Web Developer Resume Profile

SUMMARY

A seasoned GIS and Remote Sensing Analyst with two masters in both Forestry and Geo-information sciences from Europe and additional training at the University of Maryland College Park in GIS.As a Junior Forestry Researcher for four years, my routine task included project planning, field implementation, statistical analysis and scientific reporting. From recent career with World Resources Institute, Conservation International and University of Maryland, I upgraded my GIS and Remote Sensing skills

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Leading the development of web based Landuse Emissions Atlas for Ethiopia
Conducted frequent trips to Ethiopia to train partner domestic staff and collected spatial data
Identifying, validating and documenting sources of input data and their metadata description
Collaborating with Blue Raster to develop the interactive website to house the Atlas
Submitted an EIO application to World Bank call for forest sector review project in Ethiopia
Authored the web atlas and submitted for review
Assisted startup of restoration initiative in Ethiopia by World Resources Institute and Clinton Climate Foundation

Confidential

As part of the climate resilience research team for the Nile basin region updated an ENVI IDL solar radiation analysis code and the input maps for the Nile basin region.
Tested the effect of varying spatial resolution slope and aspect input maps on the precision of solar radiation estimation by accounting for the shadows on rugged terrain.
Supported the team with GIS and Imagery analysis as needed

Confidential

Played critical role as GIS analyst for the Black Carbon research project by University of Maryland College Park and ARS-USDA scientists for the State Department funded.
Analyzed the sources, quantity and conveyance mechanism of black carbon from agricultural residue burning practices in European Russia.
Acquired high resolution multispectral imagery from National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency NGA via WARP and the DigitalGlobe data query portals.
Extracted agricultural fields from high resolution multispectral imagery using ENVI 5.0 Feature Extraction module Conducted preliminary image classification of the fields as cropped, residue, burned to be used for training image classification and setting the spectral signature thresholds for each class.
Developing parcel map for the arable land of the study region using ENVI 5.0 and ArcGIS10.1
Participated in other project related tasks such as the 2012 controlled burn experiment and outcome analysis in Beltsville, MD.
Conducted imagery tasking over the study region using the CIDR-USG S services.

Confidential

Using American New Fact Finder AFF and NHGIS data portals and query tools, acquired socioeconomic and demographic data from U.S. Census bureau for South Carolina and Maryland .
Queried the Toxic Release Inventory TRI data from EPA database using EPA's TR toolkit
Using R and ArcGIS software overlay analysis and spatial statistics, produced digital maps that display the spatial relationships between the demographic and socioeconomic parameters Poverty, population density, race and ethnicity, education, unemployment of populations visa-vis the location of toxic facilities at a census block and tract levels.

Confidential

Conducted frequent field trips to East Africa to present the ecosystem profile development methodology, and assisted the regional and national experts with the process.
Identified and processed enormous species and habitat data from IUCN, WBDB, and WWF, WDPA, GBIF and other databases.
Researched and identified the IUCN threat levels for more than 2300 species using the IUCN Red Listing criteria.
Produced verified list of 978 globally threatened IUCN Red-listing criteria species.
Developed digital maps of 381 CEPF Key Biodiversity Areas KBAs , 14 conservation corridors verified as habitats for the above globally threatened species.
Ranked the conservation priority of the above 381 KBAs according to Langhammer et al., 2007 methodology.

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