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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

St. Paul, MN, US

• Director II for Ecolab (Fortune 200 Company), GIS Center of Excellence, Ecolab Corporate Headquarters, St. Paul, Minnesota.
• Leadership of GIS adoption through implementation, integration, and development of new Esri based GIS enterprise systems resulting in improved business outcomes across numerous internal business disciplines.
• Led the GIS Department to an Ecolab Center of Excellence (COE) to support Global Pest Elimination and the Ecolab Institutional Division with GIS tools to improve business results.
• GIS Department has grown from 3 to 20 full-time GIS staff supporting applied GIS, enterprise software and business application.
• Led proposal to expand strategic GIS investments through scoping VOB opportunities and related ROI to secure capital and expense authorization from C-level executives.
• Procured expansion from desktop-based GIS systems to cloud-based enterprise GIS/GPS system to enable new operational metrics and analytics, expanded sales opportunities, and machine learning insights to leverage Big.

• GIS Manager/Department head for Lyon County, Minnesota.
• Manage, hire, train, and advise GIS department staff and other Lyon County GIS end users.
• Service all of Lyon County's varied business line's spatial information analysis and automated interactive mapping needs.
• Contracted with Pipestone, Lincoln, Murray, and Lac qui Parle counties and the Yellow Medicine County Watershed District regarding development and maintenance of online interactive map applications, land parcel records.
• Research, acquire, advise, define, and scope projects regarding the integration and application of GIS software, information, data, procedures, and processes to effectively conduct analysis, model data, and automate.
• E911 system maintenance through regular recurring update schedules and spatial automation's to improve E911 quality and completeness.

Marshall, Minnesota, US

• GIS leader for the largest direct-to-home provider of frozen foods in the United States.
• Led a team of 2 GIS Analysts and 7 Strategic Route Planners to complete GIS project delivery of system-wide Depot Route Optimization as part of "Sales Operations Transformation" to improve logistical efficiency.
• Impressive +$0.75 Sales/Mile improvement.
• Business outcome improvements on all KPI responsibilities.
• Developed new "What if" VRP (Vehicle Route Problem) model to ensure Sales/Mile targets during GIS Route design and New Market assessments.
• Developed & Integrated new Regional-DNO GIS analysis method using ESRI Location-Allocation and VRP modeling to propose, measure, and compare costs of depot network change scenario's.

Boston, MA, US

• GIS lead and Senior Planner advancing the niche Freight Planning practice at WilburSmith, a global full-service transportation and infrastructure consulting firm with more than 1,000 associates in 56 offices/8.
• Integrated applied GIS analysis methods, measures, and map/data automation improvements to identify and prioritize MPO, state, and federal freight-mode infrastructure investments.
• Developed new GIS spatial quantification measurements and map visualization for freight-mode Origin/Destination FHWA Freight Analysis Framework (FAF).
• GIS data and map automation for aggregating and disaggregating IHS Global Insight Freight Finder locations.
• Commodity Flow Analyses methods, results, and findings implications for National Academy of Sciences, Transportation Research Board "I-70 Corridors of the Future", dedicated truck lanes feasibility study, Phases 1 and 2.
• Development of competetive cutting edge proposal scopes and methods for applied GIS analysis regarding freight planning and regional economic development projects.

St. Paul, Minnesota, US

• GIS Lead for multi-disciplined firm of engineers, architects, planners, and scientists with 30 offices/750 professionals across the nation.
• Task Management on many diverse “high-profile” projects dealing with important local, regional, state, and federal planning & development projects and infrastructure systems.
• Development of GIS-integrated work plans, proposal go/no-go reviews, coordination, teaming, written response, scope/cost and interview presentations.
• Lead key business opportunities analysis initiatives resulting in new and competitive discipline penetration and advancement through applied GIS strategies.
• Communicate with internal/external clients to advise on alternative level's of GIS service.
• Next contact in absence of GIS Technical Practice Manager.

• Lead GIS Specialist and Planner Analyst for an office of 8 Planners, Community Development Specialists & Landscape Architects.
• Project development for automated mapping and applied GIS analysis.
• Managed GIS mapping and analysis for clients and projects in several metro-area cities.
• Prepare technical planning review reports based on site visits, map review, and interpretations of city ordinances and comprehensive guide plans.
• Support the review and writing of zoning ordinance and comprehensive plan documents.
• Planning consultant representing client at staff, commission, and council meetings.

Columbia, South Carolina, US

• Serve the needs of the Marine Resources Division & Marine Resources Research Institute (MRRI).
• Interface and coordinate data sharing within the Division and other South Carolina state agencies.
• Initiate and manage vendor data development contracts.
• Project Investigator (PI) for federal/state project research grants through the MRRI.
• Adjunct Graduate Faculty member; College of Charleston, Graduate Program in Marine Biology.
• Project development contributor for NOAA-Coastal Services Center and NOAA-National Geophysical Data Center.

Washington, DC, US

• Temporary (part-time) federal employment contract (GS-5) while completing Master’s Degree Thesis Track at Clemson University.
• Reported to the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, Hydrologist.
• GIS integration and data development to support PhD Soil Scientist's to delineate comprehensive soils databases covering the multi-state Chattooga River watershed.
• Research and Develop GIS procedures generating important hydro-logically correct raster DEM for input into iterative predictive vegetation model.
• This $8 Million, Demonstration Project resulted in a paradigm change in US Forest Service management philosophy toward ecosystem management.
• Awarded USDA Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Project Support in the area of GIS on the Chattooga River Ecosystem Management Demonstration Project.

Clemson, SC, US

• Awarded 2-yr Graduate Research Assistantship position in GIS; Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture.
• Assisted the GIS Professor and other University Professors with respect to grant related GIS research tasks and project development.
• GIS Lab Supervisor for scheduled lab hours, maintenance, and student/user technical support.

Clemson, SC, US

• 3-month (full-time) consultant contract for the Chattooga River Watershed Coalition performing supervised land cover classifications and change detection analyses on multi-temporal Landsat-1 MSS and SPOT HRV-I.
• Improved leaf-off classifications through research and development of GIS-based application of DEM elevation and aspect values.
• Setup and applied FragStats-Spatial Pattern Analysis Program quantifying fragmentation indices to measure landscape structure changes.

• Organization, research, and correspondence as an assistant to the Solid Waste Officer and Environmental Planner within the Planning and Zoning Department.

M.C.R.P., Master Of City And Regional Planning (Gis Concentration)

B.A., Local And Urban Affairs (Economics Concentration), Environmental Studies Minor

H.S. Diploma