Maintaining and improving nearly 500 miles of off-highway vehicle (OHV) trails by patrolling routes for terrain and resource damage, tree fall, and potential fence and sign renovations.Making daily contact with forest visitors, providing education on ATV size limits for particular trails, news about special orders like fire restrictions, recommendations for trail systems based on riding experience, and handing out souvenirs to younger visitors.Hauling a 62-inch UTV and two ATVs on an extended trailer over narrow county roads and interstate highways, always making sure that vehicles and equipment are strapped on and a safety inspection has been made on the trailer before driving.Bucked and removed over 350 trees that fell over motorized routes, ensuring safe handling standards by wearing appropriate PPE and communicating with swampers.Over 150 hours of all-terrain and utility vehicle riding experience over rough and technical terrains while carrying crew equipment like chainsaws and hand tools, emphasizing a safe and deliberate pace to help prevent accidents.Installing specialized gates to limit the size of incoming OHV traffic, preserving the integrity of for specifically fragile trail systems and wildlife areas.Received training and certifications in all-terrain vehicle operations and S-212 as a Faller A/Bucker B sawyer.

Building an advanced campaign donations database in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to identify donor attributes such as occupation, lobbyist connections, and total amount donated for the Ed Lazere for DC Council political campaign.Supported the successful 2018 election of Phil Menderson for DC Council Chairman by creating a spreadsheet-based email marketing campaign, sending out personalized messages to over 950 potential supporters in support of getting involved in the campaign.Built and currently managing three websites owned by Purple Political, including purplepolitical.com, dennisjaffe.net, and gopbuttons.com, ensuring that WordPress themes and plug-ins are up-to-date and website information fulfills company standards. Designed a logo and business cards for Purple Political, maintaining communication with the client to accomplish their vision for the company's new look.Managing and updating the client’s website, social media, and professional documents through the use of cloud-based services like Google Suite, Notion, Evernote, Dashlane, Trello, and WordPress.Producing technical guides to enable the client to effectively utilize specific functions of various software products, from migrating email hosting between services, transferring domains, to online media management.

Crew Lead of TXCC's 5-person Integrated Resource Crew, dedicated to supporting the U.S. Forest Service in performing prescribed burns to meet habitat restoration and disaster mitigation objectives in East Texas.Performed 28,650 acres of prescribed burns in the Sam Houston and Davy Crockett National Forests. Maintained drip torches and ATVs to maintain preparedness for the next day's burns.Prepared over 20,000 acres of pre-determined prescribed burn sites, with special attention taken to ensure the survival of the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpecker species, contributing to 300+ woodpecker homes to be protected from controlled and natural fires.Previously crew lead of a Conservation and Disaster Response Team, ensuring the safe and timely accomplishments of crew members in service to partners ranging from government organizations like the Water Quality Protection Lands and Travis County Fire Rescue, to private non-profits like Tree Folks.Planned and assigned project tasks to 8 crew members to complete trail maintenance and construction projects, building and maintaining over 5 miles of trail throughout Texas Hill Country.Over 150 hours of chainsaw experience while removing invasive species like Mesquite, Ashe Juniper, Ligustrom, China Berry, and Chinese Tallow. Ensured that daily-used tools such as STIHL Chainsaws, McLeods, and Pulaskis are well-maintained in accordance with TXCC standards.Maintained daily record of crew activities such as miles of fireline constructed, trails maintained, and brush removed from a worksite to provide accessible quantifiables to project partners and supervisors.Trained in Wilderness First Aid to ensure that crew members are properly treated if emergencies occur within remote or backcountry worksites. Performed safety hazard analyses for each project task to recommend and implement preventative measures.

