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Leads cross functional teams of analysts, developers, designers, and engineers to build cloud applications that manage, process, and disseminate spatial data and analysis.• Lead multiple concurrent projects for NGO, commercial, and government clients, managing a diverse portfolio for leading organizations.• Build successful long-term client relationships resulting in multiple product releases.• Drive sales initiatives from capture through project scoping and budgeting, to proposal, negotiation, and contract execution.• Brought to market a cloud-based GIS application empowering commodity producers, traders, and investors to monitor deforestation within supply chains.• Manage development of full stack applications throughout enterprise lifecycle.• Developed applications leveraging a variety of technologies including ArcGIS Enterprise, Docker, JavaScript, Django, AWS, Azure, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQL Server using AGILE project management techniques.• Lead initiatives to hire project managers, analysts, developers, and cloud engineers.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Identified mass graves in northern Iraq using satellite imagery.• Used rotationally invariant anisotropic texture measurements of satellite imagery to detect changes to urban areas.• Planned a systematic geospatial analysis of destruction of cultural heritage in Syria and factors related to the risk of damage.• Created a coding guide, ontology, workflows, and data structures to standardize assessments of conflict related damage to cultural heritage sites.• Performed quality assurance of large data-sets.• Assessed the veracity of satellite imagery circulated by the Russian Ministry of Defense to bolster claims of Ukrainian responsibility for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. • Performed geospatial analysis to produce evidence for cases at international courts and tribunals.• Planned and performed a multi-year land-use and land-cover change analysis of Bahrain using LANDSAT imagery• Trained Guatemalan forensic anthropologists in the use of geospatial technologies for documenting mass grave sites.• Created web based interactive visualizations to present results to the general public.• Trained lawyers and judges at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the use of geospatial analysis for evidence in litigation.• Analyzed high-resolution imagery to document human rights abuses arising from conflicts, forced relocations, and environmental incidents for a wide variety of international NGOs.• Analyzed historic imagery of past border conflicts between Georgia and Russia, Sudan and South Sudan, and Cambodia and Thailand to identify early warning signs. • Wrote grant proposals to government and non-profit funding sources.• Prepared journal articles for publication.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Analyzed urban growth in Rwanda between 2000 and the present using satellite imagery.• Classified Landsat imagery covering all of Rwanda to identify the fastest growing urban areas.• Used random forest classifier and high resolution imagery to map housing patterns in Rwandan small and mid-sized cities.

• Utilized decision trees and Quickbird imagery to map impervious surfaces in Accra, Ghana.• Quantified social vulnerability in Accra, Ghana using census data. • Assessed the relationship between change in impervious surfaces over time and social vulnerability in Accra Ghana.

• Performed quality control on large data sets for targeted marketing campaigns.• Researched various renewable energy projects.• Maintained and updated contact database using Salesforce and Insideview.

• Developed models in ERDAS Imagine to measure streamside zone and physical form metrics.• Created stream centerline and riparian zone files using ArcMap, LIDAR data and Ultracam high resolution aerial photographs.• Performed accuracy assessment tests on stream health scores by comparing SPOT, Ikonos, LIDAR and Ultracam data to field results. • Prepared maps and tables to present results.

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Geography, 3.8

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Geography, 3.7