Derek Evans Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Design and engineer digital agriculture software to preprocess, standardize, QC, analyze, and report customer and partner on-farm research. Interface with internal and external stakeholders to communicate and interpret research results. Containerize applications with Docker for distribution of development and production environments.

Greater St. Louis

Developed spatial databases in PostGIS and ETL pipelines with Python, GeoPandas, and GDAL. Automated feature engineering tasks that processed spatial agronomic, soil, and weather data as well as remotely sensed satellite imagery and elevation data for machine learning and statistical analyses. Identified over 113M acres in the United States where a company product will increase crop yield through machine learning with scikit-learn. Researched scientific literature and leveraged domain knowledge to identify data needs and develop scientific algorithms that better assess product performance compared to current industry methods. Demoed applications and presented findings to scientists, upper management, and investors.

Greater St. Louis Area

Implemented comparative genomics web platform through full stack development with Ruby on Rails. Modeled relational data and developed relational databases in PostgreSQL. Generated ETL pipelines that QC and integrate data and metadata from 800+ scientific experiments.

Knoxville, Tennessee

Data manager/analyst for the National Bobwhite Conservation Initiative, a national conservation initiative spanning 25 states throughout the eastern half of the US. Design, develop, and manage relational databases in SQL Server. Develop Python scripts for ArcGIS Toolbox Tools and ArcGIS for Server geoprocessing services. Build geospatial applications with ArcGIS for Server map/geoprocessing services and the ArcGIS Javascript API. Develop ASP.NET MVC web applications for data entry and visualization. Collaborate with IT co-workers and clients for developing project scopes that outline project objectives and needs.

Carbondale, Il

Research and develop digital terrain analysis procedures that incorporate scale to better classify landforms in agricultural fields. Develop scripts for automating analyses using Python packages such as ArcPy, SciPy, pandas, and Matplotlib. Perform geophysical surveys (e.g., soil electrical conductivity surveying) for mapping soil variability within agricultural fields.

Carbondale, Il

Lead SIUC Forestry field researcher for a multimillion dollar research grant that focused on nutrient transport/soil and water conservation in central Illinois row crop agriculture. Manage and perform field work as well as train graduate students to perform various field tests, statistically analyze data with SAS, and generate data layers with ArcGIS. Conduct statistical analysis on environmental data, interpret results, and prepare maps with GIS to include in reports. Develop various models in ArcGIS with ModelBuilder that enhance team workflows when writing reports.

Carbondale, Il

Layout research plots and sampling points in ArcMap and export to GPS for field navigation. Install and gather data from environmental sampling equipment including flumes, automated surface runoff samplers, weather stations, groundwater monitoring wells, soil suction lysimeters, and soil volumetric water content sensors. Analyze water samples for nitrogen, phosphorus, pH, and conductivity according to standardized methods. Manage, update, and QC datasets. Perform geostatistical analysis in ArcMap to create interpolated surfaces. Create DEMs from real time kinematic GPS survey data. Statistical analysis including correlation, ANOVA, and mixed models repeated measures with SAS.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Forestry, 3.92 Gpa

Thesis titled "Linking Critical Source Areas of Phosphorus to Stormflow Dynamics in Three Central Illinois Agricultural Watersheds".

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Forestry, 3.78 Gpa

Relevant Coursework: Ecosystem Ecology, Forest Ecosystems, Forest Soils, Hydrogeology, Insects and Abiotic Stresses, Nutrient Cycling.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), General Studies, 3.82 Gpa

Relevant Coursework: Calculus, Inorganic Chemistry, Plant Biology, Soil Science, Statistics