Teaching Preferences
Online Teaching
One-on-One at $10-20 per hour
Group Teaching at $0-10 per hour
Offers free trial classes
Teaches following Subjects/Exams
English (Others)
Language of Instruction:
English
Teaching Experience
English Tutor
TutorABC, Taiwan
Sep 2008 - Present
Business English
I am averaging a score of 9 out of 10 for each of my sessions and I am favourite for upper level EXecutive Business English Classes.
Prior to this I have been teaching Business Start-up for Small to Medium Micro-enterprises in Southern Africa on- and off-line for more than five years.
Professional Experience
Designer
Turnerland Manufacturing, South Africa
Jan 2008 - Dec 2008I was part of a design team with the specific task of evolving new ideas and design concept in the production of potato farming machines and packing lines.
My other portfolio was taking the products to Africa, which involved Market Intelligence and Planning in Southern Africa outside of South Africa.
Agricultural Development consultant
Consultant, Zimbabwe
Jan 2000 - Dec 2007I worked in various consultative capacities on individual and joint projects in Zimbabwe and Botswana helping smallscale and commercial farmers to improve their farming enterprises, right from Farm Planning,through Mechanisation and Irrigation installations to produce marketing.
These projects were catering for both field crops and horticultural enterprises and were especially fulfilling when started from scratch up to when the produce was finally delivered to the market in good order
Research and Development Engineer
Hastt Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Jan 1997 - Dec 1999I was in charge of Farm Implements Research and Development: new product designs and concept generation.
I had a number of innovations to the company's credit which are still in use to this day, especially the Super Nova Direct seeding drill-A First for Africa and many new machines and modifications for tobacco, sugar and coffee production.
I was also in charge of Product Commissioning and Technical Training of Sales Personnel and Field Engineers
Education
MSc Strategic Management
Derby University, United Kingdom
Oct 2008 - Present
Post Graduate Diploma: Strategic Management
Chartered Institute of Business Administration, Zimbabwe
Jan 2005 - Apr 2007
Diploma: Marketing Management
Trust Academy, Zimbabwe
Mar 2002 - May 2004
Certificate: Marketing
Specis College, Harare, Zimbabwe
Aug 1997 - Sep 1998
Diploma: Mechanical Designing
Harare Polytechnic, Zimbabwe
Jan 1993 - Feb 1996
Best final year project: design and adoption of minimum tillage by small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe