PFARISO NELWAMONDO
Centurion
Summary
Spatial Strategist with extensive experience in geospatial intelligence and spatial analytics, currently enhancing financial-crime monitoring at the Financial Intelligence Centre. Proven track record in developing GIS databases, analytical models, and API integration workflows to support decision-making and operational efficiency. Former GIS Officer at Limpopo Economic Development, Environment & Tourism, skilled in remote sensing techniques and biodiversity management. Adept at using SQL and SAS for data analysis, with a strong foundation in cartography and geospatial dashboards. Career goal: to leverage expertise in GIS strategy to drive innovative solutions in spatial data management.
Overview
5
5
Languages
1
1
Certification
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Spatial Strategist - Monitoring and Analysis Division
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)
02.2022 - Current
- Apply spatial statistics, visualisation, data mining and geospatial intelligence to identify patterns, hotspots, anomalies and relationships in financial-crime information.
- Enhanced financial-crime case monitoring dashboard to improve management visibility and facilitate informed decision-making.
- Develop and maintain GIS databases and analytical models for users, ensuring spatial information is structured, retrievable and fit for operational use.
- Support Utility Network and NIS-related GIS requirements, including spatial network information management, data integration and operational GIS support.
- Develop and support API-based integration and data-exchange workflows to connect GIS and analytical information with other systems and applications.
- Engaged business teams to clarify project and analytical requirements, translating them into effective GIS and database solutions.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot GIS tools and related software, supporting continuity and effective use of geospatial capabilities.
- Perform database programming for new and existing projects using SQL, including scripts, stored procedures and functions for analytical procedures.
- Use SAS and SQL for statistical data and information indexing, improving information retrieval and supporting analytical workflows.
- Design models to detect anomalies in data according to project specifications and business requirements.
- Perform quality assurance testing to verify data integrity, accuracy and fitness for analytical and mapping purposes.
- Compile maps and digital spatial data for end-user planners and decision-makers, tailoring outputs to operational requirements.
- Create management tools that facilitate information gathering, monitoring and reporting.
- Provide project updates, technical support and performance metrics to managers and team members.
- Acted as Data Technologist for 12 months, managing data-related tasks and supporting project needs.
- Coordinated International Delegates Analyst Exchange Programme for UNODC, ensuring effective stakeholder communication and collaboration.
- Produce professional cartographic products, intelligence maps and graphic depictions of complex information for end users and management.
- Geospatial intelligence, GIS products and services, spatial information management, dashboards, analytics, database programming, data quality and business-facing technical support.
GIS Intern → GIS Officer, Biodiversity Management Division
LIMPOPO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT & TOURISM (LEDET)
05.2016 - 01.2022
- Developed and customised GIS applications using ArcGIS Online to enhance user engagement with web-based GIS products.
- Captured, stored and managed spatial data using ArcGIS and QGIS for analysis, mapping and decision support.
- Administered GIS databases within the Biodiversity Management Directorate and supported structured spatial information management.
- Supported development and management of biodiversity management information-system databases and spatial analysis.
- Applied remote sensing techniques, including NDVI analysis and satellite imagery, to support environmental and biodiversity assessments.
- Compiled professional maps and digital spatial products to assist planners and end users in informed decision-making.
- Identified data sources and acquired spatial data for departmental planning and analytical requirements.
- Conducted land-suitability assessments and site-selection analysis for proposed land projects to ensure optimal land use planning.
- Prepared land-use desktop analyses and assessed/evaluated land-use applications for new developments.
- Supported geo-scientific investigations and fieldwork relating to alien and threatened species inside and outside State-owned nature reserves.
- Supported ecological services and conducted wetlands inventories and river-health monitoring surveys.
- Applied structured spatial information-management principles that support integration of network, asset and operational GIS datasets.
- Developed a spatial database and coding system within the department.
- Applied Python programming and SQL in support of spatial data and analytical workflows.
GIS Tutor
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
Johannesburg
02.2014 - 12.2014
- Facilitated training for undergraduate students in ArcGIS applications and GIS concepts, enhancing their technical proficiency.
- Supervised student projects, guiding practical GIS learning, data collection, and data capture to reinforce classroom concepts.
- Provided one-to-one and small group tutoring sessions to facilitate student learning in one-to-one and small group sessions to progress learning.
- Analysed student progress and prepared feedback to improve test results.
- Organised and maintained detailed records of tutoring sessions, including students' progress, to track and report outcomes effectively.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma - Project Management
Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA)
Pretoria, GP12-2023
Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Geography and Environmental Science
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, GP12-2014
Bachelor of Science - Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, GP12-2013
Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate -
Lwamondo High School
Lwamondo12-2009
Skills
- GIS Strategy & Services
- Spatial Analytics
- Cartography
- GIS Databases
- Geospatial Dashboards
- GIS Project Management
- Utility Network & NIS
- API integration workflows
- Spatial analytics
- Cartography visualisation
- Web GIS
- Utility Network
- NIS administration
- API development
- GIS database management
- Spatial data administration
- Spatial visualisation techniques
- Geospatial analysis
- Remote sensing techniques
- NDVI analysis
- Satellite image analysis
- SQL
- SAS analysis
Languages
Tshivenda
English
Afrikaans
Sepedi
isiZulu
Custom
- Fundamentals of Cybercrime and Open-Source Intelligence Investigations, VizStrat Solutions, 2022-11-01
- Virtual Assets Tracing in AML/CFT Investigations, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2023-05-01
- Foundations of Intelligence Analysis, Cyber Security Institute, 2023-12-01
Certification
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
SACNASP: Registered – Registration No. 116783.
South African Geomatics Council (SAGC): Registration currently in progress / application being pursued. Status to be updated upon completion.
Timeline
Spatial Strategist - Monitoring and Analysis Division
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE (FIC)
02.2022 - Current
GIS Intern → GIS Officer, Biodiversity Management Division
LIMPOPO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT & TOURISM (LEDET)
05.2016 - 01.2022
GIS Tutor
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
02.2014 - 12.2014
Postgraduate Diploma - Project Management
Management College of Southern Africa (MANCOSA)
Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Geography and Environmental Science
University of the Witwatersrand
Bachelor of Science - Life and Environmental Sciences
University of Johannesburg
Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate -
Lwamondo High School