The City of Tallahassee and Leon County Government created the joint Department of Planning, Land Management and Community Enhancement – PLACE – to better integrate the implementation, administration and executive oversight of three interrelated programs: the myriad of Planning functions, the Office of Economic Vitality economic development programs, and Blueprint infrastructure projects.

Responsible for planning, managing, supervising and coordinating activities and personnel of the Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department.

Administrator responsible for directing the staff and resources of the Comprehensive PlanningDivision of the Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department/Department of PLACE (Planning, Land Management and Community Enhancement).

Principal Planner for the City of Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department/Department of PLACE (Planning, Land Management and Community Enhancement) Comprehensive Planning team. Major function: Advanced professional work in community planning, research, and design relating to long range planning and urban design.

Transportation Planner for the City of Tallahassee-Leon County Planning Department/Department of PLACE (Planning, Land Management and Community Enhancement). Major function: Technical and professional work involving City, urban sector, neighborhood, county and regional transportation and comprehensive planning.

Planner at Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. specializing in transportation planning, comprehensive planning, and geographic information systems.

Planner at the Florida Division of Emergency Management specializing in Geographic Information Systems.Assisted agency officials and their staff members to promote the most efficient and effective utilization of data management and information sharing techniques.Enhanced and redeveloped web-interfacing GIS application and used Terascan to acquire and analyze MODIS X-band Aqua and Terra satellite imagery.Edited and enhanced the www.floridadisaster.org in order to provide the public and emergency management officials with the most relevant and up-to-date information.Performed Intelligence, Information and Planning, and Geographic Information Systems duties during the 2005 hurricane season.Created databases for intelligence collected during disasters.Served on the Radiological Control Team for the New Horizons space probe launch.Traveled and performed training on software, resource tracking, and digital collaboration.

Planner at the Florida Division of Emergency Management specializing in hazardous materials planning. Reviewed and assessed information received from facilities for the Florida Hazardous Materials Planning and Prevention Program.Reviewed contract deliverables in the Hazardous Materials Compliance Verification and Enforcement Program.Compiled data for implementation of the hazardous materials fee tracking system.Evaluated compliance of facilities subject to state and federal hazardous materials regulations.Provided assistance to facilities in complying with state and federal laws on hazardous materials.Assisted compliance review staff in serving as lead staff to the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) by providing written summaries of meetings for the SERC, the Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC), and the Training Task Force (TTF).Provided operation support during emergencies.Participated in the Hurricane Zane Exercise.Participated in the Regional Domestic Security Task Force exercise.Performed Response Liaison duty during hurricanes Bonnie, Charlie, and Ivan.Assisted Geographic Information Systems Lab during hurricane Frances.Participated in facility audits for the Risk Management Program.

Intern at the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Emergency Support Function 5: Information and Planning.

Graduate Assistant in the Geography Department at The Florida State University.

Research assistant in the Department of Geography at The Florida State University.

Intern at the Florida Division of Emergency Management, Emergency Support Function 5: Information and Planning.