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Entry Specialist Data

Location:
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Salary:
80000
Posted:
October 27, 2022

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Curriculum vitae Purity Kanorio Kirimi, email address:ads7j6@r.postjobfree.com, cell:

+254*********

Introduction

A highly motivated and detailed conscious lady who displays considerable strength across a

wide range of personal skills in particular customer service, research, analysis, thinking together

with problem solving. Enjoys working within a team and multicultural environment together

with the challenge of carrying out individual tasks.

Education

Master of Science of science at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and

Technology (ONGOING)

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science awarded a second upper class

honors in 2011.

Attended St. Mary’s Girls’ Igoji and scored a B+ (plus) in the year 2005

Attended a data science (machine learning) course in Moringa school (IBM research) in

2018

Work Experience

Splint Research- Data Analyst/Data Scientist April 2020-present

Duties and Responsibilities

Working on

Machine learning projects

Model validation

Data analysis

Reporting findings

On medical data from different hospitals including Kenyatta National Hospital.

Savanna Data Solutions LLC- Data entry Independent contractor Jan 2021-Present

Duties and Responsibilities

Insurance claims Data entry and Verification in the Database for clients in the United

States these include Innovista, Boncura, Siho, Ulic and CHMSO

Hotelonline-Data Specialist- Customer service department Sep 2016 to March 2020

Duties and Responsibilities

Was in charge of all the communication between the company and various online travel

agencies like Booking.com, Expedia and Hotel beds

Identifying potential business areas for the company across Africa, Europe and Asia by

carrying out market research on predefined channels

On boarding content timely on the various extranets of the online travel agencies before a

property can have an online presence

Data entry into the Central Reservation Management System

Connect the clients/properties to the various online channels

Manage the channels and ensure information was up to date

Achievements

Ensured that the company had continuous flow of information

Maintain and update customer data in a timely manner

Channels increased revenue to the company

Content Supevisor-Kenya National Bureau of Statistics-August 2019

Duties and Responsibilities

Training all the enumerators what was expected during the census exercise

Assigning enumeration areas to the Enumerators

Undertaking census enumeration in the re-sampled households

Keeping a register of Enumerators

Ensured that everybody in the supervision area was enumerated

Reservations agent- Hotelonline May-Sep 2016

Duties and Responsibilities

Greeting guests and welcoming them to the hotel

Ensuring that the client are checked in and taking them to their rooms

Ensuring the clients are transferred to and from the airport

Ensuring that the clients have taken their meals as ordered through coordination with the

kitchen

Ensuring that housekeeping and the kitchen have the required items

Meru County Bio Statistician May2015 to Dec 2015

Participated in the implementation of the International Quality Care and Patient’s

information Management System within the public hospitals in Meru County

Trained all the members of staff working in the public hospitals in Meru County by

ensuring each one of had an account which enabled them to log into the system

International Quality Care and Patient’s information Management

Performed monitoring and evaluation of the system by administering questionnaires and

conducting focus group discussions with the departmental heads in some selected

public hospitals in order to measure on the attitudes of the reception of the system

Supervised five students who were on internship on accurate data entry into

the system and reporting

Wrote weekly reports about the performance International Quality Care and Patient’s

information Management System performance that is the revenue generated and the

items issued to the various hospital departments.

Assisted the procurement officer on creating budgets for the pharmaceuticals

and no pharmaceuticals to be ordered

Achievements

There was 100% reception on usage of the system where all the public hospital staff

were familiar with the use of the system

Successfully ensured that there was a continuous flow of hospital commodities

by advising on quantities to order

World Agro forestry Centre (ICRAF) Research fellow DEC 2013 Nov 2014

Assigned to clean data for errors, discrepancies and to check for missing data,

validate data and analyze a dataset on Agro forestry Food Security Program from

Malawi

Designed data entry forms using CS pro

Entered data of 700 questionnaires containing oil palm data from Malaysia into the

CS pro forms

Did data validation of the Malaysia data entered using the CS pro

Conducted data cleaning of the oil palm data using R and STATA a statistical

software

Excellent in data management that is maintaining data quality and archiving data

Proficiency in designing of data collection tools, data collection and training of

enumerators

Assisted the programs officer in uploading agro forestry scientific studies and

datasets into the archive data verse (a database)

Achievements

Successfully cleaned validated the data and analyzed the data and wrote a

scientific paper

Became proficient in using statistical software R, SPSS and STATA

Gained experience in using open source software like CS pro for data entry

Learnt how to use Open data Kit a mobile data collection technique

Proficiency in cleaning data using R and STATA

Working knowledge in using the open data kit for data collection

Participated in the sentinel landscapes publication

Field officer Kiambu county Dec 2013(Ministry of Agriculture)

Performed data collection, trained enumerators, did data entry, validation and analysis

of the data

Verified the questionnaires after data collection from the enumerators

Achievements

Ensured that all the data that was collected was accurate and that all the questionnaires

were submitted by the enumerators well filled where necessary with no missing

information

Managed to get all the information the ministry needed on time

Part- time lecturer at the Dedan Kimathi University of Agriculture and Technology 2012-

2014

Taught probability and Statistics units at the university

Prepared students CATS and Examinations

Marked and invigilated the examinations and CATS

Achievements

All the students managed to proceed successfully with their semesters due to them

passing all the assessments

Key Skills and Abilities

Displays exceptional interpersonal skills by gaining the trust and respect of others, being

sensitive to their needs and contributing effectively in all team activities

Writes in a concise style, listens very carefully and is extremely articulate and

persuasive by pitching the conversation at the appropriate level

Excellent presentation and organizational skills

Works and thrives when under pressure where demanding deadlines exists and is able

to establish achievable milestones and goals

Pays particular attention to small detail when carrying through research and analysis and

is experienced at interpreting underlying themes from complicated information

Priorities tasks and assignments when carrying out planning and organizing and where

the opportunity arises integrated the efforts of others

Easily adapts to change, without compromising

Fully computer literate with the working knowledge of a range of packages MS

Word, MS Excel, MS Access, Internet and emailing

Also have working knowledge of the following soft ware’s R,SPSS, My SQL,

GRETL and STATA

Ability to design surveys using survey monkey

Perform monitoring and evaluation

Proficiency in designing surveys and data collection

Ability to use GIS software like ArcView

Other training acquired

Attended a driving college and was awarded with a Kenyan driving license

Kenya Medical Supplies(KEMSA) training on creating and uploading of orders online

on their Logistic Information Management System (LIMS)

Prof.Anthony Waititu Gichuhi

Senior Lecturer,

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences,

J.K.U.A.T, P.O. Box 62000,Nairobi.

Email:ads7j6@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: +254-***-***-***

Joanine Kirkwood

Director,

Savanna Data Solutions

Email: ads7j6@r.postjobfree.com

Cell:+254-***-***-***

Wangwe Inertia Ibrahim

Lecturer

The Technical University of Kenya

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Cell: +254*********



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