Experience

World Food Programme

• Italy
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of VAME

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Contribute to successfully implement the WFP country strategic plan by leading a range of vulnerability assessment mapping (VAM) and monitoring & evaluation (M&E) activities, providing research and analysis, generating VAM evidence base, informing policy, strategy and programme design and implementation and developing capacity of national partners and colleagues and documenting the results.● Provide expert advice and support WFP and its partners on matters pertaining to food security and nutrition strategies, policies, programmes, and ensure the timely and productive use of analysis and other knowledge products to understand vulnerabilities, inform WFP’s decision-making and action.● Lead the development digitization of systems and tools for the assessment and monitoring of food and livelihood vulnerabilities assistance needs in line with corporate best practice.● Lead technical partnerships for the enhancement of systems and tools using remote sensing, geospatial information systems, cloud-based databases and impact-based forecast and modelling.● Lead/conduct complex food security, nutrition, markets, urban, climate and resilience analysis and prepare timely reports on food and livelihood vulnerability assessment needs in line with widerVAM policies, processes and guidance to enable effective decision-making on the development of country strategy, policies and programmes.● Lead and support in collaboration with the monitoring team the coordination of data gathering, management and visualisation from monitoring systems, VAM assessment and other sources ensuring rigorous quality standards.● Lead and support the development of effective food security and vulnerability information products at regional and country level to support early action, emergency preparedness and response, targeting and programme design as well as advocate for the people of Afghanistan that are vulnerable to food insecurity.



iMMAP

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• ReportHub Creator and Founder

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2020

  ReportHub - Decision Support in Real-Time• Creator, founder and lead of ReportHub, an open standard and open source initiative to monitor locations, activities, indicators and financial contributions of projects in real-time.• In the humanitarian context, ReportHub is a partner reporting system that supports the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC), in particular reporting on the location and progress of indicators towards the Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP).• Based on open humanitarian standards, including Common Operational Datasets (CODs), Pcodes and Humanitarian eXchange Language (HXL), ReportHub and can integrate directly with HPC.tools and OCHAs Financial Tracking System (FTS).• Originally designed and implemented to support the Afghanistan Health Cluster in 2016, ReportHub has since expanded to 800+ monthly users from 200+ organisations, across more than 18 sectors and working groups (including Health, WASH, Nutrition, Food, Nutrition, Shelter and Protection) in various humanitarian contexts and emergencies including Colombia (monitoring the Venezuelan Refugee Response), Afghanistan, North-East Nigeria, Somalia, Ethiopia and Cox's Bazar (Rohingya Refugee Response).

• MIS Database Expert

  • Mar 2020 - May 2020

  CDC funded support to the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) as MIS Database Expert leading the design & implementation of enhanced surveillance systems for the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) centre, Emergency Operations Center (EOC).Main Activities;• Software engineering, system architecture & implementation of an online/offline mobile data collection system for use by over 100 Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) surveillance officers for routine surveillance and early warning on communicable diseases.• Spatial database design & implementation for streamlined reporting, visualization, mapping & analysis for routine surveillance and early warning on communicable diseases.• Training & capacity building to national colleagues for system handover, continued feature development & maintenance.

• Technical Advisor

  • Apr 2019 - Feb 2020

  Support to Rohingya Refugee Response, serving the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), the World Food Programme (WFP) Programme Unit, Food Security Sector (FSS) and World Health Organization (WHO) led Health Sector.Main Activities;• Conceptual design for an Information Management system and reporting workflow to meet the needs of the Inter-Sector Coordination Group (ISCG), including financial reporting of Humanitarian and Development projects, to support planning and analysis and promote advocacy of interventions of the international community with the host government of Bangladesh.• Support for WFP Programme Unit on digital transformation, introducing the implementation of new approaches to track Cooperating Partner (CP) assistance to refugees and host communities for real-time analysis and reporting.• ReportHub implementation for the Food Sector Sector and Health Sector including geodatabase design and development, definition of activities and Sex Age Disaggregation indicators to monitor Strategic and Sector Objectives of the Rohingya Refugee Joint Response Plan (JRP).• Food Security and Health Sector IMO and Partner training and support on the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC), ReportHub and mapping and analysis using software including Tableau and Power Bi.• Pilot implementation of ReportHub including definition of sector activities and Sex Age Disaggregation indicators for Nutrition, WASH, Education, Protection, Child Protection, Gender Based Violence and Site Management Sectors for partner 5W reporting and gap analysis.

