Alpen Sheth

Senior Technologist, Blockchain

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Alpen Sheth
Last updated Jun 28, 2024

Contact Information

Last Update
Jul 10, 2022
Email
al**@gmail.com
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Company

Workplace

Mercy Corps
Senior Technologist, Blockchain

Portland, OR

Industry

Nonprofit Organization Management, Other Individual and Family Services

Work History

Senior Technologist, Blockchain

45 southwest Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97204
Building partnerships that leverage blockchain, crypto/digital currency, smart contracts and more to benefit the most vulnerable populations facing disaster, climate risk, displacement, war,...
from Aug 2019

Product Manager

▪ Manage product development using emerging technologies (blockchain and smart contracts): ▪ Lead development for blockchain insurance products in several countries focusing on financial ana...
Mar 2018 — Apr 2019

Founding Advisor

from Oct 2018

Cso, Co-Founder

San Francisco, CA
At ECSA we are building a new an interoperable ecosystem based on a decentralized and distributed software platform beyond blockchain. The key advantage of our platform allows people, commun...
Apr 2016 — Feb 2018

Visiting Faculty, College of Urban and Public Affairs

P/O Box 751, Portland, OR
Teach Executive Education in Blockchain and Emerging Technologies and curriculum development for new undergraduate and graduate programs in (1) Business Blockchain Certificate and (2) Emerge...
from Oct 2017

Phd Researcher

77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
Design and conducted qualitative/quantitative research examining insurance company adoption of emerging technologies including parametric insurance and policymaking for environmental risk a...
Sep 2011 — Aug 2017

Consultant, Disaster Risk Financing

Consulted for national government ministries of finance. Developed technical framework of disaster risk financing for four Caribbean region countries as part of a multi-­year (2015-­2017) te...
Aug 2015 — Mar 2016

Business Development Associate

Miami, FL
Managed agency-wide geospatial research and mapping of building inventory for urban risk planning and real estate construction analysis. Led and managed a team of researchers on commissioned...
Feb 2009 — May 2011

Co-Founder and Director of International Partnerships

Led research for design and management of environmental and social risk assessment of urban Haiti pre and post earthquake (over 4,000 HH building surveys). Managed communication, disseminati...
May 2008 — Dec 2010

Gis Engineering Consultant

Rms
7575 Gateway Blvd SUITE 300, Newark, CA 94560
Developed catastrophe risk models, field data and remote sensing in Oakland, CA and Miami, FL to assess hazard risk. We improved a proprietary GIS-based natural catastrophe models to study b...
Jun 2006 — Sep 2006

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