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Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Provide senior executive functions for a growing science and technology services firm that offers comprehensive consulting, research, digital transformation, and fit-for-purpose analytics solutions for a range of industries from emergency management to economics to health. Oversee management of company's general operations, research and product engineering, services delivery, sales and business development activities. Responsible for forming, leading, and managing integrated teams to deliver solutions and services with the agility and ingenuity to solve our client's most complex challenges across government and industry. Deep background leading complex data science, geospatial, cloud DevOps, and cybersecurity and data protection programs with extensive experience across the federal sector including with the Department of Commerce (DOC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Agriculture(USDA), among others. Implement business strategies, manage contract portfolios, and catalyze key ventures and partnerships to drive sustained innovation and organizational performance outcomes.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Account Manager responsible for overseeing geotechnical data enhancement and management services and Agile design and delivery of new web-based seismic risk mapping system to update the DoD Unified Facility Criteria (UFC). Responsibilities involve conversion and integration of USACE, USAF, and Navy borehole data, USGS geologic and fault maps and models, and Tri-services facilities data into a unified database and development and deployment of a cloud-based platform and API services offering analytical, visualization, and reporting tools for assessing risk and improving resiliency for defense facilities worldwide.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Program manager overseeing delivery of research, data science, and digital transformation services to the Center for Economic Studies (CES) to enhance and develop new socio-economic data products to better support evidence-driven and equity-oriented decision making and program evaluation/implementation for a broad range of consumers and communities. Support involves providing a range of statistical, modeling, economic, and programming (R, Python, SAS) subject matter expertise including development of ML imputation and classification models (regression, gradient-boosted ML, random forest, multiple imputation) to support the full research to production lifecycle.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Serve as senior program and account manager of multiple digital transformation, analytics, and research and development contracts with federal agencies, including FEMA, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), U.S. Air Force (USAF), U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) and commercial organizations. Responsible for overall management of contracts, subcontractors, finances, staffing, schedules, and delivery of all technical work. Provide detailed executive level monitoring, analysis, planning and reporting for these areas with special attention to ensuring quality, accuracy, efficiency, and transparency. Also oversee federal sales and business development activities.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Account manager overseeing modernization, secure hosting, and maintenance for the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) facilities mapping and analytics application. NLT led the design and delivery of the state-of-the-art Incident Management, Prioritization, Alerting & Coordination Tool (IMPACT), a robust web-based platform with a suite of interactive tools enabling LDH personnel to quickly identify facilities and service populations, generate reports, and assess and plan for impacts from hurricanes in real-time. IMPACT monitors the latest weather and hazard conditions of emerging threats… and leverages a host of AI models to determine community exposure and impacts to vulnerable populations, critical infrastructure, facilities, and assets, using an advanced risk scoring methodology. The algorithms results are provided in common geo-statistical units, such as hexagons, USNG cells, or administrative boundaries, and disseminated through automated alerting and reporting services, an interactive web-platform, and an API for integration with other systems.