CV Profile No.87653

Experience in the following industries :

• Agriculture, fishing, aquaculture

Professional experience

• Technical & Sampling Coordinator
• Lake Harvest Aquaculture – Kariba, Zimbabwe
• 06.2009 - 01.2015
• Hatchery quality inspection: monitoring selection-mating combinations, handling, stocking or pairing of Broodstock, egg and fry collection, Broodstock feed quality (proximate analysis), feeding and feed storage.  Inspection of fingerlings grading process, disinfection of equipment, grading according to desired sizes, conditioning of fingerlings before transfer.  Farm to Lake Fish Transfers – ensuring enough oxygen cylinders are available, good fish husbandry during loading, water quality monitoring and ensure proper filing of records.  Juvenile Cage to Production Cage Transfers/Grading - ensure size distribution is conducted prior to transfer to determine size ranges and net size to deploy, good fish handling and/or proper use of the grader, calibration and computations.  Conduct Feeding Analysis on every site to assess potential feed indicators (e.g. afflatoxins) that would be of effect on fish growth and ensure FIFO is practiced on the sites.  Monitor fish husbandry (feeding, fish movement, fish health) and growth performances for both ponds and cage operations; and provide an account of mortalities and mitigation measures.  Monthly harvest inspection on cages to ensure processes are followed and meet filleting standards  Fish Health monitoring; condition factor, blindness, diseases, deformities and relate fish health to feed quality and fish husbandry and work on mitigation measures.

• Hatchery Manager
• Laveroff Farms Limited – Volta Lake, Ghana
• 01.2015 - 08.2016
•  Hatchery and Nursery Management  Feeding & Feed Management  Cage Construction, Deployment and Maintenance  Fingerlings Stocking, Grading & Transfers  Sampling & Net Changing  Fish Health Monitoring  Data Management using the Aquatracker software  Staff trainings and managing 30 workers with three supervisors

• Production Manager
• Crystal Lake Fish Limited – Volta Lake, Ghana
• 01.2016 - 04.2017
•  Hatchery and Nursery Management – breeding, feeding and fingerling sales  Ponds and Cage Operations – grading, transfers, feeding and harvesting  Staff orientation & training. Managing 20 workers with 3 supervisors and one assistant manager.  Monitor security, stores and engineering department for effective farm operations.  Farm data management, inventories, growth patterns and production forecasts  Establish and monitor protocols and processes, biosecurity, ensuring farm quality, efficient service delivery, occupational health and safety, environmental monitoring and all technical aspects of the farm.  Compile Hatchery and Production Reports for the Managing Director  Farm Production Planning, Financial Projections and Budgeting in liaison with the Finance department.

• AQUACULTURE BREEDER SPECIALIST
• Triton Aquaculture Africa Limited – Nigeria
• 01.2018 - 12.2019
• Breeding management – Broodstock selection, pairing, segregation, genetic improvement and fry collection o Feed preparation for SR treatment, feed monitoring and fry transfer to nursery ponds o Proper feeding, grading and transfer of 1g – 5g size fingerlings to nursery cages and weekly fingerling sampling o Validate fingerling stock quality, quantity, uniformity and transfer process of conditioned fingerlings. o Ensure graded fingerlings and juveniles are stocked in nursery and grow-out cages respectively at standardized stocking densities.  Feed Management – ensure respective supervisors do proper feed monitoring of SR Happas, nursery ponds, nursery and grow-out cages to attain desired growth rate and FCR according to company procedures.  Sampling – coordinate weekly and fortnightly sampling for all nursery ponds and all 194 cages for generation of PPT and production reports  Water quality – ensure daily and night water quality monitoring and advise ideal feeding and mitigation measures to implement in case of critical levels.  Nets – monitor proper washing of happas and cage nets washing, mending or making before installation.  Data Management – check & verify all data entry and inventories for SAP input and compile weekly and monthly management reports