Translated FEMA’s highly technical survivor assistance operations into an actionable format for Agency senior leadership, such as one-page issue briefs or concisely formatted monthly reports.Wrote monthly technical reports that analyze the successes and areas for improvement of FEMA’s housing assistance programs, with an emphasis on inter-program information sharing techniques that efficiently assist disaster survivors in meeting their temporary housing needs.Engaged dozens of senior level officials from federal, state, and private sector stakeholders in workshops and discussions to identify systemic issues within survivor assistance programs and to integrate program innovations into daily operations, such as a data sharing interface to ensure environmental compliance of mobile housing units.Analyzed statistical and financial data of survivor housing assistance programs with Microsoft Excel and Tableau visualizations to assess the timeliness, quality, and cost-effectiveness of FEMA’s assistance to disaster survivors. Explored strategic and operational challenges for staff such as unclear roles and responsibilities for field leadership.Trained 10 FEMA staff members on the Continuous Improvement process, specifically on the methods of effective qualitative data analysis and the determination of root causes of operational challenges.Assisted in professional development activities for peers, such as resume-editing and online professional presence.Trained in Continuous Improvement qualitative and quantitative data research methods to effectively write After Action Reports, monthly process improvement reports, and special projects for CIP. Utilized several analysis techniques to identify the root cause of organizational challenges. Adopted Agile methodological principles to effectively communicate and work with peers and program staff to create valuable assessments and policy improvements for disaster survivor housing.

Assisted over 4,000 disaster survivors affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Maria in close collaboration with Corps teammates and DSA field crews, providing meaningful emotional support and guidance to local and state aid programs to more swiftly assist survivors.Served as Assistant Team Leader for FEMA Corps, acting as point of contact between peers and the team leader and coordinating work and personal activities for the team.Delegated daily tasks to fellow Corps members and organized group activities required by the AmeriCorps program. Trained in FEMA’s survivor assistance processes, from inputting and updating survivor registrations within NEMIS to using map-based software to track progress in survivor aid and referrals to FEMA’s Whole Community Partners. Trained in ArcGIS mapping software in preparation for FEMA’s Planning division, producing clear and understandable maps for wider agency use.Wrote daily summary reports for DSA crew leaders while serving as a DSA Specialist by collecting team observations of survivor issues and needs resulting from hurricane damage and local utility outages as well as quantifiables essential to FEMA leadership strategizing.Provided in-field training to 5 Puerto Rico DSA local hires new to the program with guidance on utilizing critical survivor assistance technologies, including survivor mapping and information management software, and briefed trainees on the types of aid that survivors’ unique circumstances may call for. Introduced a system of data collection that enabled DSA field crews to work off a prepared temple to quickly prepare daily progress reports.Registered several hundred disaster survivors into the FEMA Disaster Assistance program, and provided logistical support to DSA Crew Leads, such as daily milestone planning and report writing.

Worked in a close team environment to provide assistance to survivors of Hurricane of Harvey and Maria in Texas and Puerto Rico.Recipient of the Congressional Award and President’s Volunteer Service Award for service with AmeriCorps-NCCC FEMA Corps. Recognized by AmeriCorps with the Positive Attitude, Consistent Effort (PACE) Award.VOLUNTEER PROJECTS: At the Houston Food Bank, packaged beverages and hot meals to serve 2900 children across Harris County. With the Salvation Army in Puerto Rico, packaged food supplies that would serve about 1500 families affected by Hurricane Maria.

GUIDANCE AND TRAINING: Created a detailed onboarding guide to the organization’s Salsa Content Management System (CMS) to aid future interns and staff in quickly settling into the software. Walked staff members through technical challenges occurring in the website’s Drupal CMS, producing short and long-terms solutions.ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS: Spearheaded the planning of 2 workforce development conferences, clarifying dates, catering, and responsibilities of staff members. Wrote detailed notes of daily meetings, organizing important information into actionable tasks.ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS: Planned and published daily social media updates that kept stakeholders apprised of innovations in workforce data collection and analysis. Compiled, edited, and published a weekly news email that outlined state and private developments in data management, upcoming and ongoing data quality conferences, and the whereabouts of staff as they promote workforce data best practices throughout the country.GRAPHIC DESIGN: Created rich graphics products for daily social media updates to ensure a more engaging experience for stakeholders. Designed a new cover page for the organization’s yearly report on state progress with data quality milestones. Remade designs for “report cards” that broke down state milestones into a one-page summary.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Edited and published the organization’s yearly State Blueprint, an influential industry report that visualizes each state’s progress in expanding quality data policies and details the latest in innovative data systems for state and local education institutions.

