Personal Details

Date of Birth: January 1^st, 1985

Nationality: Kenyan

Religion: Christian

ID No: 23795748

Phone No: +254723735024

P.O. Box 4248-30100 ELDORET

Gender: Male

Marital Status: Married

E-mail: isaactum@gmail.com , isaactum@mu.ac.ke

Personal Profile

A hardworking, self motivated and enthusiastic PhD. Biostatistics graduate with keen interest in research. A good problem solver with ability to work well as a part of the team

Good organizational skills and ability to prioritize, good supervisory skills, handle multi tasks, meet deadlines and work independently in a challenging environment.

Implemented most of the strategies to the advantage of the department. I am a whole round well-developed character, a person of exemplary Christian moral principles of unquestionable integrity, committed in the discharge of the services to the clients has attracted an array of compliments from people visiting the department; this is in addition to actions depicting professionalism and accountability.

Career Objective

To attain the best knowledge and work experience in statistics and research to help the society in making right and feasible decision in investment and sustainable human development.

To lead an active and productive life to my people, the community and all humanity at large, to fully engage my profession resourcefulness in setting desirable standards geared towards the realization of both broad and specific objectives within my field of practice and employer

My goal is to secure a position where I can offer world class administrative support within the area of research and development.

To enhance my professional skills in a dynamic and stable workplace

Education and Training

2013- 2018:   MOI UNIVERSITY

                    PhD. Biostatistics

Thesis title:    Optimal and Efficient Production of Rose Coco Beans through the Twenty Four 

                     Points Second Order Rotatable Design

2009-2012:    MOI UNIVERSITY

                    Master of Science in Mathematics (Biostatistics)

Thesis title:     Construction of Twenty Points Specific Optimum Second Order Rotatable

                      Designs in Three Dimensions

2004-2008:    MASENO UNIVERSITY

  2^nd class honours (upper division) in Bsc. Applied Statistics

1999-2002:   CHEPTIL SECONDARY SCHOOL (DISTRICT SCHOOL)::

                      Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE).

                      Obtained B+ (plus)

Work Experience

Nov 2014- to date: MOI UNIVERSITY

Post: LECTURER

Duties:

• To contribute towards the achievement of the mission and vision of the University
• To contribute effectively to the creation and circulation of knowledge through effective teaching, researching and publishing.
• To enrich the intellectual development of students through interaction and academic counseling in my area of specialization.
• Teach and assess courses in one’s discipline at both undergraduate and graduate level.
• Supervise undergraduate projects and other experiential learning programme.
• Supervise dissertation/theses at the graduate level.
• Participate in the development of undergraduate and graduate courses.
• Initiate, promote and participate in research projects.
• Provide professional and community services and initiate linkages and fundraising.
• Carry out administrative and other duties & responsibilities as may be assigned.

April 2019 – to date: MOI UNIVERSITY

Post: School ISO Champion

Duties:

• To ensure that as a school we are ISO Compliant and ISO documentations in Dean’s Office and also in departmental offices are in place, i.e issues on examinations, almanac etc
• To brief the Dean and Head of Department on regular basis
• Handle any other duty as may be assigned by the Dean from time to time

Acting HoD-2019

Acted from time to time as Hod in the Department of Statistics and Computer Science.

Curriculum-2017-2019

Participated in the curriculum development for the Masters of science in Biostatistics and the Undergraduate Curriculum Bachelor of science in statistics with computing Programme.

Jan 2017 - Jan 2019: MOI UNIVERSITY

Post: Data Manager/Examination Officer- Statistics & Computer Science Department

Duties:

• Coordinate and ensure timely correspondence with students/lecturers on all exams queries
• Coordinate setting and moderation of exams
• Liaising with External Examiners for scripts and draft exams moderation
• Ensure exam security
• Secretary to All Academic Board Meetings
• Supervising Lecturers administering main and special examinations
• Coordinating marking of examination papers and processing of marks
• Coordinating marking of main and supplementary/special examinations and processing of results

Jan 2013-Sept 2013: African International College (ELDORET TOWN CAMPUS-In Collaboration with EGERTON UNIVERSITY)

Post: Registrar (Academics Affairs)

Duties:

• To appoint Internal Examiner and Invigilators for the End Semester Examinations
• Executive secretary in Examination Board Meeting
• Preparation of Examination Timetables in Consultation with the Dean of Faculties and Head of Departments
• Declare the Results to students
• Supervising Setting, Administration and Marking of Examination
• Supervise the submission of various Examinations to the collaborating Universities
• Ensure students are registered with the external bodies e.g. KNEC and ICM
• Preparation of Transcripts and Certificates
• Prepare work plan for the semester
• Prepare Quarterly reports and present to College Academic Board
• Maintain Examination Database
• Implementation of Examination Policy and its Review
• Supervise all staff in Examination Department

Jan 2009-Dec 2012: African International College

Post: Data Manager/Examination Officer

Duties:

• Coordinate and ensure timely correspondence with students/lecturers on all exams
• Coordinate setting and moderation of exams
• Ensure exam security
• Secretary to All Academic Board Meetings.
• Preparation of a calendar of examination events.
• Analysis and grading of exams
• Preparation of transcripts and Certificates
• Preparation of examinations budget
• Liaising with both Internal and External Examiners and with relevant Heads of Departments
• Supervision of examinations
• Coordinating marking of examination papers and processing of marks
• Coordinating marking of examination re-sits and processing of results
• Updating Students’ Results in the database
• and undertake logistical preparation for annual graduation

2012- August 2013: University Of Eldoret- School Science

Post: - Part Time Lecturer, University Of Eldoret

Duties:

Undergraduate Taught Courses

2012- Sept 2013: Moi- School of Physical and Biological Sciences

Post :- Part Time Lecturer Moi University

Duties:

Taught

2012 - Sept 2013: Egerton University Program

Post :- Part Time Lecturer Egerton University

Duties:

Taught

Jan 2010-Dec 2010: African International College

Post :- Tutor for Diploma students Moi Program

Duties:

Taught

• Quantitative Techniques
• Calculus

July 25^th-Aug 8^th, 2017: Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission

Uasin-Gishu County

Kesses Constituency

Post: Support Electoral Trainers (SETs)- General Election

Duties:

• Conduct training on the polling, counting and tallying process for POs,

DPOs and clerks.

• Collect and ensure security of all election training materials for the

General election.

• An Officer at this level will later be deployed as a Presiding Officer or

Deputy Presiding Officer after conducting training of the Poll officials.

July 27^th-Aug 5^th, 2010: Interim Independent Electoral Commission

Nandi-North District

Mosop Constituency

Post: Presiding Officer Referendum- Constitution

Duties:

• Layout of polling Station
• Presiding at the Polling Station
• Ensuring good conduct of the referendum process
• Counting and Tallying the votes cast
• Announcing and posting of Results at the Station
• Delivering the Results and Materials to Returning Officer

Aug 4^th –Sept 5^th, 2009: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Nandi-North District

Post: Supervisor.

Duties:

• Training Enumerators for one week on how to code the questionnaires
• Ensuring Census materials are delivered to the right place at the right time
• Checking the work of each an every enumerator if he/she has coded it correctly and accurately
• Overseeing the overall smooth running of the Census days

• Handing over the filled materials (questionnaires) to Senior Supervisor.

Feb 1^st -April 15^th, 2008 Kenya National Bureau of Statistics

Nandi-Central District Statistical Office

Post: Attaché.

Duties:

• Design and Supervise data capturing techniques.
• Assist to collect data, analyze, interpret, process and present numerical information.

• Participated in household listing in preparation of the 2009 census.

Post Graduate Supervision/ Teaching

Moi University

Internal Examiner

Examined the following theses entitled:

1. Construction of three and five level second order slope rotatable designs by Chepkemoi Ednah (Reg. no. MSC/BS/007/13-Msc)
2. Second order optimal rotatable design in four dimensions and its application in optimization of bioethanol yield using pineapple peels by Kabue Timothy Gichuki (Reg. no. DPS/PHD/14/13-PhD)

1. Modelling of survival time among adult HIV/AIDs patients under antiretroviral therapy in Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya by Robert Kibichii Mengich (Reg. no. MSC/BS/01/16-Msc)

Moi University

Students Supervise to Completion

1. Nyakundi Omwando Cornelious (PhD/BS/07/17): Design and Analysis of Two Treatments Five Periods Cross-Over Designs.
2. Cruyff Matunde Nambilo (MSC/BS/08/14): Construction of economical optimum second order rotatable designs in four and five dimensions.
3. Wilson Kiptoo (MSC/BS/06/19): Modelling Survival Time of Cervical Cancer Patients in Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, Kenya. (Thesis with external exerminer)
   1. Elias Elema Guyo (MSC/BS/05/19):  Statistical Analysis on Transmission and Mortality Rate due to Visceral Leishmaniasis at Marsabit County Referral Hospital. (Thesis with external exerminer)

