Stephen Mahala Email & Phone Number

United States

-Assist FEMA actuaries with the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) in preparing, cleaning, analyzing, and formatting conventional and geospatial large-scale datasets for use as inputs for catastrophe models.- Utilize Python and R to validate GIS inputs, conduct fragility curve analysis, and develop geospatial visualizations of rating plans.

Assist master carpenters with the remodeling of existing homes.

- Contracted through the Department of Defense to perform bulk data processing and data analysis on water quality data to help support SHARC, a hazard assessment program for the maritime environment. - Perform GIS analysis and data scripting with Python, R, and JAVA to explore novel maritime solutions. -Expand SHARC's capabilities from ocean systems to include lakes, reservoirs, and shoreline composition.-Create machine learning algorithm, an artificial neural network (ANN) to be precise, to identify total dissolved solids in lakes and reservoirs based on overhead satellite imagery.-Manage projects and provide weekly deliverables to executive leadership.

-Collect data from U.S. commercial fishing and processing vessels as well as from shore-side processing plants. -Observers are professionally trained biological scientists gathering first-hand data on what's caught and thrown back, which supports science, conservation, and management activities.

Falmouth, Ma

- New England Marine Fisheries Service- Mastered Python independently with zero previous experience: used Python along with SQL to scrape data from hundreds of emails to create database of sector-to-sector quota trades- Designed program with set of narratives to capture all vital information - dates, fishing vessels, fish quotas, weights, prices, etc. – and exclude extraneous information – repeat offers, extra wording, etc.

Monitored and engaged with children ages 5-16 daily. Drove positive behaviors and educated disadvantaged youth.