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Washington, Dc, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

• Fuels market penetration with an emphasis on renewable energy and carbon, as the Director of Energy Markets for LandGate, a leading provider of SaaS tools, data products, and research analytics.• Builds and maintains robust relationships with energy sector executives, spanning solar, wind, energy storage, and carbon offsets. • Empowers customers and prospects by hosting demonstrations to educate key decision makers about the value and benefits of our subscription-based products and services. • Enhances engagement by coordinating with Sales and Marketing to augment website and blog content, advertising, and email campaigns, while ensuring consistent branding and messaging. • Facilitates the onboarding of new clients in coordination with the Client Success team; and spearheads and resolves issues or questions proactively. • Improves revenue by capitalizing on existing relationships while prospecting for new business; and participates in conferences and client meetings while remaining abreast of industry developments.

Høvik, Oslo, No

• Developed solutions for the renewable energy industry by working collaboratively to modernize GIS applications for internal and external purposes, as the GIS Principal in charge of strategic markets at DNV. • Coordinated remotely with geographically dispersed teams across the global enterprise to analyze and interpret how we can improve efficiency through web-based GIS. • Managed the end-to-end development of a web-based site selection platform for multiple hydrogen projects within an ESRI environment.• Facilitated the strategy and execution of the company’s cloud-based ArcGIS enterprise solution which is currently in the discovery phase.

Savannah, Ga, Us

Leading sales for geothinQ I meet with organizations, learn how they work, and show how geothinQ can help them work more efficiently. We help economic development groups, municipalities, production home builders, foresters, and commercial real estate brokers. I'm passionate about our work with renewable energy developers working to move us towards a clean energy economy.geothinQ is a fast, easy-to-use, web-based GIS that contains all the data a user needs to evaluate property quickly. We give users access to property data like boundaries, ownership, zoning, sales history, demographics, and traffic counts. We have every environmental dataset like wetlands, soils, FEMA flood hazard zones, and high-resolution LiDAR topography. For solar development, we provide essential datasets like substations and transmission lines. Our clients do in minutes what used to take them hours.• Drove and improved leads and engagement by leading GIS consulting efforts for the web-based GIS platform for land development which was built in-house by our GIS team (geothinQ). • Forged and maintained robust working relationships with new clients while aggressively hunting and securing new relationships, subscribers, and projects.• Liaised with solar clients to better understand their needs – and areas of improvement; and provided large amounts of land data in an easy-to-use mapping platform to improve efficiency. • Leveraged connections within solar development, utilities, and clean energy to turn geothinQ into a nationally recognized brand and product for solar land development and acquisition (2018-2021).• Met with new and potential clean energy and utility clients to define project scopes which entailed planning how to utilize our software to achieve their goals.• Executed internal and external GIS projects consistently on time and on budget by managing the day-to-day activities of GIS analysts while following up with clients throughout the project lifecycle.

Savannah, Ga, Us

I serve as a Project Manager for GIS projects throughout the SE USA. I work with land development clients, utilities, and municipalities to use GIS data to save time and money.Project Examples: TOWN OF JAMES ISLAND, SC STORMWATER INVENTORY & ASSET MANAGEMENT, JAMES ISLAND, SC Project Manager for the development of the Town of James Island's GIS and stormwater management platform. We developed a full web-GIS platform for the Town with geothinQ. Stakeholders can view all relevant information about the Town including municipal limits, parcels, property ownership, flood risk, topography, & more. The geothinQ team created a stormwater inventory using existing data from Charleston County & the City of Charleston. Using this dataset, the Town now can modify and improve data on their own in an easy-to-use platform. The Town also creates and manages work orders and performs condition inspections on all stormwater assets live in geothinQ. Project Dates: March 2019-PresentPALMETTO UTILITIES, INC. GIS, ELGIN, SC, GIS Manager for processing a backlog of dozens of water and sewer project as-builts for the County’s Water and Sanitation Department. This backlog was leading bottlenecks in work and service order management. Thomas & Hutton met with the Department to understand their existing data schema and develop a process to convert CAD as-builts to GIS data. This data was delivered to the County for seamless integration with the County’s existing utility data inventory, eliminating the backlog. Project Dates: January 2017-PresentKIAWAH ISLAND UTILITY GIS, KIAWAH ISLAND, SC, GIS Manager for designing project methodology, complete water & sewer utility database schema, and custom geothinQ web application. KIU staff collect real-time sub-foot GPS infrastructure data complete with site photos. KIU uses geothinQ for all aspects of building their GIS, including water and sewer line digitization. Project Dates: September 2017-Present

