Isack Deph
As an experienced industrial microbiologist, research scientist, and research enumerator, I am dedicated to applying my expertise to solve complex challenges. Additionally, I am skilled at cultivating strong relationships and building high-quality teams, believing that collaboration is essential to achieving exceptional results.
I have a proven track record of consistently completing projects on schedule and achieving high client satisfaction. My work is driven by a commitment to excellence and a passion for advancing scientific knowledge within my field of expertise.
Experience
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EDI GLOBAL - A MATHEMATICAL COMPANY
RESEARCH ENUMERATOR - 21.05.2025 – 22.06.2025 -
• Representing the organization in the specified sites in Siaya and Nairobi County.
• Recruiting participants and conducting interviews in strict adherence to the project’s established protocols, procedures, and documentation standards.
• Managing participant identification of the eligible participants based on the project inclusion and exclusion criteria.
• Contacting respondents and scheduling MTV YOUTH interviews, and ensuring that the project timelines are observed.
• Participating in obtaining informed consent from participants.
• Maintaining accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects as necessary.
• Submitting all the interviews after completion of each interview to the project server.
• Monitoring and documenting project progress consistently over time using the summary sheet provided.
• Providing accurate data that meets the highest data quality needed to be reviewed by the central staff and at Mathematica for potentially false or inconsistent patterns.
• Receiving a new mobile phone to keep and use for data collection purposes only throughout the data collection period. -
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH-KENYA (ICRH-K) & KENYA NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS (KNBS)
Research enumerator - 04.04.2025/16.05.2025 -
• Representing the organization at the specific sites.
• Accurately identifying Enumeration Area (EA) boundaries and carrying out household mapping and listing activities in full compliance with established project protocols and guidelines.
• Recruiting participants and conducting interviews in strict adherence to the project’s established protocols, procedures, and documentation standards.
• Managing participant identification of the eligible participants based on the project inclusion and exclusion criteria.
• Contacting respondents and scheduling interviews, and ensuring that the project timelines are observed.
• Participating in obtaining informed consent from participants.
• Maintaining accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects as necessary.
• Submitting all the interviews after completion of each interview to the project server.
• Monitoring and documenting project progress consistently over time using the summary sheet provided.
• Providing accurate data that meets the highest data quality needed to be reviewed by the central staff and at Mathematica for potentially false or inconsistent patterns.
• Receiving a new mobile phone to keep and use for data collection purposes only throughout the data collection period.
• SSK evaluation survey data was confidential and also not to be discussed with anyone outside of my survey team under any circumstances.
• Representing ICRHK, i.e., my behavior was to be professional and friendly. Besides, avoiding being consistently overly aggressive or disrespectful to people in the field was emphasized. -
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT UNDER (NAVCDP)
AGRIPRENEUR - 18.09.2023/27.11.2023 -
• Attended training on how to use both the code and the Kiamis live app.
• Similarly, I was trained to use plus identify the allocated maps for each targeted area, village, or location on a particular ward.
• Collected accurate and quality data from each targeted farming household.
• Presented real-time information, together with geo points of each farmer using the live Kamis and ODK apps, to the national government.
• I worked hand in hand with the village elders, the assistant chief, and the area chief in every farming household.
• Wrote daily reports to our assistant, ward-based, and constituency supervisors on the number of targeted farming households each specific day.
• Collected data on various value chains, i.e., crop, aquaculture, livestock, forestry, and even pets.
• Reported any insecurity faced in the line of work to the area assistant or chief. -
KENYA CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE PROJECT (KCSAP)
LEAD FARMER - 29.05.2022/31.01.2023 -
• Utilization of modern Technologies, Innovations, and Management Practices (TIMPS) in producing competitive seedlings.
• Attended workshop training on Tomato Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), variety selection, pests and diseases management, physiological disorders, harvesting, and post-harvesting methods.
• A trainee in value-added procedures on tomato sauce, dried tomato, tomato juice, and marketing strategies.
• Kunya Youth Activity and Development Centre, through technical support from the Kenya Climate Smart Agricultural Project, works towards raising quality seedlings to be supplied at affordable prices in Siaya County. -
KENYA FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE (KEFRI)
RESEARCH SCIENTIST - 17.01.2022/25.04.2022 -
• Identifying knowledge gaps in ecology for specific forest ecosystems and developing appropriate research concepts/proposals.
• Developing, implementing, and monitoring multi-disciplinary research strategies/technologies to mitigate the gaps to improve dryland natural resources management.
• Writing technical reports, scientific papers, and conference papers.
• Disseminating research findings.
• Data collection and updating nursery records.
• Participating in compiling departmental, quarterly, and annual reports.
Education
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BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MOMBASA11TH SEPTEMBER 2017/JULY 14TH, 2022 -
• Certification in Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology.
• Certification of all transcripts. -
GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE
NIDA CLINICAL TRIALS NETWORKAPRIL 5TH, 2025/APRIL 8TH, 2025 -
• Certificate of Completion.