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Current
Position at CWA
Principal Consultant. Food and
Dry Commodities Group. Wide knowledge of the food industry.
Extensive international experience of a broad range of food
commodities including: grains, oilseeds, sugar, dates, seeds,
vegetable oils, dried fish and other durable food and agricultural
products. Specialist in insects, fumigation and mycotoxins.
Professional
Experience
Thirty six years of
international food security practice with direct experience of
harvesting, handling, storage, pest control, quality and marketing
management systems for grains and a wide range of other
agricultural food commodities. Insect biology and evaluation of
fumigations. Survey, inspection and appraisal of damaged food
commodities and ships’ cargoes. Expert reports and expert
witness. Port and shipping operations. Quality assurance
management of food aid commodities. Design of agricultural
quality standards and grading systems. Recently commissioned by
the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations to
review a policy document on mycotoxins.
Previous
Experience
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Key Experience
Insect
identification, evaluation and control using phosphine, methyl
bromide, other fumigants and insecticides
Management
of mycotoxins
Management
of food warehouses and grain silos
Management,
handling, sampling, quality assurance, shipping for a range of
agricultural food commodities including:
Grain:
wheat, maize, millet, rice, sorghum, bulk and bagged
Oilseed:
soya bean, groundnuts, soya bean oil, palm oil
Sugar:
bagged, bulk, raw, refined
Cotton:
quality standards
Coffee:
warehouse management and quality standards
Dates:
dried, boxed
Processed
and blended food: wheat flour, maize flour, corn soya blend, wheat
soya blend, bulgur wheat, dried milk, fortified foods
Salt:
bagged, bulk
Animal
feed: soya bean meal, citrus waste
Dried
fish: salted, unsalted
Other
Professional Experience
A
list of David’s overseas experience dating back to 1971 is
available on request.
Angola
March 2000.
Food Aid Management Trainer to World Food Programme.
Conducted training of trainers in food commodity management with
staff of local NGOs. Supported selected trainers delivering
a national workshop on Food Aid Commodity Management for staff of
the World Food Programme and MINARS, the counterpart ministry.
Advised on fumigation procedure and salvage of damaged
commodities.
July – August 2003. Grain Quality
Specialist for commercial company to provide expert opinion on the
quality of a disputed consignment of containerised bagged
maize.
Egypt
September 2003. Food Quality
Adviser for World Food Programme to provide expert opinion on
disputed consignment of dried dates
El Salvador
Grain
Quality Adviser for World Food Programme to provide expert opinion
on containerised consignment of rice with suspected Khapra beetle
infestation.
Ethiopia
December 2003 to July
2004. Project Manager of Common Find for Commodities grain
warehouse inventory credit programme. Created national
awareness of warehouse receipt systems, organised training and
sensitisation initiatives, facilitated drafting of legislation,
developing manuals and documentation.
Gambia
November
2001. Grain Quality Adviser for World Food Programme.
Inspected and examined cargo of imported rice to determine fitness
for purpose. Advised on salvage options.
Guinea
November
2003. Food Quality Adviser for World Food Programme to
provide technical on-board ship quality assessment and expert
report on a disputed cargo of bulk maize.
Hong Kong
July
2004. Grain Quality Specialist for commercial company to
produce expert reports on Panamax cargo of soyabeans and barge
cargo of soyabean oil/
Italy
October 2001.
Food Technologist for World Food Programme. Delivered
results of a three month study on the potential for automatic
monitoring of the shelf life of food aid commodities.
November 2000.
Food Aid Management Trainer to World Food Programme.
Conducted food aid commodity warehouse management
training-of-trainers workshop for WFP senior logistics staff from
14 countries.
Kenya
May 2000. Grain Quality
Adviser to World Bank funded study to establish feasibility of
warehouse receipt financing in western Kenya. Appraised
maize marketing systems with particular emphasis to existing
quality and storage standards, competence of warehouse staff in
handling, storing, grading and quality control.
Recommendations made to improve maize quality assurance
systems.
Macedonia
March 2001. Food Aid
Management Trainer to World Food Programme. Conducted food
aid commodity warehouse management training workshop for staff of
Danish Refugee Council, Norwegian Directorate for Civil Defence
and Emergency Planning, Norwegian Refugee Council, Swiss Disaster
Relief, and Swedish Rescue Services Agency.
Namibia
March
– April 2003. Grain Management Specialist for EC
appraisal of maize, millet and sorghum management systems in
Northern Namibia.
Netherlands
March 2004.
Expert witness in insurance arbitration tribunal to explain the
deterioration of large stocks of bagged maize in commercial
warehouses in Kenya and Tanzania.
Russia
November
2000. Training Development Adviser to participate in
conference on grain industries in the 21st century convened at the
Institute of Grain and Food Processing Industries in
Moscow.
Sudan, Ethiopia
October – December
2003. Food Aid Evaluator for EuronAid to asses the impact of
local procurement of food aid sorghum on local marketing
systems.
UK
January – May 2001.
Editor of revised and updated “Warehouse Management Handbook
for Storekeepers of Food Aid” commissioned by the World Food
Programme. Prepared in English, French, Portuguese and
Spanish editions.
USA
April 2001. Grain
Warehouse/Elevator Inspection with USDA warehouse receipt staff to
develop training programme for Zambia.
Uzbekistan
July
2001. Project Manager for EU Tempus Tacis curriculum
development programme in agricultural commodities with Bukhara
Institute of Food and Light Industry.
February 2000.
Project Planner with Bukhara Institute of Food and Light Industry
to identify, develop and prepare agricultural food commodity post
harvest curriculum development project submission to EU Tempus
Tacis.
Zambia
May, July and September 2001.
Grain Grading and Management Specialist and Trainer for CFC funded
Warehouse Receipts Programme. Conducted in-house
competence-based training for staff of warehousing companies, in
sampling, grading and warehouse management for maize and
soyabeans. Developed commercial grading standards for
wheat.
July 2000. Training Development Adviser to
SADC. Facilitated monitoring and evaluation workshop to
support implementation of national grain management training by
distance learning in Lesotho, Mozambique, Tanzania and
Zambia.
Zimbabwe
October 2000. Grain
Quality Adviser to CFC. Appraised durable agricultural
commodity standards and quality assurance. Developed maize
and soyabean trading contract quality specifications.
Recommended means of addressing warehouse operational constraints
and training needs.
Publications
A list
of over 40 publications is available on request.
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