ALASSANE BARRO

(U.S. Permanent Resident); *** N. Wall Street; Carbondale, IL 62901

n18iv1@r.postjobfree.com; n18iv1@r.postjobfree.com;618-***-****

Bilingual (Fluent in English, and French)

KEY WORDS: GIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; HEALTH; ENVIRONMENT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SPECIFIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SKILLS

• Five years of professional experience

• Four years of experience working with GIS, Cartography, and Statistics

• Four years of experience working with ArcGIS 10.x, ArcView 3.X, and TeraSeer STIS 1.7.X

• Two years of experience working with Remote Sensing- ERDAS Imagine 9.3

• Two year of experience working with SAS 9.2

• Programming language (VBA – Intermediate)

• Familiar with Front end and Office software, scripting, processing large datasets and databases (e.g. Ms Access)

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

EDUCATION

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC),Carbondale, IL, Master of Science – Geography and Environmental Resources (GIScience),May 2011

International Institute for Water and Environmental Engineering (2iE), Master of Engineering - Sanitation and Environment, 2006, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Polytechnic University of Bobo Dioulasso / Université Polytechnique de Bobo Dioulasso (UPB), Bachelor of Engineering Agronomy,2004, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

05/2011 – 08/2011: Research Assistant at SIUC, Department of geography and environmental resources

•Geocoding and address matching

•Statistical analysis of biophysical data

•Organizing and updating database info

08/2010 - 05/2011: Teaching Assistant at SIUC, Department of geography and environmental resources: GIS and Spatial analysis

Instructed laboratory component of:

•Introduction to GIS

•Advanced GIS studies (Spatial modeling, topology, 3D visualization, Animation, GIS System Analysis, Spatial Databases)

•Spatial Analysis (Pattern Descriptors and Analyzers)

•Geostatistical methods

01//2007 - 12/2007: GIS Specialist-Health Engineer: Regional Center for Drinkable Water and Sanitation at Low Cost (CREPA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

CREPA is the largest regional center in Africa for providing sanitation services and drinkable water supply. The center has National Representations in 17 countries in Africa.

•Mapped the risk of vector borne diseases related to wastewater, solid waste and fecal sludge discharge

•Identified and mapped candidate sites for wastewater treatment systems and fecal sludge treatment

•Inventoried wastewater, solid waste treatment and fecal sludge management systems, and quantified fecal sludge discharge

•Completed an economic and financial analysis of wastewater and fecal sludge management

07/2006 - 02/2007: GIS Analyst/Intern: African Program for onchocerciasis Control in Africa (APOC)

APOC is a “World Health Organization” program based in Ouagadougou, using GIS and spatial analysis technique for Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control.

•Analyzed the risk and mapped areas at high risk of onchocerciasis

•Spatial Database cleaning

07/2003 - 12/2005: Research assistant: Integrated Management of Crop Predators and Depredators (GIPD). Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

GIPD is a program of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for crop pests’ control.

•Designed and monitored entomological trials in rice field

•Statistical analysis of entomological data sets

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

•April 12-16, 2011: Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers Seattle, Washington.

•October 21-23, 2010: Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers: West Lakes Division. Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: Association of American Geographers (AAG)

MASTER THESIS: “Using GIS for onchocerciasis control in Africa: case of Ghana and Burundi”.

In my thesis, biophysical variables were essentially used to derive statistic and spatial models of the risk of river blindness in Ghana and Burundi”.

PUBLICATION: Souleymane Nacro, Sié Alassane Barro, Lucien Sawadogo, Aboubacar Gnamou, and Honoré Tankoano: The effect of planting date on the African rice gall midge Orseolia oryzivora (Diphtheria: Cecidomyiidae) damage under irrigated conditions in Boulbi, central Burkina Faso. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science (2006), 26: 227-232.

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