Patrick Gault Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

Co-founded the USAID GeoCenter in 2011 to build and apply geospatial capacity at USAID by developing policy, procedures, and best practices to utilize data, analysis, and visualization for better development decisions. Provide consultation, technical assistance, and training services to USAID/Washington and USAID missions all around the world.

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Led a field-based GIS team on a regional spatial development planning project covering 170,000 sq km in southern Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and the Lake Niassa Basin, to generate a multisector development framework.
• Generated multisector development scenarios to establish planning strategies for urban and rural growth poles, transnational growth corridors, and tourism development in the project's study area
• Executed complex spatial analyses in collaboration with a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) based team to assess natural resources, infrastructure, and population distribution and demographic characteristics.
• Led geospatial data management, analysis, and mapping at the Dobbin International East Africa office while coordinating with team members based in North America and Europe
• Planned and executed fieldwork, spatial data collection, and management to assemble a multi-sector geodatabase covering transnational, national, regional, and local scales

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Collaborated in Chinese and English with two foreign co-instructors to design and deliver a 13-week college accredited experiential education program for eight Western gap-year students focused on facilitating.
• Successfully managed an integrated college accredited academic course flow and travel itinerary while personally directing courses on modern Chinese social issues and Chinese history and lecturing specifically on rural.
• Utilized strong interpersonal and group management skills to maintain positive group dynamics in physically and emotionally challenging environments

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Conducted precedent studies, identified site opportunities and constraints, and generated conceptual diagrams incorporating factors of culture, natural environment, and client values for projects in China, Cambodia.
• Collaborated with a small team to re-envision Sasaki’s analytical process and subsequent graphic representation of sustainable strategies on a wide range of international projects.
• Contributed to development and implementation of sustainable strategies by participating in Sasaki’s SiteGREEN team and produced articles for Sasaki’s quarterly GreenNews publication.
• Worked with the multi-lingual/cultural International Studio team and executed work in Mandarin, Spanish, and English.

Boulder, Colorado, US

• Collaborated in Chinese and English with two foreign co-instructors to design and deliver a 6-week Chinese language intensive experiential education course for 12 Western teenagers in Southwest China focused on.
• Successfully planned and managed an integrated academic curriculum and travel itinerary
• Applied strong leadership and interpersonal skills to effectively facilitate stages of both individual and team growth in physically and emotionally challenging environments

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Conducted precedent studies, identified site opportunities and constraints, and generated conceptual diagrams incorporating factors of culture, natural environment, and client values for projects in China, India.
• Worked within an interdisciplinary design team while collaborating most closely with members of the landscape architecture and master planning disciplines
• Applied Chinese language skills in the professional environment to effectively work with native Chinese colleagues

Master Of International Affairs, International Development And Economics

Bachelor Of Arts, Geography/Chinese

Semester Abroad, Mandarin Chinese

Summer Language School - Mandarin Chinese

Semester Abroad, Spanish Language