LOISE NJERI GAKURU
Food Science Nutritionist
Nairobi
Summary
Articulate Nutritionist with 3 years of expertise in health and wellness education. Develop and deliver impactful presentations on lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, obesity and hypertension. Exceptional interpersonal and communication and kills with people of all cadres
A Committed Quality Assurance personnel with almost 2 years of extensive experience in quality management in an ISO certified industry. Proficient in executing all QA operations, policies and procedures.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Owner/Operator
Gasheri’s Granola
Nairobi
03.2022 - Current
- Assessing the quality of the end product
- Formulating the right recipe to ensure a tasty end product that meets the requirements of the client
- Marketing the product as well as receiving client feedback
- Managed day-to-day business operations.
Nutritionist
Winnie's Pure Health
Nairobi
01.2019 - 11.2021
- Assessed clients' nutritional and health statuses to prescribe appropriate eating and exercise plans
- Handling customer complaints and inquiries on health and nutritional matters
- Working with the Quality department to ensure food and nutrition quality regulations such as product labeling are met and upheld per the statutory guidelines
- Assisting in product development and implementing statutory regulations
- Managed multiple nutritional educational groups to increase client nutrition knowledge
- Provided in-depth information on nutritional care to maximize health.
QA supervisor
Kenchic Limited
Thika
04.2017 - 11.2018
- Training and assessing staff on food safety as per the ISO requirements
- Ensuring GMP and HACCP policies are well implemented by staff and visiting parties
- Documenting daily quality records and procedures
- Receiving customer complaint, conducting a root course analysis and ensuring the recommendations given are well implemented by the personnel in the mentioned process
- Conducting monthly internal audits to ensure compliance with the food safety regulations and requirements in place
- Sample collection to monitor farmers compliance with the antibiotics residue regulation
- Monitored product standards and quality-control programs.
- Used Microsoft Office to maintain database of test reports and calibration records.
- Prepared and interpreted batch testing reports, complete with comprehensive analysis of testing and results, for development team.
- Aided in the training of new employees to promote qualified and well-coordinated quality assurance team.
Nutritionist
Kangemi Health Centre
Nairobi
09.2016 - 01.2017
- Provided in-depth information on nutritional care to maximize health.
- Maternal and child health management in relation to IMAM
- Conducting nutritional assessments and counseling clients based on the outcome
- Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the community programs implemented
- Report writing and data management
- Training of trainers on matters nutrition
- Created and prepared visual aids to help in nutrition education to the clients such as expectant mothers and those struggling with obesity
Nutritionist
PCEA Chogoria Hospital
Nairobi
04.2015 - 06.2015
- Implementation of IMAM and infant and young child feeding programs
- Monitoring and evaluating the success of the programs implemented
- Produced clear and concise meal and exercise plans for clients based on specific dietary needs and medical requirements.
- Assessed clients' nutritional and health statuses to prescribe appropriate eating and exercise plans.
- Partnered with interdisciplinary care team to address resident nutrition programs during CMEs
- Provided in-depth information on nutritional care to maximize health.
- Counseled clients and caregivers on nutrition issues such as obesity, infant nutrition, and HIV/AIDS nutrition
- Collaborated with physicians and healthcare personnel to determine nutritional needs and diet restrictions of clients.
- Documented clinical findings and entered pertinent health data for processing, recordkeeping, and use by other medical professionals.
- Completed detailed nutritional assessments of each patient based on health history, medical conditions and energy requirements.
- Assisted in coordinating, implementing, monitoring and evaluating nutrition programs within community
- Monitored patient progress and documented nutritional information in patient charts and records.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Food Nutrition And Dietetics
University of Nairobi
Nairobi 09.2012 - 05.2016
BSc. - Food Nutrition and Dietetics
University of Nairobi
09.2012 - 05.2016
Skills
Documentation and reporting
Marketing and advertising
Business administration
Staff Training
Team development
Product development
Quality assurance background
Diabetes management
Community nutrition services
Nutrition program management
Patient education
Nutrition needs assessment
Accomplishments
- A 2 day staff training at Allpack Industries in Mlolongo on managing lifestyle diseases
- Coming up with an annually themed staff wellness event. The 2 events organized during my tenure were on physical fitness and mental wellness
- With the help of the wellness team, managed to counsel about 40 clients during a PCEA church outreach
- Proper wet waste management at Kenchic by incorporating pig farmers
Timeline
Owner/Operator
Gasheri’s Granola
03.2022 - Current
Nutritionist
Winnie's Pure Health
01.2019 - 11.2021
QA supervisor
Kenchic Limited
04.2017 - 11.2018
Nutritionist
Kangemi Health Centre
09.2016 - 01.2017
Nutritionist
PCEA Chogoria Hospital
04.2015 - 06.2015
Bachelor of Science - Food Nutrition And Dietetics
University of Nairobi
09.2012 - 05.2016
BSc. - Food Nutrition and Dietetics
University of Nairobi
09.2012 - 05.2016