Allan
Lu
He/Him
Brooklyn, NY ยท
allan@allanlu.me
Geospatial applications developer and data scientist currently employed at New York City Emergency Management as a GIS DevOps program manager.
Experience
GIS DevOps Program Manager
NYC Emergency Management
Develop and maintain web maps and applications for mitigation and risk management. Create and improve geospatial data for emergency planning and response.
March 2022 - Present
GIS Graduate Intern
NYC Department of Sanitation
Worked with developers in the Enterprise Geospatial Program Management Office (EGPMO) to contribute code to and test in-house open-source routing and mapping applications. Created custom web maps and applications using JavaScript, Python and PostgreSQL/PostGIS.
June 2021 - September 2021
Geology/Engineering Intern
Mayor's Office of Environmental Remediation
Assisted with the technical review of NYC cleanup projects and project documentation. Researched regulatory guidance, soil disposal, funding sources, and historical OER remediation projects. Applied GIS and programming to create web maps and update the project management database.
December 2019 - May 2020
Graduate Research Assistant - Data Science
RF CUNY - Institute for Sustainable Cities
Determine the efficacy of predicting residential energy consumption in the US using census demographics data. Apply GIS, programming, and statistics to geographically analyze residential energy use across three regions: NYC metropolitan area, New York State, and the contiguous US.
May 2020 - April 2022
Graduate Research Assistant - GIS
RF CUNY - BMCC
Developed and administered an online survey exploring the factors driving drinking water choices. Used stratified sampling to collect water quality information from drinking fountains across NYC.
October 2019 - June 2020
Education
Hunter College
Master of Science
Geoinformatics
January 2019 - January 2022
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science
Chemical Engineering
August 2010 - December 2014
Stuyvesant High School
August 2006 - June 2010
Skills
Programming Languages & Databases
Tools
- AutoCAD
- ArcGIS
- ENVI
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Photoshop
- pgAdmin
- PostGIS
- QGIS
- SPSS
Interests
One of my biggest passions has always been community service. I've been volunteering since high school, where I was with the American Red Cross of Greater New York. In college I joined a co-ed community service fraternity Alpha Phi Omega, winning USC's service organization of the year in 2014. Most recently, I was a docent at the American Museum of Natural History for their Earth and Space exhibits.
When not volunteering, I spend my time discovering new music from indie artists, going to upcoming Broadway plays and musicals, introducing new board games to my friends, and reading novels across every genre of fiction. I also like to inundate myself with random trivia. (I know all 197 world capitals, Taiwan and Kosovo included.)
