About Me
Geomatics professional, with a passion for using spatial technology to solve real-world environmental and social challenges. My work spans GIS analysis, LiDAR processing, remote sensing, and field surveying - with a particular focus on combating illegal mining, resolving land disputes, and promoting sustainable land management in Ghana and beyond. I bring hands-on experience from telecommunications, data analytics, and community-based mapping projects. I am driven by the belief that geospatial tools can empower communities and drive meaningful, lasting change.
Programming Languages
GIS Tools
Remote Sensing
Data Engineering
Field Tech
Other Tools
Experience
GIS & Spatial Data Project Assistant
University of British Columbia – Urban Nature Design Research Lab • May 2026 - Present • Vancouver, BC
Supporting geospatial research on urban blue-space accessibility in Metro Vancouver by developing reproducible workflows for spatial data cleaning, quality checks, workflow documentation, accessibility analysis, and integration of waterfront park, Census, and Mapbox datasets for spatial and statistical analysis.
Junior Intelligent Network Operations Analyst
Telecel Ghana • Sept 2024 - July 2025 • Accra, Ghana
Managed data quality control for telecommunications systems serving 6M+ subscribers. Developed Python scripts (Paramiko, Pandas) to automate data collection and monitoring. Processed Call Data Records (CDRs) and contributed to the ETL pipeline for a customer loyalty platform. Produced weekly technical reports analyzing system performance.
Data Analyst Intern
Deep Metrics Inc. • Oct 2022 - Dec 2022 • Missouri, USA (Remote)
Processed large-scale datasets for computer vision and transportation analytics. Conducted quality assurance on field-collected data and prepared annotated datasets for AI model training. Contributed to model evaluation pipelines for detecting moving vehicles and pedestrians.
Geomatic Engineering Intern
Town and Country Planning Department • Oct 2021 - Dec 2021 • Asamankese, Ghana
Conducted field surveys using GPS and total stations for cadastral mapping and boundary delineation. Prepared site plans and technical drawings using AutoCAD for municipal planning projects. Performed spatial analysis of land records to identify encroachment patterns and documentation gaps. Integrated GPS field data into GIS databases and created maps for land-use planning.
Projects
Forest Canopy Gap Dynamics - Airborne LiDAR Analysis
Processed multi-temporal airborne LiDAR point cloud data spanning 10 years (2012–2022) to assess forest canopy gap dynamics and structural changes. Created derived products including Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and Canopy Height Models (CHMs) using R-based geospatial workflows and spatial statistics.
LiDAR Forest Attribute Mapping - Alex Fraser Research Forest
Built a full airborne LiDAR processing pipeline in R for UBC's Alex Fraser Research Forest - from raw point cloud normalization through CHM generation, plot-level metric extraction, forward stepwise regression modeling, and wall-to-wall spatial prediction. Produced 10 m resolution maps of aboveground biomass and dominant height.
Terrain Hazard Screening of Harvested Cutblocks - Central BC
Built a terrain-based geohazard index for harvested cutblocks in central British Columbia using a 30m DEM. Derived slope, TWI, RTPI, flow accumulation, and aspect layers in Python with WhiteboxTools, reclassified each into hazard classes, and combined them via a weighted sum. Results showed cutblocks predominantly occupy low-to-moderate hazard terrain.
Campus Navigation System - KNUST
Co-developed a web-based GIS navigation application for over 85,000 campus users at KNUST, featuring real-time routing, building search, and points of interest. Conducted extensive GPS field data collection and managed the spatial database of road networks and campus infrastructure.
GSuite Geospatial Application
Collaborated on the development of GSuite, a Python-based desktop application for geomatics and geospatial computations. Contributed to implementing tools for surveying calculations, coordinate transformations, geometry operations, and geospatial file conversions. The application provides an interactive graphical interface that streamlines common geomatics workflows for spatial data processing.
Education
Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management (MGEM)
University of British Columbia • May 2025 – April 2026
MCF Scholarship | Capstone: Multi-temporal airborne LiDAR analysis of forest canopy gap dynamics (2012–2022). Relevant coursework: Remote Sensing, Spatial Statistics & Modeling, GIS for Environmental Management, R and Python Programming.
Cumulative Average: 94.6%
Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) – Geomatic Engineering
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology • January 2021 – August 2024
Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Campus Navigation System at KNUST. Relevant courses: GIS, Remote Sensing, Geodetic Surveying, GNSS, Cartography, Photogrammetry.
CGPA: 3.94/4.0 | Top 1% of 166 students
Certifications
Geographic Information Systems & ArcGIS Pro
ESRI Training • 2025
Remote Sensing
ESRI Training • 2025
Integrate Data with the FME Platform
FME Academy • 2025
Innovation for African Universities Training
IAU • 2023