Dr. Jim Boateng

Natural resource management executive with proven abilities in planning, developing, analyzing and executing quantitative resource management systems. Skills in forest management collaborative research, applied statistics, experimental design & analysis, numerical methods, policy planning, monitoring and evaluation, inventory design and analysis, Focus on building a world-class team of experts to serve the natural resource industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, USA, Canada, South America

Led all implementations of quantitative resource design, analysis and modeling. Managed biometric modeling & collaborated on inventory projects as part of maintaining and growing Silvatech’s services

1. Developed and successfully implemented a program to select, prioritize deploy web-based biometric modeling and inventory updating solutions for customer-centric requirements as part of maintaining and growing FTG's subscription Web-based services. 2. Managed all implementations of customer quantitative resource inventories, monitoring and growth modeling processes; directed the WebFRIS biological modeling product reengineering efforts associated with design, documentation, quality standards, workflows,

Provided quantitative, analytical and research expertise to assess operational needs, design and analyzed a comprehensive fiber farm clonal trial experiments. 2. Provided biometrics, mensurational and statistical expertise to support corporate timberland management projects. 3. Developed strategic Forest Planning (Landscape and Harvest Scheduling) Models, using FORPLAN and Woodstock. 4. Provided expertise to manage forest inventory programs for the North-Eastern hardwood/softwood stands.

Provided creative information processing and analysis support for natural resource education, research and management Designed DBMS of economic, biological and timber trade data to strengthen Forest sector's in house capability in quantitative/statistical procedures. Provided technical assistance to the Policy, Planning Unit of Ghana forest resource management program, in planning forestry projects. Developed a computerized Timber Allocation System to rationalize timber land leasing process

Advanced Math, Statistics, Optimization, Simulation, Growth Modeling, Computer Science, Resource Economics, Advanced GIS Dissertation was titled: "Forest Management Decision Support System”: A prototype hybrid simulation-optimization system that links forestry, industry and economic models .

Dissertation: Using system dynamics concept to evaluate forest management system

Experimental Design and Analysis Statistical Techniques Forest Inventories Plantation Management Clonal Trial

Programming Languages Mathematics Statistics Systems Analysis Economics Accounting Operations Research