Nairobi County, Kenya
Lead the market access team in exploring and developing value chains that generate farmer impact and meaningful revenue by aggregating and exporting high value agricultural products from Kenya.
Established One Acre's first tree seedling program in Kenya with 70 staff and 330 tree nurseries that has distributed and sold over 55 million tree seedlings in two years and is expected to generate over $100m worth of impact to Kenyan smallholder farmers.
• Manage team responsible for designing, testing and trialing new products and services including planters, threshers, fertilizer scoops, solar lights, tractor services, secondary school loans, digital education content, and well drilling services. • Established and manage contracts with Chinese, Kenyan, Ethiopian and US manufacturers, suppliers and engineers on a regular basis
• Led all product development, product testing and company operations through startup phase • Designed the novel Milele Tube and Tube Ziba that eliminates flat tires on bicycles • Managed day-to-day operations including twelve employees with sales of over 10,000 units in two years • Interacted with global suppliers and customers on a regular basis • Secured $150,000+ of start-up financing through competitive grants and competitions
• Key topics include: Deign Thinking, Human Centered Design, Plastics Design, Life Cycle Engineering, Life Cycle Analysis, Lean Manufacturing, Photovoltaic Design, Finite Element Analysis, Sustainability, Design for Manufacturability, Ergonomics • Designed and outfitted prototyping lab for bicycle design enterprise consisting of 50+ students Notable software: AutoCAD, Unigraphics, SolidWorks, SimaPro, Abaqus, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro
• Lived in rural Sahel without electricity, running water or cell phone reception • Planted over 1,000 trees as an erosion prevention project in village farm fields • Initiated a community garden project with 300+ Moringa trees as part of a malnutrition prevention initiative • Proficient in French