and Experimentations
- Assisting farmers group in Dairy production: Calf& heifer management, Body score and performance, TMR formulations, Herd Health management, clean milk production &Homemade Dairy meal formulation.
- Animal feed formulations and Analysis
- Extensiony Advices to the farmers and farmers groups(Marketing Systems Group-LARE)
- Advising farmers on SEEDS OF GOLD issues to do with farming.
- Consultations and Advising students on attachment issues.
- Involved in fish projects in sponsored by Illinova INCIP section.
- Planning and organizing production schedules
- Assessing project and resources requirements
- Estimating, negotiating and agreeing budgets and timescales with clients and managers
- Determining quality control standard
- Re-negotiating timescales or schedules as necessary
- Selecting, ordering and purchasing materials
- Organizing the repair and routine maintenance of production equipment
- Liaison with buyers, marketing and sales staff
- Keeping production records
- Working on the feed formulation
Technoserve Kenya
Research Assistant (Contract)
04.2015 - 09.2015
Job overview
- Animal Feed formulation and Analysis
- Data collection analysis and interpretation on usage of feeds and impact.
- Assisting the farmers in Meru to develop best Total Mixed Ration (TMR) for Dairy Animals through research on Animal feeds.
- Formulated animal feeds for MESLOPES dairy group as feed technologist and production manager.
- Extension and Educational Services to the farmers in Meru region. planning and organizing production schedules
- Assessing project and resources requirements
- Estimating, negotiating and agreeing budgets and timescales with clients and managers
- Determining quality control standard
- Re-negotiating timescales or schedules as necessary
- Selecting, ordering and purchasing materials
- Organizing the repair and routine maintenance of production equipment
- Liaison with buyers, marketing and sales staff
- Keeping production records
- Working on the feed formulation.
Mwanzo Agricultural Products-Kisumu Kenya
07.2014 - 04.2015
Job overview
- Coordination of farm activities
- Selection/Recruitment and Induction of workers into the farm activities
- Supervision of Daily Farm Routines for Dairy section, Goat section, Re-circulating Aquaculture system Section, Green House Horticulture section, Hydroponics section, Poultry section, Greenhouse construction and Management.
- Pasture Management and Monitoring and evaluation of farm activities
- Feed formulations and training farmers
- Incubator Management
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
- Supervising the junior employs.
- Overseeing production process
- Supervision of poultry section and training poultry attendant
- Keeping inventory records
- Is answerable to the directors on company issues
- Providing appropriate formulations.
- Responsible for and paying the casual laborers'.
- Responsible for social welfare of the employs.
- Responsible for repairs and maintenance of the buildings.
- Holding staff meetings to check on progress.
- Checking all stock records then giving to the accountant.
Tatton Agricultural Park, Gongongeri farm and Indigenous Chicken Improvement Programme (INCIP) at Egerton University
Field Attachment
05.2014 - 06.2014
Job overview
- Management of farm Records
- Maintenance of the Dairy unit and the Daily Livestock Routine Management
- Management and control of livestock diseases
- Maintenance and Monitoring of the Poulty,Piggery,Rabbit units and Fish ponds
- Was involved in Nakuru National Show Exhibition and the Dairy Value Chain Exhibition.
- Providing knowledge and Skills to colleges and secondary schools visiting the Farm.
District veterinary office (DVO) and District livestock production offices (DLPO)-Homabay
Field Attachment
05.2011 - 08.2011
Job overview
- Offering Educational Extension Services to farmers on management and control of livestock diseases.
- Monitoring and Evaluation of various projects
- Pasture Management
- Environmental Impact Assessment.
St Philips Wayaaga Secondary School
Untrained Teacher
06.2009 - 01.2010
Job overview
- Taught Biology, Agriculture and Kiswahili and was also in charge of sports.
Kenya national Bureau of statistics (KNBS)
Enumerator
08.2009 - 09.2009
Job overview
- Population and Housing census by Kenya national Bureau of statistics (KNBS)-Data collection, Analysis and Presentation.
