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MICHAEL KOFI HANSON

MICHAEL KOFI HANSON

Summary

  • Possess skills including: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Power BI, SPSS, STATA, LATEX, EVIEWS, GAMS, SurveyMonkey, SurveyToGo, SurveyCTO, CS-Entry, Kobo Toolbox, Python for data analysis and R.
  • Innovating; Appreciate new and complex issues; Easily up-skill.
  • Persuasive communication skills; Work in groups, articulating ideas with members, with ideal leadership skills.
  • Self-motivating, prolific, organized, committed, result-oriented and meet deadlines.
  • Strategic Supervisor with expertise prioritizing projects, planning workflow and managing employees to achieve operational goals.
  • Resourceful individual with 3 years of active experience managing efforts within deadline-driven environments. Diplomatic individual with strong leadership and decision-making skills.
  • An astute Tutor with 5 years teaching experience at the High School Level, 3 years research and data analysis experience.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Site Supervisor

Oak Plaza Properties
07.2021 - Current
  • With the use of effective communication skills, I instruct team and make recommendations to project implementation and human resource management
  • I mainly ensured that projects are completed before deadline
  • I am in charge of logistics whilst I resolved site related issues among employees
  • I also reported on daily activities to the Executive Chairman via Power BI and Google Sheet.

Assistant Project Coordinator

Child Research for Action and Development Agency
12.2020 - 06.2021
  • I designed and implemented programs, seminars, stakeholder meetings, and annual plan of activities, prepared and defended budget, managed project members to achieve set project goals in target communities.
  • Reported on weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly activities to Head of Project Coordinator and project donors from Japan: ACE-Japan
  • I developed a data collection tool (CS-entry), as lead research, which was deployed on our mobile phones for our baseline survey in new target communities to receive project.
  • Monitoring and evaluation expert.

National Trainee

Ghana Statistical Service
10.2019 - 05.2021
  • Trainer of Regional Trainers, Supervisors and Enumerators for a complex and large-scale exercise, Population and Housing Census, 2021
  • Received training from Master Trainers to further train Regional Trainers, Supervisors and Enumerators to implement the 2021 Population and Housing Census in Ghana.

Data Entry clerk (Mobile Registration Workstation Operator)

National Identification Authority
06.2019 - 08.2020
  • I captured information from filled forms by Registration Officers into the Enrollment Station on the workstation (data transcription).
  • Worked independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Economics Tutor

Success City Academy
09.2013 - 08.2018
  • I taught students economics as syllabus directed, in preparation for their Senior High Examination (WASSCE)
  • Prepared terminal examinations, class tests among others in a bid help strengthen students' confidence
  • Report marks of students with head master and offered counseling session to students.

Sales executive

Jiang Zhou Manufacturing Company
10.2016 - 01.2018
  • Monitored activities of salesmen such as reporting financial records.
  • Achieved sales goals and service targets by cultivating and securing new customer relationships.
  • Developed and presented valuable sales presentations to potential customers to highlight features and benefits of products.
  • Negotiated and closed profitable sales contracts with new and existing customers to increase loyalty and retention.

Field officer

Ghana Statistical Service
10.2015 - 01.2016
  • An enumerator for an Integrated Business Establishment Survey (IBES II, 2015).
  • I collected data from sampled respondents who are the business units and organized them for the presentation to appropriate officers (primary data collection).

Field officer

Ghana Statistical Service
08.2014 - 09.2014
  • Enumerator for the Integrated Business Establishment Survey (IBES 2014)
  • Collected data via questionnaires (primary data) from respondents and organized them for the presentation to appropriate officers.

Teaching and Research Assistant

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
09.2013 - 08.2014
  • Organize tutorial classes for students: large groups and small groups
  • Did the markings of mid-semester and end of semester examinations
  • Assisted my lecturer on some research works.
  • Checked assignments, proctored tests and provided grades according to university standards.
  • Built and maintained professional relationships with students and faculty members.

