• Data Analysis, Visualization, Analytical Dashboard, Data Integration & APIs, Data/Information & Web/Mobile Database Apps
• Tools/Platforms: Power Bi, Tableau, MS-SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL/SPSS, MS-Excel, ArcGIS/ QGIS/ Power Query /Commcare, KOBO, ODK, SurveyCTO, DHIS2, Azure App Services, Synapse/Portal, Microsoft Power platforms & office 365
• Programming Language: Python, Djnago, MATLAB, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, VBA, DAX, Sci-Learn

• M.S., Software Engineering | HiLCoE School of Computer Science and IT (October 2014)
• B.S., Computer Science | Haramaya University (July 2008)

Data Analytcs Manager @ Mercy Corps (Jan 2022 - Dec 2025)

• Develop Data Analysis, Visualization, Analytical dashboards & GIS Maps that support program/portfolio data-driven decision-making (Python/Pandas, QGIS, Power BI and Tableau)
• Development of MEL Information/Data Management System with standard MEL Technologies: Commcare, Web & Mobile Apps, MS-Office365 suite, Azure and Power Platform and supporting documents (Data Collection tools, SOP, Guides, User manuals & Analysis Plan)
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and scalable ETL/ELT Azure pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Develop and optimize data workflows to support advanced analytics, machine learning models, and reporting tools.
• Manage cloud and on-prem data platforms and App Services (e.g., Azure, Power BI, Commcare, or on-prem SQL/NoSQL systems).
• data integrity, governance, and security best practices across Mobile/Web applications, pipelines and data lakes/warehouses.

Data Quality MEL Officer @Lifebox foundation (Dec 2021 - Jan 2022)

• Design & Customize DHIS2 platform based on project’s requirements. Indicators, data quality & reports and analytics dashboards.
• Provide training on relevant for Lifebox and Clean-Cut hospital staff on data access and use in DHIS2 and other data systems.
• Manage technical and non-technical documentation of Lifebox’s DHIS2 and other data systems and analyze DHIS2 performance, identify challenges and troubleshoot.

Database Manager @Fintrac Inc. (Jan 2018 - Dec 2021)

• Design & implement efficient MEL Data Management System (e.g., collection, modeling, quality assurance, analysis, and distribution).
• Oversees organization’s Information System (CIRIS) database system which keeps track of more than 300,000 project direct beneficiaries.
• Respond to database requirements changes by supporting users on troubleshooting desktop, web-based, and mobile applications.
• Develop SQL based reports & Tableau Visualization for performance indicator tracking and share for reporting & decision making

Data Analyst @Jhon Snow Inc. (Dec 2016 - Jan 2018)

• Develop database system to track program performance using different application and statistical software like MS Access, MySQL, Mobile Data Collection system (ODK) Epi-info, SPSS, STATA, Dhis2 and Power BI
• Lead the data quality check process by reviewing data records hardcopy) coming from the field, the database, and the reports generated from the database based on the organization's data quality standards.
• Regularly generate and share static and dynamic visualizations to Management & sub-offices (Microsoft Excel, Tableau or Power BI)

Data Manager @Ethiopian Public Health Association (EPHA) (Apr 2013 - Dec 2016)

• Design and organize Data Management Systems through mechanism for different research and studies conducted by EPHA and University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
• Develop Data Management plan and Data Management SOP for the study. Support the development of high-quality, reliable, and user-friendly study database
• Establish & maintain version controls of the Case Report Forms, SOPs and Databases and Regular coding of the study database Quality Control & Assurance (QA/QC) queries.
• Liaise with PI, EPHA Staff and the UCSD informatics Team to report and address data related issues.

Database Manager @Johns Hopkins Univeristy - TSEHAI Project (Jul 2011 - Apr 2013)

• Development and maintenance of different project supported databases and Support data analysis for informed decision making.
• Regular reporting (Quarter, Semi-Annual & Annual Project progress report) to Donor (CDC Ethiopia), Country Directors and Project Managers (Local & Overseas).
• Ensuring all the data complies with legal regulations and Organization Data/Information is protected.

• Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence (BI) system | MEL Technology, Commcare, Micorosoft Azuzre and Power-BI | Mercy Corps |2024
• CRM System (Web App) - Concept Note , CARM, Travel Approval and Fleet Managment System | Django, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, Java script/HTMX |Mercy Corps | 2023
• CLEAN CUT Research Data Managment System (Web/Mobile Apps) | DHIS2 | Lifebox Foundation | 2022
• CIRIS - Beneficairy & Activity Tracking Data Managment System (Web/Mobile Apps) | MS-SQL Server, PHP, Bootstrap, CSS, Java script - JS | Fintrac Inc. | 2019
• ADDIS-VP Study Data Management System (CMS) - Web App | Plone CMS, Zope Object Database (ZODB) | EPHA | 2015

Agri link MEAL Learning Series:Going from Data to Knowledge

1. Households’ perception of private sector engagement is associated with their willingness to pay for improved water supply services: evidence from three rural districts in Ethiopia
2. Bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in an Ethiopian prison: Prevalence from screening of entrant and resident prisoners
3. Evaluation of an adaptive, multimodal intervention to reduce postoperative infections following cesarean delivery in Ethiopia: study protocol of the CLEAN-CS cluster-randomized stepped wedge interventional trial
4. A Perioperative Quality Improvement Program for Cesarean Delivery in Ethiopia AStepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial
5. Sterile Reprocessing and Surgical Safety Checklist Training to Improve Perioperative Infection Prevention in Ethiopia
6. Bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis in an Ethiopian prison: Prevalence from screening of entrant and resident prisoners
7. An observational cohort study on the effects of extended postoperative antibiotic prophylaxis on surgical-site infections in low- and middle-income countries
8. Postoperative antibiotic practices and surgical site infections in twenty low- and middle-income country hospitals

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