Moi University

Ph.D Supervision

Currently supervising 1 Ph.D students and 2 Masters students

Moi University

Ph.D Taught Course

• Statistics for Research (Doctor Of Philosophy In Analytical Chemistry - PhD/ACH)

Moi University

Masters Taught Courses

• Epidemiology
• Bayesian Statistical Methods

Other Training Qualifications/ Achievements

v  Trained on “Digital Education Masterclass

Online Training SPOC 1-4, scored 89% pass mark =70%

 SPOC 1: Analysis and Design

• Introduction and Key Concepts

• Needs Analysis

• Design

SPOC 2: Educational Resources

• Integration of Digital Content

• Assessments

• Educational Videos

 SPOC 3: Development & Implementation

• Learning Management System

• Implementation

SPOC 4: Delivery & Evaluation

• Online Teaching

• Course Evaluation

By Dimitrious Naukakiz, Lisa Myers, Antoine Aigroz of ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL), Switzerland and UNIVERSITE MOHAMMED VI POLYTECHNIQUE, Morocco. Online training between Jan 1st to June 30th 2022 = 6 months.

v  Trained on “Pedagogical Leadership in Africa (Pedal)”

Training Modules

• Pedagogical models & strategies
• Education foundations & learning theories
• Transformative curriculum & learning design
• Innovative assessment

By Beatrice Muganda (Director higher education at PASGR), prof Kamaara Eunice, Prof. Kola Babarinde(Naigerian), Prof Khaemba Ongeti, Prof David Wangombe, Prof Harriet Mutonyi(Ugandan), Dr. Patriciah Wambugu, Dr. Olubukola Olaleye, Dr. Makobila Laban. At Noble hotel, Eldoret Kenya between 11^th – 15^th November 2019.

v  Trained in “Advanced Biostatistical Methods: Multilevel models and Cluster Randomized Trials” by Prof. Joseph Hogan of Brown University US and Prof Andrea Troxel New York University at Noble hotel from 15^th – 18^th July 2019.

by Prof. Joseph Hogan and Prof. Adam Sulivan of Brown University US at Noble hotel between 15^th – 18^th July 2019. The course content are:

• Introduction to multilevel models
• Multilevel models with random intercept and slope
• Multilevel models for binary data
• Design and sample size for cluster randomized trials

v  Trained in “Introduction to R programming for Biostatistics; Data management, Regression Modeling and Survival Analysis” by Prof. Joseph Hogan and Prof. Adam Sulivan of Brown University US at Noble hotel between 19^th – 22^nd June 2017. The course content are:

• Basics of Data in R
• Graphics and regression in R
• Cleaning and summarizing data in R
• Using R to analyze survival data

v  Trained in First Aid and Disaster Management

Participated in Malaria Epidemiology Research Project and Study conducted by the Walter Reed Project (US Embassy) and the Kenya Medical Research Institute, which extended between January to August 2005 at Maseno University         

Community service/Outreach Activities

Sep 2015 – May 2019: Kapsato Secondary School

Post: Member of Board of Management

May 2019 – Dec 2021: Kapsato Secondary School

Post: Chairperson Board of Management

June 2022 – June 2025: Olmororoi Secondary School

Post: Chairperson Board of Management

Computer proficiency

• Micro-computer Application Packages.

• Word processing:                     Ms Word.
• Spreadsheets:                           Ms Excel.
• Database:                                 Ms Access.
• Presentation:                            Ms PowerPoint.
• Operating systems.                   Windows(Windows XP and Office Suite)
• Internet and E-mail Technology
• SAS (Statistical Analysis System)
• R Package
• Database Management Systems (MySQL)
• Matlab (Matrix Laboratory)
• SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Scientists).

• Scientific (Statistical Analysis) Packages.

