William e Barron

About William e Barron

A Public Health Engineer, with demonstrated ability to work in difficult conditions and diverse cultural environments. Skilled in not-for-profit organization management, program formulation, resource mobilization, and implementation of humanitarian relief projects. Proven analytic and communication skills, building and negotiating cooperation among stakeholders: government, non-governmental organizations and communities.

Experience

1. Chief Executive Officer Cofounder

   Immap Inc

   Jan 2014 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   The iMMAP CEO serves as the leader and maintains an effective and cohesive senior management team for the organization; sets the tone for the organization by exemplifying consistent values of high ethical standards and fairness; leads the organization in defining its vision; is the main spokesperson for the organization; and bears the chief responsibility in ensuring the organization meets its short-term operational and long-term strategic goals. The iMMAP CEO works with and is accountable to the Board of Directors of the organization.iMMAP is a not-for-profit organization. The iMMAP team was formed in late-1998, leading the first internationally-coordinated effort to combine information management, sociology and Geographic Information System technology to define the scourge of landmines and explosive remnants of war and change the way their impact on society is measured. iMMAP remains the premier humanitarian information management organization, guiding international crisis responders who work to alleviate the suffering of those most in need.iMMAP offers information management (IM) expertise, providing multi-faceted support for coordination across a multitude of humanitarian responses globally through:1) IM and coordination services to humanitarian actors.2) Capacity building; identify weaknesses, recruit staff, provide trainings and on the job mentoring.3) Surge support: provide key personnel to humanitarian actors (UN, clusters, NGOs) offering change management solutions to enhance partners’ tools, methodologies, and capacities to longer term sustainability.4)Specialist projects and consortiums to build sound systems for the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data.5) Best practices in terms of information sharing, enforcing the key principles of the IASC guidelines.

Education

• Virginia Episcopal School

  High School Diploma

  1970 — 1974

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Master of Science Degree in Environmental Engineering, School of Public Health

  1982 — 1984

• Vanderbilt University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Civil Enginnering

  1974 — 1978

Skills

• Operations Management
• Government
• Nonprofits
• Project Planning
• Ngos
• Program Evaluation
• Budgets
• Program Management
• Training
• Project Management
• Proposal Writing