Education
Egerton University-Njoro Campus
Bachelor of Science from Animal Science
01.2014
University Overview
Second Class Honors Upper Division
Homabay High School-Kenya
Certificate of Secondary Education
01.2008
University Overview
St Alloys Boys Boarding Primary School
01.2003
University Overview
Skills
- Leadership and People Management Skills: Teambuilding, Conflict management and Peace building, Entrepreneurial leadership, Integrity training, career Development, personal development, Basic counseling skills, and communication skills
- Information Technology and computer Skills: Use of Microsoft office Suite, SPSS (Statistical packages for social sciences) Electronic Online Resources (E-journal, E-book, Databases)
- Project Management Skills: Project definition, Project cycle, Project Appraisal and Evaluation and project planning techniques
- Health and Safety Skills: Basic firefighting skills, stress management, Self-awareness, HIV and AIDS, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Disaster risk reduction, Basic First Aid, Family life Education, Sexuality and Disability mainstreaming
- Financial Management: Personal Financial management, Saving and Investment, setting financial goals, Financial Accountability, financial Accessibility, Independence and sustainability, setting financial goals and Entrepreneurship
- Value proposition development
Websites
Certification
- animal feed expert Training - 8year
C. PROFILE
C. PROFILE
- A Graduate with an Animal Science Degree-Second Class Honors Upper Division from Egerton University. Possess a sound background in Artificial insemination in cattle, goats and poultry, veterinary sales, food production ,Eco-Gastronomy and Agriculture ,Cheese making, Dairy production ,Shoats production ,Poultry production, Pig production, Aquaculture ,Equine management, Apiculture , Rabbit production , Non-conventional farm animals , Use of applied technologies in the Dairy industry to improve product output, Agricultural Machinery &Equipment , Horticulture &Agronomy, Animal Health management, Food safety management systems/HACCP , Animal physiology, Biochemistry ,statistics and Animal Feed Formulation ,manufacture and sales.
- A highly-motivated, productive and customer-focused team player with strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, time management, analytical and problem solving skills. Reliable and dedicated with the ability to grasp and apply new procedures quickly; organize and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines and adapt readily to new challenges.
F. COMPUTER SKILLS
F. COMPUTER SKILLS
Use of Microsoft office Suite, SPSS (Statistical packages for social sciences) Electronic Online Resources (E-journal, eBook, Databases).References
References
A., Kahi, Prof., a.kahi@incip.org, a.kahi@egerton.ac.ke, +254072785000, Egerton University, DVC Academic AffairsTraining
Training
- Statistical Analysis for Sciences (SAS) - Egerton University-Certificate- March-May 2014.
- Project Management-Ms. Project-Egerton University faculty of Engineering-Certificate -February-February 2014.
- Disability Mainstreaming- Egerton University-Certificate-February 2014
- Artificial Insemination in Goats- Langston University/Egerton University-Certificate- November–November 2013.
- Cheese Making- Langston University/Egerton University-Certificate-July 2013
- Peer Counseling-Egerton University – Certificate- November-November 2013.
- Financial Management: Egerton University and Linkages international-July 2013
- Horticulture and Agronomy, Greenhouse construction and Management-Egerton University-Certificate May – May 2013:
- Artificial Insemination in Poultry- INCIP/Egerton University-Certificate- July-July 2013
- Statistical Packages for Social Science (SPSS)-Egerton University-Certificate-Oct-November 2012.
- Fire Preparedness-Kenya Red Cross-Certificate April-April 2012.
- Veterinary Sales Training - Laboratory Allied Ltd, Kenya Livestock Producers Associations-Certificate April-April 2012.
- Food Safety Management Systems/HACCP-Certificate-February 2011
- Investing and saving in the stock and capital market. Traceability and quality control affect local growers in foreign market: Kenya Commercial Bank/Egerton University-March 2011
- Web metrics training: University of Nairobi (CAVs)- April 2017
Timeline
Senior Technologist-Head Unit
University of Nairobi, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Farm
03.2023 - Current
Technologist
University of Nairobi (CAVS)-Field Station
01.2017 - 03.2023
Feed Mill Manager (Consultancy)
Somali Poultry and Sea Fish Farms
07.2016 - 01.2017
Contract
Pwani Feeds
12.2015 - 07.2016
Animal Feed Consultant
Egerton University INCIP
10.2015 - 12.2015
Research Assistant (Contract)
Technoserve Kenya
04.2015 - 09.2015
Mwanzo Agricultural Products-Kisumu Kenya
07.2014 - 04.2015
Field Attachment
Tatton Agricultural Park, Gongongeri farm and Indigenous Chicken Improvement Programme (INCIP) at Egerton University
05.2014 - 06.2014
Field Attachment
District veterinary office (DVO) and District livestock production offices (DLPO)-Homabay
05.2011 - 08.2011
Enumerator
Kenya national Bureau of statistics (KNBS)
08.2009 - 09.2009
Untrained Teacher
St Philips Wayaaga Secondary School
06.2009 - 01.2010
Homabay High School-Kenya
Certificate of Secondary Education
St Alloys Boys Boarding Primary School
Egerton University-Njoro Campus
Bachelor of Science from Animal Science
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