Summary
Alber Sanchez is a geoinformatics researcher and developer with 13 years of experience building interoperable spatial data infrastructures and managing GIS projects across academia, government, and industry. Currently a Research Assistant at INPE and PhD-trained in Earth System Science, he blends rigorous research with hands-on software engineering, ETL, and geodatabase design. His career spans roles from GIS manager and coordinator to project manager, giving him a rare combination of technical depth in semantics and big-data GIS and practical delivery experience for stakeholders. Based in Brazil with international training in Münster and Colombia, he often bridges multilingual, cross-institutional teams to operationalize spatial data for decision-making. Notably, he pairs long-term research on interoperability with day-to-day systems work—keeping complex geospatial services synchronized with enterprise tools like CRM and SharePoint.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Especialista en Gerencia y Desarrollo Integral de Proyectos, Project management, Especialista en Gerencia y Desarrollo Integral de Proyectos, Project management at Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería 'Julio Garavito'
Msc, Information and Communications Sciences, Msc, Information and Communications Sciences at Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Earth system science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Earth system science at National Institute for Space Research
Msc in Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics, Msc in Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / University of Muenster
Spanish, English, Portuguese, German