Albert S. Kochaphum
Los Angeles, California, 90010 United States of America
Education
Master of Urban and Regional Planning, 2014
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Concentration in Transportation
Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies: Concentration in the Urban Environment, 2009
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
Professional Experience
Digital Communications Administrator, July 2021 – July 2024
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency (Metro), Los Angeles
- Built and deployed web applications and CI/CD data pipelines for transit scheduling, trip cancelations, API endpoints and Jupyter notebooks for transit data.
- Developed documentation and open data standards for data transparency within Metro's Marketing Department and public stakeholders.
Campus GIS Coordinator, August 2014 - July 2021
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles
- Digital project coordination and research support for the UCLA campus and ArcGIS Online administration with a specialization on maps and data.
- Created the UCLA GIS Stakeholders group to share and update campus units on GIS events, best practices, and changes. Managed and supervised student workers on coding and data entry tasks. Create and managed GIS working groups at the campus level and across the UCs in California.
- Provided introductory and intermediate instruction for the courses in the Digital Humanities, African American Studies, and the Asian American studies department in spatial analysis, Python, and JavaScript.
Associate GIS Analyst, August 2010 – Feburary 2011
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Completed a Slum Atlas for Bangalore and reports for Bangalore Slum Strategies.
- Made over 200 maps and ward-wise slum profile sheets for City Sanitation Plans.