Cyndi Ignacio
About the Candidate
•A Geographic Information System (GIS) Professional with over 8 years experience in applying GIS, Remote Sensing (RS) and programming in a wide range of projects including information technology, asset and exposure database development, road assessment program, disaster risk analysis, reduction and management, open government partnership, and natural resource and coastal zone management.
•Formal academic background in Geography and Environmental Science
•Well-versed in Agile/Scrum lifecycle methodology with experience in scrum mastery
Education
Government scholarship recepient
Magna cum laude
Experience
-Create, test, document and debug REST APIs for web map services using Python (e.g. Flask), Javascript, JSON and MongoDB.
-Automate GIS analysis using GDAL/Shapely, OpenCV, PostGIS, GeoPandas.
-Perform data integrity, conversion, database management, analysis and modeling.
-Analyze customer needs and provide solutions
-Extracted and processed buildings, vegetation, roads and other features from LiDAR, satellite images, field surveys and secondary sources using ArcGIS Pro, QGIS and python
-Created workflow process to streamline data processing
-Developed and conducted table top exercises, web maps & training modules for disaster/crisis management
-Coordinated project plans, project schedules, work hours, budgets & expenditures
-Automated GIS workflow for pre-processing of spatial data
-Assisted the design and testing of various Open Government (OG) platforms
-Collected, compiled and converted spatial data from field, open sources, government and satellite images (Planet Lab, Digital Globe) into a geographic database
-Conducted geomapping analysis of payment and health systems in Laos
-Conducted spatio-temporal analysis of remotely sensed images and topographic maps for coastal change detection using ArcGIS, QGIS, ENVI and python.
-Examined bathymetric changes and sediment movement to quantify coastal erosion.
-Determined relative vulnerabilities of coastal areas to climate change hazards such as sea-level rise and waves using spatial analysis.
-Handled training on coastal integrity assessment using ArcGIS and QGIS.