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Portland, Oregon, United States

• Worked with Oregon municipalities to develop and adopt Buildable Lands Inventories across residential and employment land uses, as well as urban growth boundary amendments.• Acted as ECOnorthwest’s spatial systems coordinator to train research analysts in spatial analysis and cartography, manage the firm’s ESRI and RLIS accounts, maintain its GIS computers, and adopt standardized data organization practices.• Mapped current and proposed transportation systems across Washington, as… Show more • Worked with Oregon municipalities to develop and adopt Buildable Lands Inventories across residential and employment land uses, as well as urban growth boundary amendments.• Acted as ECOnorthwest’s spatial systems coordinator to train research analysts in spatial analysis and cartography, manage the firm’s ESRI and RLIS accounts, maintain its GIS computers, and adopt standardized data organization practices.• Mapped current and proposed transportation systems across Washington, as well as determine transit acquisition impacts to financial and employment displacement.• Technical and report writing.• Parcel-level analysis, crop displacement analysis, revenue studies, TIF district developments, site suitability analysis, demographics, housing density analysis, cartography, interactive mapping Show less

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Converted 2D floorplans of Parks & Rec facilities into 3D layers using ArcGIS Pro.• Uploaded and maintained converted layers as interactive local map scenes through ArcGIS Online.

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Helped students enrolled in PCC’s GIS Certificate program with lab work, final projects, and general troubleshooting with ESRI ArcGIS Pro and Windows 10.

• Analyzed TPI’s housing retention rates for participants that had ceased receiving housing subsidies.• Performed data cleaning on raw participant data and created relational databases in ArcGIS Pro.• Hosted data via ArcGIS Online and employed custom popups that displayed participant metrics and program performance measurements for the Portland tri-county area as well as Clark County.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Graduate degree capstone project working under the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. • Wrote 70-page report regarding best practices and policy recommendations for a comprehensive open data plan for the City of Portland, taking into account open data governance structures, levels of technical guidance, and various policy mandates. • Researched and compared 38 open data plans from large municipalities nationwide and compiled attributes of open data policies and… Show more • Graduate degree capstone project working under the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. • Wrote 70-page report regarding best practices and policy recommendations for a comprehensive open data plan for the City of Portland, taking into account open data governance structures, levels of technical guidance, and various policy mandates. • Researched and compared 38 open data plans from large municipalities nationwide and compiled attributes of open data policies and web portals into a comprehensive matrix using Microsoft Excel. • Recommendations made include the consolidation of Portland's many Open Data web portals into one, a more clearly defined role for the City's Open Data Liaisons, the establishment of new positions such as a Chief Data Officer, and various expansions on open data planning and reporting. • Presented findings to key contacts at the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, including the Bureau’s Data Governance Team. Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

• Responsible for publishing the Hatfield Journal, a student-run academic journal out of Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government. • Coordinated with authors and collaborated with a co-editor, associate editors, reviewers, and faculty advisers. • Copy-edited articles for publishing by fixing spelling/grammatical errors, verified citations were credible and free of formatting errors, and unified article styles. • Digitally published first issue in December 2018 and a… Show more • Responsible for publishing the Hatfield Journal, a student-run academic journal out of Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government. • Coordinated with authors and collaborated with a co-editor, associate editors, reviewers, and faculty advisers. • Copy-edited articles for publishing by fixing spelling/grammatical errors, verified citations were credible and free of formatting errors, and unified article styles. • Digitally published first issue in December 2018 and a second in August 2019. Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

• Assisted two professors from the Political Science department over three quarter terms in grading introductory undergraduate political science courses. • Graded 50 to 70 weekly essays for two terms and two larger exams for another.

Salem, Or

• Produced as the deliverable of a 2018 Summer Hatfield Fellowship with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), this 60-page best practices memorandum evaluated uses of cost-benefit analysis within ODOT by utilizing research skills into state and federal transportation policy, interviewing key stakeholders within ODOT, and identifying ODOT-specific case studies. • Recommendations included the creation of a standardized method for conduct cost-benefit analysis within the Department… Show more • Produced as the deliverable of a 2018 Summer Hatfield Fellowship with the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT), this 60-page best practices memorandum evaluated uses of cost-benefit analysis within ODOT by utilizing research skills into state and federal transportation policy, interviewing key stakeholders within ODOT, and identifying ODOT-specific case studies. • Recommendations included the creation of a standardized method for conduct cost-benefit analysis within the Department, higher consistency in valuing costs and benefits, creation of methods for estimating administrative benefits and costs, and the creation of a clearinghouse where Department materials related to cost-benefit analysis could be freely stored and retrieved throughout the Department. Show less

Portland, Oregon Area

Assisted Dr. Lindsay J. Benstead’s professional work by proofreading and editing articles in progress. Formatted citations, located missing sources.

Portland, Oregon Area

Assisted Dr. Kim Williams’ professional work by researching over 150 scholarly articles, evenly split in subject matter between the movements supporting Black Lives Matters and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Created an annotated bibliography for Dr. Williams by inputting the citation information of the articles into the Endnote web interface and a detailed write-up of the article contents, including scope, perspective, encompassing points, and academic rigor.

Master Of Public Policy - Mpp, Public Policy Analysis, 3.77 Gpa

Certificate: Geographic Information Systems, Geography, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: GIS Club Vice-President

Bachelor'S Degree, Political Science