• Programming Language: Pascal, C++

Research Conducted

Published Paper(s)

1. 1.     Nyakundi Cornelious & Tum Isaac. (2021). Bayesian Analysis of an Optimal Five Period Cross-over Design, Journal of Scientific Research & Reports. 27(9): 123-130, 2021; Article no.JSRR.74000 ISSN: 2320-0227

 DOI: 10.9734/JSRR/2021/v27i930440

1. Nyakundi C, Koske J, Mutiso J, Tum I. (2021). Mathematical Analysis of a Five Periods Crossover Design for Two Treatments, Journal of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, J Biostat Epidemiol. 2021;7(1):48-59

1. Nyakundi C, Koske J, Mutiso J, Tum I. (2021). Five Periods Cross Over Designs, International Journal of Current Research Vol. 13, Issue, 03, 

                    pp.16679-16683, March, 2021 ISSN: 0975-833X

                  DOI: https://doi.org/10.24941/ijcr.40373.03.2021

1. Tum Isaac Kipkosgei, (2020). Construction of twenty-six points specific optimum second order rotatable designs in three dimensions with a practical example, International Journal of advanced statistics and probability. Vol. 8(1), 2020, 1-4.

https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/IJASP/article/view/30122).

DOI: 10.14419/ijasp.v8i1.30122

1. Ng’eno, H.M., Tum, I.K., (2019). Statistical Measure of Second Order Response Surface Rotatability Using an Infinite Class of Supplementary Difference Sets, Asian Journal of Probability and Statistics. 4(3): 1-12, 2019; Article no. AJPAS.45804 ISSN: 2582-0230.

1. Tum I.K., Koske J.K., Mutiso J.M., (2018). Optimal and Efficient Production of Rose Coco Beans through the Twenty Four Points Second Order Rotatable Design, International Journal of advanced statistics and probability. Vol. 6(1), 2018, 1-9.

https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/IJASP/article/view/8552).

DOI: 10.14419/ijasp.v6i1.8552

1. Tum I.K., Mutiso J.M., Koske J.K., (2017). Modeling of rose coco beans using twenty four points optimum second order rotatable design, International Journal of advanced statistics and probability. Vol. 5(2), 2017, 96-100.

https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/IJASP/article/view/8445).

DOI: 10.14419/ijasp.v5i2.8445

1. J.K. Koske, J.M.Mutiso, I.K.Tum, (2013). A specific Optimum Second Order Rotatable Design of Thirty-Two Points with a Practical Example

(published in International Centre For Advance Studies-November issue 2013)

1. J.K. Koske, J.M.Mutiso, I.K.Tum, (2012). Construction of a Practical Optimum Second Order Rotatable Designs in the Three Dimensions, (Published in Advances and Applications in Statistics Vol. 30, No. 1, 2012 pp 31-43, ISSN 0972-3617)

1. Keny S.J., Tum I.K., and Chirchir E.K. (2011). Construction of Thirty – Two Specific Optimum Second Order Rotatable Designs in Three Dimensions with a Practical Example,

                   (Published in International Journal of Current Research Vol. 4, Issue, 01, 

                    pp.119-122, January,2012 ISSN: 0975-833X)

1. Keny S.J. and Chirchir E.K., Tum I.K., (2011). Construction of Some Three Associate Class PBIB Treatments Designs with Two Replicates, (Published in International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development April 2012, Vol. 1, No. 2 ISSN: 2226-6348)

Hobbies and Interests

• I enjoy researching local history
• I do enjoy getting updated with the current happening on social media.
• I enjoy attending sports activities, such as the Valley ball during my leisure time

• Volunteering in community service such as Red cross, Rotary Club

• Listening to educative music and movies

Memebership in Professional Society

5^th Sep 2017 to date

• Member in International Biometric Society(IBS)

             IBS Member ID number is 1299051

Website: (http://www.biometricsociety.org/)

Email: ibs@biometricsociety.org

Username: ikipkosgeitum

International Biometric Society
1444 I Street, NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005

            (Washinhton DC and Kenya chapter)

Career Interests and ambitions

• Statistician
• Data Analyst
• Econometrician
• Demographer

Referees

1) Dr. Gregory Kerich

    Moi University

    Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing

    School of Sciences & Aerospace Studies

    Phone No: +254721489573

    P.O. Box 3900

    Eldoret

    E-mail: kerichgregoryy@gmail.com

2) Professor John M. Mutiso

    Moi University

    Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing

    School of Sciences & Aerospace Studies

    Phone No: +254715050123/+254733945729.

    Box 3900-30100 Eldoret

    E-mail: johnkasome@yahoo.com

3) Mr. Edwin Kipkemoi Chirchir

    Moi University

    Department of Mathematics, Physics and Computing

    School of Sciences & Aerospace Studies

    Phone No: +254724442316

    P.O. Box 3900

    Eldoret

    E-mail: kipched@gmail.com