Andrew Barker Email & Phone Number

My background as an Environmental Scientist & Spatial Analyst has nurtured a love for finding wisdom in messy data. Through this experience I've formed a career focused on delivering solutions with Environmental Analytics for a wide variety of environmental challenges.Throughout my career, I have witnessed firsthand the crucial role of technology and analytics in safeguarding the health of our communities and the environment. This experience has led me to recognise the pressing need for a modern and comprehensive approach to digital literacy within environmental disciplines.Most of my experience has involved working with diverse teams to solve problems using large, complex or disparate data sets, and helping to communicate complex issues by combining tools like GIS and statistics with machine learning, data visualisation and interactive storytelling. Some of my experience includes:- Environmental & PFAS Data (strategy, design, delivery). - GIS and spatial analysis design, delivery and management (desktop, web, mobile, using ESRI and open source). - Data analytics, visualisation & statistics (training, strategy, implementation using: R, Postgres, Microsoft 365, PowerBI, etc.). - Strategic design and delivery of ML/AI models for predicting and mapping spatial extents of environmental issues using multi-spectral satellite imagery.- Assessment, management and risk analysis for contaminated land, human/ecological health, PFAS, acid sulfate soils. These days I’m increasingly focussing on AI solutions for environmental challenges, but this is a very fast moving area.Overall, I cherish the opportunity to work with teams to find efficient ways to design and implement programs for decision making and communication. Whether it needs a static plan, data collation/cleaning, analysis and/or summarising complex problems, the aim should always be to provide clear and concise findings to support an outcome. I'm always interested in learning or talking about new approaches or tools for extracting insights from data, so feel free to reach out if you've found something amazing.