Savannah, Ga, Us

Acquired extensive experience in web-based GIS having transferred to company HQ in Savannah, Georgia. Defined project scopes and milestones while managing large, complex projects from end to end.Earned the 2013 ACEC SC Engineering Excellence Award, having become an expert in managing terabytes of geospatial data for land development with ArcGIS.Project Examples: ISLE OF PALMS WATER & SEWER COMMISSION GIS, ISLE OF PALMS, SC, developed a GIS database and web application that serves as a centralized water/wastewater utility information system for the Isle of Palms Water and Sewer Commission (IOPWSC). This database is a customized version of the ESRI ArcGIS Water Utilities Data Model and resides in IOPWSC’s enterprise GIS environment. The web app is designed for ease of use and is part of a data exchange system between field and office personnel. GA Air National Guard 165th Air Wing Stormwater Inventory Savannah, GA, GIS Analysis for creation of a SDSFIE geodatabase representing an accurate inventory of all aspects of the base’s stormwater system. Data was collected from the existing stormwater master plan of 2001 and a new survey was performed on additions to the system that had taken place since the initial study. All information was converted to a standard data format.North Carolina’s Southeast Biotechnology Web Application, Developed a GIS web application to examine potential sites for biofuels projects and surrounding area utility features. Over 20 datasets are used to give stakeholders all relevant information for biofuel site selection. This project serves as a recruitment tool for future biotech groups to relocated to the NCSE region.Conservation Suitability Analysis, Jasper County, SC, Determined best possible locations for conservation based on cost-weighted overlay of various environmental and fabricated features. The weighted matrix gives stakeholders the ability to adjust importance of geographic features, then view revised results.

Savannah, Ga, Us

Began journey with the company in 2007 in Myrtle Beach, SC, as a GIS Analyst and Data Scientist, which entailed assisting with various aspects of ESRI ArcGIS; and was subsequently promoted to Lead GIS Analyst.Maintained accountability for meeting with new internal and external clients to understand their needs, as the Lead GIS Analyst over 3 offices. Project Examples:3-Dimensional Visualization/Land Use Planning, Johnnie Dodds Boulevard, Mount Pleasant, SC, GIS Analyst for creating 3-dimensional model of Johnnie Dodds Boulevard with hypothetical buildings to determine the visual impact of allowing an increase in building height along the corridor and to facilitate land use planning initiatives. Amici Group, Brunswick County, NC, GIS Analyst responsible for data management and exhibit preparation for 22,000-acre tract during development. Murrells Inlet Water Quality Study, Murrells Inlet, SC, Assisted participating parties (Georgetown County, Horry County, Surfside Beach, Coastal Carolina University and MI 2020) with analysis of drainage areas and determining contributing areas for each water quality monitoring station being sampled by MI 2020. Work performed using techniques developed for analyzing GIS data with ArcGIS 9.3 Spatial Analyst Extension.Christophe Harbour, St Kitts, GIS Analyst for 3-dimensional visualization. Created 3-dimensional model of St Kitts and Nevis in the Eastern Caribbean using ArcGIS 3D Analyst, ArcScene, and SketchUp. The model has a variety of uses from marketing to allow designers to see the impact of future development.

Clemson, Sc, Us

• Empowers students by teaching them about environmental sustainability and resiliency, as an Adjunct Professor in the Resilient Urban Design Master’s program at Clemson’s Charleston Architecture Center.• Translates curricula into engaging subjects spanning a variety of areas, such as design and development thinking, market, government, cultural forces, and more. • Equips students with the resources to succeed by preparing them to anticipate and overcome bottlenecks and challenges, while navigating increasingly complex environmental factors. The Master of Resilient Urban Design (MRUD) degree addresses design and development thinking about how to steward change in rapidly growing metropolitan regions. MRUD prepares individuals to engage complex cultural, market, and government policy forces through sustainable and resilient urban form. Inclusive of sustainability and cities' abilities to help sustain diverse environments, cultures, and economies locally and globally, resiliency also implies the ability of a community to anticipate and recover from challenges.

In February 2014 I started my own GIS Consulting business, Durham Analytics. My goal is to provide geospatial services in an entirely web-based, location independent environment. My first client was my employer, Thomas & Hutton.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Energy Policy & Climate

B.S., Geography W/ Concentration In Geographic Information Systems

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