Mr. Abkul Orto

Lecturer
- Education
- Grants Won
- Professional Experience and Skills
- Research Interests
- Thesis/BSc IT Projects and Research Supervision
- External Professional Service
- University Service
- Personal Hobbies
- Contacts
- Pursuing PhD IT at JKUAT(school of computing and IT).
- Computer-Based Information Systems, University of Sunderland, UK, 2006.
- Sc. University of Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia 1996.
- Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (A-Level), Nkubu High School,
- Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (O-Level), Marsabit Secondary School,
- Certificate of Primary Education, Marsabit Full Primary School,
- Member: Certified Information Systems Auditors (CISA)
- MUST Research grant Kshs: 362,000 in 2012
- KENET Raspberry PI project Grant 2014/2015 worth US dollars 10,000
- TOWA project (for Pastoralist Action for Development, Marsabit) 2012 Kshs 350,000
- March 2011 to present: Lecturer Meru University of Science & Technology
- Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, facilitation, collaboration and technical writing/reporting writing skills
- Lecture, Faculty of Science & IT BSc IT program, KCA University, Nairobi, Kenya, 2003 – march 2011
- Taught at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology/Multimedia University
- Training up to University/College level
- Administration, Supervision and managing people, team player
- ICT Project management and implementation
- Experience to work under tight deadlines with minimum supervision.
- Computer Programming Skills
- Attended Human resources management skills for non-human resources manager seminar 18th September 2009 (Eureka Educational & Training Consultants)
- Initiated KCA University wide eLearning MOODLE system.
- Open & Distance Learning Materials Design & Development Workshop, University of South Africa, 11th to 16th May 2009.
- Global VSAT Forum Field Engineering, installation, maintenance & operation of VSAT Networks. 15 – 17 June 2005.
- Project Cycle & gender Workshop, march 9th to 15th 1998
- Part-time lecturer at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology /Information Technology Centre.
- Freelance consultant in ICT based systems engineering for Windows and Open source environment.
- Sept 2000 to February 2002: Software Engineering duties – Kenyava WebDesign EPZ Ltd(outsourcing company), Rafiki EPZ, Outer Ring Road Ruaraka, Nairobi. Responsibilities: development of Linux/Windows/JAVA/C++/XML/UML/WAP based solutions for clients in Germany.
- Mank & Tank Art College (Sept- Dec 2001): Key Responsibilities: Course outline development, Taught Web Design, Presentation skills, worked on software-based distance learning module for Mank + Tank Art College, Parklands, Nairobi.
- Information Retrieval, Linked Data, Human Computer Interaction, Problem Frame, Complexity Science, Natural Language Processing, Bioinformatics, Computational Linguistics, Agents, Software/Systems Engineering, Machine Learning/Neural Networks, Web Semantics, Ontologies, Text/Web Mining, Process Modeling, Mobile & Embedded Systems Computing, Computer Vision, Web Services, Adaptive Systems, Knowledge Management, and Development/environmental Informatics. Programming
Supervised 160 undergraduate computing Students(degree/diploma)
- Board Chairman, Pastoralist Action For Development, A CBO in Marsabit County
- Board member, Pastoralists Education program A CBO in Marsabit County
- Volunteer services to rural schools(development of software, systems maintenance, motivational lectures, etc)
- Advocacy for Poverty reduction initiative in marginal area communities through Human capacity development Initiatives
- Millennium Development Goal/SDGs evangelist
- ICT4D & HCI4D evangelist
- SkillsTrain Initiative for ICT/ Entrepreneurship uptake in communities.
- Chairman CCTV implementation Committee
- Chairman Biometric Access &Time and Attendance systems implementation committee
- Dean School of IT & Engineering –till December 2015
- Director Open, Distance & eLearning – till December 2014
- Member of the IIEC (innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Centre) mandated to write the initial proposal
- Appointment to the ICT committee(22/10/14)
- Appointment to chair the Intellectual property policy review committee(22/10/14)
- Appointment to the quality assurance policy review committee(22/10/14)
- Appointment to information safety policy review committee(22/10/14)
- Appointment to University Tender committee(4/8/2014)
- Appointment to the library and bookshop committee(5/3/2012)
- Technical evaluation committee on tender for setup installation and commissioning of network infrastructure(24/2/2012)
- Ethical risk management awareness.Ethics Institute of South Africa-23rd July 2010
- Acting associate dean faculty of science & IT, KCA University: December 17th 2008 to April 20th 2009
- Member University Open & Distance Learning steering committee(KCA university)
- Team Leader for KCAU MSc Software Engineering, MSc Mobile Computing syllabus development(April 2010)
- Coordinator Research & Linkage, Faculty of Science & IT,KCA University.
- Participated in crafting KCA University strategic plan 2009 – 2019.
- Dissemination of ICT
- Girl child Education awareness
- Mountaineering/Environment conservation
- Natural Language Processing
- Data mining/Knowledge engineering
- Wireless technologies
- Open source technologies
- Reading anything inspiring
- Participating in community development activities
- Process Mining and Improvement
Email Address: cnjati@must.ac.ke