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Seatac, Washington

Coordinate development and implementation of GIS products to support city operations. Focus on appropriate technology, efficiency, and meeting business objectives.

Maintaining and developing GIS data and systems in support of city operations. Focus on data integration, and developing map products to inform asset management, capital improvements, and planning. Attention to detail, efficiency, and leveraging appropriate technologies.

Developing appropriate GIS solutions for clients using best practices in project scoping, requirements gathering, task management, solution development, project communications, testing, documentation, solution delivery, and training.

Ellensburg, Wa

Modeled elk habitat suitability in the North Cascades in support of the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife efforts to balance elk population goals with elk agricultural conflict issues. Worked with stakeholders to accurately capture elk management and ecology parameters. Developed methods for systematically extracting critical habitat information from existing GIS data and satellite imageryProvided GIS data management and analysis expertise for cultural anthropology research on the geographical dimensions of traditional cultural communities, agriculture, and irrigation management in Bali, Indonesia. Created systematic methods for reconciling field data, developed data schemas, and leveraged GIS tools to apply novel analysis techniques to investigate spatial patterns in cultural data.Provided GIS technical support to students and staff in the GIS Lab and during GIS Lab classes. Experience creating and teaching GIS lab exercises in support of course objectives.

Bellevue, Wa

Created and updated geospatial project data, performed spatial analysis, and created high quality cartographic products in support of Environmental Impact Statements for the SR 520 bridge replacement and Sound Transit East Link light rail projects.

Bellevue, Wa

Interpreted the geospatial locations and extent of agricultural projects, entered grant information and spatial data into an online project mapping tool, tested tool functionality, worked with target users to augment tool usefulness and functionality, created a user guide and training/demonstration video for the mapping tool.

Olympia, Wa

Collected field data to characterize stream features, sample stream breeding amphibians (Dicamptodon, Rhyacotriton, and Ascaphus), and mapped river basins for a project investigating logging buffer treatments on amphibian populations in non-fishbearing streams in Western Washington.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Resource Management

Explored how GIS tools can be leveraged to analyze and develop solutions for complex resource management issues.

Certificate, Geographic Information Systems

Mapped NPDES municipal waste water treatment outflows and mixing zones in Puget Sound for People for Puget Sound.

Certificate, Montessori Early Childhood Education

B.A., Environmental Studies

Researched the impact of exotic fire ants on native Floridian wildlife (the endangered Schaus Swallowtail butterfly and locally extripated.