1. PERSONAL INFORMATION

1.1 Name: Shawl Mengistu Ashenafi

1.2 Address: Boulevard 1945 4, 7514 AE Enschede, Netherlands
1.3 Phone: +31684390783
1.4 Email: [email protected]
1.5 Sex: Male

1.6 Date of birth: 22/10/1994

1.7 Nationality:  Ethiopian

2. WORK EXPERIENCE

2.1 I have been working as a senior technical assistant at Dilla University Department of Horticulture from 11 September 2017 until 20 August 2019.

2.2 Employers name: Dilla University

2.3 Employer address: Dilla, Ethiopia

2.4 Main responsibilities and activities: My duties in my position were assisting students in laboratory and practical field activities. Some of the demonstrations courses were, Plant breeding, Introduction to plant biotechnology, Vegetable crops production and management, Coffee production, processing, and quality control. Besides that, I work on assisting the senior research project of the graduating class.

Type of sector: – Agriculture

3. EDUCATION:

I have BSc. Degree in Horticulture from Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The major courses I learned in my bachelor program were, Plant anatomy and morphology, Plant biochemistry, Introduction  to soil, Introduction to Statistics, Agricultural microbiology, Farm machinery, Principles of genetics, Breeding of horticultural crops, Principles and practices of plant propagation, Soil fertility and plant nutrition, soil and water conservation, Horticultural entomology, Horticultural pathology, Plant physiology, Weed and weed management in Horticulture crop, Design and analysis of agricultural experiments, Research methods in horticulture, Horticultural seed science and technology, Vegetable crops production and management, Tropical fruit crops production and management, Sub tropical fruit crops production and management, Coffee production, processing and quality control ,Tea production and processing. Spice and herbs crop production and processing, Floriculture production and management, Post harvest physiology and handling of horticulture products, Introduction to plant biotechnology, Irrigation and drainage. Additionally, I learned necessary Computer skills, Communicative English Skills, Civics and Ethics.

4. PERSONAL SKILLS

4.1 Language skills

Very Good understanding of four English language skills i.e. Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing skills.

4.2 Job-related skills
Good command of statistical software ( responsible for data analyzing) such as R software, STATA, SAS and GIS. I have a training certificate for each software.

4.3 Computer skills

Good command of Microsoft Office tools, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint acquired in report writing, data management, review, respectively.