Aaron Wise

Data Management Analyst

University of Florida, Department of Psychiatry

2025 – Present · Gainesville, FL

• Designed and implemented a configuration-driven ETL pipeline in Python for federal NDA data submissions, ingesting, validating, and transforming data from 16 REDCap clinical assessment forms; reduced processing time from multiple weeks to 1–2 days.
• Developed a reusable Python package and standardized template repository for REDCap API data extraction, enabling reproducible, version-controlled creation of analysis-ready datasets across multiple longitudinal studies.
• Built automated data-quality audit tooling that sweeps 300+ extracted reference tables with within-file and cross-file consistency checks, surfacing systematic errors that manual review had missed.
• Automated recurring EEG and clinical data preparation workflows, reducing manual processing from 10–15 minutes per run to seconds.
• Led cross-institutional data harmonization between UF and UCSF, aligning identifier schemas and variable definitions across clinical datasets to support pooled analysis.

Data Engineering Consultant

A3DI (independent consulting practice)

2025 – Present · Remote

• Built an automated data-quality screening tool for the UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Joint Malnutrition Estimates (UNICEF HQ Nutrition), applying standardized validation and plausibility checks to national nutrition survey datasets.
• Maintain and extend Python ETL/analysis pipelines for WFP Myanmar's national food security monitoring, porting successive survey rounds through a shared pipeline with fail-loud validation and automated reporting.

Food Security Analyst (Consultant)

World Food Programme (WFP)

May 2022 – Dec 2025 · Remote · Multiple Offices

• Led data quality assurance, cleaning, and analysis for multiple rounds of the joint FAO-WFP Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment in Myanmar, feeding into IPC classification and inter-agency reporting.
• Led analyses of WFP Afghanistan beneficiary data to develop data-driven recommendations for optimising food assistance targeting strategies.
• Led analysis of a joint WFP-Ministry of Agriculture national food security survey in Timor-Leste, providing strategic recommendations for mitigating food insecurity impacts of price inflation and drought.
• Updated and optimised the Python backend for WFP Pacific’s food security data pipeline, ensuring seamless operations for regional government partners.
• Supported WFP offices across Asia Pacific in the design and operationalisation of remote phone-based food security monitoring systems (mVAM).

Countries: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Timor-Leste, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Lao PDR, Philippines, Pacific Islands

Regional Food Security Analyst

World Food Programme (WFP)

Aug 2014 – Dec 2020 · Bangkok, Maputo, Rome & other duty stations

• Led the strategic design of a $1.2M DFID-funded project in Bangladesh to strengthen government capacity for generating and utilising data on social safety net programmes.
• Coordinated food security analysis for the Rohingya refugee emergency in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, ensuring effective targeting during the initial influx in 2017.
• Established a remote food security and nutrition monitoring system (mVAM) in Mozambique for areas affected by chronic food insecurity and natural disasters.
• Conceptualised and developed an automated solution to generate monthly mVAM bulletins for Yemen and Syria, including data extraction, storage, analysis, and visualisation.
• Provided technical assistance to COVID-19 remote food security assessments across the Philippines, Pacific Islands, and Myanmar.

Countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Afghanistan, Fiji, Mozambique, South Sudan, Guinea-Bissau, Philippines

Data Analyst (Consultant)

FHI 360 / Alive & Thrive Initiative

Apr 2022 – Dec 2022 · Remote · Viet Nam

• Analysed disparities in Maternal, Infant, and Young Child Nutrition (MIYCN) outcomes across Cambodia, Viet Nam, and Lao PDR using MICS and DHS datasets (2000–2021).
• Generated equity-focused recommendations to improve access and utilisation of services for vulnerable populations.

Countries: Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao PDR

Nutrition Information Specialist

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Jun 2007 – Jul 2014 · Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Liberia, Thailand

• Provided technical and strategic guidance to UNICEF’s emergency-prone offices on developing nutrition information systems and led emergency nutrition surge support in Tacloban City during the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan.
• Developed and implemented a therapeutic feeding programme (TFP) monitoring system in Ethiopia in collaboration with Regional Health Bureaus and NGOs.
• Coordinated the Liberia National Micronutrient Survey and analysed blood serum data to produce prevalence estimates of iron and vitamin A deficiencies in children.
• Supported UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Monitoring Survey in Zimbabwe and analysed micronutrient survey data to guide national nutrition policy.

Countries: Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Philippines, Liberia

Various Consultancies

Iodine Global Network (IGN), Concern Worldwide

2010 · 2020

• Analysed the Namibia Household Income and Expenditure Survey using Python to calculate micronutrient consumption by demographic characteristics, informing national fortification strategies (IGN).
• Coordinated two nutrition surveys in South Sudan, the results of which authorised emergency programme activities (Concern Worldwide).

Countries: Namibia, South Sudan