GIS, Fernerkundung, Interoperabilität, Landnutzung

• International Wine Challenge (IWC), London, UK and Japan;

• Contributed to managing, setting up and implementing the International Wine Challenge (IWC) Sake Judging in Yamagata, Japan in May 2018.
• Contribute to managing and implementing wine tastings for the International Wine Challenge Event in London, provide support to tasting events and award presentations, starting in 2015.

• Wine and Spirit Education Trust, London, UK:
  • Accomplished as exam marker for the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) since January 2017.

Led and successfully contributed to information collection, management and analysis in support of practical sustainable development situations and humanitarian operations:

• Deployments with The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS):
  • As Senior Data Analyst contributed to the development of the Theory of Change for the ACAPS Yemen Analysis Hub in Amman, Jordan, and provided data development and analysis capacity to the team (January and February 2019);

• • Led a team of analysts to inform humanitarian response activities and strategy development through primary and secondary information collection and analysis of humanitarian needs, pattern and trends in the European Refugee and Migrant Crisis project in Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Greece in 2015/2016 and organised scenario building workshops with stakeholders in Brussels, Greece and Serbia (October 2015 – March 2016);
  • Contributed to the assessment of humanitarian needs following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal as part of a needs assessment cell in collaboration with UNDAC, UN OCHA and MapAction (May 2015);
  • Informed needs-based response for crisis-affected populations in the Syrian crisis context in Turkey through situation monitoring and analysis as part of the Syria Needs Analysis Project (SNAP). Interim management of the Turkey project team (May – July 2014).

• Europeaid FWC, Belarus (January – April 2018): As IT and GIS Key Expert evaluated on-going GIS projects and needs and provided GIS, IT and Interoperability expertise to the Preparation of the Twinning fiche for the National Cadastral Agency of the Republic of Belarus.

• The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS), Geneva, Switzerland in home-based assignments:

• Provided technical backstopping on Focus Group Discussion analysis in the frame of a protection assessment to a junior analyst deployed to Afghanistan (August – September 2018);
• Analysed the ACAPS Cash Transfer and Feasibility Assessment data in Fiji (July – September 2018) in support of disaster preparedness;
• Developed and researched an analysis on causes, pattern and trends of Mixed Migration from the Horn of Africa to Europe and its humanitarian impacts (October and November 2016);
• Carried out a post-hurricane Matthew market environment analysis for Haiti, including the evaluation of cash feasibility options (October 2016);
• Monitored and analysed the humanitarian situation in Ukraine (March 2014 – May 2015);
• Supported a disaster needs assessment based on secondary information for South Sudan (January and February 2014).

• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Geneva, Switzerland (October 2016 – March 2017):

• Monitored and analysed disaster-, development and conflict-induced internal displacement in selected countries and evaluated the restoration of sustainable livelihoods in protracted displacement situations;
• Led a study on disaster-induced cross-border displacement instances;
• Contributed country research and analysis on protracted displacement to the 2016 Africa Report on Internal Displacement.

• UN-OCHA, Geneva, Switzerland (November 2012 – May 2013): Evaluated data quality control, established data quality control standards and developed and implemented interagency collaboration mechanisms for data sharing with and among OCHA regional and country offices.
• Technical assistance cooperation Asia and Africa:

• Mapped Urban Ger Areas in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from aerial imagery (April 2015), homebased;
• Led the data collection and analysis for the project on Data Collection, Collation and Analysis to support the production of local spatial plans in Syria and conducted a workshop on implementation of GIS into business flows (November 2007 – April 2008);
• Led GIS-based inundation area calculation for the Merowe dam project in Sudan in a home-based assignment (August - December 2005, January, February and June – August 2007);
• Tailored the national geographical information infrastructure (NGII) platform in Nepal in support of analysing and mapping the country’s Population and Housing census data, identified resource and training needs and conducted an outreach event of GIS implementation into government operations (April and May 2003, April - June 2005);
• Led the data collection and information management for the Rhombe Swamps and Rolako Area Irrigation Development Feasibility Study, Sierra Leone (August – October 2004);
• Identified resources, capacity and capability available and needed for geospatial analysis in support of municipal tasks in the Kathmandu Valley Mapping Program, Nepal (September – December 2000).

• Open Geospatial Consortium Europe (OGCE):

• RISE (Reference Information Specifications for Europe) project of the European Commission), 6th Framework Programme: Led the use case development of reporting surface water quality under the EU’s Water Framework Directive by various countries, assessed and evaluated their on-going activities in terms of information management and interoperability, analysed their data harmonisation requirements and the costs and benefits of data harmonisation (September 2005 – November 2007);
• Harmony project, European Space Agency (ESA/ESRIN) in Frascati, Italy: Assisted in tailoring the Agency’s earth-observation products and services to match interoperability requirements of the geospatial community, in preparation for the development of Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) (November 2004 – December 2005);
• Internal Reference Facility Project (RF) with the European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC) in Spain: As Interoperability Analyst captured the business workflows within the organisation and relevant links with external entities for automated geo-standards-based product development (May to December 2004);
• Project Leader of the Interoperability Design Study for Symbology (IDSS) with the EUSC (July 2003 – December 2004);
• Moderator of a working group on geospatial feature codification of the Magister project with the EUSC (October and November 2002).

• European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC), Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain (2001 – 2003):

• Facilitated the business analysis and the design and development of geospatial applications and product specifications in the SIGMA project (System for Interactive GeoMatics Analysis) at the European Union Satellite Centre (EUSC).