Chirag Patney Email & Phone Number

Canada

Kenora, Ontario, Canada

• Developing, facilitating, and coordinating interviews and community workshops centered around forestmanagement planning and benefits for First Nations from the forests in their territory.
• Supporting an Addition to Reserve through community engagement, a needs assessment, short and long-term community planning, GIS mapping, and negotiations with the federal and provincial governments.
• Supporting First Nations in identifying community values through GIS mapping and determiningopportunities for protection or appropriate mitigation and accommodation.
• Assisted in the integration of GIS training within the Ontario high school geography curriculum to support Indigenous community planning.
• Providing recommendations, preparing planning reports, and supporting scoped environmental assessments for various municipal development applications.
• Effectively presenting municipal planning applications and recommendations to Planning AdvisoryCommittees and City Councils.

Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada

• Prepared planning recommendation reports for potential heritage-designated properties.
• Researched cultural heritage matters and prepared information reports for senior staff and the Municipal Heritage Advisory Committee.
• Successfully engaged with community members to create a rural barn inventory using GIS software.
• Created and promoted heritage conservation and tourism through an online exhibit showcasing historically significant properties within the Township.

Guelph, Ontario

• Researched and identified opportunities for increased jurisdiction of inherent rights related to fishing and fisheries management for First Nations along the Great Lakes in Ontario.
• Supported knowledge sharing within partner First Nations by filming a documentary highlighting Indigenous governance and fishing management practices.
• Prepared reports related to each phase of research.
• Presenting research and findings at conferences.

Guelph, Ontario

• Supervising and coordinating the duties of volunteers.
• Developing volunteer training sessions (online and in-person).
• Maintaining an extensive database of demographic information to aid in the coordinating of promotional materials and in developing guidebooks.
• Coordinated and presented at conferences within the University of Guelph community.
• Working under university guidelines and policies to develop new programs and involvement opportunities for incoming students and focusing on outreach strategies for underrepresented groups.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Created site and planting plans for small and medium-scale residential properties.
• Landscape by planting flowers, grass, shrubs, bushes, and trees.
• Developed familiarity with tree and plant species.

Certificate In Geographic Information Systems (Gis) For Environmental Management

Post graduate certificate focused on learning practical GIS and remote sensing techniques for environmental management.

Master Of Science, Rural Planning And Development

Bachelor'S Degree, Landscape Architecture