Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Languages
Volunteering.
Timeline
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Achille Karuletwa

Vancouver,Canada

Summary

Dedicated and professional with a history of meeting institutional or company goals while utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Ability to adapt to changing organizational structures and customers’ needs / the unexpected. Work well under pressure and able to remain calm. Strong leadership, decision making and presentation skills.

Overview

37
37
years of professional experience

Work History

Owner

Maalum Coffee
09.2016 - Current
  • Importing Single Origin Green Coffee (raw) from East Africa to BC Canada.
  • Managing the outsourcing of roasting for my coffee (small batch)
  • Package and ship roasted coffee to Amazon
  • Evaluate sales to maintain cost controls and improve operations.

Constable

Edmonton Police Service
09.2009 - 04.2016

● In 2015 successfully completed and passed an Acting Sergeant / Acting Detective Course.

● In 2014 (September) selected to be Northeast Division’s District # 3 Community Liaison Constable.

● In 2013 selected as one of Northeast Division’s Domestic Violence Support Team Patrol members.

● In 2010 selected to be one of three Police Officers to represent the Edmonton Police Service on the Chief's African Community Liaison Committee(to-date)

● In September 2009 selected and hired by Edmonton Police Service as a Recruit in Training. Successfully graduated as a Constable.

Manager and Owner

Tailored Services
01.2007 - 01.2009
  • Project Rwanda:
  • Traveled to Rwanda as a Country Director to set-up US funded Project Rwanda office in Kigali Rwanda
  • Identified on-going project bottlenecks with partners (US Government funded organizations working in Rwanda)
  • Identified suitable locations for the project’s future office
  • Recruited staff for the said office
  • Procured all necessary equipment and maintained current logistical budgets
  • Coordinated all the visiting Directors’ visits.

Branch Manager

Money Mart Canada
01.2007 - 01.2007
  • Responsible for recruiting and training store staff
  • Prepared and learnt / trained from store audits
  • Implemented Head Office policies
  • Team building initiatives to enable staff retention and maximum profit of store.

Manager

Community Rehabilitation Programs, Independent Counselling Enterprises Inc
01.2006 - 01.2007
  • Responsible for overseeing all aspects of service delivery for clients and individuals with developmental disabilities
  • Managed an average of 10 group homes, all staffed with Coordinators and an average of six front line staff
  • Responsible for budgeting and liaising with the City’s PDD (Persons with Developmental Disabilities) Coordinators, to maintain funding for clients.

Manager and Owner

Tailored Services
01.2005 - 01.2006
  • Tailored a courier service for a several Shoppers Drug Mart stores.

Manager and Owner

Instant Services (Uganda) Ltd
01.1998 - 01.2004
  • Rendered logistical services to my clients; property management, procurement and managed payrolls
  • Managed a staff base of 25 people
  • Recruited, hired and trained administrative personnel for clients that were required for short-term, in-house job placements.

subcontractor

Rwenzori Trading Company Ltd
01.1987 - 01.1996
  • And subsidiaries in Ken-Bur and Transit Cargo Masters in Kenya and Tanzania, Former Interfreight Panalpina's

Education

Certificate - Police Studies

Edmonton Police
Edmonton, AB

Skills

HIGHLIGHTS AND CHARACTER:

  • Quality management systems - Fourteen years management and human resource experience in the hospitality and service industries (1994 - 2008)
  • Managed a family transport business with three East African offices (Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania) and 16 semi trailer 40 ton cargo trucks
  • Responsible for all aspects of human resource and service delivery – established standards for 'quality service'
  • Successfully developed innovative strategies that improved a Five Star hotel's transport business and reduced costs (sub-contracted by Sheraton Kampala Hotel)
  • Successfully recruited, hired, trained and managed up to 50 staff
  • Owned and operated a thriving service business 1997 2005
  • Exceptional communication, interpersonal, organization and marketing skills
  • Energetic, enthusiastic, positive thinker and creative
  • Ability to adapt to changing organizational structures and customers’ needs / the unexpected
  • Work well under pressure and able to remain calm
  • Strong leadership, decision making and presentation skills

Accomplishments

  • In September 2009 selected and hired by Edmonton Police Service as a Recruit in Training
  • Successfully graduated as a Constable
  • EX - CANADIAN POLICE RELATED COURSES:
  • 15MAY12
  • Counter Terrorism Intelligence Seminar (CTIS) Course: delivered by Detective Michael Catlin of the NYPD
  • Among topics discussed: Case studies of acts of terrorism Investigative strategies and techniques (concerning suspected acts of terrorism) National security concerns
  • 15APR20
  • BEATS Course: course provided officers with information and policing strategies, unique to beat duties.Topics included: Expectations of beat officers Working with diverse resources and stakeholders Gathering, developing and sharing intelligence Standard Operational Plans Disorder addresses Vice & human trafficking Parole and targeted offenders Immigration enforcement Talking to the media
  • 15MAR18
  • Counter Terrorism Events - Patrol awareness course
  • 15FEB27
  • Temporary Acting Exam (Sergeant / Detective)
  • Passed
  • 15FEB24
  • Counter Terrorism Events
  • Terrorism Event Indicators and prevention.

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Swahili
Native or Bilingual
Kinyarwanda
Native or Bilingual
Luganda
Limited Working
French
Elementary

Volunteering.

* With the homeless; soup kitchen.

* With seniors; Delivering groceries.

* With students; talking to Grade 12 students (civic education).

* With students; Sports activities (Grass hockey assistant coach)

Timeline

Owner

Maalum Coffee
09.2016 - Current

Constable

Edmonton Police Service
09.2009 - 04.2016

Manager and Owner

Tailored Services
01.2007 - 01.2009

Branch Manager

Money Mart Canada
01.2007 - 01.2007

Manager

Community Rehabilitation Programs, Independent Counselling Enterprises Inc
01.2006 - 01.2007

Manager and Owner

Tailored Services
01.2005 - 01.2006

Manager and Owner

Instant Services (Uganda) Ltd
01.1998 - 01.2004

subcontractor

Rwenzori Trading Company Ltd
01.1987 - 01.1996

Certificate - Police Studies

Edmonton Police
Achille Karuletwa