Zintle Mbatha

Btech Agriculture: Crop production graduate with expertise in seed testing, quality assurance, and laboratory operations. Well-rounded individual with excellent leadership and communication skills. Hard-working, eager to learn, initiative-driven with profound management skills, attentive and flexible. Competent across most industries with broad interests.

Quality Control | Senior Seed Analyst - Starke Ayres Quality Assurance Laboratory

(2022-03)

• Oversee day-to-day operations of the lab from sample receiving to reporting of test results, ensuring adherence to International Seed Testing Association standards.
• Determining the quality of seeds through conducting complex tests [germination, purity, other seeds determination weight determination].
• Calculation and expression of test results
• Conducting International Seed Testing Association and Official Seed Testing Laboratory [DALRRD] Proficiency tests.
• Review and revise methods.
• Creating and validating new testing procedures.
• Training new employees on quality check [germination, purity, defects, weight determination, and calculation of purity and germination percentage].

Lab Trainee - SciCorp Laboratories

(2020-02 - 2021-12)

• Proficient in interpreting and application of ISTA Rules.
• Fully trained in Sampling, mixing, and dividing, as well as planting and evaluation in all methods and crops.
• Conduct a variety of germination, special testing, purity, SANSOR prescribed regulation as well as customer special request.
• Responsible for lab activities such as monitoring of temperatures, daily and monthly verification of balances.
• Proficient in all agriculture and vegetable crops, can interpret and apply ISTA rules regarding the grasses.
• Have done several chaffy grass purities successfully but not have experience in all grasses.

Intern - Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries

(2015-02 - 2016-02)

• Assist with technical administration and registration activity with regard with all seed samples.
• Assist in conduction of physical purity analysis and germination.
• Plant identification.
• Calculation of purity and germination results

Btech Degree - Agriculture Crop Production - Tshwane University of Technology (2017)

Grade 12 - ChiefHendry Bokleni High School (2008)