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Serving my community by preparing for emergencies. Trainings have included orienteering, first aid, psychological first aid, family preparedness, tracking missing persons, and crowd management.

Served as the Deputy Operations Chief for the COVID-19 response overseeing a disease investigation team of 100+ individuals with the mission to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our local community.Prior to COVID-19, I managed a team of general notifiable disease epidemiologists whose primary mission is to prevent disease and injury in our community, promote health and well-being, and prepare for disasters.

Plans, develops, and conducts epidemiologic investigations, surveillance, and interventions to determine the causes of diseases and implement methods of disease control.Serves as primary investigating Epidemiologist for all foodborne/waterborne cluster/outbreak investigations and collaborates with district EH staff on all complaints implicating regulated establishments. Provides training and resources for Environmental Health staff and serves as subject matter expert in waterborne and foodborne illness.Collects, analyzes, and interprets statistical data and prepares epidemiologic reports. Participates in and develops Epidemiologic Quality Improvement initiatives, audit tools, and reports.

Provide excellent customer service to visitors of the cemetery. Duties have included special events, gardening, and retail management.

I served as the project coordinator for all data-related projects, including guiding the creation of a publicly accessible online data warehouse using a Tableau-based platform. I also coordinated the establishment and ongoing sustainability efforts of a state level coalition created to increase data-driven, evidence-based substance abuse prevention strategies in Georgia communities. In addition, I provided technical assistance to all staff members regarding data and statistics, conducted trend analyses, developed reports to be distributed to stakeholders, and investigated "hot topics" in prescription drug misuse and abuse.

Conducting nucleic acid extraction and RT-qPCR for environmental water and fecal samples collected during prior CDC Foundation Fellowship.

Conducting research on a simple test for E. coli to be used in tropical developing countries to improve current water monitoring programs. Assisting in teaching an introductory lab course for public health students. Conducting a program evaluation of a water, sanitation, and hygiene intervention program outside Port-au-Prince Haiti.

Participated in a study to determine the frequency in which swimmers introduce enteric pathogens into recreational water. Duties: Screened and selected sampling locations, Designed field data collection methods and protocols, Coordinated site visits with facility operators and owners, Conducted environmental sampling of back-filtered water from recreational water facilities throughout metro Atlanta, Preserved environmental samples for future molecular analysis.

Regulatory inspections and code enforcement for food service, tourist accommodations, swimming pools, vector borne disease, and septic systems.

NPDES Stormwater sampling and water quality analysis, compiling data for local stormwater management guidelines, office environmental auditing, Savannah beautification project volunteer, public education presentations

Assisted routine food service, tourist accommodation, and recreational water inspections, assisted with rabies complaint investigations, generated and administered survey for Safe Kids Savannah life jacket loaner program, shadowed food service standardization inspection