PERSONAL INFORMATION

Gezehagn Gutema Eggi

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

+251-***-***-*** +251-***-***-***

ady3gg@r.postjobfree.com, ady3gg@r.postjobfree.com

+251-***-***-***

Skype: gezehagn.gutema

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gezehagn-eggi/

Sex: Male Date of birth: 26/04/1988 Nationality: Ethiopian

ABOUT

Expert consultant and academician with a track record of employment in higher education in the field of international affairs. Programming, Web app design and development, databases, management, data science, machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), information security and archives, and record management are all areas in which they are proficient. possess solid coding abilities in a variety of computer languages, including C#, Java, TensorFlow, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and Java. Strong consulting and education professional pursuing a doctorate in information technology (Ph.D.) at Addis Ababa University with an emphasis on Information Retrieval Systems.

WORK EXPERIENCE

March 2017- Feb 2023

ICT and Training Expert- Development Planning Consultant

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia www.uneca.org

Develop an application that maps United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Agenda to Africa Union’s Agenda 2063 and vice versa.

Developed application that monitors, evaluates, and tracks countries’ progress toward achievement of SDGs and Agenda 2063

Alignment of National Development with SDG and Agenda 2063

Integrating the Doha Program of Action to the SDG, Agenda 2063, and National Development Plans

Training activities

Advising countries on their National Development Plans (NDP) and Integrated National Financial Framework (INFF)

Continues support on implementation Monitoring and Evaluation

Delivered Trainings

I have delivered training on National Development Plans, Sustainable Development Plans, Agenda 2063, and the Doha Program of Action for the following countries.

Ghana

Cameroon

Seychelles

Comoros

Benin

Zambia

Egypt

Morocco

Botswana

Lesotho

Congo Brazzaville

Liberia

Burkina Faso

Cote d'Ivoire

Ethiopia

Niger

Business or sector: International Organization

October 2016- Now

Lecturer, Management Information System

Arsi University, Asella, Ethiopia https://www.arsiun.edu.et/

Teaching Information Retrieval Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Mining, Data Base Management, Website Development, Internet Programming, Fundamental and Object-Oriented Programming, System Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, Information System Management, and other courses,

Advising and supervising students’ research

Research-related activities

Business or sector: Public University (Academic)

Aug 2013- April 2017

Archives and Records Management Expert

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia www.uneca.org

Administering electronic document and records management systems (EDRMS) specifically HP Enterprise Content Management (HPECM) and IBM Enterprise Content Management (IBM ECM).

Carry out monitoring and evaluation of the program as well as the implementation of program improvement initiatives.

Overseeing the creation, maintenance, and organization of records within an organization

Developing policies and procedures for managing records properly

Establish filing systems that allow easy retrieval of records.

Preparing reports on the status of records to ensure they are managed properly.

Organizing and maintaining physical and electronic files of documents

Coordinating with IT staff to create and maintain electronic records systems.

Coordinating with employees to ensure proper use of recordkeeping processes.

Supervising and training archives assistants, staff, and volunteers

Coordinating and facilitating archives access requests by staff, researchers, and the public

Providing scans of images and documents as needed using appropriate digital and metadata standards.

Evaluating and coordinating the re-housing and stabilization of archives

Ensuring compliance with UN regulations related to archives.

Ensuring accurate and up-to-date inventories and reconciliation of archives and records

Appraising, arranging, and describing archival collections according to recognized archives standards.

Conducting training for staff regarding records management and transfer of relevant records to the permanent institutional archives

Business or sector: International Organization

September 2009- Aug 2013

Lecturer, Computer Science

Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia www.aku.edu.et

Teaching Information Retrieval Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Data Mining, Data Base Management, Website Development, Internet Programming, Fundamental and Object-Oriented Programming, System Analysis and Design, Software Engineering, Information System Management, and other courses,

Advising and supervising students

Research-related activities

Business or sector: Public University (Academic)

Jan 2009 –Sept 2009

ICT, Information System Administrator (Intern)

Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia, www.ju.edu.et

Configuring, implementing, and administrating Jimma University’s Intranet Portal, Assigning Access rights and privileges, and managing group discussions and forums.