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Account Manager overseeing portfolio of data analytics, systems engineering, and disaster preparedness and response technical support services contracts across Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), Office of Response and Recovery (ORR), and the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). Manage computing infrastructure provisioning, integration, and modernization; implementation of Continuous Integration & Continuous Development (CI/CD) environments; and full life cycle DevSecOps services for the Mapping and Analysis Center (MAC), FEMALab, and field computing centers (including gis.fema.gov). Manage cloud migration, administration, and Agile development of scientific data, geospatial, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) analytical data products, visualizations, web-based tools and other information products supporting automated risk modeling for ongoing operations and disaster preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery (including disasters.geoplatform.gov). Responsible for rapid assembly of teams for research, development, implementation, and deployment of innovative data and technology solutions supporting Headquarters, Regional Offices, and field operations.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Oversee subcontractor team supporting RMD in designing, transforming, and managing implementation of natural hazard risk reduction plans and delivery of evidence-based models, tools, and data products (National Risk Index, Hazus, etc.) to improve resilience for communities across the nation. This includes providing a range of technical subject matter expertise and project management related support across the Directorate's divisions, branches, and programs at headquarters and in the regions. A significant focus of support involves modernization of the Program Management Office (PMO) through implementation of data-driven dashboards to streamline coordination of Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) and procurement activities across a portfolio of large-scale contracts including the Production & Technical Services (PTS), Customer and Data Services (CDS) and Community Engagement Risk Communications (CERC) and programs including The Risk Mapping, Assessment, and Planning (MAP) program.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Oversee team leading development and implementation of analytical framework and web dashboard for analyzing economic, business, critical infrastructure, and supply chain related impacts from all-hazards. Services support the Office of Business, Industry, and Infrastructure Integration (OB3I) and National Business Emergency Operations Center (NBEOC). Facilitate evaluation and integration of various commercial and government business and economic data sources and development of baseline and real-time incident impact assessments and data models. Results are disseminated through APIs and a web-based dashboard with flexible tools for searching, filtering, visualizing, and exporting information to support response operations, community stabilization efforts, including with private sector partners. Also support design, generation, and delivery of impact reports to the NBEOC during incidents.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Oversee management of integrated technical support services providing a range of scientific, technological, emergency management, and communications expertise to develop and operationalize advanced analytical capabilities that enhance the agency’s ability to adapt to evolving risk environments for all hazards. NLT’s team includes Data Scientists, GIS Analysts, Web Developers, Cloud Engineers, Emergency Management Planners, Earth & Atmospheric Scientists, Intelligence Analysts, Training and Communications Specialists, and more that provide a uniquely wide range of support capabilities needed during steady-state and disaster operations including surge staffing to the NRCC during activations.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Oversee development and implementation of FEMA’s flagship analytical framework and web platform for incident response and recovery operations. The Tool for Emergency Management Prioritization & Operations (TEMPO) leverages a scalable AWS cloud-native microservices architecture to ingest best available data detailing the location and intensity of hazards, population, infrastructure, and other community information, and apply AI/ML algorithms to continuously analyze live data throughout an incident lifecycle, to determine community areas and lifelines of highest vulnerability, impact, and cascading effects. Results are disseminated through APIs and an web-based dashboard with flexible tools for searching, filtering, visualizing, and exporting information to support resource planning, search and rescue operations, data collection tasking, stability tracking, and essential information for the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) and the daily Senior Leadership Brief (SLB).

