Project Manager Gis

Ritika Prasai, MS

469-***-**** admbss@r.postjobfree.com Stephenville, Texas 76401 USA

Github: https://github.com/RitikaPrasai

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experienced MS Graduate with a demonstrated history of creative thinking and geospatial data analysis with sophisticated statistical models in research universities and organizations

4 grants approved and 4 papers under review

Successful track record of leadership and team working

Skilled in ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, Google Earth Engine, QGIS, Python, R, SPSS, HTML,CSS, Tableau etc

Subject matter expertise in ecology, biodiversity, conservation, climate change, statistics, microbial ecology, biogeography

Seeking a position of Data Analyst/GIS analyst/Statistician/Project Manager

Authorized to work in any locations of USA

EXPERTISE

spatial analysis • species distribution modeling • species range • machine learning • regression • boosted regression trees • maximum entropy (MaxEnt) • big data • visualization • biodiversity • conservation • climate change • research reports • predictive models • decision analytics • multivariate statistics • clustering • dimensionality reduction COMPLETED PROJECTS

Extracting road side ditch segments using DEM derived from LiDAR- A case study in Apalachicola National Forest, Florida, USA-used QGIS and SAGA GIS

Species distribution modelling of prey and tiger species in Chitwan National Park, Nepal using R and Maxent

Species distribution modelling of Bengal Florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis) in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal using R

Supervised classification of NAIP imagery using Google Earth Engine Python API- A case study in Florida, USA

Assessing the temporal variation of NDVI in Chitwan National Park, Nepal using Google Earth Engine Python API

Application of deep learning model -Unet classifier in supervised classification of NAIP imagery-A case study in Florida, USA-used pretrained deep learning model of ArcGIS Pro PUBLISHED PAPERS

https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/BANKO/article/view/33479 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas

August 2019 - Current

Provide Research Assistance for species distribution modelling, land use land cover change analysis, and habitat modelling based projects.

Provide Teaching Assistance for GIS, landscape ecology, natural resource management and soil labs.

Assist in writing grants, journal research papers

QGIS plugins development using pyqt5 and pygt5 designer (data entry plugins, lat/long convertor, calculator, whitbox tools)

Founder & CEO

RikTech Commercia February 2020-Present

Lead the company’s short and long term strategies

Evaluate the work of other executive leaders in the company

Assess the risk of the company and ensure they are monitored and minimized Geospatial Analyst

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University-Centre for Spatial Ecology and Restoration, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

May 2020 - August 2020

Applied analytical skills to study images and determine various type of features on the ground.

Developed Machine Learning and Deep Learning models to automate the geospatial workflows.

Build a Python REST API with Serverless, Lambda, and DynamoDB

Handling Black Friday traffic by sending Shopify webhooks to AWS Lambda (capstone project)

Predictive modelling with Azure Machine Learning Studio EDUCATION

MS in Agriculture and Natural Resource Science - Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas

May 2021

Species distribution modelling using R, Python and Maxent

Detect land use land cover change (LULC) using ERDAS IMAGINE, Arc GIS, Google Earth Engine software

Teach and prepare course materials of GIS and remote sensing, natural resource ecology BSc - Institute of Forestry (IOF), Pokhara, Nepal March 2018

Involved in GIS and remote sensing based projects

Involved in wildlife habitat related projects

RELEVANT COURSES TAKEN OUTSIDE OF UNIVERSITY

Data Science courses

Predictive modelling with Azure Machine Learning Studio, Coursera • Build data science web app with Streamlit and Python, Coursera • Clustering Geolocation Data Intelligently in Python, Coursera • Practicing coding interview questions in Python, DataCamp • Writing functions in Python, DataCamp

GIS courses

Geospatial and Environmental Analysis, Coursera • Practicing coding interview questions in Python, DataCamp • GIS Data Formats, Design and Quality, Coursera • GIS, Mapping and Spatial Analysis Capstone, Coursera • Introduction to GIS for Developers, Pluralsight Visualization courses

Data visualization with Plotly Express, Coursera • Image processing with Python, Coursera • Exploratory data analysis with Seaborn, Coursera

COMMUNITY LIAISON

Conservation Partner

Katie Adamson Conservation Fund, Colorado

January 2015 - Current

Design conservation based projects for Nepal

Organize the fund raise programs in different parts of Nepal and conduct conservation awareness camps

Monitor and supervise the projects supported by Katie Adamson Conservation Fund, USA COMMUNITY SERVICE

Member of the Student Task Force Program,Non-Resident Nepalese Association (NRNA) (2021-2023)

• Coordination with local chapters in student's cultural programs and events

• Coordination with local chapters in student's cultural programs and events

• Career counseling and guidance

Program Coordinator, Environment Department, Nepal Youth Council,Nepal (2016-2019)

• Designed youth and environment related activities and events

• Conducted social awareness camps and events

• Conducted GIS and remote sensing based training to youths in collaboration with WWF Nepal, Katie Adamson Conservation Fund, USA

https://nationalyouthcouncil.org/gis-training/

SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS

Annual Student Membership Award 2020 from American Ornithological Society, USA (2020)

Graduate Scholarship award for outstanding academic performance from Tarleton State University, Texas, USA (2020), Grant amount $1300

Rufford Small Grants For Nature Conservation (RSG) for the project “Analyzing Bengal Florican's

(Houbaropsis bengalensis ) Distribution Pattern in Different Grassland Habitat in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal” (2018), Principal Investigator- Ritika Prasai, Grant amount-£4990

Rufford Small Grants For Nature Conservation (RSG) for the project “ Habitat Monitoring and Counting total Population of Bengal Florican (Houbaropsis bengalensis ) in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal” (2016), Principal Investigator -Ritika Prasai, Grant amount-£4551

IDEA WILD Small Equipment Grants (2016), Principal Investigator-Ritika Prasai, Received equipments-Laptop (1), Binoculars (2)

Research grant for the study of ‘Orchid species distribution at Panchase Protected Forest, Pokhara from Himalayan Nature, Nepal” (2016), Principal Investigator- Ritika Prasai, Grant amount-NPR 25,000

Travel grant from Tarleton State University to present research poster for the project “Analyzing Bengal Florican's (Houbaropsis bengalensis ) Distribution Pattern in Different Grassland Habitat in Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve, Nepal (2019), Grant amount-$ 320.50

Travel grant from Tarleton State University to present research poster for the project “Species distribution modelling of prey and tiger species in Chitwan National Park, Nepal using R and Maxent, Grant amount-$ 320.50

PRESENTATION TO INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS (5 in total) Prasai et.al (2018) Population Status and Distribution of Critically Endangered Bengal Florican

(Houbaropsis bengalensis) in the Grassland of Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve,Nepal. Symposium presentation in 2020 Annual Meeting of Texas Chapter of Wildlife Society, Feb 12-15, 2020, Chorpus Christi, Texas

MEDIA PROFILE

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritika-prasai-930267ab/ https://www.rufford.org/projects/ritika_prasai

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ritika_Prasai2 REFERENCES

Hemanta Kafley, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Tarleton State University

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Jason Drake, Ph.D.

Forest Ecologist, USDA Forest Service- National Forests in Florida Co-Director, Center for Spatial Ecology and Restoration (CSER) admbss@r.postjobfree.com

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David Johnson

Executive Director, Katie Adamson Conservation Fund, USA admbss@r.postjobfree.com

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