Asaye Nigussie

.  I have MSc. specialization in Geographic Information System from the Addis Ababa University since 2008; with Bachelor in Land Resource Management & Environmental Protection from Mekelle University; Besides a Data base programming and Data science courses at Africa Virtual University.  Thus I have been serving for more than 10-productive years at various development projects for various positions such as Technical advisory, Consultancy and executive team coordination, project leadership and besides various project management positions of project monitoring and Evaluation supervision and follow-up. My professional services years are well applied for t job description roles and responsibilities that could fit the position joining Master Card Foundation. Thus I could be the competent professional to meet the position for Job Application for program Director to manage the currently launched project of EDGE-Entrepreneurship in the Digital and Gig Economy an initiative to be implemented for five years.

Besides my recent Internship project completion at UNECA Africa Center for Statistics I have achieved and delivered various projects summarized to my CV Referenced;

·         I have finalized as  contractual   internship consultant project position for the Ethiopian Heritage Trust 30yeard managed forest of the Entoto Natural Park forest Landscape; of GIS Based Forest Baseline survey to monitor and understand the natural forest Land cover change dynamics besides the recurrent Landscape management SWC-Soil and Water Conservation and indigenous tree plantation that have successfully restored the eucalyptus monoculture plantation forest stand to 500ha ecologically restored indigenous forest.

·         Flood Risk mapping and spatial Analyst of the Addis Ababa river catchment settlement of the river bed encroachment, drainage failure and landform faults of community vulnerability site analysis for flood mitigation adaptation and participatory planning. Validate Stakeholder spatial data for participatory planning, Community sketch mapping, and Report compiling and map publication on Google earth platform visualization.

·         Lead Consultant at GIZ-F4F –Forest for the Future Landscape Restoration Project at the of Gamo zone of Arebaminch of Great Rift valley,Lake Chamo Catchment Participatory Land Use Planning;

·         Asset Management & Infrastructure development Annual Performance Assessor(APA) consultant, under Selam Development Consultant(SDC) & World Bank(WB) for the Ministry of Urban Development & Housing(MUD&H) Urban Infrastructure & Institutional Development Program(UIIDP).

·         GIS Analyst for ESIA site analysis report reviewer for various Projects including Site analysis for Satellite Manufacturing, Assembly and Testing(MAIT) Lab establishment for ESSTI, Coal mining investment, Ecotourism lodging development, Real-estate Building allocation under MEF Consultancy,

·         GIS Data Analyst for the MEFCC/fao for REDD+ program National Carbon accounting MRV-Lab establishment for the National Forest Land Cover data-base development, Analysis to Generate Activity Data & Forest Reference Level,

·         Project Principal Investigator of Participatory Spatial Planning for Protected area management using Participatory 3Dimentional Modeling of Human Elephant conflict management Innovative research project grant with EIAR/NARF- SEEDAct,

·         Spatial database development Consultant for USAID-UAPHAW. National urban Agriculture program under DAI Int/ECI-Africa,

·         College Lecture for GIS courses at the Department of Environment & Sustainable Development under Hope University college,

·         Addis Ababa Eco-city project Master plan development of Spatial planning support for selected pilot project sites in Addis Ababa under Canadian Urban international;

·         GIS Expert for Gulelle Botanical Garden Site survey for Land provision, Master Plan development & Landscape architectural plan Suitability analysis GCP survey approval.

·         GIS Specialist for urban planning Geospatial dataset geo-database system development; data organization, integration, analysis for base map, utility, structural plan revision, LDP development for Ethiopian fast growing cities under E-gis international Consultancy/Ministry of Urban Works & Housing.