Address: 658, Hawkeye Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52246, USA

CURRICULUM VITAE

MD ABU SAYEED MAROOF Address: 658, Hawkeye Drive, Iowa City, Iowa 52246, USA  +1 319 621 2901  [email protected]

EDUCATION

Masters in Geography Department of Geography and Sustainability Sciences (2014-2016) University of Iowa, Iowa, United States

International MBA Ashcroft Business School (2010-2011) Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bachelor in Urban and Rural Planning Urban and Rural Planning, Khulna University, Bangladesh (2005-2009) “Dissertation Title: "Problems and Prospects of 'Vabodaho' in Livelihood Crisis Management: A study on Nehalpur village under Jessore District"

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

University of Iowa, Iowa, USA Graduate Assistant August, 2014 - Present

. Teaching assistant for the course ‘Contemporary Environmental Issues’ in Fall 2015 . Teaching assistant (grading) for the course ‘Geography of Asia’ in Spring 2015 . Research assistant with the Department of Natural Resources in summer 2015 . GIS lab assistant in Fall 2014

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Dhaka, Bangladesh GIS Coordinator December, 2012 – June, 2014 . Assist in data collection and database management for the Multi-hazard Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (MRVA) project. . Preparation of maps from RS images for disaster risk and vulnerability assessment. . Conducting analysis which are focused on disaster risk assessment and loss estimation. . Extracting and compiling different kinds of GIS data from different kinds of sources.

DATASEARCH, Dhaka, Bangladesh Program Officer (Data Division) May, 2009 - November, 2012 . All kinds of GIS and CAD related work and planning of survey . Coordination with client for GIS work and output . Data accumulate and analyzing by regarding different kinds of factors. . Field visit for surveying . Analyzing field data through software like SPSS and Arc GIS. . Identify process improvements to streamline date collection and report generation. Design, Development Consultant (DDC), Dhaka, Bangladesh Intern October, 2007 - December, 2007 . Worked on data collection process of Detail Area Plan (DAP) of Dhaka city . Assisted in report writing

PUBLICATIONS

Rufat, S., Tate, E., Burton, C. G., & Maroof, A. S. (2015). Social Vulnerability to Floods: Review of Case Studies and Implications for Measurement. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Maroof, A. S. and Jahan, S. (2010) Problems and Prospects of 'Vabodaho' in Livelihood Crisis Management: A study on Nehalpur village under Jessore District, VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, Germany.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Geographic Information Science and Technology: Arc GIS 10.x, HAZUS-MH, ERDAS Imagine, Bentley PowerMap, PowerSurvey, Geoda, Ilwis Statistical: SPSS, Microsoft Excel Programming: User knowledge of Python Graphics: Sketch Up, Adobe Photoshop Others: Microsoft Office, Auto CAD

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

American Association of Geographers (AAG), 2015 – Till now Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP), Member No: M 661, 2009 – Till now

LANGUAGE SKILLS

LANGUAGE SPEAK READ WRITE BENGALI EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT ENGLISH EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT

*IELTS Score: 7.50 (Listening: 8.0; Reading: 8.5; Writing: 7.0; Speaking: 6.5) **GRE Score: 315 (Verbal - 151; Quantitative - 164; Analytical - 3)

Vitae Revised: 01 December, 2015