NICOLE YAHAYA GAKU

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Nicole Yahaya Gaku

No.** Lawal Abdulkadir Sabo G.R.A, Kaduna State, Nigeria.

adpchy@r.postjobfree.com; +234(902)-(088) -(6302).

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:

• 2013- 2017 Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Kaduna State University.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING RECEIVED

• 2021 The Data Science course: Complete Data Science Bootcamp, 365 Careers Udemy.

• 2021 Google Analytics for beginners, Google Academy

• 2021 Python for beginners, code with Mosh.

• 2021 Introduction: Leadership and Management, Alison.

• 2020 Introduction to Front-end, Udemy by Colt Steele.

• 2017 Safety first Induction Training, Department of Safety Kaduna Refining and petrochemical Company.

LEADERSHIP POSITION HELD

• 2021 Training Supervisor Northern Region, Xiaomi Nigeria.

• 2019 Assistant Presiding Officer (APO) for the 2019 presidential election, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

• 2018 Federal Road safety Provost Community Development Service (CDS).

• 2017 Class representative for the Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme

• 2013 Senior prefect secondary school (Head girl), Jesam International School.

• 2013 Provost for the Fellowship of Christian Students (FCS).

• 2011 Senior Games prefect, Jesam International School AWARD

• 2019 Youth Fellowship Executive Award, Bethel Royal.

• 2019 Awarded Certificate of completion for the National Youth Service Corps.

• 2017 Certificate of participation, Health, Safety and Environment Induction

(HSEI), ETSD department in Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (certificate NO: 2017/1148).

• 2013 Best active senior prefect Jesam International School.

• 2012 Baptist inter-school speech presentation competition, 2 nd

position award.

• 2011 Kaduna all thirty (30) school’s competition, speech presentation award

• 2011 Achiever’s Award Maiden Edition, Schools Extra Curricular Club League.

• 2010 Best improved student, Jesam international school. NICOLE YAHAYA GAKU

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VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES

• 2021 Radio jingles and advertisement to promote smartphone technology

• 2020 Face mask distribution to tricycle riders to cope the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kano state, Nigeria.

• 2020 Organized Investor’s meeting and training for Xiaomi technology in Northern Nigeria.

• 2020 Remote training for Xiaomi staff on precautionary measure and Xiaomi Tech (9series) to help during the lockdown phase.

• 2019 Routine surveyor at World Health Organization under the PAPA LQAS scheme, data collection for under-one immunization in IGABI local government.

• 2018 Federal Road Safety awareness initiative at IKARE AKOKO, ONDO STATE.

• 2017 Data collection and cable inspections at Tick IT solution and consultancy.

• 2017 Weekly inspection and maintenance of CISCO CCNA lab rack at different zones in Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company

• 2017 Undergraduate tutor for entrance student in the Department of Mathematics.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2020 Xiaomi training session, supervision and assessment.

• 2018 Greater tomorrow night tutorial sessions on mathematics and computer science.

• 2018 Assisted class teachers to supervise and evaluate test scripts, Greater tomorrow

WORKSHOP ATTENDED

• 2013 National Directorate of Employment Entrepreneurship scheme WORK EXPERIENCE

• RUMACOM GLOBAL LINKS (XIAOMI MOBILE COMPANY), KANO STATE. December 2019 - Date.

TRAINING SUPERVISOR NORTHERN REGION

1. Established Xiaomi Nigeria’s training department in the North with 14 northern states under my supervision, which has expanded with an increment of 20 staff by 2021.

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2. Founded the Northern Dealers Training and meeting seminar to educate investors on new brand mobile technology.

3. Collaborated with managers from the sales and marketing department to preform cohort analysis to identify a strategic pattern to channel stock flow, this led to an increase in sales by 5% for three (3) months consecutively. 4. Designed online cluster trainings on recent trends which reduced the company’s cost of holding different physical inter-state training. 5. Developed operational reporting templates in Excel to ensure staff adherence to training activity.

6. Lectured staff on technological features for existing and newly launched models. 7. Engineered quarterly training road maps using excel, to identify areas of under- performance.

8. Organized new assessment strategy using Google sheet and Socrative, as well as employee wellness programs.

• YAFENG TECHNOLOGY (XIAOMI MOBILE COMPANY), KADUNA STATE. September - November 2019.

SALES REPRESENTATIVE

1. Promoted and increased company’s visibility in the market and allocated outlet. 2. Maintained effective relationships with new and existing customer base. 3. Negotiated turnover models in the store which increased monthly purchase by 10% from company

4. Organized daily reports to be sent at close of business every day. 5. Aid customers with the initial setup of the device 6. Proper documentation of the IMEI numbers of devices sold per month.

• WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION (WHO), KADUNA STATE.

July 2019

IMMUNIZATION DATA SURVEYOR (VOLUNTEER)

1. Conducted surveys for immunization in six (6) different clusters under IGABI local government area, Kaduna state.

2. Linked mobile devices through Open Data Kits to WHO servers. 3. Coached surveyors on how to conduct live location track on the forms 4. Recorded data on questionnaires under the PAPA_LQAS form. 5. Created awareness on the importance of immunization for children within the age of 0-11 months.

• INEC ADHOC STAFF: 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, ONDO STATE. March 2019

ASSITANT PRESIDING OFFICER (VOLUNTEER)

1. Authentication of eligible voters using biometric data. NICOLE YAHAYA GAKU

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2. Oversaw the distribution of ballot papers at the polling unit to prevent reuse of same ballot paper

3. Prepared manual documentation of unused and used ballot papers for proper record.

• MINISTRY OF WORK AND INFRASTRUCTURE, ONDO STATE. September 2018 – March 2019

NYSC (CIVIL SERVANT)

1. Efficiently carried out administrative duties in the planning department and confidential registry

2. In charge of incoming documents, mails and record of files at the office of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure. 3. Kept software license current for computers in the department. 4. Assigned to record and process files in the office of the Director Department of Planning.

• GREATER TOMORROW INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE (GTIC), ONDO STATE. May – August 2018.

NYSC (HOSTEL PARENT)

1. Compiled weekly reports and hostel inventory.

2. Conducted duty rosters to enhance student time management in the hostel. 3. Maintained hostel decorum, equipment and property

• KADUNA REFINING AND PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY(KRPC)

January – March 2017.

INTERNSHIP (ETSD Department)

1. Mapped out weekly rack maintenance with my team for each zone of the company.

2. Handled shortcut for staff login into their company dashboard using an IP address 3. Installed internet adapters for windows desktop in the admin department. 4. Enrolled for a certified accident prevention technique and safety course to educate visitors on volatile zones.

• TICK IT AND CONSULTANCY FIRM, KADUNA STATE.

September- November 2016

INTERNSHIP

1. Managed Ethernet based Local Area Network by fixing Rj-45 connectors. 2. Configurated routers in Biafra Hotel Kaduna state, Nigeria. NICOLE YAHAYA GAKU

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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND PAPER

• COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, KADUNA STATE UNIVERSITY Oct-Dec 2017. Title: Research project on Job Application System for students using water fall Model. Explored the use of MySQL relational database to filter job search. 1. Designed a web application on C# using visual studio 2010. 2. Collected secondary data form Articles, technical reports and books

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, KADUNA PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY March-2017. Title: Student Industrial Working Experience (SIWES) report for Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company (KRPC).

1. Examined the effect and importance of SIWES scheme on undergraduates in Nigeria

2. Contributed to the technical report on the structure of KRPC

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW, KADUNA STATE UNIVERSITY 2017. Title: Group Research on computer worms; case study: Robert Tappan Morris.

• TICK IT AND CONSULTANCY FIRM Dec 2016.

Title: Data Collection on Local Area Network (LAN) installation process, Biafra Hotel. 1. Produced primary data from cable testing and readings from Zoostliss tester. PROJECTS:

SALES PERFORMANCE DATA VISUALIZATION

• A Tableau visualization of the weekly sales of a Telecomm Sales Representative link: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/nicole.yahaya.gaku/viz/Salesandperformancevisualiz ation/Dashboard1

ECOMMERCE LANDING PAGE

• Using CSS, HTML and bootstrap in PyCharm, designed an ecommerce landing page for a gift shop: https://github.com/nikkygaku/myWebsite

GEOCODE NUMBER LOCATOR

• Created a phone number locator in python using Geocoder module to display country name, service provider and location of number on Map: https://github.com/nikkygaku/GeocoderLocator.

DATA ANALYSIS OF FACEBOOK POST

• Using the Pandas module on Jupyter Notebook, I analyzed my Facebook JSON file to supervise how often I post.

ARTICLES:

• Reasons why Nigeria needs big Data; Medium link: https://nicoleyahayagaku.medium.com/4- reasons-why-data-science-is-needed-in-nigeria-big-data-in-nigeria-cb19d3553035

• Best Tricks to get started on your Data science journey; Medium link: https://nicoleyahayagaku.medium.com/best-tricks-to-get-you-started-on-your-data-science-journey- afca6cbf83e5

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