Kondayire Felix Joseph Pwazuri

Email: fkonds@navrongo.mimcom.org & kondayire@yahoo.com
Telephone:

	Office: +233 0742 22310
             +233 0742 22380
Cellphone: 024 6363999
             +233 0742 22320  (FAX)

HIGHER EDUCATION
2008- MSc. In IT - University of Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

1997- Dip. In Data Processing – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science. & Tech, Kumasi, Ghana
WORKING EXPERIENCE
1997 to Date    DATA MANAGER:  Navrongo Health Research Centre

• Currently managing the Navrongo Demographic Surveillance System (NDSS) data.
• Managed the Community Health & Family Planning (CHFP) project data from which CHPS was born.
• Managed the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) project data
• Managed the Panel Survey data
• Managed the DAPs data

SPECIFIC DUTIES:
My role as a Data Manager involves the following:

• Participating in the initial deliberations of projects on issues regarding form design
• Designing of the screens for data capture  
• Designing of programmes, menus, etc for a smooth database management
• Training and supervising data entry clerks for effective use of the systems designed
• Maintaining and keeping the existing systems running
• Creating and Printing of reports on demand
• Ensuring data security by making routine backups on tapes.

OTHER DUTIES:
These include the following:

• Using GIS as a tool to generate maps for use by projects in the centre
• Translating of questionnaires and transcribing of focus group discussions (FGDs) in the local language when called upon
• Facilitating in the training of other District Health Management Teams as well as students from the school of Public Health (who visit the centre periodically) in Basic Computer Skills using the following software:
• Epi Info
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint              

COMPUTER SKILLS
Very comfortable in the following:
DOS, WINDOWS, Microsoft Office Tools such as Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher. 
Others include Epi.Info, Epidata, Arc View (GIS), Corel Draw, FoxPro 2.6, Microsoft Visual FoxPro, and Stata.

I also have a considerable knowledge in the following:

• Computer Structures
• Operating Systems
• Computer Communication & Network
• Databases
• Java
• Programming the Internet
• IT Project Management
• System Analysis & Design  

 MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Research into public health particularly in relation to health care delivery, immunisation and family planning issue.
• Statistical analysis
• Computing techniques, data management and GIS in health

SOCIAL INTERESTS

• Playing Games
• Watching TV
• Listening to music

BEFORE 1997
1994   DATA ASSISTANT:  Navrongo Health Research Centre
I assisted the data managers in the daily updates on necessary changes to the data as demanded by the field.  I also assisted in the design and printing of reports.

1991 –  1993    FIELD SUPERVISOR:   Navrongo Health Research Centre
As a field supervisor, I conducted verbal autopsies on both child and adult deaths for the centre.  I also acted as a link between the Field Workers as well as the Community Key Informants (who are also data collectors) and the research centre. I supervised these groups of people in their course of work and wrote reports on their activities as well as mine.

1991 – 1991     FIELD WORKER:  Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo.
As a field worker, my work centred mainly on data collection.  I visited a cluster of 15 compounds daily with a questionnaire conducting interviews.  For communities that were far from my residence, I was accommodated there.

1986 - 1990     SENIOR CLERK:  Agricultural Development Bank, Bolgatanga Branch.

1982 - 1985     CLERK:  Agricultural Development Bank, Bolgatanga Branch.

Before 1982    PUPIL TEACHER: Bolgatanga Secondary School (Big BOSS), Bolgatanga
I taught Mathematics, Geography and Bible Knowledge to first and second year students