• Cheif Technical Officer

  • Nov 2018 - Apr 2019

  Global technical support to iMMAP operations including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, Ethiopia, Colombia and the Rohingya Refugee Response in Cox's Bazar.Main Activities;• Technical support and design of geodatabases, data platforms, reporting systems, data visualisation and mapping for iMMAP projects globally.• Task definition and allocation of server and database maintenance and feature developments of ReportHub to support ongoing implementations.

• Project Lead, Horn of Africa and Lake Chad Region

  • Sep 2017 - Oct 2018

  Managing teams on 3 seperate projects funded by CDC, OFDA and WHO designed to improve rapid response to public health emergencies in the Horn of Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo and Lake Chad regionsMain Activities;• Project lead and manager of 5 international staff for the implementation of Public Health Information Service (PHIS) standards in the Horn of Africa targeting Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, northern Kenya and in support of the Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).• Project lead and manager of 10 specialist Information Management Officers seconded to OCHA (coordination), UNHCR (General Protection, Child Protection, Gender Based Violence), IOM (Shelter), FAO (Food Security) and WHO (Health) supporting cluster Information Management support to drought and internal displacement (IDP) humanitarian relief efforts in various locations within Ethiopia.• Successful rollout of ReportHub for the UNICEF led WASH Cluster for partner 5W reporting, Needs and Gaps analysis and the mapping of Services and Infrastructure in support to Information Management needs of the North-East Nigeria Response.• WHO Health Emergency (WHE) Information Management support for the surveillance, reporting and epidemiological analysis of communicable diseases including Acute Watery Diarrhoea (AWD) in various locations within Ethiopia.• Design and implementation of data platforms and reporting systems for the bi-weekly publication of WHO Health Emergency (WHE) SitReps.

• Senior Information Management Officer

  • Aug 2015 - Aug 2017

  Afghanistan Health Cluster Senior Information Management Officer ( IMO ), representing the World Health Organization ( WHO )Main Activities;• Management of 5 inter-cluster IMs (international & national) for the successful implementation of an multi-sectoral online reporting system, ReportHub.• Assessment of health sector needs & reporting based on requirements of key stakeholders.• Guidance and technical advice on disease surveillance systems, incident management systems and geospatial databases for health analysis on behalf of the World Health Organization for the Afghanistan Ministry of Public Health (MoPH).



Agoda

• Singapore
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Developer

  • Apr 2014 - Jul 2015

  Development of back office dashboards displaying key business indicators on millions of A-B website tests per minute in real-time.Main Activities;• Agile team development, sprint planning, task breakdowns and reporting.• Dashboard development in HTML5 fetching RestAPI data from Open Source "Big-Data" Platforms (Apache Hadoop and Apache Cassandra DB) to display business indicators in real-time.



iMMAP

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Mapping & Data Visualization Expert

  • Jun 2013 - Jan 2015

  Implementation of the UNHCR Health Information System "Twine", supporting the reporting on key health Indicators of refugee & IDP camp locations worldwide• Application development of iMMAP GIS framework for interactive mapping & reporting of key health indicators.GIS support to the US Department of State Office of Weapons Removal & Abatement• Spatial database development of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) survey locations to assist clearance activities in the Asia-Pacific region.• CKAN web catalogue for the collation, sharing, management, publication & collaborative use of spatial data.International Federation of the Red Cross 2014 West African Ebola outbreak • HTML5 dashboard implementation for the reporting of suspected Ebola cases for IFRC decision makers.• Data analysis & mapping to identify potential communities at risk using PostGIS, GDAL & QGIS.

• MIS Database Expert

  • May 2012 - May 2013

  USAID Support to the Government of Sindh ( GoS ), Pakistan, for the construction & rehabilitation of government schools affected by 2010 floods.Main Activities;• System design & implementation for the engineering & GIS survey of 14,000 public schools in Sindh province, including mobile data collection.• Sindh field deployments to assess data capture techniques, Android mobile application development & implementation.• Management of survey team leads with oversight of 20 national staff including field visits.• Reporting team management of 3 national staff to ensure GIS analysis & reports completed on time & to donor guidelines.

• Information Management Officer

  • Oct 2011 - May 2012

  French space agency (CNES) funded humanitariaN Operations Mobile Acquisition of Data (NOMAD) project, with collaboration from iMMAP, CartONG, WFP, MEDES, Auvea, ACAPS, IOM and MobileActive.org to implement integrated digital data collection & communication systems for rapid humanitarian assessment & monitoring.Main Activities;• Mobile data collection information systems implementation including mobile device satellite configuration for remote field data entry to synchronized relational database.• IDP camp surveys & spatial assessment support for IOM Haiti Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) refugee migration analysis.• Linux administration, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML & CSS CMS website development.• Technical & high level reporting, presentations & field satellite demonstrations to donors.



