1. CURRICULUM VITAE
1. PERSONAL PROFILE
Name Dires Beza Sendekie
Sex Male
Date of Birth 28 January, 1977 G.C
Nationality Ethiopian
Marital Status Married
Language Amharic and English
Address Mobile: 09-18-78-99-33/ 09-30-11-17-43
E-Mail:- diresbeza@gmail.com
2. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
MSc Degree Agronomy in Haramaya University, 2006- 2007
BSc Degree Plant Sciences in Alemaya University of Agriculture, 1995-1998
BA Degree Management in Bahir Dar University. It is on process and
completed six semesters.
High School Completed at Ethiopia Tikdem No-1 Comprehensive Secondary School, Addis
Ababa , 1991-1994
3. TRAININGS
3.1 Certificate in the Current global economic order, Transformational leadership and change management,
Corporate marketing, Project management and entrepreneurship, Performance and reward management,
Corporate governance and industrial development strategy of ANRS and TIRET training conducted by the
corporate from 18/9/2013 to 28/9/2013 at Amhara Management Institute.
3.2 Certificate in Policies and Strategies of Ethiopia offered by Office of North Gondar Administrative Zone and
Department of Capacity Building from August 22 to September 06, 2009, Gondar, Ethiopia
3.3 Certificate in Seed Quality Control conducted by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Animal and
Plant Health Regulatory Directorate from April 27, 2009 to May 8, 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
3.4 Certificate in Seed Quality Laboratory Testing conducted by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,
Animal and Plant Health Regulatory Department from May 26, 2008 to June 4, 2008.
3.5 Certificate in Pictorial Evaluation Tool for Pre-Harvest Cereal Assessment offered in South Tigrai Zone
(Alamata) by WFP and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2004.
3.6 Certificate in Water Harvesting and Utilization Technology (TOT) for 20 days conducted by Amhara Regional
State Bureau of Agriculture in 2004.
3.7 Certificate in Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) TOT conducted by Win rock international Ethiopia in
collaboration with Care-Gondar in 2002.
4. DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER LITERATE:
Introduction and MS-DOS
MS- Windows 2003/XP
MS-Word 2003/XP
MS-Excel 2003/XP
2. MS-Access 2003/XP
MS-Power Point 2003/XP
MS-Publisher 2003/XP
Internet & E-mail
5. WORK EXPERIENCES
S/N Duration Organization Position
1 From April 01/2015 until now Zeleke Agricultural
Mechanization Plc
Deputy Manager and
Coordinator of Agricultural
Development Cluster
2 From June 01/2014 to March 31/2015 Zeleke Agricultural
Mechanization Plc
Coordinator of Agricultural
Development Cluster
3 From December 15/2013 to May 31/2014 Gondar Malt Factory Plc Head, Farm Extension Service
4 From February 10/2010 to December 14/2013 Gondar Malt Factory
Project
Malt Barley Production and
Supply Coordinator
5 From June 2007 to February 2010 Bureau of Agriculture Head, Gondar Seed Laboratory
6 From January 2005 to May 2007 Bureau of Agriculture Extension Team Leader
7 From May 2003 to December 2004 Bureau of Agriculture Agronomist
8 From June 2002 to April 2003 Bureau of Agriculture Extension System Analysis,
Monitoring and Evaluation
Expert
9 From July 1998 to May 2002 Bureau of Agriculture Agronomist
6. LATEST EXPERIENCES AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES THAT THE CANDIDATE HAS BEEN
ACQUIRED
Duration Organization Position Major Responsibilities
April 01/2015
until now
Zeleke
Agricultural
Mechanization Plc
Deputy Manager and
Agricultural
Development Cluster
Coordinator
1. Trying to identify major bottle necks happening at the
farms and setting possible short term and long term
solutions
2. Coordinating all departments in the company to plan
and achieve better
3. Striving more to make the company profitable, good
model for surrounding investors and farmers by
improving the mechanization
4. Give attention for capacity building to make the
implementers business oriented
5. Communicating different stakeholders (input
suppliers, financial institutions/banks, service
deliveries, raw material consumer agro industries,
domestic whole sellers, exporters, etc), share holders
and sister companies
6. Reporting
3. Duration Organization Position Major Responsibilities
June 01/2014 to
March 31/2015
Zeleke
Agricultural
Mechanization Plc
Department of
Agricultural
Development
Coordinator
1. Designing Strategic and annual physical and
financial plan and
