Professional Experience:
Regional Strategy Contribution
- Contributed to the design of Objective 4 (Part 2) of the Pacific Regional Ten Year Pacific Statistics Strategy (TYPSS): Dissemination methods, tools and standards.
National Development Work
- Coordinator and Trainer for web development and data dissemination tools for the Pacific Region;
- Upgrade of the Vanuatu Stats Office website (www.vnso.gov.vu), Samoa, Tonga, Niue, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea (pending). Plus in-country technical assistance and training;
- Development of the online health surveillance systems for Solomon Islands and Wallis and Futuna.
Regional Development Work
- Lead Developer for the Pacific Regional Information System (PRISM) upgrade strategy (www.spc.int/prism) and the National Minimum Development Indicator Database (NMDI) (www.spc.int/nmdi), including management of 4 staff;
- Design and Implementation of a partnership strategy with the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat for publishing Official Development Assistance information – www.spc.int/nmdi/forumcompact;
- Development of an innovative time-series animation tool for Pacific data – www.tabletochart.com
In-country training and TA (web dissemination training)
- National Statistics Offices: Vanuatu, Samoa, Fiji, Wallis & Futuna, Niue, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia; Ministry of Finance: Cook Islands (4 divisions, 16 staff)
Sub-regional/Regional
- Lead facilitator - New Caledonia (5 PRISM workshops from 2011-2014) (4-8 countries attending each);
- Co-facilitator for data documentation workshop - Fiji (10 countries) with OECD;
- Heads of Planning and Statistics 2010 and 2013 – chaired dissemination sessions; Presentation at 2012 Committee of Representatives of Govts and Administrations (CRGA)
Global/Inter-regional
- Presentation to the World Bank at the "Making Statistics Matter" conference in Cape Town (Dec 2010), and SIDS inter-regional preparatory meeting in Barbados (2013);
- Training courses in Washington (2010) and Paris (2011) on publishing the National Data Archive of Pacific survey metadata and microdata;
- Involved in the Expert Group Meeting on “Opportunities and advantages of enhanced collaboration on statistical information management in Asia and the Pacific” in Bangkok (June 2011);
- Collaborative meetings with World Bank Data Group in Washington (2014) to promote and develop dissemination products