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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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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. To.

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 on the.

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).