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Meet Our Staff

 

Mike Thomas

Qualifications

  • BSc. Civil Engineering, Purdue University, USA
  • MSc. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell Univeristy, USA
  • NEMA - EIA Lead Expert(0129)
  • ERB - Consulting Engineer (E265)
  • MWI - Panel I Engineer (WD/WRP 001/26-A,B,C2,D)
  • IEK - Member (M1332)

Specialisation/Skills

  • Rural Water Supply & Sanitation
  • Dams & Pans
  • Hydrological Assessments
  • Hydrological Modelling
  • IWRM
  • Water Sector Reforms
  • Water Resource users associations
  • ASAL development
  • Financing community water projects
  • EIAs

Tom Traexler

Qualifications

  • BSc. Mechanical Engineering, Penn State, USA
  • MSc. Agricultural Engineering, Cornell University, USA

Specialisation/Skills

  • Rural Water Supply & Sanitation
  • Dams & Pans
  • Construction supervision
  • Surveying
  • Pumps & electrical installation for water supplies
  • Rural development
  • Surfer, AutoCAD
  • EPAnet
  • Quickbooks
  • Vehicle fleet maintenance & management
 

Amanda Suthers

Qualifications
  • BSc. Physics, University London, UK
  • Post Graduate Certificate of Education, University London, UK
  • Energy Technology for Developing Countries, University Salford, UK
Specialisation/Skills
  • Financial Management
  • Human Resource management
  • Business development
  • Training Program development
  • Physics Teaching(A level, GCSE)

Ruth Amondi Onyango

Qualifications
  • BSc. Agricultural Engineering, Egerton University, Kenya
  • MSc. Agricultural Engineering, Egerton University, Kenya
  • International Training Course on Participatory GIS for Resource Management, Kenya (2 weeks)
  • Post Graduate Training Course in Environmental Hydrology for Arid and Semi Arid Regions, Hydraulic Research Institute, Egypt(6 weeks)
Specialisation/Skills
  • Rural water supply & sanitation
  • Financing community water projects
  • GIS & Natural resource management
  • Hydrological Assessments
  • EIAs
  • IWRM
  • Water resource users associations

Grishon Muhoro

Qualifications
  • BSc. Water and Environmental Engineering, Egerton University, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Water supply engineering
  • Dams & Pans
  • Construction supervision
  • Surveying

Johnson Nganga

Qualifications
  • BSc. Soil, Water and Environmental Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Rural water supply & sanitation
  • Financing community water projects
  • Hydrological Assessments
  • EIAs
  • IWRM

Cliff Nyaga

Qualifications
  • BSc. Soil, Water and Environmental Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Water supply management
  • Water billing
  • AutoCAD

June Kawira Opot

Qualifications
  • BSc. Water Engineering, Kenyatta University, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Water supply engineering
  • AutoCAD

Jacob Katuva

Qualifications
  • BSc. Soil, Water and Environmental Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya
  • Training at Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development under United States Geological Survey on GIS Flood Tool for Mapping Extend of Inundation
Specialisation/Skills
  • Water supply engineering
  • Hydrological assessments
  • AutoCAD
  • GIS

Martha Jepkirui

Qualifications
  • BSc. Water and Environmental Engineering, Egerton University, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Water supply engineering
  • Hydrological assessments

Christine Muuthia

Qualifications
  • BSc. Sociology and Geography
Specialisation/Skills
  • Community development
  • Social mobilisation
  • Water supply management
  • Water resource users associations formation & establishment

Jackson Mwihuri

Qualifications
  • Cert. Range Management, Animal Health and Industry Training Institute, Kabete, Kenya
  • Diploma, Range Management, Egerton College, Kenya
  • BSc. Range Management, University Nairobi, Kenya
  • MSc. Range Ecology, University Nairobi, Kenya
  • Cert. Development Education and leadership for participation - PREMESE, Machakos, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Range Ecology & Management
  • Livestock management
  • Community development & training
  • Water supply management
  • Water resource users associations formation & establishment

Jim Mbati

Qualifications
  • CPA I and II, Strathmore College, School of Accountancy, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Accounting/Auditing
  • Financial Management
  • Business development
  • Human resource management

David Kamau

Qualifications
  • BSc. Water & Environmental Engineering, Egerton University, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Water supply management
  • Water billing
  • Engineering survey
  • Construction supervision

Paul Karimi

Qualifications
  • Diploma in Water Engineering, Kenya Water Institute, Nairobi
Specialisation/Skills
  • Water supply management
  • Engineering survey
  • Construction supervision
  • Engineering design
  • Feasibility Study
  • Drafting
  • Training and preparing technical reports

Laban Kiplangat

Qualifications
  • BSc. Environmental & Biosystems Engineering, University of Nairobi, Kenya
Specialisation/Skills
  • Irrigation and Water Resources Engineering
  • Construction designs and supervision
  • Pumps & electrical installation for water supplies

Hudson Asiema

Qualifications
  • BSc. Computer Science, California State University, Northridge, USA
Specialisation/Skills

  • Programming Languages: PHP, Javascript, java, Ruby on rails (RoR), CSS/HTML/XHTML, XML, AJAX, ASP.net, C++/C/C#, JSP
  • Tools and technologies: Eclipse IDE, Netbeans IDE, Visual Studio 2008 and 2010, FileZilla, Developer tools, Search Engine optimization (SEO), GWT, GAE
  • Databases: MySql
  • Application Servers: Apache, MAMP,IIS, Google App Engine(GAE)
  • Web application development
  • Front-end and Back-end
  • Server Side Scripting
  • Unix Basics
  • UML
  • Quickbooks
  • Adobe Flash and Adobe Photoshop CS4
  • Adobe Dreamweaver CS4