Cartography and Geospatial Web Design

  • "Design is not for phillosphy, its for life"

    Issey Miyake

  • Being aware of your audience as you're making your work changes it.

    - Rick Rubin

Geospatial Professional Network - Vanguard Cabinet Website

Client: New Light Technologies

Project: implement a recent hurricane risk forecasting and web GIS application using the Felt API and web UI and evaluate development experience and user experience against current deployment.

Results: NLT FELT Subscription for geospatial employees.

Year: 2025

Community Characteristics of Commerce Investments

Client: US Census Commerce of Economy 2024

Project: Community Characteristics of Commerce Investments

Purpose: The application allows users to:

  • Explore various measures to understand community (county) characteristics better.

  • Identify counties participating in a federally-funded program and view the characteristics of these counties and the attributes of non-participating counties (either the rest of the nation or a user-curated list of "eligible" counties).

  • View differences in groups of participating and non-participating counties over time, and overlay program start and end year onto the time series.

Role: Design the UI / UX component and determine data variables for Economic Health Reort

Geospatial Professional Network - Vanguard Cabinet Website

Client: Geospatial Professional Network

Project: Vanguard Cabinet’s First Website for Young Geospatial Professionals.

Year: 2025

Business Economic Analysis Dashboard for Economic Impact

Client: FEMA, National Business Emergency Operation Center

Year: Jan 2023 - 2024

Role: Business dataset evaluation and comparison, dashboard front-end design, database and feature service creation and maintenance, Big Data Solutions research, data conflation to FEMA models, and curated damage assessment. Implementing economic impact indexes.

* BEAD was selected to be showcased on the ESRI UC 2024 Plenary Session for Disasters

Audience: FEMA Recovery Sector. Needed to understand business locations, whether they've been affected by an incident, the economic impact of individual occurrences and locations, and how business closures might affect the supply chain network.

City Resilient Program

Audience: The team worked with the City Resilience Program (CRP) and Open Cities Africa on resilience planning and capital mobilization. The CRP's extensive technical support ecosystem integrates climate and catastrophe risk scenarios into cities' upstream planning using the World Bank Group's sectoral expertise. The CRP's approach shifts from sectoral priorities to integrated and spatially informed priorities that capture the natural and built environments, transforming how cities can be supported to address their most pressing development challenges.

Role: Data Integration, Cartography, StoryMap, Hub Design and Implementation. Hosting 30 African city geospatial data and tools. Promoting qualitative public data collection utilizing hubs, user-interactive data, and surveys. National and local governments should invest more in resilience.

Client
World Bank , GFDRR CityCORE Africa Initiative, Open City Africa

Year
08/2020 - 03/2021

Community Lifeline Dashboards

Audience: Developed as a construct to increase effectiveness during disaster operations and response. Characterizes an incident and distinguishes root causes of potential priority issue areas upon impact assessment.

Role: Monitor the operational status of the lifelines, offline to stable, by appropriate and grouped lifeline category, to facilitate the situational awareness of FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) during steady and activation statesCommunity Lifeline Monitoring Dashboards assist in the above to visualize Facilitate the situational awareness of FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center (NRCC) during steady and activation states.

Client
FEMA

Year
02/2019

Exploring Rotterdam Through an iPhone 7 - Geospatial World Forum 2023

Client: New Light Technologies

Purpose: Marketing content to capture my trip to the Geospatial World Forum Conference as well as an opportunity to play with ESRI Vector Basemap edit-style capabilities.

Software/Data: ESRI VEcotry Basebap Editor & OpenStreetMap, iPhone photos.

Year: May 2023

FEMA Regional Geospatial Incident Journals

Audience: FEMA's request for Incident Journals is designed to monitor unique incidents and provide the best data available to the public and FEMA staff to understand areas at most significant risk of incoming incidents and how to plan and prepare to stabilize.

Role: Geospatial engineer: Design, Data Ingestion, and Matience.

Client
FEMA Regional Geospatial Office

Year
2018 - 202

Digital Nautical Charts Conflation (NOAA)

Client: Leidos contract for The Navy

Year: 2015

Purpose: Prepped nautical conversation data at four scales to combine horizontally and vertically into a 101T (one database) to improve NOAA navigation safety. Excellent understanding of GDS marine business norms and laws.
The Data Reviewer performed QC/QA checks to ensure accuracy and maintain topological links.

Role: Cartographer, geospatial data clean up, QC/QA

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