Angela Atieno Odera
Tokyo,13
Summary
Transportation and pavement management specialist with 15 years of experience in road asset management, policy development, maintenance planning and contract management. Worked in government as well as in collaborative forums with international consultants and development agencies. Currently completing a PhD in Civil Engineering with focus on remote sensing and machine learning for road pavement condition prediction. Proven expertise in integrating pavement management systems with innovative data sources to support decision-making, optimize maintenance, and guide investment planning across large-scale road networks.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Engineer
Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA)
01.2020 - Current
- Represented KeRRA in the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-led Project for Strengthening of Capacity Development on Bridge Management System in Kenya, contributing to baseline data collection, drafting of bridge inspection and repair manuals and stakeholder engagement workshops.
- Participated in drafting KeRRA’s road asset management policies that are currently in use
- Resident Engineer overseeing 3 major road upgrading and performance-based maintenance projects (~Kshs. 3.52B / USD $31M).
- Member of KeRRA’s Road Safety Committee: co-authored Road Safety Policy, led awareness campaigns during UN Road Safety Week 2021. Conducted safety audits and promoted safety-compliant designs in road projects
- Oversaw procurement for 30+ road maintenance projects, chaired tender opening/evaluation committees.
- Led technical audits across 6 KeRRA regional maintenance offices and 4 major road maintenance contracts, delivering recommendations to improve compliance and performance.
Senior Engineer
Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA)
07.2011 - 12.2019
- Represented KeRRA in the JICA-led Project for Strengthening of Capacity on Road Maintenance through Contracting in Kenya, Phase 3, contributing to producing national guidelines and manuals for Performance-Based Contracting (PBC).
- Collaborated with the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) and the Kenya Urban roads Authority (KURA) in pioneering annuity-based Public Private Partnership contracting, enabling successful delivery of a 34 km pilot road project.
- Project Engineer for 50+ Equalization Fund road projects (~Kshs. 2.16B / USD $19M) in 14 marginalized counties in Kenya.
- Assistant Resident Engineer for 3 road upgrading/rehabilitation projects (~Kshs. 4.19B / USD $37M).
Engineer
Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA)
08.2010 - 06.2011
- Participated in preliminary and detailed design of a 20 km road project
- Directed traffic surveys, data analysis, and design traffic forecasting.
- Produced accepted working designs now implemented by KeRRA.
Education
PhD - Civil Engineering
Shibaura Institute of Technology
01.2026
MSc - Civil Engineering – Transportation Engineering
University of Nairobi
01.2017
BSc - Civil Engineering
University of Nairobi
01.2008
Skills
- Pavement Management Systems (PMS) and Data analytics
- Application of machine Learning for pavement condition prediction
- Transportation baseline surveys and statistical analysis
- Road asset management policy development
- Road maintenance works planning, technical audits and compliance
- Performance-based contracting specifications development
- Procurement & contract management
- Road safety audits and compliance
- Stakeholder engagement
Affiliations
- Student member, Japan Society of Civil Engineers
- Registered Professional Engineer, Engineers Board of Kenya
- Corporate Member, Institution of Engineers of Kenya
Publications
- Odera, A., & Henry, M. (2025). Evaluating the ordinal consistency of fuzzy clustered spectral features with expert road condition ratings [Poster presentation]. 4th International Joint Student Seminar on One Health, One World, Pathum Thani, Thailand
- Odera, A., Ooba T., & Henry, M. (2025). Exploring relationships between Copernicus Sentinel-2 multispectral data and International Roughness Index of roads in Kenya. In C-Q Li & D.M. Frangopol (Eds.), Life-cycle performance of structures and infrastructure systems in diverse environments (pp. 1265-1272). CRC Press. DOI: 10.1201/9781003595120-153
- Odera, A., Henry, M., & Amir, A. (2024). Characterization of missingness and data-driven imputation for incomplete pavement condition data. Intelligence, Informatics and Infrastructure, 5(1), 57-71. DOI: 10.11532/jscieii.5.1_57
Awards
Best Presentation Award at the 4th International Joint Student Seminar on One Health, One World, Institution of Engineers of Kenya Prize for Best Final Year Project in the Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Nairobi in 2007/2008 Academic Year.
Timeline
Principal Engineer
Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA)
01.2020 - Current
Senior Engineer
Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA)
07.2011 - 12.2019
Engineer
Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA)
08.2010 - 06.2011
MSc - Civil Engineering – Transportation Engineering
University of Nairobi
BSc - Civil Engineering
University of Nairobi
PhD - Civil Engineering
Shibaura Institute of Technology
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