Merrick Berman
Asst GIS Admin at Diamond Bay Research
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMerrick Berman is a seasoned GIS professional and project manager based in Cambridge, MA, with 11 years of experience and a long-running consultancy, Diamond Bay Research. He currently serves as Assistant GIS Administrator at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, coordinating geospatial data and streamlining research workflows for complex, multi-stakeholder projects. He has led data integration and GIS initiatives at Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis, IQSS, and related institutions, collaborating with historians, cartographers, analysts, and programmers to build large-scale datasets on China, Japan, and Tibet. His strengths include simplifying research workflows, providing hands-on technical support, and organizing knowledge to sustain large-scale programs. He brings a multidisciplinary foundation in Chinese studies from Columbia and UMass Amherst, complemented by an early stint at MIT's Internet & Telecoms Consortium that balanced research with international collaboration. An entrepreneur and facilitator, he translates intricate research questions into practical, auditable GIS solutions.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese, Chinese at Columbia University in the City of New YorkUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Chinese
Github Skills (24)
temporal9
hexo5
wordpress5
wordpress-theme5
static-site4
hugo-theme3
webmap2
css2
leaflet2
qgis2
hugo2
api2
python1
mobile-first1
historical1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
vajlex/chgis-fas-website
Aug 2016 - Dec 2020
public CHGIS website
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
cga-harvard/tgaz
Feb 2015 - Sep 2020
Temporal Gazetteer Schema
Contributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 years 7 months
gazetteertemporal
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