World Food Programme

• Italy
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Management Officer

  • Jan 2011 - Sep 2011

  Develop streamlined approach to data management of new & existing systems, including the implementation of Geospatial enabled Programme reporting database as well as the establishment of Information Management capacity of the Operations Center for World Food Programme Afghanistan.Main Activities;• PostgreSQL PostGIS geographic database design, implementation & administration.• Database views & OGC web services (WMS, WFS, KML) for data dissemination to reporting team, decision makers & UN partners.• 3D web based Google Earth application development for Programme Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) including live satellite vehicle tracking system display.• ToR, recruitment, task allocation, management, capacity building & supervision of national staff to ensure project deadlines are completed on time.• Establishment of UN humanitarian inter-agency information management working group for the collaboration of data capture, data standards & data sharing with UNHCR.

• Geoportal Developer

  • Jul 2010 - Dec 2010

  WFP Global Logistics Cluster (GLC) Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport (SDI-T) and WFP Security Information Management & Analysis System (SIMSAS) developer.Main Activities;• PostgreSQL PostGIS database administration covering data entry workflow guidelines, QA/QC, views, scripts & backups for the Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport (SDI-T).• Linux administration, PHP development & OGC (WMS, WFS, TMS, KML) web services for enhanced agency cross collaboration in humanitarian emergencies.• PHP statistical analysis algorithm design & implementation.• Global implementation of SIMSAS with field deployments and field support for World Food Programme field security officers to record, track & analyze security incidents.• Standby capacity for humanitarian emergency surge response, ad-hoc humanitarian emergency response map production.



Sinclair Knight Merz

• Australia
• Civil Engineering
• 400 - 500 Employee

• User Interface Specialist

  • Aug 2009 - Nov 2009

  Asia Development Bank (ADB) funded Indonesian Earthquake & Tsunami Emergency Support Project (ETESP-P39) providing assistance with establishment of a government agency for management of Sumatran forest resources of Aceh, Indonesia.Main Activities;• Aceh provincial forestry geographical PostgreSQL database implementation including satellite imagery, LU/LUCF, forest concessions, palm oil suitability, forestry laws & forest regulations.• Web based GIS application development built on PHP, OpenLayers, ExtJS & JQuery for the provincial forestry agency of Aceh (DisHutBun) for forest management.• Aceh provincial agency forestry training & capacity building national staff.



NGIS

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• SDI Development Team Lead

  • Dec 2008 - Mar 2009

  NORAD funded Tsunami support project implementing a pilot Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) & capacity building of Aceh Green (formally Spatial Information & Mapping Center), a provincial governance agency in Aceh, Indonesia, for the establishment of green economic development.Main Activities;• Team planning, task allocation, reporting & management of national staff.• Open source web GIS application development implementing PostgreSQL, PHP & OGC (WMS, WFS, TMS) web services.• Web based forest concessions GIS application to support enhanced LU/LUCF management.• Preparation & delivery of course modules & practical exercises for training national government staff including on the job capacity building.



Landgate

• Australia
• Government Administration
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Geospatial Specialist

  • Jun 2006 - Nov 2008

  Support for the Western Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) enabling cross-agency whole-of-government business opportunities.Main Activities;• Land administration, carbon titles & carbon covenants.• Research into new technologies & industry trends for market development.• Geographic databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle Spatial), GIS applications, data catalogues, PHP, JavaScript, CSS & HTML web application development & administration.• Feasibility analysis, recommendations, technical reports & presentations.



NGIS

• Australia
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• GIS Developer

  • Sep 2005 - Jul 2006

  Development of enterprise GIS & web GIS software (GeoSamba).Main Activities;• Government & resources client GIS setup, functionality, data management, technical support & web site administration implementing GeoSamba (MSSQL, Oracle Spatial, .NET).• GIS software testing, software documentation & technical writing.



Curtin University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• GIS Programmer

  • Jun 2005 - Aug 2005

  Australia Bio-Security – Co-operative Research Center (ABS-CRC) evaluation of scientific techniques to predict & manage disease outbreaks for the Western Australian Department of Health.Main Activities;• Evaluation & implementation of statistical methodologies for hazard detection using GIS.• Temporal & geographic database development including R statistics for classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification & clustering.• Web based GIS application development & automated map based statistical report generation.