Pastor

Uwem Ekpo, MMT, DMT (Ministerial Theology) BSc. (Software Engineer).

**** ********** *****,

Abingdon, MD 21009

Telephone: 410-***-****; 443-***-****

E-mail: ********@*****.***

Expertise

A highly motivated and conscientious theologian with over 15 years experience building church leadership, mobilizing and training of local communities to address the needs of people and the religious congregations with excellent communication and advocacy skills. I also have excellent mastery and exposition of the Bible, eloquent speaker, preacher, teacher, a good counselor with good skills in Church administration. I advocate for youth issues, counsel youths on risky behavior and serve on the Board of a youth organization involved in counseling and vocational training of youths in Baltimore. I am able to communicate effectively with adults, church leaders, youths, advocating and motivating them for essential public health interventions to improve the physical and spiritual welfare of their communities and organizations.

I also have multi-disciplinary and cross-cultural international public health experience in low-resource and developing countries, providing technical support and mobilizing communities for Information Technology Development in developing countries including Nigeria and the Gambia. In addition I have excellent communication skills in English, ability to work in team and a result-oriented work attitude, overcoming difficult challenges to achieve program goals and objectives. I am also proficient in computer skills (MS, Excel, and PowerPoint), emails, internet and web search for business and career enhancement.

Education

1. Warren National University, Agoura Hills, CA

March 2008. BSc. Software Engineering

Final Thesis: ICT: What Developing Countries Stand to Gain?

2. Freelandia Bible College & Seminary, Broadway, Virginia

August 2005 Doctorate in Ministerial Theology (DMT)

Thesis: My Grace is Sufficient unto You GPA: 4.0

3. Freelandia Bible College & Seminary, Broadway, Virginia

July 2002 Masters in Ministerial Theology (MMT)

GPA: 4.0

Professional Experience

Associate Pastor, 2002-present

Gospel Faith Mission International; Baltimore, MD

Senior Pastor: Paul Akapo

• Actively involved in preaching and teaching the Bible

• Leading Sunday School session for adults

• Counseling and encouraging members and families to stay in faith, love and serve God.

• Organizing and facilitating youth programs in the Church.

Voluntary Service: 2004 –to Date

Truth Organization for Youths, Inc

• Counseling of youths in various areas of life challenges including; career, health, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, crime and violence etc. in inner city Baltimore

• Advocate for youths and those of ethnic minority

• Social and welfare (food and clothing) support for vulnerable youths

• Webpage design and maintenance for Truth Organization for youths

Guardian Counselor, 2000-2002

New Covenant Middle & High School; New York, NY

Resident Bishop: Joseph Alexander

• Teaching and counseling of students

• Development and management of comprehensive school counseling

Program.

• Teaching and preaching in the local Church

Executive Director and Founder

Truth Foundation for Youths. The Gambia

1999-2002

• Counseling youth in various areas of life including, academics, career, health, emotional spiritual and psychosocial problems

• Vocational training for youths including computer literacy, communication and life skills building,

• Preaching and teaching in Pentecostal, Evangelical and the Catholic Churches in the country.

• President of the Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International, Farafenni Chapter.

• Organizing seminars and workshops to build capacity of business men to be successful and serve God in their businesses.

Executive Director and Founder

Central Viewing Center, Nigeria. 1992-2002

• Counseling and building communication and life skills for youths

• Organizing seminars and workshops for local churches on careers, communication, life skills and marriage issues

• Operating a viewing centre to build values for youths on spiritual, educational and leadership skills

• Use of modems, laptops, e-mail, and the Internet to provide technical support and other services for the center

• Interacting with customers and coworkers.

• Solving deadlines unexpected technical problems.

• Configure, implement, and install complete computer systems

Additional Skills

Theological Skills and Mission:

I am a dedicated and committed Christian devoting my life to the service of God and humanity. Currently an Associate Pastor of a local Church in Baltimore, a great teacher of the word of God, expounding the word of God with much wisdom, passion and love and encouraging people to identify their purpose in life to the service of God. I have great skills in communication and mobilization of people to work as a team to achieve common goals; ability to work flexitime, across multi-and cross cultural populations. Other areas of practical Christian service and skills include active evangelism, leadership and church growth, Church consultations, biblical counseling, mission leadership and pastoral and staff leadership. In addition, I am a co-founder a non-for-profit voluntary organization-Truth Organization for Youth and have established similar group in the other countries including Gambia and Nigeria.

Teaching Skills:

I possess excellent teaching and instructional skills, training students and the clergy on both circular and religious issues. Trainings are facilitated with the use of power point and word presentations, teaching various audience including young, adults, couples, businessmen, low literate, ethnic minority and people with special needs, with interactive sessions to promote a good learning atmosphere.

