NARA MCCRAY

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Associate Information Management Officer (Protection & Gender Based Violence)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Serve as the information management focal point for the Protection Sector and Sexual Gender Based Violence Task Force in the Lebanon Inter-Agency Coordination Unit, leading coordination and statistical analysis of reporting by partners

• Contributed to the coordinated inter-agency response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon by managing the activity-tracking database which captures the demographics and locations of services provided to over 900,000 beneficiaries in 2022

• Automated Rmarkdown summary statistics reports of restrictive measures, collective evictions, household protection assessment, inter-agency referrals and partner activity reporting data using Kobo, R, and Activity Info API

• Liaise with partner organizations to fulfill data requirements and uphold a coordinated inter-agency response to the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon 

• Clean, wrangle, analyze and highlight trends in nationally representative household survey datasets: 1.) Monthly Protection Monitoring data [technical lead], 2.) Annual Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees data [protection data analysis]

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Geospatial Data Scientist

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) GeoCenter

Work with subject matter experts within USAID to address priority development challenges and enhance the Agency’s capacity to integrate data and geographic analysis into routine decision making

• Proliferate the understanding and application of geospatial science in USAID through technical GeoFocusing workshops with international field missions

• Utilized remotely sensed climate data on acute and long-term drought, subnational food security data, and conflict incident location data to assess the relationship between drought/food insecurity on conflict in Nigeria to inform the USAID/Nigeria mission 

• Combined field collected data and remote sensing data to detect and quantify deforestation happening in small scale farmer plots in Peru 

• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends and patterns in complex survey data sets like the USAID Demographic and Heath Survey (DHS) to inform five-year Country Development Cooperation Strategies 

• Utilize R, Google Earth Engine, ArcGIS Pro, Tableau and ArcGIS Online to produce a variety of analysis and spatial data visualizations for different USAID sectors and missions

  • Gender Digital Divide StoryMap

 

GIS Officer - Central African Republic

REACH / ACTED

Develop survey sample design, produce reference maps, supervise GIS staff, and conduct flood susceptibility analysis - part remote and part field-based arrangement due to COVID-19. 

• Designed and managed household survey sample involving frequent updates due to security and environmental constraints using R and GIS – additionally created static navigation maps for enumerators

• Independently initiated and conducted a flood susceptibility and risk analysis using remote sensing techniques I previously developed for the Yemen mission

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NASA DEVELOP Geospatial Consultant

NASA

Project Leader of a team of four geospatial analysts, guiding research on flood risk and inundation detection in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico.  ​

• ​Managed a team of varying strengths to collaboratively acquire, process, and analyze Landsat 8 -OLI, and Sentinel 1 -SAR data

• Conducted a multi-criterion evaluation analysis employing the analytical hierarchy process to weigh the criteria and fuzzy membership to transform the data to a harmonized range of values

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GIS Officer - Yemen

REACH / ACTED

Design and production of maps and informational dashboards to inform humanitarian decision making for the on-going situation in Yemen.​

• Developed and conducted Earth observation based remote sensing analysis using the Google Earth Engine cloud-computing platform

  • Flood Susceptibility: map, methodology​

  • Weatherization Series: summer, winter, Shelter Cluster recommendations

• Used R statistical programming to wrangle and analyze survey data collected by REACH through partners in Yemen for multi-sectoral, WASH, and Cash/Market assessments

• Calculated a score of flood risk utilizing flood susceptibility and population figures for the 2020 Humanitarian Needs Overview (HNO)

• Collaborative design of interactive dashboards using R/Shiny and PowerBI as a means of accessible data dissemination​​

• Supervised entry-level GIS and data management staff, with emphasis on capacity building

 

REACH GIS Officer (Jr.) - Yemen

REACH / ACTED

Develop information products and conduct data analysis to enhance the humanitarian community’s decision making and planning capacity for emergency and response during a short surge mission in Nigeria, and longer Yemen mission remotely from Jordan

• Conducted analysis on the seasonal extent of Lake Chad for 2018 using remotely sensed data within the Google Earth Engine platform used to update shapefiles for reference and accessibility purposes https://naram.users.earthengine.app/view/lakechad2018

• Published map series for reporting on various REACH assessments: Borno Multi-Sector Needs Assessment, Local Government Areas Camp Profiling

 

REACH GIS Intern - Ukraine

REACH / ACTED

• Developed R scripts to monitor locations of household and service provision facility surveys to validate compliance with stratified random sampling methods

• Developed an interactive web mapping application in R using Shiny and Leaflet packages to streamline the spatial visualization of monthly IDP data: Link to article about project

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Research Assistant

World Resources Institute
Part-time position conducting scoping research for the development of Energy Access Watch (EAW), a global interactive mapping application which will serve as an open-source energy access visualization and decision tool​​

 

Pro Bono

Project Ethiopia

Created interactive web-map for Project Ethiopia, a non-profit operating in Dangila, the district where I served as a Peace Corps volunteer​​​: https://naramccray.carto.com/builder/4d93c300-a441-4473-be79-d0b97bf85257/embed  

 

GIS Intern

World Resources Institute

Summer internship creating interactive Energy Access Maps of Tanzania to promote investment in clean energy infrastructure ​

 

Pro Bono 

Catholic Relief Services

Conducted spatial analysis using baseline survey data to identify areas most vulnerable to climate change​​

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Freelance 

Wake Forest University

Forest Classification project focused on Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru, funded by Althelia​​

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Environment/Agricultural Volunteer

Peace Corps 

Facilitated cultural exchange, environmental education, and female empowerment​

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Spatial Analysis Laboratory Assistant 

AAMU Spatial Analysis Lab 

Work-study campus position; assisted others with GIS applications for their research projects​

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GIS Intern 

Grand Teton National Park  

Mapped trails and utilities and worked closely with experienced GIS professionals to learn ArcGIS software to create official National Park Service maps ​