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Great Falls, Montana

• Sustain a enterprise level GIS infrastructure to do outreach and mapping services for city departments and external customers as well as empower those to use spatial data for their work.• Manage the GIS Specialist position to ensure the direction and quality changes of the city's land data and addressing.• Maintain a multi-user GIS shared with nearly 100 users.• Conduct outreach as part of IT and GIS technical working group to better communicate efforts in the city.

Great Falls, Mt

Bozeman, Montana

Worked with the Bozeman City GIS group during a 4-month period assisting the Public Works department, Community Development and Planning, and Engineering:• Conducted pothole analysis and created charts using ArcGIS map layer data to determine problem city street areas that typically need annual repairs. Results used to show effectiveness of gathering pothole data and subsequent repairs as well as being integrated into a city transportation storymap.• Assisted planning and community… Show more Worked with the Bozeman City GIS group during a 4-month period assisting the Public Works department, Community Development and Planning, and Engineering:• Conducted pothole analysis and created charts using ArcGIS map layer data to determine problem city street areas that typically need annual repairs. Results used to show effectiveness of gathering pothole data and subsequent repairs as well as being integrated into a city transportation storymap.• Assisted planning and community development with projects including mapping special improvement districts and annexations, as well as areas called 'Paybacks' where data was made available through an interactive online map software.• Beta tested new GIS data visualization software to show rates of change and unique data arrangements to assist the city Stormwater department.• Collected field data using Trimble GPS tripod collectors and laser vertical measuring equipment to determine storm drain laterals. Show less

Fort Benton, Montana

• Interviewed local officials and public figures, including the mayor, council members, commissioners, historians, and state reps.• Wrote 3-5 news stories a week while photographing those same story events for print.• Routinely received praise for stories and coverage.• Researched under deadline, covered everything from Montana's oldest Episcopalian church restoration to the city revamping legacy utility lines and having to raise sewer/water rates.• Helped design the annual… Show more • Interviewed local officials and public figures, including the mayor, council members, commissioners, historians, and state reps.• Wrote 3-5 news stories a week while photographing those same story events for print.• Routinely received praise for stories and coverage.• Researched under deadline, covered everything from Montana's oldest Episcopalian church restoration to the city revamping legacy utility lines and having to raise sewer/water rates.• Helped design the annual Visitor's Guide and wrote several informational articles for its release.• Initiated new editorial workflow utilizing Google cloud tools. Show less

Helena, Mt

• Edited the USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) for the Lower Musselshell watershed basin.• Digitized over 1,200 square miles of area that included stream flowlines, water bodies, dams, and canals.• Referenced satellite imagery using both RGB and near infrared image spectrum to more accurately edit surface water flowlines, and water body polygons.• Demonstrated during a meeting the integration of a Google Earth Python script to aid reference and editing projects through… Show more • Edited the USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) for the Lower Musselshell watershed basin.• Digitized over 1,200 square miles of area that included stream flowlines, water bodies, dams, and canals.• Referenced satellite imagery using both RGB and near infrared image spectrum to more accurately edit surface water flowlines, and water body polygons.• Demonstrated during a meeting the integration of a Google Earth Python script to aid reference and editing projects through capturing the extents from ArcMap and launching GE to that image area.•Used the USDA Land Cover dataset water body feature class to overlay against NHD waterbody data to find matches and missing polygons as a QC method.•Ran topology to check for gaps, overlaps, and intersects with streamlines and water body polygons to see that they were properly snapped. Show less

Helena, Mt

Projects pertaining to GIS work:Carroll College GIS 110 – 'Water Pipeline location, replacement, and cost estimate for Harris Landand Cattle Ranch', Aug – Dec 2015• Took GPS coordinate recordings (Trimble) of water trough locations to identify an unknown pipeline location (circa 1974) -- a failing pipeline where only two of the four pour points are active.• Uploaded recordings through a GPS, Trimble Terrasync software, into ArcCatalog.• Digitized lines between… Show more Projects pertaining to GIS work:Carroll College GIS 110 – 'Water Pipeline location, replacement, and cost estimate for Harris Landand Cattle Ranch', Aug – Dec 2015• Took GPS coordinate recordings (Trimble) of water trough locations to identify an unknown pipeline location (circa 1974) -- a failing pipeline where only two of the four pour points are active.• Uploaded recordings through a GPS, Trimble Terrasync software, into ArcCatalog.• Digitized lines between troughs to indicate ‘straight shot’ pipeline locations for future replacement.• Created a report and in-class demonstration of procedure showing estimated scope and cost of the project.Carroll College GIS 220 Databases – USGS Soils Map Georeferencing/Digitizing, Aug – Aug - Dec 2015• Created ArcGIS file geodatabase and nested dataset file structure.• Georeferenced a black and white USGS 7.5 minute topo map first using listed coordinates and hatch marks to determine proper projection location.• Created and used the hatch marks as reference points to rectify map and project map to Montana State Plane.• Digitized box from each four-corner point, created a soils polygon feature class, and cut separate polygons from that box into individuals with their associated soil type codes.• Created a cartographically pleasing map with citations, color-coded legend, title, background basemap.• Added metadata FGDC template style.Carroll College GIS 435 Project– "BLM Grazing Leases and Percent Land Cover Jan" — Jan - May 2016•Downloaded datasets from BLM district office and Montana State Library referencing USGS GAP Analysis.•Discovered through different analysis techniques (joins, intersects, dissolves, and field calculations) percentage of grassland for leases in the Chouteau County area.•Presented findings on the research with a question and answer session among peers.•Included a 10-page report detailing the process and print-out of the map. Show less

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Mass Communication/Media Studies

Gis Certification, Geographic Information Science And Cartography

Attended the two-year course that spanned from beginning GIS familiarity covering basic spatial analysis and feature data manipulation.

Mooc, Geography And Cartography, Certification Pass