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Oversee delivery subject matter expertise and technical support to the Planning and Exercise Division (PED) In support of the Planning & Technical Assistance (PTAS) contract. This work also involves providing geospatial analytics and mapping support to the National Planning Branch, Incident Support Branch, Future Planning Section, the NRCS Planning Support Section, and the National Watch Center and other offices for the development of national and regional scale deliberate and crisis-action all-hazards plans. This work involves development of maps and analyses for geographic and scenario-specific hazards plans and exercises to address specific hazard responses. This also includes the integration, analysis, and generation of data analytics for validation and refinement of planning scenarios and the generation of planning factors that represent existing risk and capability analysis to drive course of action analysis during the development of plans and incident annexes at the national level.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Oversee agile web development, managed cloud hosting offering (MSO), and training support services for the delivery of a new interoperable cloud-based platform providing online mapping and visualization tools that enable highly interactive multi-user exercise and simulation capabilities for training responders for real-world incidents involving Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high yield Explosives (CBRNE). The new cloud-native platform leverages AWS, Esri ArcGIS Online, and other modeling and visualization software to enable creation of more realistic exercises and provide responders a range of new tools to understand dynamic threats as they unfold over time and space.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Manage large-scale research, development, and production support contract to the U.S. Census Bureau's Research & Methodology directorate (R&M), Center for Economic Studies (CES), and Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program (LEHD) and Center for Enterprise Dissemination (CED). Oversee design, development, and implementation of new econometric and statistical techniques, disclosure avoidance methods, data products, and dissemination platforms, including the delivery of the nation’s premier sources of local and national statistics measuring U.S. business and workforce dynamics including the Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), Job to Job Flows (J2J), and other restricted-use microdata available to researchers through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (RDC). Lead development of a suite of web-based mapping, visualization, and dissemination tools including QWI Explorer, J2J Explorer, LED Extraction Tool, OnTheMap, for which the team received the Department of Commerce Scientific/Engineering Gold Medal Award and OnTheMap for Emergency Management, which provides the bureau’s real-time reporting of demographic and economic data for areas affected by natural hazards and disasters. Manage support for the Bureau’s development of the next generation of advanced data anonymization methodologies and solutions including the Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS) to programmatically apply Differential Protection to data released to the public.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Program manager overseeing broad research, development, and IT services support across ADRM centers including CES. Lead research studies in labor economics, social demography, survey methodology, business dynamics, public health, productivity, and industrial organization; support development of new public data products including Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI), LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES), Job-to-Job Flows (J2J), Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), among others. Lead development of new statistical data science methods and predictive models that improve the quality and efficiency of national socio-economic surveys including for the Current Population Survey (CPS). Lead Agile development and delivery of public web-based analytical and visualization tools including QWI Explorer, Job-to-Job Flows Explorer, PSEO Explorer, VEO Explorer, Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) Explorer, LED Extraction Tool, OnTheMap, OnTheMap for Emergency Management.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Project manager overseeing research, development and administration of the USCB’s state-of-the-art Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS), which programmatically applies Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approved mathematically provable differential protection algorithms to protect PII in public data releases. Responsible for Agile project management, coordination of teams, and full lifecycle engineering and operations of a high-performance AWS-based GovCloud architecture leveraging Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), Apache Spark clusters, and cloud-native services capable of integrating and executing privacy protection processing routings at scale. Support development of automated data engineering workflow pipelines for a range of emerging data products and implementation of enhanced delivery systems that provide more efficient and flexible schemas and file formats.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Account Manager for multiple data science and information technology integration and support contracts to implement state-of-the-art enterprise federated data search, discovery, and management software across massive data holdings within Farm Service Agency (FSA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Rural Development, National Information Technology Center (NITC), and Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS). Manage SAFe Agile development of enterprise data warehousing, indexing and dissemination solutions. Technologies include: AWS Cloud, Voyager Search, Esri Portal, and SQL Server, Oracle Data Appliance.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Account manager overseeing data engineering and Agile software delivery services for large-scale Natural Resources, Water and Climate Information Systems modernization to enhance a portfolio of science-based technologies, tools, and applications to support natural resources conservation for American farmers and the public. Work involves full lifecycle architecture design, ETL, SQL optimization, development of automated data pipelines and databases to support a range of internal and public-facing applications following a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Manage modernization of USACE Survey Monument Archival and Retrieval Tool from on-prem technology stack to new cloud-native serverless architecture. The system provides tools for the distributed collection, storage, and reporting of georeferenced survey control points and geodetic, tidal, and water level datums part of the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) for USACE, National Geodetic Society (NGS), USGS, and NOAA. Responsible for managing Agile lifecycle delivery of new AWS-based microservices application levering Lambdas, RDS, Cloudfront etc. improving scalability and performance while reducing ongoing maintenance costs.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Manage multiple IT modernization support contracts supporting full lifecycle development of serverless cloud-native web applications, federated identity authorization solutions, data interoperability tools. Responsible for overseeing Agile design and development of cloud-native microservices application architectures utilizing AWS S3, Lambdas, RDS, Cloudfront, and other technologies to improve scalability and performance while reducing ongoing maintenance costs. Work involves transformation of the USACE Survey Monument Archival & Retrieval Tool (U-SMART) and development of new cloud-based open-source solutions for translating spatio-temporal datastores between various APIs, RDBMSs, and enterprise geospatial platforms for the Civil Works Business Intelligence (CWBI) unit, USACE's Common Operating Picture (UCOP), and interagency partners.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Overseeing development of data interoperability solutions to improve interagency discovery and access to critical information about U.S. ports, waterways, and hydroelectric power facilities provided by the Civil Works Business Intelligence (CWBI) program. Manage development of cloud-native open-source Python-based tools for automating translation of near-real time geospatial datasets to facilitate interoperability between various APIs, RDBMSs, and data feeds and enterprise geospatial platforms including USACE's Common Operating Picture (UCOP) and Esri ArcGIS Online.

