Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
We deliver innovative geospatial solutions that strengthen emergency management, risk assessment, and community resilience nationwide. Expertise Includes:
- Led the development of FEMA’s National Risk Index, a public website and comprehensive geospatial dataset providing multi-hazard risk estimates for every U.S. county and Census tract, integrating exposure, frequency, loss, social vulnerability, and resilience metrics.
- Developed and implemented advanced risk methodologies, leveraging authoritative nationwide datasets and GIS technology to create a consistent, comprehensive, and interactive national risk assessment tool.
- Provided project management, stakeholder engagement, user requirements gathering, and facilitated meetings with diverse user groups to ensure the tool met broad community needs.
- Identified, gathered, and conditioned geospatial source data from multiple federal agencies; developed website content; tested the web application; and prepared technical documentation.
- Supported the roll-out of multiple data releases, addressed user and media inquiries, and performed analyses leveraging National Risk Index data to inform strategic risk reduction.
