WALTER KIPLANGAT TONUI

• Supply Chain - Reporting to Estate Manager.
• Increased area under mechanization by 37% to 97% subsequently lowering the costs by 23%.
• This was also coupled with other simple cost management initiatives.
• Improved green leaf quality by 25% therefore reducing losses by 5% with significant contribution to better quality of the end product (made tea).
• Improved harvesting standards which apart from significantly improving leaf quality also resulted in yield improvement by 5% per unit area.
• This also resulted in improved employee productivity which in turn resulted in improved earnings for the employees.
• Trained, created awareness & ensured compliance to Occupational Health and Safety standards therefore eliminating incidents & accidents at the workplace.
• Built a strong, motivated & engaged team with clear goals and a workplan on how to deliver.
• This resulted in improvement in KPIs.
• Regular reviews were also done to check progress & address challenges coming up.

• 2020/2021: Consultancy for a WORLD BANK funded project in partnership with the Government of Kenya & Bomet County under the Kenya Climate Smart Agriculture Project
• Agribusiness Production and Postharvest Technology.
• Training & implementation of programs for small scale farmers on agribusiness & horticultural production to create economic empowerment.
• Training on postharvest technologies to increase production & to reduce food loss & wastes.

• Supply Chain- Reporting to Agricultural Director.
• Successfully managed CapEx Project funds for Projects worth KShs 60,000,000 (USD 588,235) annually including overseas purchase of farm machinery & equipment.
• This also included budget preparation and cost control.
• Increased area under mechanization in the company by 15% therefore cutting costs which resulted in increase of savings by 29% from harvesting operations.
• Reduced safety related incidents through specific trainings & improvement of guarding in machinery where elimination was not an option.
• Successfully worked towards the realization of a Vendor Management Inventory (VMI) for machinery spare parts which apart from improving cash flow to the company also reduced supply lead time from 5 months to a record 1 day & further shortening machinery downtime which resulted in improved Overall Equipment Efficiency (OEE).
• Through proper planning & sourcing, equipment were supplied on time & in full (OTIF) ensuring sustainability of company operations.
• Co-ordinated the successful preparation and road transportation of 3, 750, 000 fresh tea cuttings for propagation in Unilever Tea Rwanda (UTR) nurseries while acting for NTD officer.

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• Budget preparation & cost control.
• Plan, co-ordinate & follow-up on daily agronomic activities involved in tea growing.
• Fleet management of green leaf delivery trucks to ensure safe and timely delivery of produce.
• Training on & ensuring compliance to Occupational Health & Safety standards.
• Recruitment, management, target setting, mentoring & evaluating the performance of direct reports.
• New Tea Development (NTD) & other projects.

• Reporting to R&D Manager.
• Design, monitor and evaluate scientific efficacy trials for agrochemicals & biological pesticides for Pesticides Control & Poisons Board (PCPB) registration purposes.
• Data analysis, presentation & scientific report writing.
• Advising farmers on Integrated Pest Management for improved crop production.
• Participating in Agricultural events & Trade fairs to promote products.

Crop production processes and techniques: Technical aspects including fertigation, pest & disease control & maintenance of spray & irrigation equipmen