College Park, Md, Us

Serve as adjunct instructor for GIS Project Management course in the Master of Professional Studies in Geospatial Information Sciences Program.

Responsible for enhancement and administration of web-based enterprise geospatial applications for various federal and municipal government clients. Activities included systems development and administration of high performance-load balanced distributed GIS systems utilizing Oracle, Oracle Spatial, ArcSDE, ArcGIS, and ArcIMS on UNIX Sun Solaris platforms. Tasks included software installation, configuration, and administration, database tuning, website implementation, troubleshooting and support. Provided implementation, development, troubleshooting, and support and administration tasks for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) web-enabled mapping applications including Special Use Airspace (http://sua.faa.gov), FAA Temporary Flight Restrictions (http://tfr.faa.gov), FAA Obstruction Evaluation/ Airport Airspace Analysis (OEAAA) system. Applications utilized Solaris and Windows servers, Oracle 9i, Oracle Spatial, ArcSDE 8.3, and ArcIMS 9 and ESRI’s ArcWeb Services technologies.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Served as implementation lead for large-scale modernization project to deploy DISA STIG compliant enterprise geospatial NIPRNet and SIPRNet systems re-architecture at numerous ACC bases nationwide. System provided first web-based Common Installation Picture (CIP) for bases nationwide. Tasks included system design, installation and configuring custom Oracle, ArcSDE, ArcIMS solution, data loading, versioned Geodatabase configuration, documentation, and providing on-site training to Air Force staff.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Provided analytical and cartographic assistance with NAVFAC baseline survey updates including development and maintenance of Spatial Data Standards for Facilities, Infrastructure, and Environment (SDSFIE) geodatabases, data generation and analysis, map production and metadata creation.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Served as Geospatial/IT Specialist supporting environmental compliance projects at NNMC. Led design, development, and support for deployment of Environmental Asset Management System (EAMS). Responsibilities included Oracle database management, GIS/CAD data transformation and loading, CAD drawing Quality Assurance and Control management, software training, and system backups.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Responsible for leading digital transformation projects including design and implementation of web-based enterprise geospatial implementations for various DOD clients. Led modernization and integration of various hardware and software systems (utilizing Oracle, Oracle Spatial, ArcSDE, ArcGIS, and ArcIMS, software), database design and tuning, website implementation, training, troubleshooting, customer support. Also supported corporate and account business development activities.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Led the development of a new hosted web-based GIS product and service line offering (for government and commercial clients) utilizing Microsoft, Oracle, and ESRI technologies. Authored detailed marketing and business plans for internal management purposes.

Principal technical consultant to various local government and commercial clients. Duties include conducting needs assessments, enterprise system design and implementation, database design and tuning, software training, proposal writing and business development. Systems implemented utilized various Microsoft, Oracle, and ESRI platforms.

Led implementation of municipal enterprise GIS system including conducting detailed needs assessment, database design, data conversion and loading, and implementation and integration of SQLServer, ArcSDE, and ArcGIS software.

Provided crime mapping consulting services including data conversion, data cleansing, geocoding, spatial data interpolation (including IDW, Kriging, Spline etc.), and software training for city staff.

Management of GIS products and consulting services to public, private, and non-profit clients. Responsible for business development, writing bids and contracts, product presentations, customer support.

Designed and delivered custom training program for major regional natural hazard mapping initiative. Topics included GIS software analysis, GPS field data collection, elevation data integration, spatial analysis, and cartographic map output.

Aurora, Co, Us

Oversaw management of all mapping projects for department including Geodatabase development, field data collection, spatial analyses, and map production for variety of purposes including many public land planning documents. Also provided ArcGIS training and software demonstrations to other staff.

Aurora, Co, Us

Assisted several city departments migrate the city GIS software and data from Workstation ArcInfo to new ArcGIS Desktop platform. Activities included testing new software tools, developing geodatabases, and providing software training and demonstrations to city GIS staff.

Aurora, Co, Us

Led mapping activities in the development of the 1999 Parks & Open Space Master Plan, a comprehensive public planning document that detailed conservation and development priorities. Such activities include: conducting spatial and statistical analyses, creation of charts and maps, graphic design, and writing and editing.

Aurora, Co, Us

Led the compilation, development, and presentation for Cherry Creek Watershed Regional Management Initiative (utilizing ArcInfo and Spatial Analyst) for assessing water quality and environmental impacts and urban/regional planning initiatives for the Cherry Creek Watershed. Activities also included statistical analyses and economic modeling.

Aurora, Co, Us

Led Aurora Reservoir Area Visibility Assessment to build complex visibility map used in public land planning and park conservation initiatives. Tasks included GPS data collection, digital terrain model (DTM) development and 3D map scene generation (utilizing ESRI’s 3D Analyst and Spatial Analyst).

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Initiated the implementation of a digital vacant land mapping system utilizing ArcView, Access, digital aerial imagery, and Experian cadastral ownership databases. The new system enabled the company to do more detailed land research faster while saving money, providing a competitive advantage over their competition.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Managed all aspects of vacant land acquisition research activities including locating parcels, initiating purchase negotiations with land owners, performing due diligence measures, and developing a corporate vacant land database and map atlas.

M.Sc., Geographic Information Science

Ba, Geography

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