Company
Dr. Ralph ELSAESSER
Moderator
Freiberuflich / Selbstständig, Freelancing Consultant, CEO Geo-Solutions, Geo-Solutions Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Ralph ELSAESSER
Current 1 year and 5 months, since Apr 2021
Development of the AU Continental Digital Agriculture Strategy
African Union - EU funded
Current 22 years and 8 months, since Jan 2000
Freelancing Consultant, CEO Geo-Solutions
Geo-Solutions Freiburg
Current
Head of Services
Geo-Solutions Freiburg
Freelancing consultant
5 months, May 2021 - Sep 2021
Development of the COLEACP SmartTech Agriculture Strategy for 78 ACP countries
COLEACP
4 years and 5 months, Aug 2016 - Dec 2020
ICT4Ag Expert
COMO Consult
ProEcon 3 : Introducing ICT tools to enhance the competitiveness of contract farming in Mozambique. • Dissemination of knowledge on ICT tools for contract farming in Mozambique. • Identification and specification of useful ICT solutions for selected value chains. • Assistance to ProEcon partner firms during implementation of selected ICT solutions. • Building local ICT capacities: Assisting local ICT companies in the development of innovative ICT solutions for the agricultural market.
4 months, Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
ICT 4 Live Stock Management
GIZ
Desk study: ICT & Livestock management • Investigating ICT systems for optimizing livestock management; • Market analysis of innovative ICT solutions.
4 months, Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Analyst ICT4Ag
PLANTIVO
Precision farming • Automating agricultural machinery through ISOBUS standard. • Based on satellite-NVDI images, application plans for fertilization are derived and translated into ISO 11783 to remotely control tractors via various open and brand-proprietary protocols.
7 months, Oct 2019 - Apr 2020
ICT for Small-Scale Irrigation
GIZ
4 months, Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
WASH & IT Expert
Hydrophil
Development of the Management Information System for the water supply, sanitation and hygiene sector (WASH) • MIS design, key indicator framework. • Asset management, benchmarking system • Develop, pilot test and roll out the implementation of the MIS. Development of manuals, user training
2007 - 2008
Senior Expert Geomatics, IT Dev. and IWM
DANIDA (Danish International Development Agency)
Implementation of the national water information system SNIEAU (Burkina Faso) Evaluation of offers; negotiations with the companies; monitoring of implementation process; supervision at DGRE over a period of 1 year after project implementation • Conferences and seminars with all participants
2007 - 2008
Senior Expert IT & Web Development
Worldbank
Dem. Rep. Congo Design and implementation of a Web based information system hosting the international organizations and their input on the water sector RDC (programs, projects, intervention). Decentralized data management, proprietary data sets, individual download (PDF, Excel)
2007 - 2008
Senior Expert for Spatial Technologies & IWM
AFC Consultants
Transboundary Water Management, Congo-basin Specification and Implementation of Web based information systems supporting the international commission of the Congo-Oubangui-Sangha basin (CICOS) in its transboundary water management. (Postgres, .Net, ArcGIS, Registre de la flotte, Training...)
2005 - 2008
Senior Expert for Integrated Water Management, Remote Sensing and GIS Developm
GOPA / EU
Technical assistance at DGRE / Burkina Faso. Development of database- and GIS based tools for the creation and monitoring of the water master plan (PNAEPA). Monitoring tools for the Millennium Development Goals. Support to decentralisation.
2000 - 2008
Senior GIS Developer
Kast & Partner
Concept and implementation of the GIS-based River Rhine Information System for Dike Safety and Flood Protection. Development of expert modules for risk analysis and hazard management; Concept and design of data model, spatial databases, hydrological and geo-technical databases (Oracle/GeODin).
1999 - 2002
Senior GIS Developper, IWM Expert
GTZ (German Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit)
“DILG-gtz program towards an integrated Water Resources Management”, Phillipines. Concept and implementation of a water information system. GPS integration. (MapObjects, Delphi)
1997 - 2001
Senior GIS Developper & IWM Expert
AHT Group
Water Sector Planning Support at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation Jordan / Digital Balancing Model for Water Resources Management; Dev. of a national Rainfall/Runoff-model; Training
1995 - 2001
Senior Expert for Integrated Water Management
AHT Group
National Water Master Plan Tunisia "Économie d'eau 2000" Development of computer-based tools for national water master planning. Digital water balancing model. Reservoir optimization model
Educational background for Ralph ELSAESSER
4 years and 7 months, Sep 2011 - Mar 2016
Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg
Applied Geoinformatics
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Berufsakademie Ravensburg
Languages
English
Fluent
French
Fluent
Spanish
Basic
German
First language
Portuguese
Basic