Profile of Negash Shiferaw

Negash Shiferaw is a young professional focusing on providing advisory and consultancy services to SMMEs, NGOs and international agencies on projects development and management, organizational reengineering and systems development and the integration of IT products into existing systems. He targets organizations engaged in agricultural products production, processing and marketing, construction, and manufacturing.   

Negash is an agricultural engineer by education and has attended different training courses and workshops in Ethiopia and the United States on organization and management: total quality management, influence and leadership, logistics management, marketing and marketing management, business law; and on food processing: Food Safety-HACCP, Facilities Designing for food safety, fleet dynamics and optimization and operations planning and management in the food industry. He has developed advanced computing skills for project development and management, graphics and website development, and other applications using different software including MS Project 2000, Primavera 4.0, COMFAR III, MS FrontPage 2000, NetObjects Fusion MX, AutoCAD, MS Office and Publisher and many more. Negash can learn fast and use sophisticated computer hardware and software.

Negash has worked in various consultancy projects as consultant and assistant to local and international consultants in Ethiopia, Uganda and the United States. He worked on feasibility studies for the establishment of different agricultural operations (an irrigated farm, integrated beef cattle production and processing industry, horticultural production and processing, a construction materials and components manufacturing plant, a printing company), appraisal and valuation of existing enterprises for acquisition (large scale farms, a tobacco plantation and processing factory, a textile factory, a dairy processing plant) and other related assignments. Negash has also been involved in the development and editing of different manuals and has co-developed a materials management manual for a manufacturing company and developed, by his own, a construction projects management manual for a real estate company. 

Out of the above professional engagements, Negash has gained extensive travel and visit experience in Ethiopia and the countries he worked and has developed good reporting, writing and communication skills both in the Amharic and English languages. He authored or co-authored more than ten project documents. Employing his advanced computer skills, Negash teaches MS Project to civil engineering professionals working in construction projects and computer basics to fresh man students at a private college. He has developed and hosted around three web sites.

Now, Negash is managing his own consultancy firm, that he setup with two partners, called BIRTUnet Development and IT Solutions Plc. (www.birtunet.com) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He also works at a private business college as a part time system administrator and attendant in the computer lab.

Negash is a member of different professional societies and interest groups (Ethiopian Society of Agricultural Engineers, Soil Science Society of Ethiopia, The Ethiopia Heritage Trust) and engages in other voluntary activities (in the formation of Media Coalition Against HIV/AIDS by the UNDP and others).

Negash is an Ethiopian national who loves his country. He has strong vision and commitment for its development and shall do his best through his professional career and resources.

Negash is single and enjoys touring, reading, playing and watching basketball, chess, reading, listening music and visiting family and friends in his spare time.