Ankur Shah
83 Lost Meadow Lane, Sequim, WA 98382 USA
email: ankurbhai@mangolandia.org
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | ||
| Nov 2010 | Welthungerhilfe Sierra Leone, WAPFOR project | Freetown, Sierra Leone |
| International development organization working with GofSL to protect 180 km2 Forest Reserve
Consultant, Facilitator, and Trainer * Presented on participatory mapping techniques, including the IFAD approach and OSM-style mapping parties * Trained WHH staff and partners in operation of GPS units and community mapping * Organized on-site mapping party in local village * Trained GIS personnel in integrating data with Qgis, PostGIS, OpenStreetMaps and Google MapMaker |
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| Aug – Dec
2010 |
Population Services Int’l; Concern Worldwide; Samaritan’s Purse | Monrovia, Liberia |
| International organizations working across development sectors
GIS Consultant * Developed open-source internet-independent GIS stack with written training materials and technical documentation * Trained field and office staff in GPS operation, survey integration, and mapping concepts * Trained monitoring officers in QGIS for data visualization, analysis and integration (PostGIS, Excel, Access) |
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| Jul – Aug
2010 |
Welthungerhilfe Liberia, Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture (UPA) Project | Monrovia, Liberia |
| Project designed to train vulnerable urban farmers in sustainable food production for consumption and sales
Sustainable Agriculture Consultant * Researched, wrote, and designed 10 illustrated manuals according to firm deadlines for sustainable vegetable production in the local environment |
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| Jul – Dec
2010 |
Bentley Consumer Media Group | Washington D.C. |
| SEO/SEM start-up
Programming and Algorithmic Consultant * Wrote Javascript and PHP scripts for web-mining data collection and analysis * Designed formulas to measure similarity and relevance of web queries |
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| 2006-
2009 |
Worked with Gandhian service organizations across India
* Wrote and published Sometimes We Walk Alone – account of a pilgrimage in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi * Organized cooking group for widows in large slum (Manav Sadhana – Gujarat) * Taught workshops on creativity and community-building for rural teachers (Samvad – Maharastra) * Led groups of Indian-American youth on exploratory journeys of India, development, and self (Inspire – North India) |
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| Jul 2007 | Global Routes
* Led a group of high-school students on a one-month community-building and exploratory journey to Costa Rica |
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| Aug 2004 –
Mar 2005 |
O Bigode
* Co-founder of gift-economy restaurant and community in Bahia, Brazil * Wrote and published Cooking com Bigode – recipes and stories designed to teach the “jazz” of cooking |
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| Sep 2002 –
Jun 2003 |
EDonkey2000 | New York City |
| Peer-to-peer file-sharing start-up (closed-source)
Programmer * Overhauled back-end PHP/MySQL system for data management, advertising, and subscriptions * Managed builds, releases and NSIS installer; fixed core bugs in C/C++ |
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| Jun 2001 –
Dec 2001 |
Amadeus France | Nice, France |
| International airline ticketing software
Programming Intern * Designed and implemented automatic web-application development tool in Javascript and ASP * Documented technical and functional aspects of tools for the use of future programmers and operators |
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| EDUCATION | ||
| Sep 1997 –
Jun 2001 |
Stanford University | |
| * B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Sciences
* Honors in Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities |
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| SKILLS | ||
| * Languages: English (native), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (advanced proficiency), Gujarati (advanced proficiency), French (intermediate proficiency), Hindi (working), Arabic (beginning)
* Facilitation: Trained as a interfaith chaplain, led workshops in meditation * Programming languages (C, Java, Javascript, PHP), databases (MySQL, PostGreSQL, PostGIS), OS’s (Linux, Windows, Mac) |
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| INTERESTS AND HOBBIES | ||
| * Classical Indian flute, baritone ukulele, painting, organic farming, horticulture, vegetarian cooking, and travel | ||