PERSONAL PROFILE
Current Position:
November 2014 – Present Machakos University
Employed by the Council, Machakos University
Assistant Lecturer.
Department of Accounting Banking and Finance.
Teaching Business Finance, Corporate Finance, Financial
Derivatives, Financial Ethics, Management of Financial
Institutions, Financial Statement Analysis and other units in
Finance.
January 2013 – October 2014 Employed by the Council, Machakos University College
Previous Employment:
September 1989 – December 2012: Machakos Technical Training Institute
Employed by Teachers Service Commission
Technical teacher and later promoted to lecturer and then to
Senior Lecturer – teaching Financial Accounting, Principles
and Practice of Management, Communication and Report
Writing, Secretarial Duties.
September 1984 – July 1986: Muthingiini High School
Employed by Board of Governors
Untrained teacher – teaching Mathematics, Biology and
Chemestry
Post Graduate Studies:
May 2014 – Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Pursuing Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration
(Finance)
September 2010 – December 2013: University of Nairobi
Master of Business Administration: Specialized in Finance.
Undergraduate Studies
August 1999 – October 2003: Kenyatta University
Bachelor of Education (Arts); Business Studies and
Mathematics.
Second Class Honours (Lower Division)
Colleges:
September 1986 – August 1989: Kenya Technical Teachers College
Diploma in Business Education; Accounting and Commerce
Schools
February 1982 – November 1983: Kaaga Girls High School.
Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education.
Attained principals in Mathematics and Biology and
Subsidiary passes in Chemistry and General Paper.
February 1978 – November 1981: Makueni Girls Secondary School.
Kenya Certificate of Education.
Attained Division 1
January 1971 – November 1977: Komboyoo Primary School
Certificate of Primary Education
Attained 30 points.
Leadership & Organizing Machakos Technical Training Institute
June 1990 – February 1994: Assistant Head of Library Department.
Coordinating the offering of Library Services to the institute community.
January – 1991-May 2017: C U Patron.
Facilitating the enrolment of C U members, selection of office bearers and all C U activities in the institution/University. Helping students to come up with a constitution/guidelines. Organizing C U outreach activities, identifying term/semester activities and communicating the same to the Dean of students. Preparing end of term/semester activities undertaken and communicating the same to the Dean of students. Ensuring annual renewal of membership.
February 19994 – August 2000: Head of Library Department.
Coordinating the offering of Library services to the institute community. Overseeing the opening and operation of the Library during weekdays and weekends.
January 1995 – August 2000: Member of Guidance and Counsellieng Committee. Helping needy students to re-orrient themselves in order to benefit from being in MTTI and derive maximum benefit from learning activities in the institute.
August 2000 – February 2004: Head of Accounting and Secretarial Department.
Coordinating of training programmes within the department, implementation and supervision of teaching/ learning activities and ensuring the availability of training materials, equipment and facilities and preparation od departmental reports. Reporting to the Deputy Principal.
October 2009 – December 2012: Member of Curriculum Review Committee.
Identifying review sub-committees, Constituting subject panels, Reviewing one curriculum at a time and sending draft to KIE.
Training and Seminars: Within Machakos TTI
15th – 19th April 2002: Basic Counseling Skills 1
Amani Counseling Centre and the Training Institute.
12th – 16th August 2002: Basic Counseling Skills 11
Amani Counseling Centre and the Training Institute .
28th April – 2nd May 2003: Green Hills Hotel, Nyeri.
Total Quality Management: Foundations of total Quality Management, Customer Supply Chain, The Quality improvement Process, Tools and Techniques of Total Quality management, Strategic Planning Process, Implementation Strategy.
Research Experience and Publications
June 2013 – October 2013: Effects of Microfinance services on the growth of SMES in Machakos County. (MBA project UoN, Not yet published)
November 2013 – April 2014: Mwewa N. M. (2014). Effects of Micro-credit, Micro- savings and Training on the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises in Machakos County – Kenya. Research Journal of Finance and Accounting. Vol. 5 No, 7, 2014
Areas of Interest: Business Finance, SME Finance, Corporate Finance, International Finance, Financial Management, Financial Statements Analysis, Derivatives Market and Financial Ethics.