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Kabul, Afghanistan

• Contribute to successfully implement the WFP country strategic plan by leading a range of vulnerability assessment mapping (VAM) and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) activities, providing research and analysis, generating.
• Provide expert advice and support WFP and its partners on matters pertaining to food security and nutrition strategies, policies, programmes, and ensure the timely and productive use of analysis and other knowledge.
• Lead the development digitization of systems and tools for the assessment and monitoring of food and livelihood vulnerabilities assistance needs in line with corporate best practice.
• Lead technical partnerships for the enhancement of systems and tools using remote sensing, geospatial information systems, cloud-based databases and impact-based forecast and modelling.
• Lead/conduct complex food security, nutrition, markets, urban, climate and resilience analysis and prepare timely reports on food and livelihood vulnerability assessment needs in line with widerVAM policies, processes.
• Lead and support in collaboration with the monitoring team the coordination of data gathering, management and visualisation from monitoring systems, VAM assessment and other sources ensuring rigorous quality standards.

• ReportHub - Decision Support in Real-Time
• Creator, founder and lead of ReportHub, an open standard and open source initiative to monitor locations, activities, indicators and financial contributions of projects in real-time.
• In the humanitarian context, ReportHub is a partner reporting system that supports the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC), in particular reporting on the location and progress of indicators towards the Humanitarian.
• Based on open humanitarian standards, including Common Operational Datasets (CODs), Pcodes and Humanitarian eXchange Language (HXL), ReportHub and can integrate directly with HPC.tools and OCHAs Financial Tracking.
• Originally designed and implemented to support the Afghanistan Health Cluster in 2016, ReportHub has since expanded to 800+ monthly users from 200+ organisations, across more than 18 sectors and working groups.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• CDC funded support to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) as MIS Database Expert leading the design & implementation of enhanced surveillance systems for the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Public Health.
• Software engineering, system architecture & implementation of an online/offline mobile data collection system for use by over 100 Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) surveillance officers for routine surveillance and.
• Spatial database design & implementation for streamlined reporting, visualization, mapping & analysis for routine surveillance and early warning on communicable diseases.
• Training & capacity building to national colleagues for system handover, continued feature development & maintenance.

Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

• Support to Rohingya Refugee Response, serving the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), the World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Unit, Food Security Sector (FSS) and World Health Organization (WHO) led Health.
• Conceptual design for an Information Management system and reporting workflow to meet the needs of the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), including financial reporting of Humanitarian and Development projects, to.
• Support for WFP Programme Unit on digital transformation, introducing the implementation of new approaches to track Cooperating Partner (CP) assistance to refugees and host communities for real-time analysis and.
• ReportHub implementation for the Food Sector Sector and Health Sector including geodatabase design and development, definition of activities and Sex Age Disaggregation indicators to monitor Strategic and Sector.
• Food Security and Health Sector IMO and Partner training and support on the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC), ReportHub and mapping and analysis using software including Tableau and Power Bi.
• Pilot implementation of ReportHub including definition of sector activities and Sex Age Disaggregation indicators for Nutrition, WASH, Education, Protection, Child Protection, Gender Based Violence and Site Management.

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

• Global technical support to iMMAP operations including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Colombia and the Rohingya Refugee Response in Cox's Bazar.Main Activities;
• Technical support and design of geodatabases, data platforms, reporting systems, data visualisation and mapping for iMMAP projects globally.
• Task definition and allocation of server and database maintenance and feature developments of ReportHub to support ongoing implementations.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Managing teams on 3 seperate projects funded by CDC, OFDA and WHO designed to improve rapid response to public health emergencies in the Horn of Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Lake Chad regionsMain Activities;
• Project lead and manager of 5 international staff for the implementation of Public Health Information Service (PHIS) standards in the Horn of Africa targeting Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, northern Kenya and.
• Project lead and manager of 10 specialist Information Management Officers seconded to OCHA (coordination), UNHCR (General Protection, Child Protection, Gender Based Violence), IOM (Shelter), FAO (Food Security) and WHO.
• Successful rollout of ReportHub for the UNICEF led WASH Cluster for partner 5W reporting, Needs and Gaps analysis and the mapping of Services and Infrastructure in support to Information Management needs of the.
• WHO Health Emergency (WHE) Information Management support for the surveillance, reporting and epidemiological analysis of communicable diseases including Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) in various locations within Ethiopia.
• Design and implementation of data platforms and reporting systems for the bi-weekly publication of WHO Health Emergency (WHE) SitReps.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Afghanistan Health Cluster Senior Information Management Officer ( IMO ), representing the World Health Organization ( WHO )Main Activities;
• Management of 5 inter-cluster IMs (international & national) for the successful implementation of an multi-sectoral online reporting system, ReportHub.
• Assessment of health sector needs & reporting based on requirements of key stakeholders.
• Guidance and technical advice on disease surveillance systems, incident management systems and geospatial databases for health analysis on behalf of the World Health Organization for the Afghanistan Ministry of Public.

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

• Development of back office dashboards displaying key business indicators on millions of A-B website tests per minute in real-time.Main Activities;
• Agile team development, sprint planning, task breakdowns and reporting.
• Dashboard development in HTML5 fetching RestAPI data from Open Source "Big-Data" Platforms (Apache Hadoop and Apache Cassandra DB) to display business indicators in real-time.

Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand

• Implementation of the UNHCR Health Information System "Twine", supporting the reporting on key health Indicators of refugee & IDP camp locations worldwide
• Application development of iMMAP GIS framework for interactive mapping & reporting of key health indicators.GIS support to the US Department of State Office of Weapons Removal & Abatement
• Spatial database development of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) survey locations to assist clearance activities in the Asia-Pacific region.
• CKAN web catalogue for the collation, sharing, management, publication & collaborative use of spatial data.International Federation of the Red Cross 2014 West African Ebola outbreak
• HTML5 dashboard implementation for the reporting of suspected Ebola cases for IFRC decision makers.
• Data analysis & mapping to identify potential communities at risk using PostGIS, GDAL & QGIS.

Karachi, Pakistan

• USAID Support to the Government of Sindh ( GoS ), Pakistan, for the construction & rehabilitation of government schools affected by 2010 floods.Main Activities;
• System design & implementation for the engineering & GIS survey of 14,000 public schools in Sindh province, including mobile data collection.
• Sindh field deployments to assess data capture techniques, Android mobile application development & implementation.
• Management of survey team leads with oversight of 20 national staff including field visits.
• Reporting team management of 3 national staff to ensure GIS analysis & reports completed on time & to donor guidelines.

Bangkok, Thailand

• French space agency (CNES) funded humanitariaN Operations Mobile Acquisition of Data (NOMAD) project, with collaboration from iMMAP, CartONG, WFP, MEDES, Auvea, ACAPS, IOM and MobileActive.org to implement integrated.
• Mobile data collection information systems implementation including mobile device satellite configuration for remote field data entry to synchronized relational database.
• IDP camp surveys & spatial assessment support for IOM Haiti Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) refugee migration analysis.
• Linux administration, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML & CSS CMS website development.
• Technical & high level reporting, presentations & field satellite demonstrations to donors.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• Develop streamlined approach to data management of new & existing systems, including the implementation of Geospatial enabled Programme reporting database as well as the establishment of Information Management capacity.
• PostgreSQL PostGIS geographic database design, implementation & administration.
• Database views & OGC web services (WMS, WFS, KML) for data dissemination to reporting team, decision makers & UN partners.
• 3D web based Google Earth application development for Programme Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) including live satellite vehicle tracking system display.
• ToR, recruitment, task allocation, management, capacity building & supervision of national staff to ensure project deadlines are completed on time.
• Establishment of UN humanitarian inter-agency information management working group for the collaboration of data capture, data standards & data sharing with UNHCR.

Roma, Italia

• WFP Global Logistics Cluster (GLC) Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport (SDI-T) and WFP Security Information Management & Analysis System (SIMSAS) developer.Main Activities;
• PostgreSQL PostGIS database administration covering data entry workflow guidelines, QA/QC, views, scripts & backups for the Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport (SDI-T).
• Linux administration, PHP development & OGC (WMS, WFS, TMS, KML) web services for enhanced agency cross collaboration in humanitarian emergencies.
• PHP statistical analysis algorithm design & implementation.
• Global implementation of SIMSAS with field deployments and field support for World Food Programme field security officers to record, track & analyze security incidents.
• Standby capacity for humanitarian emergency surge response, ad-hoc humanitarian emergency response map production.

Banda Aceh, Indonesia

• Asia Development Bank (ADB) funded Indonesian Earthquake & Tsunami Emergency Support Project (ETESP-P39) providing assistance with establishment of a government agency for management of Sumatran forest resources of.
• Aceh provincial forestry geographical PostgreSQL database implementation including satellite imagery, LU/LUCF, forest concessions, palm oil suitability, forestry laws & forest regulations.
• Web based GIS application development built on PHP, OpenLayers, ExtJS & JQuery for the provincial forestry agency of Aceh (DisHutBun) for forest management.
• Aceh provincial agency forestry training & capacity building national staff.

Banda Aceh, Indonesia

• NORAD funded Tsunami support project implementing a pilot Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) & capacity building of Aceh Green (formally Spatial Information & Mapping Center), a provincial governance agency in Aceh.
• Team planning, task allocation, reporting & management of national staff.
• Open source web GIS application development implementing PostgreSQL, PHP & OGC (WMS, WFS, TMS) web services.
• Web based forest concessions GIS application to support enhanced LU/LUCF management.
• Preparation & delivery of course modules & practical exercises for training national government staff including on the job capacity building.

Perth, Australia

• Support for the Western Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) enabling cross-agency whole-of-government business opportunities.Main Activities;
• Land administration, carbon titles & carbon covenants.
• Research into new technologies & industry trends for market development.
• Geographic databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle Spatial), GIS applications, data catalogues, PHP, JavaScript, CSS & HTML web application development & administration.
• Feasibility analysis, recommendations, technical reports & presentations.

Perth, Australia

• Development of enterprise GIS & web GIS software (GeoSamba).Main Activities;
• Government & resources client GIS setup, functionality, data management, technical support & web site administration implementing GeoSamba (MSSQL, Oracle Spatial,.NET).
• GIS software testing, software documentation & technical writing.

Perth, Australia

• Australia Bio-Security – Co-operative Research Center (ABS-CRC) evaluation of scientific techniques to predict & manage disease outbreaks for the Western Australian Department of Health.Main Activities;
• Evaluation & implementation of statistical methodologies for hazard detection using GIS.
• Temporal & geographic database development including R statistics for classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification & clustering.
• Web based GIS application development & automated map based statistical report generation.