Career Journey
Experience & Education
10+ years across 5 countries — from field GIS research in DR Congo's forests to leading WHO's crisis mapping in Sudan's conflict zones.
Professional Experience
Information Management & GIS Officer
🚨 EmergencyWorld Health Organization — GIS Centre for Health (Sub-National Health Clusters)
📍 Chad (Eastern Provinces) & Sudan (Darfur & Khartoum)
- ▸ Collected and consolidated health data from Health Cluster partners; established questionnaire development and data validation mechanisms.
- ▸ Managed Health Cluster data platforms including 4W (Who does What, Where, When).
- ▸ Produced regular situation analyses and maps highlighting health sector responses, gaps, and priorities.
- ▸ Created health-related maps showing facilities, services, and needs — including disease outbreak and resource distribution layers.
- ▸ Contributed to health cluster bulletins and situation reports for decision-makers.
GIS Specialist — Head Quarter
🚨 EmergencyWorld Health Organization — GIS Centre for Health (Country Office Support)
📍 Homebased (50%) + Field Mission — Sudan & Burkina Faso (50%)
- ▸ 🇸🇩 Sudan — GIS Lead: provided technical GIS support to the WHO Sudan Country Office; delivered Geographic Data, Analytics & Products for the Sudan Crisis.
- ▸ Created cholera and disease case/death infographics & maps for the Sudan Health Cluster.
- ▸ Developed a GIS Action Plan outlining milestones & goals for reporting cycles.
- ▸ 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso — GIS Trainer: trained participants on QGIS, QField, zero-dose child data collection, land cover, DEM, and road network analysis.
Information Management Officer
iMMAP — Health Cluster Nord-Kivu
📍 Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ▸ Provided gap analyses, surveys, data entry/analysis, GIS support, and infographic production for the Health Cluster.
- ▸ Designed interactive maps from partner data; produced high-quality printed and electronic maps to prioritize intervention locations.
- ▸ Developed gap analysis maps by location and project activity.
Information Management Officer
🚨 EmergencyWorld Health Organization — Deployed by iMMAP (Emergency Flood Response)
📍 Islamic Republic of Pakistan
- ▸ Supported 4Ws and HeRAMS; communicated with partners, MoH, and workspace owners to identify data system needs and gaps.
- ▸ Performed geographic analysis for suspected, tested, and confirmed cholera cases.
- ▸ Developed flood situation maps in affected districts using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery in Google Earth Engine & ArcGIS.
- ▸ Contributed to inter-sectoral dashboards and reports via Power BI, working closely with OCHA.
- ▸ Provided ongoing technical guidance and training on data gathering, analysis, quality assurance, and information dissemination.
Information Management Officer
🚨 EmergencyWorld Health Organization — Deployed by iMMAP (Ebola Outbreak Response)
📍 Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ▸ Coordinated centralisation of EVD case, contact, and alert databases for the 12th Ebola epidemic in DR Congo.
- ▸ Co-installed and maintained the Go.Data server with INRB / MoH; ensured ongoing data quality.
- ▸ Produced SITREPs for health zones: Biena, Butembo, Katwa, and Musienene.
- ▸ Provided information management services: collection, preparation, analysis, mapping, and dissemination of results.
- ▸ Trained civil protection officers and IFRC in data collection via KoboCollect and Enketo.
- ▸ Supported the Healing Program in managing EVD survivor data.
Spatial Planning Expert
UN-Habitat — Community Participatory Land Use Plan
📍 Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ▸ Analysed land cover to propose and design land use plans for pilot sites.
- ▸ Contributed to spatial projects of village lands; collected, explored, and analysed spatial and socio-economic data.
- ▸ Conducted rural programming studies covering housing, businesses, health, economic activities, and environment.
- ▸ Organised validation workshops for settlement proposals and land use plans for CLUP pilot sites.
- ▸ Facilitated consultation and participation meetings with traditional leaders, residents, and users.
GIS & Database Officer
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) — CAFEC / Itombwe Conservation Programme
📍 Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ▸ Monitored land use/land cover of Itombwe Nature Reserve: image classification, change detection, and land use prediction.
- ▸ Conducted participatory mapping and demarcation of the Itombwe Reserve.
- ▸ Supervised and reported biodiversity indicators (flagship species) using Spatial Monitoring Tool (SMART).
- ▸ Trained eco-guards and field officers in the use of GPS, camera traps, and mapping techniques.
Junior Lecturer & Researcher — GIS and Remote Sensing
Université Évangélique en Afrique (UEA) — Faculty of Agronomy
📍 Democratic Republic of the Congo
- ▸ Taught and assisted in Cartography, Introduction to GIS, and Remote Sensing applied in Agriculture.
- ▸ Participated as GIS expert in the GIS lab; successfully ran GIS consultancies and research funded by CordAid, UNDP, and OVG.
- ▸ Worked as part-time instructor in ESRI-Rwanda summer school.
- ▸ Delivered practical work in Soil Conservation, GIS, Remote Sensing, and Cartography.
Education
BAC + 5 — Agriculture & Environmental Sciences (Crop Production)
Université Évangélique en Afrique
Bukavu, DR Congo
Master's-level degree with focus on crop production, environmental management, and applied GIS/Remote Sensing.
BAC + 3 — Agriculture & Environmental Sciences
Université Évangélique en Afrique
Bukavu, DR Congo
Bachelor-level studies in agricultural and environmental sciences.
High School — General Pedagogy
C.S. Espoir 2
Bukavu, DR Congo