Developing Jimma University websites

Business or sector: Public University (Academic)

EDUCATIONS

Dec 2017 to 2019

Ph.D. Student in Information Retrieval / IT Doctoral Program (Drop out)

IT Doctoral Program, Information Retrieval, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Research focus: Question Answering Systems /NLP

Research and learning activities in Semantic-Based Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Multimedia Retrieval Systems, Semantic Web, Linguistic Technology, Natural Language Processing, Agent-Based Retrieval and Modelling, Intelligent System

Aug 2010 to July 2012

Master of Science Degree in Information Science

School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Modern Information Storage and Retrieval, Knowledge-Based System, Data and Web Mining, Information System Development, Information System Management, Research Methods, and Information Systems Workshop

Sep 2009 to June 2010

Higher Diploma Program (HDP)

HDP, Aksum University, Aksum, Ethiopia

Teaching Methodologies, Active Learning Methods, Classroom Management, Pedagogy

Nov 2006 to June 2009

Bachelor of Science in Information Studies

Department Of Information Science, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Archive and Record Management, Cataloguing, Librarianship, Procedural and Object-Oriented Programming, Database Management, Web and Internet Programming, System Administration, Network Administration, System Analysis and Design, Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Maintenance, Software Engineering, Information System Management, Research Methods, and Pedagogy

Nov 2008- June 2009

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Accomplishment certificate. CISCO Network Academy, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS

Oct 21st – Oct 25th 2019

Data Science Africa – DSA 2019

Accra, Ghana

Venue: Ashesi University, Ghana

introductory and advanced lectures in data science and machine learning

(June 3rd – June 7th 2019)

Data Science Africa – DSA 2019

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Venue: Addis Ababa University

training on machine learning and data science methods

May 31st - June 8th 2018

Data Science Africa- DSA 2018

Nyeri, Kenya

Venue: Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Nyeri, Kenya

Training of Trainers" event under the theme "end-to-end data science."

September 9th -13th, 2019

ACM SIGCHI Summer School on User Modeling and Personalization in Urban Computing (Umcit 2019)

Barcelona, Spain

The summer school was addressed to young students and researchers from the fields of Engineering, and Computer and Social sciences. Senior undergraduate, master's students, Ph.D. candidates, postdocs, and young faculty were welcome. The topics covered included Urban Computing: concepts, applications, and methodologies. Crowdsensing and its applications to smart cities.

July 21st - 29th, 2020

Lisbon Machine Learning School LxMLS2020

Lisbon, Portugal

Practical talks on a variety of topics, such as explainable NLP, graph neural networks in NLP, text representations for retrieval and question answering, natural language processing for the real world, question answering and generation for evaluating summarization, and processing spoken language.

OTHER CERTIFICATES

Excellency certificate

Awarded to me by Jimma University in recognition of my academic excellence

Certificate of appreciation

Awarded to me because my research project was selected as the best project of a year

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

Excellency certificate

Awarded to me by Jimma University in recognition of my academic excellence

Certificate of appreciation

Awarded to me because my research project was selected as the best project of a year

PERSONAL SKILLS

Languages

Language Skills

UNDERSTANDING

SPEAKING

WRITING

Listening

Reading

Spoken interaction

Spoken production

English

C1- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

C1 -Proficient user

C1- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

Oromo

C2- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

Amharic

C2- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

C2- Proficient user

French

Beginner

Beginner

Beginner

Beginner

Beginner

Communication skills

Good communication skills developed through my experience, learning, and practice.

Organizational/managerial skills

Leadership (currently I’m the coordinator of a project which have a team of 30 people).

Job-related skills

Good problem-solving skills developed by interaction with students in my institution.

Knowledge Services Related Skills

Cataloguing, Classification, Filing System, Archive and Documentation, Automation, Digitization, IR,

Library Software: WEBLIS, ABCD, KOHA, GreenStore, Biblioteque, TRIM, HPRM, Unite Docs, Alfresco, and Others

Computer skills

Programming: Microsoft Visual Basic.NET, C++ Programming, Java Programming, SQL, Prolog, Python, C#, PHP, R,

Operating Systems: Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 7,8), Solaris, Unix, Linux, MS-DOS, Shell, HP/VX, Mac OSX

Database/Statistics: Microsoft Access, SPSS, MS SQL, MySQL

Engineering Software: Matlab

Web Page Design: HTML, XML, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress,

ACTIVITIES AND INTEREST

Programming

Internet

Coding

News, Blogging, Reading

Movie

Cinema, Theatre

Reading

Fiction and non-fiction, Religious, Science and Technology, Research publications

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Publications

Projects

References

Afaan Oromo Text Retrieval System, Addis Ababa University Libraries, available at http://etd.dspace.aau.edu.et, 2012.

Jimma University Integrated Library Systems, Jimma University, Jimma, 2009.

1.Bartholomew Armah, Chief Development Planning at UN Economic Commission for Africa, Chief of Knowledge Service Section, UNECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Email: ady3gg@r.postjobfree.com

2.Titus Lyaruu, Information Management Officer, UNECA, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Office No: +251-**-***-**** Email: ady3gg@r.postjobfree.com

3.Million Meshasha (PhD), Professor at School of Information Science, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Telephone Number: +251-********* E-mail: ady3gg@r.postjobfree.com

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