Used Clearion Mobile Mapping Application to edit and create shapefile features for GIS utility network databasesEnsured that data was precise and accurate by ground truthing and logging each features geospatial position into the data attributesCommuted to the field location each day, accounted for personal safety, and maintained equipment ensuring that it was in proper working condition

Description: For the 2018 summer, I was member of the Burns Helitack Crew located at the Burns Municipal Airport. From here, we would get flown by helicopter into the wilderness and other remote areas to suppress wildfires. Other responsibilities of this job were constructing helicopter weight load manifests, unloading and loading gear off an idling helicopter, and giving helicopter briefings to passengers. As an Incident Commander on a small fire, you would fill out a fire incident report. In this report you include latitude and longitude coordinates and elevation recorded from your Garmin GPS, the terrain, slope, aspect, vegetation, and other terrain characteristics. If assigned to a large fire, myself or another crew member could expect to be the Aviation Radio Operator. As a radio operator you are stationed in the radio box at the helibase and inform aviation on the fire of weather conditions, new missions, and aerial hazards. When a helicopter returns to the base I direct them were to land as well as record their flight hours. Skills:Analyzed aerial hazard maps, proficient with the Advenza PDF Maps mobile application, assisting in reconnaissance and mapping missions from a helicopter.

Description:For three consecutive summers I was a member of a 20 person hand crew for the Burns Interagency Fire Zone located in Eastern Oregon. While on the handcrew, I traveled the Pacific Northwest suppressing wildfires using a variety of techniques. Some of these techniques included building fire line with and hand tools and ignited fires for organized firing operations. Fire operations are when controlled fires are intentionally lit from a controlled point in front of the wildfire fire to remove vegetation and slow the main fires progress. I assisted in navigating crew members to the fires using field maps, and the township and range. If there was no location provided, triangulation using the smoke column and geographic features, was used to get a general location and distance for the fires. Skills:Became skilled at walking in steep rugged terrain with 40 or pounds of weight, developed a very flexible work schedule where I was expected to work early mornings and late nights with work weeks reaching over 80 hours a week, taking weather from a belt weather kit as well as analyzing weather trends and patterns.

Description:As a member of the timber marking crew I prepared timber sale units for harvest in the Malheur National Forest. The preparation consisted of three primary steps. The steps of operation were as followed: First, using a field maps and compasses, we located and marked the unit boundaries with flagging and unit tags. Next, we walked and recorded the unit boundaries with a Trimble GPS. These boundaries were then brought into the office and uploaded as polygon shapefiles. Following the boundary mapping, we than selected and marked specific trees to be harvested. We selected these trees based off their physical characteristics. Skills:Became familiar with the federal hiring process, recording time in a FTR (Field Time Report), refreshed on my navigational skills using a field map and a compass, learned how to operate a Trimble GPS unit.