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Department Of Public Services | City Of Rochester Hills, Michigan (United States)

Developed a new citywide GIS vision and Geospatial Strategy to ensure the City’s GIS is future ready. Promoting a culture of innovation by identifying new opportunities to create operational efficiency throughout the City. Communicating insights to City leaders and stakeholders. Creating partnerships and agreements with neighboring communities to share authoritative data in real-time.

Remote Work | Birmingham, Alabama (United States)

Provided enterprise GIS solutions and support to government, NGOs and commercial clients. * Assessed clients' existing GIS environments and made recommendations for improvements in application technology, system performance and software migration plans.* Collaborated with clients to improve workflows, following industry best practices.* Performed data analysis and modeling, created documentation and performed end-user training.

Department Of Public Works (Dpw) | Clarkston, Michigan (United States)

Structured a team to take GIS to the next level, meeting the needs of a growing and thriving community.* Created a hub of information and innovation, where GIS is at the forefront, became an example for other municipalities in Oakland County and beyond.Enhanced Workflows and Business Processes* Transformed and strengthened local government operations through GIS. Improved efficiency by significantly reducing time and labor cost. This allowed employees to be more responsive, efficient, and engaging to the public they serve.Helped Building a Smart Community* Used a hub approach to share data and ideas across the organization, expanding collaboration. Empowered people to make data-driven decisions. Built and strengthened relationships with business partners and the community at-large.

Department Of Public Works (Dpw) | Clarkston, Michigan (United States)

Grew the Department of Public Works GIS data integration and implementation - a critical step in the effort to improve geospatial data as the foundation for an asset management system.Connected the Townships Most Valuable Assets: People And Data* Employed a digital strategy to drive changes in behavior and inspire action. Fully embraced GIS as a system of record, engagement, and insight. Improved the level of service to the community and praised the team's accomplishments.Technology Adoption through User Acceptance* Transitioned the DPW from the Oakland County Collaborative Asset Management System (CAMS) to its own Enterprise GIS and Cityworks deployment, believing that challenges are opportunities and there is nothing to fear from technology, but the fear of learning.

Berkshire Middle School | Beverly Hills, Michigan (United States)

Planned and prepared lessons, trainings, assignments and assessments.* Found potential in each student, developed and placed them in teams that enriched learning processes. Honored by Esri’s invitation to attend the Teachers Teaching Teachers GIS Institute (T3G) in Redlands.

Environmental Engineering Office (Eeo) | Auburn Hills, Michigan (United States)

* Distributed and archived information related to U.S. regulations* Maintaining internal website* Clerical duties

Daimler Chrysler And Brose North America | Auburn Hills, Michigan (United States)

Division Of Human Geography | Regensburg, Bavaria (Germany)

Performed academic research in the field of GIS and remote sensing.* As an inspirational leader, created direction and purpose for students by encouraged them to learn, as well as provoked excitement and momentum for growth.

Institute For Remote Sensing And Cartography | Halle, Saxony Anhalt (Germany)

• Showed understanding of spatial data and algorithms when analyzing field data and satellite images by using ArcGIS and ERDAS Imagine• Designed a HTML/CSS based project portal

Institute For Remote Sensing And Cartography | Halle, Saxony Anhalt (Germany)

Co-lead the remote sensing and GIS research group, that determined the 2002 river Elbe flood hazard areas for a multi-agency federal government funded project.

Department Of Landscape Architecture | Adana (Turkey)

Project “Çukurova Delta Biosphere Reserve: Determination of Biological Diversity and Initiating a Program for Sustainable Development”* Accomplished the ability to translate user needs into solutions when using ArcView to provide a basis for Turkey’s first Biosphere Reserve * Documented process via GIS workflows for continued use for future project staff* Supervised employees on how to use the software and obtained customer support skills

Institute For Remote Sensing And Cartography | Halle, Saxony Anhalt (Germany)

Project “Application of Remote Sensing Data for Pedological Land Mapping and Soil Conservation in Agricultural Areas“* Designed data models and organized data by their given specific requirements * Deployed SQL knowledge when working with tabular data and databases * Gained further understanding of coordinate systems and projections while georeferencing satellite images

Institute For Remote Sensing And Cartography | Halle, Saxony Anhalt (Germany)

Project „Remote Sensing based Investigations of the Development of Open Pit Lignite Mining Lakes in Central Germany”* Created new data layers by collecting, analyzing and integrating field survey data into ArcView* Extended knowledge in data entry through the maintenance of analytical data * Gained background in data conversion while importing GPS files in ArcView and ERDAS Imagine

Halle, Saxony Anhalt (Germany)

Applied cartographic methods and graphic design to reworked and improved preparatory land-use plans

Master Of Science, Geography, Remote Sensing And Gis

Master's thesis: "Investigation of hydrochemical properties of residual mining lakes using satellite imagery" Minored in Geology.

Continuing Education, Project Management Principles

The course covers all ten PMI knowledge management areas and five project phases in great depth with emphasis on practical applications.

Abitur (University Entrance Diploma)

Major classes Biology and Chemistry