business plan to confirm the profitability of the
intervention
2. Searching reliable market before the commodities are
going to be produced
3. Accessing and realizing the required budget for the
farms
4. Accessing new technologies (farm machineries) and
agricultural inputs (improved seed and fertilizer)
5. Coordinating to implement proper agronomic
practices in order to boost productivity and production
6. Delivering frequent follow up and support to improve
the quality of the commodities and to minimize pre
harvest and post harvest loss
7. Delivering follow up and support to reduce
production cost at the various level of activities
8. Communicating stakeholders who act on the cotton
and sesame value chain
9. Attending different forums to introduce the company
and its products
10.Compiling and submitting monthly, quarterly, half
year and yearly progress report
Dec15/2013 to
May 31/2014
Gondar Malt
Factory Plc
Head, Farm Extension
Service
1. Identifying potential Zones and Woredas in the region
2. Knowing the gap between the demand and supply of
malt and barley malt among the breweries and malt
factories, respectively
3. Making malt barley production and marketing
strategic plan
4. Identifying the whole stakeholders ,mobilizing them
and give familiarization training concerning on the
strategic plan to narrow the gap
5. Searching finance from the NGOs who work on the
value chain and making training access for agricultural
development agents and cooperatives to increase
productivity and to improve quality
6. Setting competitive price for the small holder farmers
and cooperatives for their produce
7. Formatting contractual agreement document for the
producers, cooperatives, unions and malt factory
8. Leading the regional malt barley production and
marketing technical committee
9. Communicating and networking the stakeholders to
come together in order to evaluate their own
contribution in the value chain and to set directions
Febr 10/2010 to
December
14/2013
Gondar Malt
Factory Project
Malt Barley Production
and Supply
Coordinator
1. Leading the project work of the factory together with
the project manager
2. Coordinating regional malt barley production and
marketing process
3. Promoting the objective of the establishment of
Gondar malt factory for malt barley producing
farmers, governmental and non-governmental
organizations; and private sectors
4. Introducing the quality parameters of the commodity
for the agricultural development agents and
cooperatives
4. Duration Organization Position Major Responsibilities
5. Mobilizing various stakeholders
6. Visiting and supporting malt barley producing
Woredas and Kebeles
7. Designing good marketing modality to attract wheat,
bean and potato producing farmers in to malt barley
8. Working with banks and micro banks to access input
finance for poor farmers
From June 2007
to Febr 2010
Bureau Of
Agricultute
Head, Gondar Seed
Laboratory
1. Studying the gap of the demand of improved crop
seed in the region
2. Identifying major problems, prioritizing them
according to the weight of their influence, designing
possible solutions through proper planning,
implementing and evaluating the out put
3. Accessing trainings about seed production, seed
quality assurance, seed quality standards and
marketing for the seed producing farmers,
governmental organizations, non-governmental
organizations and private sectors
4. Coordinating and controlling the seed certification
activity starting from the pre harvest (farm level) up
to the laboratory testing
5. Promoting seed as a business for small holder farmers
6. Encouraging farmers to produce high value crop seeds
in an organized or cooperative manner
7. LANGUAGE
Speaking Listening Writing Reading
English Working Knowledge Excellent Excellent Excellent
Amharic Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent
8. SKILL:
Bring solutions in challenging situations
More team spirit
Good skill in communication
Good skill how to approach farmers and learn from them
9. HOBBIES
Reading academic and entertaining materials; and watching movies.
10. REFERENCES
Kindie Tesfay (PhD), Wheat and Maize Senior Researcher in CYMMIT, Mobile: +251-915-74-30-49/ +251-
913-37-94-53, Email: hankid27@yahoo.com
Teshome Walle (PhD), Head Bureau of Agriculture in ANRS, Ethiopia: Mobile: +251-918-34-08-04, Email:
teshomewalle@yahoo.com
Abebaw Assefa (MSc), Pioneer Hi-bred Seeds Ethiopia, Amhara Region Coordinator, Mobile: +251-918-77-
90-65 / +251-945-52-91-89
