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12-year GISP-certified professional leveraging RTK surveying, drones, satellites, and cloud compute to deliver value across a variety of industries: AEC (architecture, engineering, construction), agriculture, and conservation.

Zack Dinh outdoors with a drone controller

Resume

Zack Dinh

Geospatial Solutions Architect | GISP Certified | FAA Part 107

Education

Master of Landscape Architecture (Environmental Planning), University of California, Berkeley

  • Thesis: located 6.6k fish farming cages in Greece by processing satellite imagery with deep learning.

BA Urban Studies & Planning, San Francisco State University

  • Assessed campus bicycle infrastructure and completed cross-campus bikeway for facilities department.

Experience

Advanced Spade | Solutions Engineer | Signal Hill, CA | May 2025 - March 2026

  • Utilities: developed GNSS/RTK app and hardware; trained field team to map underground utilities; produced design-ready CAD packages containing site topography and drone imagery with Civil 3D.

Cargill | Senior Geospatial Analyst | Remote | Jan 2023 - Feb 2025

  • Commodities: developed remote sensing pipelines with Python, AWS, QGIS to generate country-level insights of palm oil production in Asia Pacific/Latin America, and grains in North America.

Sea Warden | Founder | Los Angeles, CA | June 2020 - Oct 2022

  • Conservation: awarded $155k to leverage satellite monitoring to scale seafood certification programs.

Intersect Power | Geospatial Analyst | San Francisco, CA | May 2018 - May 2019

  • Energy: identified sites for utility-scale solar with ArcGIS Pro, suitability analysis, and purchased data.

CD+A | Urban Designer & Geospatial Analyst | Oakland, CA | June 2015 - May 2017

  • Urban design: prepared existing conditions GIS data for transit oriented development projects.
  • Urban planning: analyzed 2 million parcels for nine-county Bay Area housing capacity inventory.

Additional Experience

Instructor | UC Berkeley

  • InLand: invited to teach landscape architecture summer course (Jun - Aug 2025).
  • Geography Department: graduate student instructor; 60 students in 3 sections (Jan - May 2020).

Land Surveyor | Denn Engineers (Mar - May 2025)

  • Utilized survey equipment and AutoCAD to certify a dozen construction projects a week.

UAS internships

  • UC Berkeley (Jan - Dec 2019): 20 wetland surveys (1,000 acres, 10-month campaign, Pix4D).
  • 3D Robotics (2017), Hivemapper (2019), Near Space Labs (2022).

Urban Planning

  • SF Municipal Trasnportation Agency: Urban Planning Initatives Group (2014-2015).
  • SPUR: Transportation Policy Intern (2014).

Prototyping

  • 3D printing, SketchUp, Teensy microcontroller, Sparkfun/u-blox hardware (ZED-F9P, ZED-X20P).

PUBLICATIONS

A Review of Unoccupied Aerial Vehicle Use in Wetland Applications
Drones, MDPI | May 25, 2021
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Sea Warden:
A Remote Sensing-enabled Decision Support System for the Sustainable Management of Marine Aquaculture in the Greek Sea Space
University of California, Berkeley | May 1, 2020
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Geomorphic and Hydraulic Controls on Coho Salmon Outmigration in the Russian River Watershed, California
University of California, Berkeley | Nov 23, 2019
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Viable Public Lands For Workforce Housing
Metropolitan Transportation Commission | Aug 7, 2018
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Freedom to Move:
How the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority can create better transportation choices in the South Bay
SPUR | Jul 14, 2014
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