Building Inspector (Intern)

Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly
05.2012 - 08.2012
  • With the map, I checked on buildings and structures that are on the plan and certify them with permits. Others that are not on the map are denied permits


Advertisement Agent (Intern)

Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly
05.2011 - 08.2011
  • Assessed requests by individuals, companies or institutions to provide permits to hoist billboards, signposts and banners
  • Those recognized are permitted otherwise are demolished or denied permit.

Education

Master of Arts - ECONOMICS

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY of SCIENCE And TECHNOLOGY
Kumasi
03.2021

BA - ECONOMICS

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Kumasi

General Arts

Kumasi Anglican Senior High School
Kumasi

Skills

  • Appointment Booking
  • Project Management
  • Business Intelligence Data Modeling
  • Agile Projects
  • Presentation Creation and Delivery
  • Data Collection
  • Research
  • Field Surveys
  • Stakeholder Relationship Management
  • Workstation Onboarding
  • Data Entry Skills
  • Student Evaluation and Needs Assessment

Accomplishments

  • Developed free online academic website and Youtube channel to provide free mass online-open course tutorials for graduates, and professionals.
  • November, 2022 – December, 2022: Emerging Digital Technologies for Enhancing Post-2020 Climate and Carbon Markets: online course at African Institute of Economic Development and Planning (UNIDEP-UNECA) sponsorship capacity building program
  • October, 2022 – November, 2022: Green Technologies for African micro, small and medium-sized enterprises: online course at African Institute of Economic Development and Planning (UNIDEP-UNECA) sponsorship capacity building program

Certification

  • Fundamentals of Project Planning and Management , University of Virginia (USA - 2023)
  • Data Analysis using Python - University of Pennsylvania (USA) - 2023
  • Introduction to Machine Learning, Duke University (USA) -2023
  • Data Science Math Skills , Duke University 2023
  • Understanding the Socioeconomic impacts and Policy Implications of Illicit Financial Flows in Africa, UNIDEP-UNECA - 2021
  • Domestic Resource Mobilization and Investment in Africa, UNIDEP-UNECA 2021
  • Macroeconomic Modeling for Sustainable Development Planning, UNIDEP-UNECA, 2020
  • Urbanization and Inclusive Economic Growth in Africa, UNIDEP-UNECA, 2020
  • Data Analysis for Sustainable Development Planning (I & II), UNIDEP-UNECA, 2019/2020
  • Business Analytics and Data Mining Modeling, using ‘R', Indian Institute of Technology, 2020
  • Data Analytics with Python, Indian Institute of Technology, 2020
  • Online Course on Fiscal Policy for financing Sustainable Development in Africa, UNIDEP-UNECA, 2020
  • Macroeconomic Frameworks for an Inclusive Green Economy in Africa, UNIDEP-UNECA, 2019
  • Economic Modeling Applied to Trade Policy Reforms in Africa, UNIDEP-UNECA, 2019

Timeline

Site Supervisor

Oak Plaza Properties
07.2021 - Current

Assistant Project Coordinator

Child Research for Action and Development Agency
12.2020 - 06.2021

National Trainee

Ghana Statistical Service
10.2019 - 05.2021

Data Entry clerk (Mobile Registration Workstation Operator)

National Identification Authority
06.2019 - 08.2020

Sales executive

Jiang Zhou Manufacturing Company
10.2016 - 01.2018

Field officer

Ghana Statistical Service
10.2015 - 01.2016

Field officer

Ghana Statistical Service
08.2014 - 09.2014

Economics Tutor

Success City Academy
09.2013 - 08.2018

Teaching and Research Assistant

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
09.2013 - 08.2014

Building Inspector (Intern)

Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly
05.2012 - 08.2012

Advertisement Agent (Intern)

Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly
05.2011 - 08.2011

Master of Arts - ECONOMICS

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY of SCIENCE And TECHNOLOGY

BA - ECONOMICS

KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

General Arts

Kumasi Anglican Senior High School
MICHAEL KOFI HANSON