TEAM LEADERSHIP: Spearheaded the development of an Excel-based CMS for the production of daily, weekly and event-based social media updates that would help newly arrived staff to quickly find inspiration for new posts based on archived submissions. Collaborated with leadership to create a one-year media strategy for the Asia Bureau’s expansion into visual mediums to capture the positive impact of USAID in Asia. Interviewed and hired 5 virtual interns to implement the one-year visual strategy.GUIDANCE AND TRAINING: Developed an onboarding site to orient new interns and staff members to the Asia Bureau’s recent move to the Google Business Suite such as Google Drive, which houses all of the Outreach team’s photos, meeting notes, and the Excel-based social media CMS. Put together best practice one-pagers for creating great-looking rich media graphics ready for submission on social media sites.ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS: Created daily social media updates for Asia Bureau’s Twitter and Facebook profile pages, producing rich media to fit the Bureau’s long-term plan for a visual presentation of its regional accomplishments. Wrote down meeting and document highlights to help furnish the Bureau’s FY 2017 Congressional testimonials.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Produced over 40 graphics products for the White House communications department to promote President Obama’s visit to Southeast Asia, as well as Lady Obama’s Let Girls Learn campaign, one of which was directly published through the First Lady’s Twitter account to over 6 million followers.

MEETING/EVENT PLANNING: Set up biweekly calls to determine the needs of the Outreach team and tasks that the 5 communications interns would need to accomplish. Found times for professional development calls that were helpful for the future careers of virtual interns.RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS: Utilized online social media platforms, news articles, and biographical materials to research congressional stakeholders in order to tailor USAID program accomplishments for better engagement by stakeholders in and outside of Capitol Hill. Conducted in-depth research on 24 development influencers, resulting in focused talking points during the Asia Bureau’s 2016 congressional budget hearings.ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS: Developed one-pager reports on Asia Bureau accomplishments for use by leadership and publishing by Outreach staff. Collaborated with peers to create a minimum of 5 social media products each day that are edited with constructive feedback by teammates and Outreach staff.SOCIAL MEDIA: Helped to transition Asia Bureau’s social media presence away from the former Asia Bureau administrator’s personal profile to a more centralized social media profile in order to directly represent the Bureau’s accomplishments to stakeholders during the upcoming 2016 congressional budget hearings. Created Excel-based daily milestone charts in order to track daily progress of peers and to allow leadership to quickly utilize intern-created media products during important monthly event promotions.KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Generated over 15 written and visual products to engage stakeholders on USAID’s involvement in Nepal’s deadly 2015 earthquake, which had affected over 6 million people and required several USAID programs to help stabilize the health and welfare of the country. Created infographics and quote graphics to present the Bureau’s positive effects in the nation, such as promoting the children’s health and wellness “Suaahara” program which had touched over 40,000 families.

Contracted through the Dexis Consulting Group to provide Administrative Assistant duties to the U.S. Agency for International Development (see above).

Employed agricultural development knowledge and acquired Taiwanese traditional farming techniques to construct and maintain chrysanthemum and jujube farm plots throughout Gongguan county.Provided academic and personal exerpience to community agricultural leaders about the improvement of declining youth engagement within the Taiwanese farming industry.

COLLABORATION: Worked with peers to cook, clean, and maintain the restaurant while working in a fast-paced setting. Oriented new hires in the daily service, cleaning, and closing processes. Taught safety standards for food preparation and tools. Served as a team to provide enthusiastic and polite service for customers and visitors of the restaurant.

CUSTOMER SERVICE: Provided concierge services for residence hall and seasonal conference guests by serving a s a guide and helping hand for those new to the university campus. Managed mail and documents crucial to the operation and administration of the Housing and Food Services, sent between managers, resident directors, supervisors and guests.

Managed a small group of other detasseler to maintain quality assurance and time efficiency. Provided personal support for those with physical issues during challenging days of detasseling. Collaborated with others to develop effective methods of speeding up detasseling processes.