Business Analyst: Monitor key business metrics, establish and evaluate lead volume, & serve as analyst for business growth measures in order to achieve financial goals. Analyze revenue projections, automate reporting, and conduct market research. Ensure cross-functionality in business directives. IT: Identify solutions to client requests, including troubleshooting directly with members. Establish protocols for issue resolution and high levels of customer service. Identify project software and recommend workflows to maximize efficiency in operations management. Fitness Instructor: Develop strength & stability program influenced by NASM principles of personal fitness training and combined with CrossFit style group exercise classes. Teach group classes of up to 10 students (due to COVID safety measures) ensuring proper form, technique, and safety in fitness as well as pandemic adaptations. Emphasize functional movements and remind people that they are stronger than they realize!

Compile, centralize, and interpret disparate data input sources, such as surveys, aerial and orthophotography, satellite imagery, qualitative data, and government records and documents. Engineer geospatial databases for optimized queries.Automate analysis of big geospatial data using programming in various languages, including Python, R, IDL, and Google Earth Engine (Javascript)Design spatial and temporal machine learning models to evaluate geospatial trends and identify influential areas & events. Produce maps and other representations of geospatial data and model outputs for effective communication to academic, professional, and general audiences

Facilitated 6-week Botswana Study Abroad program for undergraduates focused on local people, environment, and climate change in southern Africa.Collaborated with Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks to train park officials in QGIS for remote sensing and environmental assessment using instructional methods and procedures appropriate for individual projects.Mentored three undergraduate women in scientific research using GIS, applying principles and practices of mapping environmental trends in sustainability studies, biology, and geography. Guided two women to apply for and receive university funding for studies. Empowered presentations of undergraduate research at national annual conferences.

Coordinated efforts of 7 undergraduates, 6 graduate students, and 5 professors, resulting in the initiation of 19 publications & > 40 presentations from the lab during this time.From strategizing to proofreading, directed research efforts of differing cultural, organizational, and disciplinary personsFacilitated integration of diverse perspectives and feedback to achieve shared understanding and motivate progress in organizational goals Implemented improved data & research protocols through introduction of project management software to meet government & grant research and publication objectives.Set data standards and anticipated diverse data use cases while assessing technical requirements, budgetary restrictions, and project timelines. Empowered new understandings across projects, reduced redundancy, & instituted IT policies and data governance standards.Designed and modified research geodatabases through the use of Python and SQL while defining privileges and data governance strategies in support of analytic workflows and privacy standards.Installed new software releases and technology upgrades while providing training to laboratory members in latest innovations.

Executed initiatives from concept to completion using large clinical datasets to uncover insights into statewide public health issues including community-level risk factors for child maltreatment, smoking, maternal morbidity, and drug overdose deaths. Leveraged programming to design, develop, and document geospatial databases from which scalable models were constructed.Recognized utility of spatial regression model in child maltreatment project, led to ~30% increase in explanatory power. Enhanced three additional projects through the implementation of spatial statistics for actionable insights.Emphasized importance of mapping, coordinate systems, projections, scale, and cartographic principles for non-spatial researchers, resulting in contributions to award-winning mapping projects.Communicated across researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to motivate the use of geospatial technology and modeling to further applied organizational objectives.Designed and tested geospatial dashboard for community use to find solutions to community risk factors for child maltreatment across the state.

Developed geospatial relational databases for implementation in mixed-methods research involving cross-functional teams.Evaluated relationships between health and place-based factors at neighborhood and community levels, working with local healthcare organizations and the local school district to determine specific interventions driven by geospatial analyses.Utilize individual-level survey data and source records to construct large-scale maps that adhere to privacy regulations, data security practices, and recommendations for large-scale projections.Propose geospatial research solutions for innovative health & place mapping to achieve community and hospital objectives.

Use of Geospatial Technology to Monitor and Map Pastoral Migrations in South Kordofan, Sudan. Developed conceptual research plan using information about available data and applicable analyses.

Provided research assistance on a number of projects, including:Coastal & Marine Offshore Flow Patterns (obtaining and analyzing moderate resolution data to animate ocean current and wind flow patterns off the coast of North Carolina);Wetland Delineation in South Sudan (used machine learning algorithms to delineate saturated areas, such as wetlands and ponds, from MODIS imagery);Vegetation Health & Land Cover Change Analyses using MODIS vegetation indices at a regional scale (including statistical comparison of these methods to those previously published to relate utility and ease of use);Produce flooding maps and other representations of wetlands using MODIS Temperature Datasets;Utilizing R for Topographic Corrections of Mountainous Terrain (utilizing raster, rgadal, sp, and landsat packages for topographic corrections and statistical analyses of satellite imagery)Mapping & geospatial modeling of multi-use body of water, including recharge rates, withdrawal of resources due to different sources, and climate change projectionsConducted interviews in central Africa with various stakeholders, including local and regional water managers, tourism operators, and local fishermenCollected and interpreted regional legal documents and engineering documents to combine with satellite imagery regarding past lake levels and corresponding drivers

Recipient of 1st Annual Patricia H. Kelley Teaching Award 2016Instructor of Record for Introduction to Physical Geography Lab Teaching Assistant for Digital Global (2014), World Geography II (2015), Introduction to GIS in Environmental Sciences (2014-2015), and Remote Sensing in Environmental Analyses (2015)

Fielded requests from city and county partners, conducted geospatial analyses in response to inquiries, and oversaw production of maps and geospatial databases Conducted analysis according to established routine report procedures to support projects such as regional hazard mitigation plans, existing and future land use plans, regional healthy living publications, zoning requests, as well as miscellaneous spatial analyses.Engineered stormwater drainage system geospatial database for mapping municipal separate stormwater system by digitizing outdated paper maps and incorporating photographs and descriptions from city managersCompare results of flood modeling to existing flood maps and wetland datasets to recommend areas of limited development due to flooding hazards Investigated data anomalies and co-authored technical and non-technical documentation intended to support efficient business processes and improve client ability to deliver services