Blake Draper Email & Phone Number

Madison, Wi, Us

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

In my role as WIM Development Team Lead, I am responsible for the supervision of about half of our team of 21 federal employees. I also lead coordination of our team's collaborative development efforts, including code management standards, development workflows, and tooling that serves our development process. When I am not performing in these roles, I act as a developer myself, writing code for both front end and backend applications that serve our mission in delivering USGS science effectively and efficiently.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Senior Developer on the Web Informatics and Mapping (WIM) team within the Upper Midwest Water Science Center. We do work for a variety of partners across the USGS and the Federal government.• Served as an Acting Supervisory Developer • Serve as lead developer and project manager for multi-year software development cycles• Interface with clients/cooperators to gather requirements, and present and manage development feedback• Author project proposals, technology specifications and software documentation• Lead efforts within team to implement standards and best practices approaches to agile collaborative development, workflow optimization, software testing, deployment pipelines, and software release cycles.• Onboard, mentor and support junior developers with administrative and technical guidance• Serve as technology consultant and Lead Developer for the IWAAs Trends & Drivers Project; serve on the National Water Census development team• Assist in strategic decision-making for my team’s technology stack and software architecture planning as part of the Senior Dev Team• Serve on hiring committee and interview panels for contractor positions

Middleton, Wisconsin, United States

Software Developer on the Web Informatics and Mapping (WIM) team within the Wisconsin Water Science Center, later reorganizing as the Upper Midwest Water Science Center.• Developed web applications and map services under minimal supervision• Designed, developed, and managed software systems using a layered architecture approach• Processed GIS data and authored map services for consumption in web applications• Consistently built networks of contacts through the USGS that led to development work for myself and my team• Traveled and represented the USGS and my team’s work at outside conferences and meetings• Assisted in management of resources hosted on Amazon Web Services• Coordinated with cloud services contractors as a member of the Systems Operations team

Mcfarland, Wisconsin, United States

Lieutenant at McFarland Fire & Rescue

Mcfarland, Wisconsin

Firefighter at McFarland Fire & RescueRespond to emergency fire and rescue calls including structure fires, carbon monoxide alarms and other hazardous conditions, motor vehicle crashes, victim extrication, EMS assist, wildland/grass fires, and ice and water rescue.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Facilitate the right to vote and maintain order at the polls on Election Day for most elections - local, state, and federal. I have covered most of the numerous polling location jobs including poll book intake, ID check, voter registration, absentee ballot processing, tabulator machine assistance/sticker provider, and polling site set-up and break down.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Gathered and synthesized spatial and qualitative data on regional watershed water quality improvement efforts for the Rissman Lab, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Researched and gathered data for measuring government performance.Processed raw data into appropriate forms. Made contact with policy leaders, government agencies and other data gathering institutions.Wrote data briefs for public consumption posted at BadgerStat.org.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Conducted research on foundation, corporate and individual donors and wrote funding grant proposals for a broad range of donor types. Planned long-term funding objectives and strategy.Worked with Executive Director and Assistant Director on strategic planning for the advancement of the organizational mission, including the writing of organizational literature such as brochure content, web content and executive summary and vision statements.Assisted in developing and administering educational programs and events on the FSU campus, and the annual international education themed Bridging Civilizations Conference.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Managed and supervised a volunteer staff of 30-40 persons at an after-school academic support center for low-income public school students in the Tallahassee community.Evaluated, disciplined and scheduled volunteer staff.Led evaluation and reflections sessions for staff, led training sessions for new volunteers, conducted marketing and outreach programs on campus to attract new volunteers.

Capstone Certificate, Geographic Information Science And Cartography

Learned how to make analog and digital maps and data visualizations.

Masters, International Affairs

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta KappaThesis: This Way Please: The Role of the Middle East and the United States in Shaping the Iraqi.

Bachelors, International Affairs

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa