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Greater New York City Area

Providing Secretariat support to Member States and the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management UN-GGIM) within the Statistics Division, DESA. Highlights include supporting the development of the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework through to its adoption by UN-GGIM and the Statistical Commission; Enabling the management, use and development of geospatial information within the United Nations system; and, Supporting the use of geospatial information in… Show more Providing Secretariat support to Member States and the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management UN-GGIM) within the Statistics Division, DESA. Highlights include supporting the development of the Global Statistical Geospatial Framework through to its adoption by UN-GGIM and the Statistical Commission; Enabling the management, use and development of geospatial information within the United Nations system; and, Supporting the use of geospatial information in the measurement, monitoring and production of indicators for the global indicator framework of the 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goals. Show less

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Co-Investigator of the New Economic Models in the Digital Economy at Nottingham University Business School a ESPRC/ESRC grant of £762,424. Using mass sets of real-time telecommunications data, with open source geospatial information and cutting edge mathematical techniques to generate a range of intelligence layers that inform on the development and progress of commercial activities in China, Malaysia and Tanzania. These layers will include mobility models; transportation and movement patterns;… Show more Co-Investigator of the New Economic Models in the Digital Economy at Nottingham University Business School a ESPRC/ESRC grant of £762,424. Using mass sets of real-time telecommunications data, with open source geospatial information and cutting edge mathematical techniques to generate a range of intelligence layers that inform on the development and progress of commercial activities in China, Malaysia and Tanzania. These layers will include mobility models; transportation and movement patterns; social communication networks; geo-demographic distributions - and combine to form predictive models.Principal Investigator of the "Big Data for Flood Resilience" a £10,000 scoping exercise ran by DFID-NERC-ESRC on how novel forms of big data, such as call record data and aerial imagery can be leveraged in emerging economies. Show less

Tanzania

Working with the "Transport and ICT" and "Urban" Global Practices of the World Bank advising on policy and technical projects covering on spatial data infrastructure, surveying and geospatial information.• Managing the World Bank open data team supporting the Tanzanian Open Data Initiative (TODI) and Urbanisation Review. The team supports the World Bank's wider ICT and Innovation portfolio in Tanzania and the Government of Tanzania's "Open Government Partnership" and "Big Results Now"… Show more Working with the "Transport and ICT" and "Urban" Global Practices of the World Bank advising on policy and technical projects covering on spatial data infrastructure, surveying and geospatial information.• Managing the World Bank open data team supporting the Tanzanian Open Data Initiative (TODI) and Urbanisation Review. The team supports the World Bank's wider ICT and Innovation portfolio in Tanzania and the Government of Tanzania's "Open Government Partnership" and "Big Results Now" programs. This is through data dives and workshops aimed at building technical skills and capacity within government agencies and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs).• Operational management and execution of two $100,000 Innovation Challenges covering citizen engagement (Taarifa) and automatic monitoring (MobileMonitor) of water sustainability and access in collaboration with the Ministry of Water of Tanzania. These activities engaged a global innovation community, from MIT's Media Lab to the KINU Innovation Hub in Tanzania, through a series of developer events creating code, hacking and prototyping.• The planning and execution of community mapping for flood and disaster resilience across Dar Es Salaam, Africa's fastest growing city. I led a team composed of the World Bank, Commission of Science and Technology (COSTECH), University of Dar Es Salaam and University of Ardhi and other CSOs in mapping the city, creating spatial data and identifying flood prone areas to inform the Urbanisation Review and other upgrading projects within the Urban portfolio.• Development and implementation of a Geonode platform for climate change and disaster risk assessment and reduction.This included developing a spatial data strategy for the creation, curation and use of spatial data in Tanzania, working with the Prime Minister's Office for Regional Administration and Local Government (PMO-RALG), eGovernment Agency and National Bureau of Statistics. Show less

United Kingdom

Consulting on geospatial information, creating maps and applications from initial customer requirements to acceptance. Clients included G-STEP (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security – Space Technology Exchange Partnership) an EU funded program on geospatial training, Bluesky International on the photovoltaic potential and subsequent placement of solar panels on roofs and Akvo on how to open up their software and processes.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Progressing from Reserve Officer Cadet to Midshipman working as a navigator and officer of the watch on HMS Exploit. Gained the SRC/GMDSS qualification from the Royal Yacht Association.

Created a routing application using Open Street Map data. From initial specification to deliverance of prototype in Java.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geography And Cartography

PhD at the Horizon Digital Economy Doctoral Training Centre, researching Community Mapping, Spatial Quality and Geographic Usability..

Master'S Degree, Gis, Distinction

MSc in Geography by Individual Supervised Study. Combined a GIS masters with extra modules in human geography and ecology. Thesis.

Erasmus, Computer Science

ERASMUS scholarship at the Ecole Superieure D'Informatique et Applications de Lorriane (ESIAL), now rebranded as Telecom Nancy. Studied.

Bsc, Computer Science With Business Management (Eu)

Undergraduate computer science degree, thesis on "The Effect of Graph Search Algorithms in the Real World". Utilised OpenStreetMap (OSM).