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Dairy farm worker/animal scientist

Location:
British Columbia, Canada
Salary:
$2500-3000 CAD
Posted:
November 07, 2012

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Resume:

CV Adeleke Odumboni

Email: ****.****@*****.***

PERSONAL DETAILS

Address: *, ***** ********,

Irono Avenue, Off Church Street,

Jakande Estate, Isolo, Lagos

Mobile: +234**********

Marital Status: Single

Personal skills and qualities

• Good time manager

• Good communication skills

• Good teacher and mentor

• Good in recognising learning deficiency in students

• Patience and perseverance

• Good sense of humour

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT/OBJECTIVE

• Completion of masters in Animal science

• Taught in an International College of about 120 students/learners

• My students had an academic success rate of 90%

• Worked in a dairy/poultry research farm at Hartpury College, Gloucester, United Kingdom

EDUCATION

2008 - 2010 University of West England, Hartpury College

Masters in Animal science

Modules: - Animal production systems, Research methods (this includes mathematical and statistical course work), Applied reproduction and Genetics, Advances in Animal behaviour, Applied pharmacology, Natural resources management and dissertation of the relationship between Somatic Cell Count and Milk yield in Diary Cattle

1999 – 2004 Federal University of Technology, Akure

BSc (Hons) in Animal Production and Health

Dissertation: - Efficient detection of pregnancy in ewes (this research project involved the use of HCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin and Pregnancy anal probe to test for pregnancy in 50 ewes at the research farm. Results showed that the pregnancy anal probe is the best method of pregnancy detection in ewes).

1990 – 1996 Wesley College of Science, Ibadan

Subjects Achieved: Mathematics (distinction), English (credit),

Sciences (credit)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Jan 2012 – June, 2012 Stroud and South Gloucestershire College, Filton Campus, Bristol

Job Title: Lecturer in Animal Care

Duties:

• Delivering lectures on the following subjects; Animal breeding and genetics; Environmental Interpretation; Farm units; Animal Accommodation and feeding; livestock production systems; Agric-business management, Animal Health and welfare.

• General attendance of staff meeting

• Organising trips to farm and Bristol Zoo for practical sessions on land-based subjects

• General assessment of student’s academic performance.

• Small and exotic animal handling

• Organising work experience scheme for students

Nov 2010 – Dec 2011 Selwyn Care Home, Matson, Gloucester

Job Title: Support Worker

Duties:

• Supporting Autistic services-user in their everyday routine/activities especially in their learning difficulty condition

• Managing their feelings and their challenging behaviours by providing different options of activities to perform

• Supporting autistic services users in the organisation day care centre by providing them with lots of activities to do such as singing; swimming; arts and crafts

Nov 2010 – Jan 2011 Comet, Gloucester

Job title: Sales associate

Duties:

• Sales of electrical products.

• Operating the till machine for customers

2007 – Sept, 2010 University of the west England

Hartpury College, Hartpury,

Gloucester, United Kingdom

Job title: Graduate teaching assistant/student support worker

Duties

• Setting up laboratory apparatus for undergraduate students

• Determination of crude fibre content in horse, pig, sheep and dairy feeds. My duties involved the use of laboratory equipment to determine dry matter contents in feeds suitable to meet up with nutritional requirements for animals

• Assembly of laboratory equipment such as the electron microscope and soil oven

• Supervising during student practical sections in the laboratory

• Milking of Hartpury College Dairy cattle and routine feeding management of the College pigs

• Supporting under 18 student’s welfare issues

• Assisting teachers/lecturers in delivering educational and developmental course work programme to individual students and group of students especially those with special needs

• Power point presentations on animal Nutrition and pharmacology (this presentation involves the effective use of drugs and right feeds to treat/prevent animal diseases)

• Recording of students examination scores and inputting them on the computer system and administrative work

• Invigilation of end of semesters’ examination

2007 - 2008 Gloucester Recreation Centre, Gloucester

Job title: voluntary teacher in O level/A level and key skills Mathematics

Computing skills

• Applications: Microsoft office suite, internet explorer

• Expertise in using statistical software programmes to solve mathematical problems e.g. SPSS and MINITAB software to analyse feed data

Other skills

• Very good experience in animal handling techniques especially in Sheep, Pig, Goat and Chicken

• Writing and presenting reports

• Data and information collection

• Operating the microscope and gram-staining

References

Dr Mary Farrell

Hartpury College,

Hartpury, Gloucester

GL19 3BE

Lecturer in Animal Behaviour

+441*********

****.*******@********.**.**

Mrs Mary Howie

Stroud and South Gloucestershire College,

Filton Campus, Bristol.

BS34 7AT

Head of Department, Animal Care

+441**-*******

****.*****@******.**.**



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