Organizational and Management Skills:

I have held various administrative and managerial positions in both academic and church settings with prudent and financial management skills in church, schools and private organizational settings. My management style include emphasis on phased development with regular and measurable progress; systematic approach to resolving high-risk factors associated with an objective; delegating tasks to team members selected for their skills that correspond to the requirements of the project, with built-in mechanism for assessing the feasibility of a proposed project and matching available resources to those requirements. I also involve all concerned parties into project execution, ensuring that the end product perfectly matches the requirements and thus avoiding last minute glitches. Developing a project quality plan and avoiding the costs of less-than-optimal quality.

Communication and Advocacy Skills

I communicate effective with people, adults and youth alike, church leaders and workers, leaders of organizations and people of various ethnic groups, religion and race and also advocate for matters concerning youths and the poor for the good of the people and the communities. I have been able to mediate in conflicts and disputes among groups , couples, young people and church leadership.

Computer Skills:

Computer literate with proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Allaire Cold Fusion, Oracle 8 etc for reports writing and presentations with two years programming experience in Software Engineering. Designed and developed new computer software systems and incorporate new technologies into a rapidly growing range of applications with strong problem-solving and analytical skills. Designed and maintains the webpage for Truth Organization for Youth.

Designed and managed website for not-for-profit organizations. Co-founder of not-for-profit organization Truth Organization for Youths. Currently. I am a Software Engineering student at Warren National University, California, due to graduate in March 2008. As a Software Engineer, my focus is on designing with a theoretical and practical background in software development and maintenance, including full software development life-cycle, and a thorough coverage of tools, techniques, principles, and guidelines for software requirements, specification, design, and implementation.

I am guided toward a better experience in understanding of the various tasks and specialties that contribute to the development of software products.

Additional skills and course work in the following programming areas: (i)Software Life-Cycle, Requirements, Specification and Design to assist in business information system concepts; strategic planning; feasibility studies; object-oriented analysis and design; (ii) Software Implementation, Verification and Maintenance to assist in Systems Operation and Support; (iii) Object-Oriented Techniques, Analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing to assist in the basic concepts of object-oriented software development using C++; (iv) Principles and Use of Database Management Systems to assist in Logical and Physical Database Design; SQL, (v) Graphical User Interface Design, Evaluation and Implementation to assist in design, implementation and evaluation of graphical user interfaces (GUIs); (vi) Software Project Management to assist in risk analysis, contracts, development cycle, staffing, estimation, scheduling, standards, configuration control, quality assurance, and software testing; (vii) Quality Assurance and Process Improvement involving the concepts and principles of software quality and process improvement; (viii) Software Development for Real-Time Systems, focusing on real-time operating systems and networks; (ix) Formal Modeling and Analysis in Software Engineering, focusing on fundamental concepts of software engineering with emphasis on the formal structure of data processing; (x) GUI Toolkits Graphical User Interface (GUI) Toolkits. Visual Basic, a general purpose tool for GUI programming; (xi) Object-Oriented Databases Object-Oriented concepts and principles to design and implement database systems; (xii) Network Programming network programming with an emphasis on developing network programs (both applets and applications) using the Java programming language; (xiii) Windows 9x/NT/00/XP / Unix / Macintosh / Internet; and (xiv) Assembling, Troubleshooting, and Maintaining Systems, including Win 2000/2003

Bachelor Thesis and Research Completed:

My grace is sufficient unto you: Thesis submitted to the Freelandia College and Seminary for the award of doctorate degree in Ministerial Theology. August, 2005

ICT What development Countries stand to gain: An overview of the benefits of information, communication and technology development for developing and low-resource countries. December 2008

Affiliations and Awards:

Student Christian Movement Member since 1992

Full gospel Business Men Fellowship International Member, President, Farafenni Chapter, 999-2003

Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International- Member Baltimore Chapter 2003-present

Freelandia Student Association, Vice President 1998-2001

Truth Organization for youths, President, 2000-present

Interests

In addition to programming, preaching, teaching and counseling, I enjoy playing soccer, basketball, dancing vocal and instrumental music, and attending all varieties of cultural programs.

Uwem Ekpo, MMT, DMT (Ministerial Theology) BSc. (Software Engineer).

2931 Haddington Court,

Abingdon, MD 21009

Telephone: 410-***-****; 443-***-****

E-mail: ********@*****.***

References

1. Alan w. Proffit,

Warren National University

3031 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, CA

Telephone: 800 (635-2900)

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2. Dr. D. R. Shoemaker,

Freelandia Bible College & Seminary

130 E. Spring brook Rd

Broadway, Virginia 22815-9526

Telephone: 540-***-****

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

3. Dr. Richard Adegbola,

MRC Laboratories, Fajara, the Gambia

MRC Laboratories, Fajara,

P.O.Box 273

Banjul, the Gambia. West Africa

Telephone: +220 495-919

Direct Telephone: +220 494-491, Fax: +220 495-919

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

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